e for ever with such ill-tempered mortar as
falsehood; would he be willing to encounter all the piercing looks and
accusing words with which those he wronged will one day assail him, if he
had taken his relationship to God, and man, and eternity, into
consideration?

What incalculable mischief and misery this neglect of consideration has
wrought in our world! Had our first parents considered the sad
consequences that would ensue to themselves and their posterity, would
they have plucked the forbidden fruit? Through what a long and mournful
list of events that have happened from that day to this might I easily
go, all of which would have been avoided if right consideration had been
given! Every day during those six thousand years a multitude of such
events have happened. Is there one of you but can recal deeds respecting
which you say with bitterness of heart, I wish I had given it
consideration--I wish I had considered it more fully?

My young friends permit me to urge consideration upon you. Your welfare
for both worlds is largely in your own keeping. You can secure it or
destroy it. But to secure it, consideration is essential. If you don't
addict yourselves to reflection you will be largely at the mercy of
impulse, be enticed probably by evil companions, and get wrong perhaps in
a thousand ways. Reluctant as you may feel at first to engage in
it--uninteresting as you may deem it, do not, as rational creatures,
prefer the pleasing to the right and good. The young man of reflection
is more respected, more valuable, and unspeakably more happy, than the
frivolous and vain. If you forget all else I say, do not forget this--it
is the declaration of your loving Father in heaven, who wishes to welcome
you there, but can welcome those only who yield to Him a filial love--"I
remember all their wickedness."

THE FRIEND WHOSE YEARS DO NOT FAIL.
REV. W. ARTHUR, M.A.

"And thy years shall not fail."--HEBREWS i. 12.

You know that these words are taken from the hundred and second Psalm.
There, they are addressed to God the Creator; here, to Christ the
Redeemer. In both cases they express the same truths. Man finds himself
here, looks out to what he can see around him, and then in thought passes
on to what he cannot see. He knows that a very little while ago he was
not here, he was not anywhere. He has an instinct within which tells him
that though it is so short a time since he was not the time will