Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.