The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.