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

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.