he whole of life, the whole of man. The man must be
thoroughly, habitually, entirely religious. His loftiest purposes and
grandest conceptions, his most familiar exercises and meanest
employments, his whole impulse, energy and activity must be sanctified
by faith--faith in God and his will, in Christ and his revelations.
"Whether he eat or drink, or whatever he do, he must do all to the
glory of God." _Whatever he do._ Mark the words. They leave room for
no exception. Whatever be the nature of one's engagements, public or
private; wherever he be, in the house or the street; whenever his
course be examined, on Sunday or week-day, morning, noon, or night; he
must be found living to God's glory,--through faith, I repeat, and
through the obedience which is the consequence of faith. _Character_
is the service which he must render.

A character of which the principle is indicated by the words of the
Apostle, will obtain a twofold development, as it shall seek the
direction on the one hand of piety, and on the other of morality. Each
of these forms of growth will proceed from an idea as its germ; the
one from the idea of God, the other from the idea of man. The idea of
God,--the Supreme, Eternal, Infinite Being, whose will nothing can
overrule, but whose unimpeachable perfection is a guarantee for the
rectitude of his government.

God, the mighty source
Of all things, the stupendous force
On which all things depend;
From whose right arm, beneath whose eyes,
All period, power, and enterprise
Commence and reign and end.

"He is Governor among the nations; but justice and judgment are the
habitation of his throne." "Thine, O Lord, are the greatness, and the
power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that
is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, and
thou art exalted as Head above all. Both riches and honour come of
thee, and thou reignest over all: and in thine hand is power and
might, and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto
all." Worthily, so far as language could go, did the greatest of
Israel's monarchs, and one of the first of human bards, in these words
celebrate the majesty of Him who is Higher than the highest, the
Maker, Guardian, and Sovereign of the universe. Religion adopts this
description as the groundwork of its sentiments and exercises. With
God it begins, to Him it returns, in Him it rests. To Him it traces
all