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GOD'S COVENANT with nations is a covenant of works.

TO INCREASE One's confidence in the yet unspeakably greater advancement of Christianity in this earth, let him read Jonathan Edwards' rich treatise. on Union in Prayer."

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WE CANNOT bo too often reminded that personal morality is the best safeguard of national liberty.

PASCAL said some would gladly commence cowards to purchase the reputation of valor.

PRIDE is a wonderful counterpoise of misery.

WE OUGHT to judge by the will of God, and not by our own will.

OUR CONVICTION is that during the next half century the great progress is to be in experimental Christianity, and not in sci

ence. The prodigious activity in science during the last fifty years has been a kind of John-the-Baptist work, preparing the way for the greater running and gloryfying of spiritual things.

TO TRUST in a mere ceremony is superstition; but not to comply with it may be pride.

WE MUST remember that God's law is his will.

WASHINGTON GLADDEN says that a defective character is more effectively reformed by the display of a higher ideal, than by the reproof of its deficiencies.

DR. PEPPER, of Crozer, says there are two virtues near akin, which he admires,—the virtues of uprightness and downright

ness.

IN ALL the best men you meet, perhaps the thing that is most peculiar about them, is the child's heart they bear within the man's, says the author of "Culture and Religion."

IT WAS A SAYING of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, who was certainly no disparager of intellect, that no student could long continue in a

healthy religious state unless his heart was kept tender by mingling with children, or by frequent intercourse with the poor and the suffering.

BARON STOW said that mere sight-seeing, except for purposes of health, is small business.

EXAGGERATION, whatever may be its immediate effect, invariably weakness the cause it is intended to support.

THERE IS no self-denial without pain. SENECA said God divided man into men, that they might help one another.

NO MAN is found, said Seneca, who can acquit himself.

THE EXPRESSION, that the children of God never meet for the last time, is a thing to think of.

SINCERE gratitude is always of an open and diffusive nature.

RELIGIOUS formalism and naturalism were exemplified respectively by the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

SAID Pascal: What can be more shocking than to feel all our possessions continually sliding through our hands, and

yet to acquiesce in this wretched poverty, and to entertain no desire of securing a more fixed and durable treasure?

RICHES take to themselves wings and fly away. Clip their wings, then, by giving. WHEN a man speaks the truth, you may depend upon it he possesses most other

virtues.

RARER than the phoenix is the virtuous man who will consent to lose a good anecdote because it is a lie, said DeQuincey.

CHINA is a land of idols, and this is a land of worldliness.

THE HISTORIAN Froude testifies: All that we call modern civilization, in a sense which deserves the name, is the visible expression of the gospel.

DUTY is one of the loftiest of all sensations we are permitted to experience.

WILLIAM MARSH said he must daily read something the Saviour did, suffered, or said.

I HAVE learned that the man who tells you he has no ambition is the most likely to be ambitious. The derider of obstinacy in others may be a particularly obstinate

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man. I may think I have no will of my own, and yet be most willful and self-complacent. True self-sacrifice and meekness. are self-forgetful. Virtues never think of themselves; they are transitive, not reflex.

BRITISH POWER has been God's minister to protect the missionaries in India and China. IF PARENTS will not give their children a religious creed, other people surely will. TREES are the priests of nature.

TACITUS was very severe in his language about the theatre-loving people of his day. MONEY, like fire, is a good servant, but a dangerous master.

WE HAVE a duty to Christians of other names, besides that of witnessing against them.

THE DEVIL acknowledged Christ. Wicked men must come to the same thing.

THAT ALL our deeds are photographed in God's book is important truth, but not the highest motive to right doing.

BAD MEN almost always wish their children to be good.

THE EXAMPLE of Paul and his associates shows that missionary efforts should first