e the
memory stored with these expressions or teachings, or with the prayers
and aspirations of the psalms and the prophecies, is to have a fountain
of comfort and consolation for the heart, that passes all understanding.
But this fact of human experience you must accept on the testimony of
those who have experienced it, until you have experienced it for
yourself.

And thus, my daughter, while I wish for you the possession of all the
graces and adornments of person and character that pertain to and are
possible for the life that now is, how infinitely more do I desire for
you that you may know God and the comforts and consolations of His word
and spirit. To know that you had sought and found for yourself this
knowledge, that you knew and sought the help of the divine spirit in
resisting temptation to do wrong, that in disappointment your heart
would turn to God for comfort, that in sorrow you would seek consolation
in communion with God, would be to feel that your future happiness was
absolutely assured. In this seeking after God, all things would be
yours. And even though you had made but a small and weak beginning to
follow on and know the Lord, I should rejoice in the assurance that the
good work, having been begun, would be completed unto the end. And so I
close these letters with the same summing up of all advice, all
instruction, which more than four thousand years ago a prophet of God
gave to his reflections upon the vicissitudes of human life: "Let us
hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his
commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."

A LITTLE SERMON TO SCHOOL-GIRLS.

Be kindly affectioned one toward another with brotherly love, in
honor preferring one another.

--_Rom._ xii. 10.

Whose adorning ... let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that
which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit which is in the sight of God of great price.

--1 _Peter_, iii. 4.

Wherever people are associated together it will always be found that
some are more popular and beloved than others. Taking it for granted
that all my young readers would wish to be lovely and beloved by those
with whom they are associated, I wish to make a short study of some of
those characteristics which always distinguish a lovely or loveable
person, and also of some characteristics which tend to make people
unlovely and disagreeable.

But if anyone should