for. I must not willingly pass one day of my life without comforting a sad soul, or showing mercy. When my brother has lost all that he ever had, and lies languishing and even gasping under the utmost extremities of poverty and distress, I must not think I can lick him whole again only with my tongue. I must do to him as I would he should do to me were I in his distress.

When Bishop Burnet's servant remonstrated with his master for giving a needy parishioner all the money he had in the house, the good bishop replied: "You do not know the pleasure there is in making a man glad."

Religion consists not so much in joyful feelings as in the constant exercise of devotedness to God, and in laying ourselves out for the good of others.

He who works me good with unmoved face
Does it but half; he chills me while he aids,
My benefactor, not my brother man.

It was said of a good man, that in feeding the lamp of charity he exhausted the lamp of life.

I must be ready to vindicate my neighbour's good name when I hear him unjustly censured, and I must be ready to take all opportunities of doing him good.

Let each assist the other in his need;

Seldom good actions go without their due.

Peter the Great once struck his gardener, who, being a man of great sensibility, took to his bed and died in a few days. Peter, hearing of this, exclaimed: "Alas, I have civilized my subjects, I have conquered nations, but I have not been able to conquer myself."

The object for which every lighthouse is built is, to give light and to save life: I should live for the same purpose too.

Hannah Moore well said:

And he whose wakeful tenderness remove's

The obstructing thorn which wounds the friend he loves,
Smoothes one another's rugged path alone,

But scatters roses to adorn his own.

"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another."-ROMANS xii. 10.

But strive

In offices of love, how we may lighten
Each other's burden in our share of woe.

Buty.

LET every man endeavour to make the world happy by a strict performance of his duty to God and man, and the mighty work of reformation will soon be accomplished.

Duties are ours; events are God's.

Consult duties, not events.

The way of duty is the way of safety. Let us do our duty, and trust God with our safety.

Let us not run out of the path of duty lest we run into the way of danger.

We must never omit known duty merely for fear it should be misconstrued; but while we keep a good conscience let us trust God with our good name.

In difficult times our care concerning the events of the day should be swallowed up in a care for the duties of the day. It is a principal point of duty to assist another when he stands

most in need of assistance.

Hoc opus, hic labor est

This is a work of labour and of pain.

Better make an effort to-day and fail, than never try.

By attending carefully to present duties I shall fit myself for future work.

For it is beautiful, only to do the thing we are meant for. Law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what

is wrong.

Do what you ought, come what may.

"England expects every man to do his duty," said Nelson just before the battle of Trafalgar, 21st October, 1805. After Nelson had received his mortal wound and was taken below, under the care of the surgeon, his mind was busily occupied by the engagement of the hostile fleets, and his dying instruction to the captain," Anchor, Hardy, anchor," exhibited its full action at the moment of his departure.

Doing his duty is the delight of a good man.

In honouring God and doing His work put forth all thy strength.

Shall we serve heaven with less respect
Than we do minister to our gross selves?

Fabricius the Roman hero could not be corrupted by bribes nor influenced by threats. Pyrrhus declared it would be as easy to divert the sun from its course as Fabricius from the path of duty.

There is one solid pleasure in life: it is our duty; and yet many make that one a pain.

We should never think of duty as a cold world. It is higher than love, for it is, in its right performance, love in action.

Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd:

He is content who to obey has learn'd.

Perform whatever you promise. It is no less binding upon a Christian to fulfil a promise than it is to pay a bill.

Never say, We must do as others do; but rather say, We must do our duty.

They that adhere to their duty secure their felicity.

There is no evil that we cannot face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent like the duty.

A sense of duty will dignify the meanest tasks. While we make God's precepts our rule, His promises our stay, and His providence our guide, we need not dread the greatest difficulties we may meet with in the way of duty.

Those who give to God only the shadow of duty can never expect from Him a real reward.

Many frighten themselves from real duties by imaginary difficulties... No man's spirits were ever hurt by doing his duty. . . No man has a right to say he can do nothing for the benefit of mankind, who are less benefited by ambitious projects than by the sober fulfilment of each man's proper duties.

Endeavour with unruffled brow,

And with a mind serene,

To meet the duties of the Now,
The Present, and the Seen.
He who doth a Saviour own

Is not left to strive alone.

F

Enemies.

"I SAY unto you, Love your enemies."-MATT. v. 44. Can Christ be in my enemies? He is so near unto them that He calls upon me to pray for them, to love them. For even they may be in the number of those other sheep of His which He will bring into His fold. To love them which love me is easy gratitude, but when I love them that hate me then my love, kindled by the love of my heavenly Father, shineth forth in the perfection of beauty.

Jesus Christ loved His enemies, and thus prayed for the four Roman soldiers as they were nailing Him to the cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."

I must be more troubled at the sin my enemy committeth than the wrong he doeth, and so at once forgive him and pray for him.

Take each man's censure.

The enemy that justly reproves thee is a friend. Truth is truth, tho' spoken by an enemy and spoken in malice.

Happy are they who can hear their own detraction and can put them to mending. Philip, king of Macedon, being solicited by his courtiers to dismiss a person of merit who had spoken of him somewhat slightingly; "Perhaps," said he, "I have given him a sufficient reason." And the same king, when he was evil spoken of by the chief rulers of the city of Athens, thanked them heartily, because by them he was made better both in his words and deeds; "for I study," saith he, "both by my sayings and doings to prove them liars."

Fas est ab hoste doceri, says Ovid, the friend of Virgil and Horace. It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. It is always safe to learn from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct our friends.

The reproach of an enemy may be to many men a quicker spur to the amendment of their life than the gentle monition of a friend.

Thou hast dared to tell me what I durst not tell myself.
Many persons are

Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

The sword wounds the body and speech the mind.
If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, says Virgil. I fear the Greeks even when they offer presents. I am on my guard against an enemy, and particularly when he proffers kindness.

He struck no blow but that his foe he hit,
And never hit but made a grievous wound,
And never wounded but death followed it.
O, it is excellent

To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

He that may need a friend should never make a foe. The most glorious victory over my enemy is to turn him into a friend. I must forgive and forget. My remembering an injury may do me more harm than my receiving it.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot

That it do singe yourself.

Enemies are our outward consciences.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

As a Christian, and living in this world, which is full of Christ's enemies, I must strive to be wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove.

Thus saith the Holy Ghost (PROV. xxiv. 17)—“Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth."

And again (PROV. xxv. 21)-"If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink."