? No. I prayed by quantity? No. I was a Universalist?
No. But "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is
this, to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction and to
keep himself unspotted from the world." James, i, 27. And while the
memory and name of Peabody, the philanthropist, is and shall be honored
and loved for ages to come in two hemispheres, his crown of glory in
heaven is second to none. But there was still another. It was worn by
one of queenly beauty, and she sat upon her throne; the splendor of her
robe and the brilliancy of her apparel dimmed my vision. I read her
inscription, set, as it was, in Heaven's choicest diamonds. Was it, I
was an Episcopalian? No. I was baptized? No. I was a Catholic? No.
But thus: "I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and
ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye
clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came
unto me." Matt., xxv, 35, 36. And before her throne stood thousands
who had come up from the battle fields of the Crimea, and the widows
and orphans, the lame and the halt, the blind and the deaf from the
streets and alleys of London, and as they shouted their hallelujahs
before her, they carried banners on which were emblazoned these words:
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matt., xxv, 40. And the crown of
Florence Nightingale glistens brightly in Heaven. Passing on, and
observing a large number of vacant thrones and crowns, I naturally
asked, for whom are these? The angel replied: "For the Christians of
earth; the managers of the 'homes' for the friendless, the widows and
the orphans, and those who, regardless of their respective church
creeds and doctrines, like their Master when he was on earth, go about
doing good." The angel vanished, and I awoke.

MORAL.--Brethren, in our tenacity for church creeds, let us not fail in
the practice of a little daily Christianity. "Finally, brethren, if
there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things."
Gal., iv, 8.

THE IMPERIAL VIRTUE

Though sophists may argue, or philosophers prate,
The evils of lying they can not mitigate.
Our God's law is truth! Who then dares justify
A falsehood? Remember, a lie is a lie!
Let this he our motto, in old age or youth:
"All lying is sinful, so, stick to the truth!"

"Truth we