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ot 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.

he 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.

t is only in poor men and in the lower things that success increases self-conceit. In every high work and in men worthy of it, success is always sure to bring humility.

Our strength is measured by our plastic power... Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them into something else.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another man by his words.

Oh! believe me that no man lives at his best to whom life is not becoming better and better, always aware of greater and greater forces, capable of diviner and diviner deeds and joys.

od is omnipotent, and man is immortal. Therefore be patient and work. The end shall certainly be joy, not sorrow. The stone shall roll away and the dead come forth.

Optimism is a belief in a great purpose underlying the world for good, absolutely certain to fulfil itself somewhere, somehow. That must have been what God saw when He looked upon the world and called it "good."

A hundred men stand on the shore and say: "There is no land beyond." One brave and trustful man like Columbus, believes that the complete world is complete, and sails for a fair land beyond the sea, and finds it.

Put your faith where it will be safe; and the