trance
into an open harbor. Death is no enemy, letting the arrow fly toward
one who sits at life's banquet-table. Death is a friend coming on an
errand of release and divine convoy. For God's children "to be
death-called is to be God-called; to be God-called is to be
Christ-found; to be Christ-found is hope and home and heaven."

FOOTNOTES:

[3] See Symposium on Evolution, Homiletic Review, May, 1894.

THE MIND: AND THE DUTY OF RIGHT THINKING

"All ye who possess the power of thought, prize it well!
Remember that its flight is infinite; it winds about over
so many mountain tops, and so runs from poetry to
eloquence, it so flies from star to star, it so dreams,
so loves, so aspires, so hangs both over mystery and
fact, that we may well call it the effort of man to
explore the home, the infinite palace of his heavenly
Father."--_Swing._

"Men with empires in their brains."--_Lowell._

"'Tis the mind that makes the body rich."--_Taming of the
Shrew._

"Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality."--_Wordsworth._

"Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a
prejudice then rooted in me that a scholar is the
favorite of heaven and earth, the excellency of his
country, the happiest of men."--_Emerson._

"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, for the
merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of
silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold."--_Solomon._

V

THE MIND; AND THE DUTY OF RIGHT THINKING

With fine imagery the seer of old likened the mind unto a tree. The
tree shakes down its fruits, and the mind sheds forth its thoughts.
The boughs of the one will cover the land with forests; the faculties
of the other will sow the world with harvests that blight or harvests
that bless. The measure of personal worth, therefore, is the number
and quality of thoughts issuing from man's mind. For all the doing
called commerce, and all the speaking called conversation and books,
begin with the thinking called ideas. Each thing was first a thought.
A loom is Arkwright's thought dressed up in iron clothes. Books are
the scholar's thoughts caught and fastened upon the white page. As our
planet and the harvests that cover it are the thoughts of God rushing
into visible expression, so all houses and ships, all cities and
institutions, a