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from honor shall find at last that God never slumbers, that his laws
never sleep. Go east or go west. Nature is upon the track of the
wrong-doer. Could the sage of old sit down to converse with each youth
who to-day walks on the street, perchance he would find many who,
through excess, are draining away the rich forces of nerve and brain
and blood.

Daily they deny reason its book, taste its music, love its noble
companionship. At last, when the harp of the physical senses begins to
give way, and they fall back upon the mental faculties for pleasure,
then these faculties that have been starved shall, in turn, make men
suffer. In that hour reason or memory shall say: "Because I called and
ye refused; because I stretched out my hand and no man regarded,
therefore I will laugh at your calamity. I will mock at your
desolation when your fear cometh as destruction and your desolation as
whirlwind." In Daniel Webster's words of disappointed ambition, "I
still live," we see that a statesman sows what he reaps. In Goethe's
fearful cry for "more light" we see that the poet who sows darkness
shall reap darkness. In Lord Byron's piteous "I must sleep now" we see
that he who sows morbidness and passion reaps feverishness and shame.
The law is inexorable. He who sows foul thoughts shall reap the foul
countenance of a fiend. He who sows pure thoughts shall reap the
sweetness and nobility of the face of Fra Angelico. He who sows
reflection shall reap wisdom. He who sows sympathy shall reap love.
The good Samaritan who sows tenderness to the man wounded by the
wayside shall reap tenderness when angels stoop to bind up his broken
heart.

THE LOVE THAT PERFECTS LIFE.

"Love is the fulfilling of the law."--_Romans, xiii, 10_.

"Men may die without any opinions, and yet be carried into Abraham's
bosom, but if we be without love, what will knowledge avail? I will
not quarrel with you about opinions. Only see that your heart be right
with God. I am sick of opinions. Give me good and substantial
religion, a humble, gentle love of God and man."--_John Wesley_.

"Therefore, come what may, hold fast to love. Though men should rend
your heart, let them not embitter or harden it. We win by tenderness,
we conquer by forgiveness. O, strive to enter into something of that
large celestial charity which is meek, enduring, unretaliating, and
which even the overbearing world cannot withstand forever! Learn