rules! To hear your discourse, to listen to your mild. reproofs, to learn of the path so often strewn with thorns, on which you were led to your repose, is hearkening to the perennial revelation of God; is keeping His Sabbath in the way most pleasing to Him, because most blessed to us.

OW may the great and glorious God

Through His own grace

Shield us from shame-deeds,

And from sinful works;

And give us grace to guide us rightly here

In this weak, sorrowful world, That we may come to His court,

The Kingdom of Heaven;

When souls shall part and sunder fly,

To be and bide and rest with Him.

G. G.

XVI.

MEV

Unselfish Peace.

And I will yet be more lowly than this, yea, will be base in my own sight.

-II. Samuel. 6, 22.

[EVER will I seek or receive private, individual salvation; never will I enter into final peace alone, but for ever and everywhere I will live and strive for the universal redemption of every creature throughout the worlds. BUDDHIST LITURGY.

If the greatest man on earth commits an injury, a good man can at once make himself greater than he by forgiving it.

To love and to serve all men is to delight in God. MENCIUS.

If thou hast done harm to any one, be it ever so little, consider it much; if thou hast done any one a favor, be it ever so great, consider it little. If thy neighbor has shown thee kindness, do not undervalue it; if he has caused thee injury, do not overrate it.

PEACE and Rest!

Upon the breast

Of God Himself I seem to lean,

No break nor bar

Of sun or star

And God and I and nought between.

O, when some day

In vain I pray

For days like these to come again,
I shall rejoice

With heart and voice

That one such day has ever been.

THE PHARISEES.

XVII. Sacred Uses of the Sacred Day.

Verily, my Sabbaths ye shall keep, for the Sabbath is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.-Exodus xxxi. 13.

'HE Fourth Commandment has reference to the sacred seventh day, that it may be passed in a pious and holy manner. The sacred historian says,

that the world was created in six days and that on the seventh day God desisted from His works and began to contemplate what He had so beautifully created; and He commanded that beings who were destined to live in this state, shall imitate God in this particular, as well as in others. They shall work on the six days, but cease on the seventh, and devote their leisure to the contemplation of nature; they shall consider whether in the preceding six days they have done anything that was not holy. They shall bring their conduct before the judgment seat of the soul and subject to a close scrutiny all they have said and done, the Divine Laws sitting by as assessors and joint inquirers; thus errors that have been committed, at times only from carelessness, may be corrected and similar offences thereafter be avoided.

HOLY SABBATH-REST.
IOUS lips hail thy advent,

Thee in love our God has se

Mind and heart of man to guard,

And to lead him heavenward.

PHILO-JUDEUS.

XVIII.

Sabbath Thoughts.

I.

Receive the instruction of wisdom and justice, and judgment and equity.—Proverbs i. 3.

HE moral order of the world rests on three things: on Law, on Worship and on Charity.

In serving God be not like hirelings who work only for the sake of the wages they receive, but do thou the will of the Heavenly Father without any thought of recompense. Let thy house be a meeting-place for wise men; cover thyself with the dust of their feet (be their disciple) and drink in their words with avidity; but let thy home also be open to the poor that they may come in as though they were of thine own household.

Those that are above thee in wisdom and piety make thy teachers; those that are thine equals make thy friends and associates; but judge thou all men from the favorable side and try to discover their merits, be they ever so humble in station and deficient in knowledge. CHAPTERS OF THE PHARISAIC FATHERS.

THOU, whose perfect goodness crowns

With peace and joy this sacred day,

Our hearts are glad for all the years
Thy love has kept us in Thy way.

For common tasks of help and cheer,
For quiet hours of thought and prayer,
For moments when we seemed to feel
The breath of a diviner air;

For mutual love and trust that keep
Unchanged through all the changing time,
For friends within the vail who thrill
Our spirit with a hope sublime:

For this, and more than words can say,
We praise and bless Thy holy name.
Come life or death, enough to know
That Thou art evermore the same.

JOHN W. CHADWICK.

Incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thou thy heart to understanding.—Proverbs ii. 2.

KEEP aloof from an evil-minded neighbor, avoid the company of sinners lest thou also be taken in the judgment that is sure to come upon them, sooner or later.

Love work; never try to lord it over others; thrust not thyself upon the society of the great ones of the land. Love peace and pursue after it; love all men and try to win them to the study of God's word.

He who runs after fame, from him it flees; not to grow in understanding is to decrease; not to acquire wisdom when we may is to sin against our own soul; and to boast of one's learning is to lapse into ignorance. If I do not care for myself-who will? but if I care for myself only-what am I? and if not now-when ?

Set a fixed time every day for the reading of God's Word, promise little and do much; receive every man with a friendly face.

There is nothing better for man than to know the value of silence; for he that speaketh much can hardly avoid sin.

Knowledge of the Torah availeth much; yet the chief purpose of its study is: the doing of God's will.