r own
will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never; they have an
indestructible life, both in and out of our consciousness."

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that
his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him
for mankind. The different degrees of consciousness are really what
make the different degrees of greatness in men.

While Odd-Fellowship does not claim to be a religious institution, yet
so closely is it allied to Christianity that we deem it proper to
discuss these questions. I quote from Dr. Lyman Abbott's lecture on
"Christianity and Orientalism," as follows: "Religion as a thought has
four questions to answer: First, What is God? Second, What is man?
Third, What is the relation between God and man? Fourth, What is the
life which man is to live when he understands and enters into that
relation? There is no other question; there is nothing left. What is
God? What is man? And how are men to live when they have entered into
that relationship? Now, Christianity has its answer to each one of
those four questions. God--one true, righteous, loving, helpful Father
of the whole human race. God--love. And love, what is that? Such a
life as Jesus Christ lived on the earth. What is man? Man is in the
image of God. If he is not, if he fails in that, he fails being a man.
He is in the image of God, and not until he has come to be in the
image, of God will he be a man. What is a statue? I can see a nose, a
mouth, appearing out of the marble block. No, it is not a statue, it
is a half-done statue. Wait until the sculptor is through, then you
will see the statue. Not till God is done will you see a man, and you
never saw one except as you saw him in Jesus of Nazareth. And what is
the relation between this God and this man? It is the relationship of
the most intimate fellowship that the human soul can conceive; one life
dwelling in the other life, and filling the other life full of His own
fullness. You can not get any closer relationship to God than that.
When this fullness has been realized, when you and I have the fullness
of God in us, when God has finished, the man life will result. Just
such a life as Christ lived, with all the splendor of self-sacrifice,
with all the glory of service, with all the magnificent heroism, with
all the enduring patience."

BROTHER UNDERWOOD'S DREAM.

Being invited some time since to deliver