If man were sufficient for man, there would be no need for religion. If there were no evils from which man could not rescue his brother, there would be no need for a Saviour; if no sorrows under which man could not sustain his fellow man, there would be no need of a Divine Comforter. But it is a grief, a care like yours, which makes religion a reality. Carry it to the throne of grace, and see if there you do not find mercy to pardon and grace to help in time of need.

-JAMES HAMILTON.

Not till the everlasting day break, and the shadows flee away, and the Lord Himself shall be our light, and our God our glory, can we do without the cloud in the sunshine, the shade of sorrow in the bright light of joy, and the curtain of night for the deepening of the sleep which God gives His beloved.

- HUGH MACMILLAN.

SOUL.

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mys terious remembrance of its heritage.

- EPES SARGENT.

The universe, vast, beautiful, magnificent, as it is, cannot content the soul, but rouses it to more majestic thoughts. The wider view it takes of what is material, the more impatient it becomes of all material bonds. The sublimer the prospects which are opened by the universe, the more the spirit is impelled to ascend to a still sublimer being. Forever it aspires towards an infinite and immutable One as the ground of all finite and mutable existences. It can rest in His Omnipotence alone as the source, centre, sustainer, determiner of all forces.

-W. E. CHANNING.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

R. W. EMERSON.

The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love?

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

ALEXANDER MACLAREN.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

- FENELON.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

-JOHN FLAVEL.

Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?

It is only when we see in human souls, taken as germs of power, a future magnitude and majesty transcending all present measures, that we come into any fit conception at all of Christ's mission to the world.

Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.

- PHILLIPS BROOKS.

You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home home to a Father's house-to an eternal home?

- MARK HOPKINS.

Two things a master commits to his servant's care — the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, "Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost." Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls aud bodies at the great day. "Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it."

-JOHN FLAVEL.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

EPICTETUS.

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

-HERRICK JOHNSON.

As ravens rejoice over carrion, so infernal spirits exult over the soul that is dead in sin.

CHRISTIAN Scriver.

SPEAKING FOR CHRIST.

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

— J. B. GOUGH.

A kind word spoken for Christ may create a wider vibration in eternity than the grandest sermon by the greatest preacher. - C. GOWAND.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

-T. CARLYLE.

O Christians! are you willing to walk the streets of heaven, and have no one greet you there? Would you be willing to go yourselves inside the gates and never have a soul to greet you and say, "I thank God for the kind words of sympathy and love you spoke on earth ?"

-JOSEPH CUMMINGS.

To speak for Him will be our impulse. No matter how timid, nervous, self-diffident, we are in ourselves, as we touch His pierced and royal hand, we shall be instantly masterful and strong.

-R. S. STORRS.

Take my lips, and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.

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SPIRITUALITY

SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION.

It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.

-T. L. CUYLER.

SPIRITUALITY.

It is for all who are personally united to Christ to cultivate a contemplative and sanctified spirit. So far from being secular and sordid, they should be sacred and spiritual, having their lives hid with Christ in God, and their whole natures absorbed in the knowledge and love and service of the Saviour.

J. MCC. HOLMES.

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ. - D. L. MOODY.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

- CICERO.

SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION.

There will be and can be no rest till we admit, what cannot be denied, that there is in man a third faculty, which I call simply the faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not only in religion, but in all things; a power independent of sense and reason, a power in a certain sense contradicted by sense and reason ; but yet, I suppose, a very real power, if we see how it has held its own from the beginning of the world how neither sense nor reason has been able to overcome it, while it alone is able to overcome both reason and sense.