ving thanks unto the Father, which hath made eet to be partakers of the inheritance of the ts in light. — COL. i. 12.

THE Souls most precious to us here
May from this home have fled;
But still we make one household dear;
One Lord is still our head.
Midst cherubim and seraphim

They mind their Lord's affairs;
Oh! if we bring our work to Him
Our work is one with theirs.

T. H. GILL

E are apt to feel as if nothing we could do

on earth bears a relation to what the d are doing in a higher world; but it is not

Heaven and earth are not so far apart. ery disinterested act, every sacrifice to duty, ry exertion for the good of "one of the least Christ's brethren," every new insight into d's works, every new impulse given to the love truth and goodness, associates us with the parted, brings us nearer to them, and is as ly heavenly as if we were acting, not on earth, t in heaven. The spiritual tie between us and è departed is not felt as it should be. Our ion with them daily grows stronger, if we daily ake progress in what they are growing in.

WM. E. CHANNING

That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. EPH. iii. 17-19.

O LOVE that passeth knowledge, thee I need;
Pour in the heavenly sunshine; fill my heart;
Scatter the cloud, the doubting, and the dread, -
The joy unspeakable to me impart.

H. BONAR.

To examine its evidence is not to try Chris-
tianity; to admire its martyrs is not to
try Christianity; to compare and estimate its
teachers is not to try Christianity; to attend its
rites and services with more than Mahometan
punctuality is not to try or know Christianity.
But for one week, for one day, to have lived in
the pure atmosphere of faith and love to God,
of tenderness to man; to have beheld earth
annihilated, and heaven opened to the prophetic.
gaze of hope; to have seen evermore revealed
behind the complicated troubles of this strange,
mysterious life, the unchanged smile of an eternal
Friend, and everything that is difficult to reason
solved by that reposing trust which is higher and
better than reason, -to have known and felt this,
I will not say for a life, but for a single blessed
hour, that, indeed, is to have made experiment
of Christianity.

WM. ARCHER BUTLER.

e peace of God, which passeth all understandshall keep your hearts and minds through st Jesus. · PHIL. iv. 7.

't the peace of God rule in your hearts.

5.

DROP Thy still dews of quietness,

Till all our strivings cease;

Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess

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The beauty of Thy peace.

. COL.

J. G. WHITTIER.

HESE things write we unto you, that your joy may be full." What is fulness of but peace? Joy is tumultuous only when it not full; but peace is the privilege of those are filled with the knowledge of the glory the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.' hou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose d is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in ee." It is peace, springing from trust and ocence, and then overflowing in love towards around him. He who is anxious, thinks of self, is suspicious of danger, speaks hurriedly, I has no time for the interests of others; he O lives in peace is at leisure, wherever his lot

cast.

J. H. NEWMAN.

THROUGH the spirit of Divine Love let the lent, obstinate powers of thy nature be quieted, hardness of thy affections softened, and thine ractable self-will subdued; and as often as thing contrary stirs within thee, immediately k into the blessed Ocean of meekness and

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. GAL. iv. 7.

NOT by the terrors of a slave

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God's sons perform His will,

But with the noblest powers they have
His sweet commands fulfil.

ISAAC WATTS.

UR thoughts, good or bad, are not in our command, but every one of us has at all hours duties to do, and these he can do negligently, like a slave, or faithfully, like a true servant. "Do the duty that is nearest thee". that first, and that well; all the rest will disclose themselves with increasing clearness, and make their successive demand. Were your duties never so small, I advise you, set yourself with double and treble energy and punctuality, to do them, hour after hour, day after day.

T. CARLYLE.

WHATEVER we are, high or lowly, learned or unlearned, married or single, in a full house or alone, charged with many affairs or dwelling in quietness, we have our daily round of work, our duties of affection, obedience, love, mercy, industry, and the like; and that which makes one man to differ from another is not so much what things he does, as his manner of doing them.

H. E. MANNING

Jow the God of peace make you perfect in every work, to do His will, working in you that ich is well-pleasing in His sight. - HEB. xiii.

21.

Be ready to every good work.

TITUS iii. I

So, firm in steadfast hope, in thought secure,
In full accord to all Thy world of joy,
May I be nerved to labors high and pure,
And Thou Thy child to do Thy work employ.
J. STERLING.

E with God in thy outward works, refer them to Him, offer them to Him, seek to do m in Him and for Him, and He will be with e in them, and they shall not hinder, but her invite His presence in thy soul. Seek see Him in all things, and in all things He I come nigh to thee.

E. B. PUSEY.

NOTHING less than the majesty of God, and the vers of the world to come, can maintain the ace and sanctity of our homes, the order and enity of our minds, the spirit of patience 1 tender mercy in our hearts. Then will en the merest drudgery of duty cease to humus, when we transfigure it by the glory of our n spirit.

J. MARTINEAU