ual and
gracious benediction.

Then what about the end? It may seem a far-off cry to talk to you
young men about that. But the end will come, and you will need nothing
then which you do not need all the way. The end will only emphasize
the need--the need of a good conscience. The day is coming when all
tainted success will mock, as only a bad record can mock, when there is
but time left to regret, and none to retrieve the past. "I am getting
old," writes one, "and I am wealthy; but I would part with every
shilling I possess, and take my risk for bread, to be at peace with my
own conscience." Trample under your feet the immoral side of the maxim
that nothing succeeds like success. Success is not always in hitting
the things at which you aim; it is the good conscience that you are
aiming only at right things. Let your success be goodness, and
goodness will be your success. Leave luck to fools, and act as though
it had no existence. Believe that character or manhood, without which
nothing great is possible, is the content of your endowment put out to
full advantage through grace and will. Believe that every man, worthy
to be called a man, has in him the promise of the gradual supremacy of
character over the accidents and happenings of circumstances. Be,
then, your own luck. Link your life in Christ to God, and stand up to
all the world and say--

"Perish policy and cunning,
Perish all that fears the light.
Whether losing, whether winning,
Trust in God and do the right."

[1] Rev. Thomas Templeton, M.A.

A DEVIL'S TRINITY

"Know ye not that ye are a temple of God?"--I Corinthians iii. 16.

IV

A DEVIL'S TRINITY

There are expressions taken from the Bible which, by length of popular
usage, become, as it were, independent either of their setting, or of
methods of exposition. This usage has its length of days, not always
in the sense of the expression so much as in its sound. Those of you
who have been accustomed to listen to Christian preaching will have
often heard appeals to your manhood, to self-mastery, to kingship over
your habitudes, rounded off with this question: "Know ye not that ye
are a temple of God?"

In this way it has passed into what I have called popular usage. And
whatever it may be as exegesis, it is good admonition. If we may speak
of a house made with hands as a dwelling-place of the Most High, we may
also claim an equal sacredness for this mortal tem