expenditure of means, said Sir William Hamilton.

THOMAS BOSTON called the will that commanding faculty.

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THE POWER of free grace is needed to remove the bands of wickedness from off man's free will.

PRINCIPLE lies at the bottom of correct action; truth, of virtue. To improve men we must hold before them the idea of that to which we would bring them. Edwards in his later life exhibited a matured virtue. that was grounded upon his early ideas of character and duty. Always a good morality is conditioned upon a clear conception. of what is right.

NO MAN can realize that he has a religious nature without recognizing the existence of God. The complement of a religious nature is God.

WHY is benevolence so terrible when arrayed against evil?

ONE MARK of an errorist is his impatience towards those who have the truth. SAYS Sir William Hamilton: As dependent on bodily organization, as actuated by

sensual propensities and animal wants, man belongs to matter, and in this respect is a slave of necessity. But what man holds of matter does not make up his personality. He is conscious to himself of faculties not comprised in the chain of physical necessity.

AS MANY VIEW it, what is conscience but a rational instinct, a guide without comprehension, but rational, because it reveals itself as the voice of God, which all instinct is, without revealing itself, says President Hopkins.

A PERFECT MORALITY has in it an element of religion. The love of God is essential to the rightness of an action. The ethical teaching which does not comprehend this, is not above the plane of Confucius and Mencius.

THE MORAL QUALITY of an action depends on the state of the agent's mind in the doing of it, says Wardlaw.

WE OFTEN say of a person that as between man and man he does his duty, but fails towards God. But let us not forget that man cannot be right with man, if he is not

right with God. This fact is revealed in the true analysis of virtue.

SAYS WARDLAW:

Love is obedience in

the heart; obedience is love in the life. Morality then is religion in practice; religion is morality in principle.

THE FACT that love is the fulfilling of the law proves that it is the persuasive element of all that is absolutely right.

OF LAW, said Hooker, there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God.

PART VIII.

IN LITERATURE.

IN the year 1747 Jonathan Edwards wrote: Never was an age wherein many learned and elaborate treatises were written in proof of the truth and divinity of the Christian religion; yet never were there so many infidels among those brought up under the light of the gospel!

IT IS remarkable what use the Saviour made of popular proverbs.

THE LANGUAGE of Athens is universally acknowledged to have been the most perfect form of human speech, says Prof. Boise.

IT IS SAID that our theological seminaries dispense an education far beyond that required by any denomination in England, even including the Established Church.

THE AUTHOR of the "Social Life of the Chinese" says: One of the grave faults of

most writers on China is that what they affirm in general terms of the Chinese, is true only of the people living in that part of the country where they made their observations.

IT IS FOUND that the writings of Moses, as well as those of Plato. betray an acquaintance with the elaborate Sanscrit.

IT IS the work of Christianity to reconcile literature as well as man to God.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON says of Plutarch that though he never used verse, he had many qualities of the poet, in the power of his imagination, the speed of his mental associations, and his sharp objective eyes. A good naming of the leading poetic endowments.

J. W. ALEXANDER called that wonderful author, John Owen, "the great old fellow."

I BELIEVE, says Spurgeon that there are in the Confession of Faith," more of the true elements of moral and spiritual philosophy, than in any other work in the English language.

REV. J. C. RYLE, who is excellent authority, says of German commentators: