Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.