complains of himself,
and is his own accuser.

God is as willing that you should read your
lesson in the sunlight as in the storm.

Heaven at last will be the perfect sight of
Christ.

[Illustration: Flowers]

A life with no intention of God in it _must be_
shallow.

The thoughtful trader believes that Trade, in its
ideal, is generous and beautiful. It is the
reality that he makes of it, by the way in which
he does it, that seems to him sordid.

Character is the divinest thing on earth. It is
the one thing that you can put into the shop or
into the study, and be sure that the fire is
going to burn.

Never does human nature seem so glorious and so
wicked all at once as when we stand before the
cross of Jesus! The most enthusiastic hopes, the
most profound humiliation, have found their
inspiration there.

The only way to run from God is to run to Him.
The Infinite Knowledge is also the Infinite Pity.

[Illustration: House and yard]

[Illustration: Stream and flowers]

Not simply His coming and His going, not simply
His birth, or death, but the living, total life
of Jesus is the world's salvation. And the Book
in which His life shines orbed and distinct is
the world's treasure.

Remember we are debtors to the Good by birth, but
remember we may become debtors to the Bad by
life; and both debts--of service and
allegiance--must be paid alike.

Not merely a Voice to be heard, but a Friend to
be loved, a Shepherd to be followed, a Bread to
be eaten,--so does the Christ of the Gospels
present Himself in word and sacrament and every
presentation of His personality.

The tent-life is the true life until the building
of God, the "house not made with hands," is
reached.

[Illustration: Flowers]

The visionary is the man who has no present; the
drudge is the man who has no future. To be saved
from being either,--that can come only by joining
a clear, sharp, solid work to large hopes and
great ambitions.

Does not the soul, finding the heart of its
suffering full of joy, forget the mere rough
outside in which that heart of joy was folded?

Ideality, magnanimity and bravery--these are what
make the heroes. The materialist, the sceptic
and the coward--he cannot be a hero.

To believe is the true glory of existence. To
disbelieve is to give ourselves into the power of
death, and just so far to cease from living.

It is only in poor men and in the lower things
that success in