onarch you have crowned, let him be rebel to you.

If you are not spiritually minded, do not wait
for mysterious light and vision. Go and give up
your dearest sin. Go and do what is right. Go
and put yourself thoroughly into the power of the
holiness of duty.

All the world is an utterance of the Almighty.

[Illustration: Cherubs, flowers]

It seems so far off, that Cross of Jesus, and it
really is so near! For it is lifted up so high
that the waves of time roll unheeded and
unmeaning at its foot. It is the power of
perfection for us to-day.

Each high achievement is a sign and token of the
whole nature's possibility. What a piece of the
man was for that shining moment, it is the duty
of the whole man to be always.

May we not daily tread the same paths of holiness
and sorrow, joy and love, that Christ has
trodden, and see His footsteps on them still?

Even if you have to force yourself to your
duty,--still, _do it_. Do your duty, even if
duty be wearisome and hard, for then you are in
the place where it can become joyous and easy to
you.

We must answer for our actions; God will answer
for our powers.

[Illustration: Graveyard scene]

Some day certainly the fog shall rise, the clouds
shall scatter, and in the perfect enlightenment
of the other life the soul shall see its Lord,
and be thankful for every darkest step that we
took towards Him here.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo
used to carry stuck on his forehead in a
paste-board cap, and which kept his own shadow
from being cast upon his work when he was hewing
out his statues.

David's pilgrims, going through the vale of
misery, "use it for a well." ... When they grew
thirsty they looked not merely farther on into
the heart of the future, but deeper down into the
bosom of the present.

The sense of evil in life does not _deny_, but
implies the noblest capacities in men.

Man must be a ray of the great sunshine under
whose touch some special flower may open, and
some special fruit fill itself with healthy and
nutritious juice, some little corner of the field
grow rich.

Any honest task is capable of being so largely
conceived that he who enters into it may see,
stretching before him, the promise of things to
do and be, that will stir his enthusiasm and
satisfy his best desires.

Your life cannot be frivolous or vulgar unless
you are frivolous or vulgar. He who complains of
his circumstances really