THAT ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. PHIL.

ii. 2.

GOD granted him this boon for love of him
To dwell at peace among unenvious souls,
Who were content to love him, and to let
His light shine forth, nor vex him with themselves,
And their low humors, and beside him each
Himself seemed lifted to a sweeter calm.

The Disciples.

THOSE noble men who do truly arise and receive divine light, allow God to prepare their souls for Himself, and renounce themselves in all things without any reserve, either as regards their words or their daily habits, or what they do refrain from, or anything else, whether things go smoothly or crossly with them. They are content to say in all things "As God will" in' quiet or disquiet; for their sole delight is the holy and excellent will of God.

JOHN TAULER.

WHERE sin abounded, grace should yet more

abound.

- ROм. v. 20.

FOREVER round the mercy-seat

The guiding lights of Love shall burn;
But what if, habit-bound, thy feet

Shall lack the will to turn?

Oh, doom beyond the saddest guess,
As the long years of God unroll,
To make thy dreary selfishness
The prison of a soul !

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

Do not keep company with any sin. It may surprise thee as an enemy sometimes, but let it not lodge with thee as a friend.

ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.

SURELY the bitterness of death is past.

I SAM. XV. 32.

WHEN the scanty shores are full
With Thought's perilous, whirling pool;
When frail Nature can no more,
Then the spirit strikes the hour;
My servant Death with solving rite

Pours finite into infinite.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

I THINK nothing can help us more than the feeling that loved ones have trodden that unknown way, it makes it seem familiar. What has not the death of an unseen, unheard Christ been to millions and millions? Some of us cannot attain to certainty. God fashions some in one way, some in another; and God will not take away our immortality because we have little enjoyed the hope of it.

LUCY SMITH.

WHO serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. — HEB. viii. 5.

THOUGHTS that great hearts once broke for, we

Breathe cheaply in the common air;

The dust we trample heedlessly

Throbbed once in saints and heroes rare,

Who perished, opening for their race

New pathways to the commonplace.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

FOR the thoughts which have disciplined such a man for his work are the undying thoughts of former sages and philanthropists. The examples that animated him were set by the wise and good in all ages. The drama of the world has been played for him; martyrs have bled for him.

THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY.

OUR Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished 2 TIM. i. 10.

death.

FORGET not Death, O man! for thou mayest be
Of one thing certain,

he forgets not thee.

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH.

OF immortality the soul, when well employed,

is incurious. It is so well that it is sure it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power. 'Tis a higher thing to confide that if it is best we shall live, we shall live, 't is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and millenniums and æons.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.