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the best we can of each other. Whether our side has won or not, we are
certain that Right will prevail in the long run. We can afford to wait,
if we are on God's side, for He wins by losing.

THE LOSS OF HIS SON WAS HIS GREATEST GAIN.

If you can rise to this, how you will enjoy singing--

"Hark! the herald angels sing--
Glory to our new-born King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled."

Is there not wondrous common sense, as well as beauty, in the saying of
St. John--

"BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT
ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

One would have thought it would have been--we ought to love Him. But
then we remember further on, John says,

"HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER, WHOM HE
HATH SEEN, HOW CAN HE LOVE GOD WHOM
HE HATH NOT SEEN?"

It is well sometimes to ask ourselves the question, "How will this matter
look in heaven?" "What shall we think of ourselves a hundred years to
come? How small all these matters of offence will seem in the light of
eternity! We should not like to die without being at peace with all men.
The way to secure this is to live at peace, and if there is anything
between us and our brethren, let us treat one another as we wish God to
treat us.

GOOD-WILL TO MEN!

"A FELLOW-FEELING MAKES US WONDROUS KIND."
A WORD TO THE AGED WHO ARE ABLE TO HELP OTHERS.

This is quite true, and we wish there was more of this fellow-feeling. It
is likely this will be read by some aged man or woman who has many
comforts, and is assisted to bear the infirmities peculiar to old age in
a way poor men and women cannot enjoy. If you are wealthy, or have
enough for your wants, should you not have a fellow-feeling for those who
are poor and need help?

Sometimes when visiting aged people, who were well off, a nice fire
burning all the night through, and perhaps those about them who have not
allowed them to be many hours without nourishment, I have said to such an
one, "You have been kept alive by the fact that you can afford it. If
you had been a poor man, you would be dead now."

Will you not then, if you have it in your power, give some other old man
or woman, who is poor and unable to get the comforts you have in such
plenty, some share of what you have; if you do not, how can you expect
God to shew you mercy in that day? It will be no use to tell Him that
you loved Him; He does not believe in professions of affection for Him,
which are not proved