In an editorial on the "Falling off of Candidates for Orders" the (Episcopalian) Church Standard says: "In every great overflow of missionary zeal from the times of the Apostles until now, the economic element has counted for nothing. The men who carried Christianity to Gaul thought nothing of it. The Celts who carried Christianity to Scotland, who were the rea. Apostles of the Cross in England, and whose labors spread from Burgundy to Northern Germany—what did those men care for economic conditions? It is not a quite unthinkable hypothesis that our modern missions are failing to a very large extent because they are so, generally administered on economic rather than on spiritual principles. Let the Church once breathe the Spirit of Christ and nothing that she undertakes will fail for lack of men to do her work. When the Church grows cold, is it surprising that her men grow cold along with her, and that, before they seek the ministry, they want to know the economic conditions on which they are to accept it?"

The following is from a sermon published in the Homiletic Review: "As a result of our faith, we are to have perfect peace of mind, and heart, and conscience—a sweet inward feeling of rest. We are also to be of an irenic disposition, and to maintain peaceful and harmonious relations with our fellowmen. The nature of our work here is inclined to make us quarrelsome and combative, and we should be on our guard against this. There are some men with whom you can hardly quarrel if you try, because they are of a peaceable mind; there are other men with whom it is difficult to spend one evening in social intercourse without getting into a dispute, because they are pugnacious. Now the proper attitude of the Christian is a peaceable one, and unless we have attained that disposition the Spirit has not accomplished His perfect work in us."

The Congregationalist for February 9, publishes an article by the Rev. Dr. Beach, one of the leading clergymen of the denomination, on "The Progress of Faith." in which he says: "Christianity's God of a century ago was far off; the world, the universe, were his structures, arbitrarily made, and operated by him from without, as a locomotive is built and driven.... The God of a century ago was Ruler, Sovereign; He ruled with inexorable moral sanctions; so much sin, so much punishment. The God of the beginning of the twentieth century is Father, Brother, Friend: His authority is not less, but it is a reasonable authority. It is not only God's law but the law of human nature, rooted by Him in the human constitution, so that one does a kindness to himself when he obeys the law. Of all this love is the mainspring."

The Universalist Leader says: "The man who takes for granted all the gifts of God. and only begins to realize their number and magnitude when bereft of any, lives a narrow, starved existence that scarcely merits the term 'life.' And if poverty or pain or sorrow become his guests, he has no solace to lesson the bitterness of their presence, but is either crushed or desperate, despairing or defiant. He had deliberately made himself a stranger to the possibilities of comfort and peace and patience and trust, and he shudders and shivers in the cold, dark night of misfortune, where he might find compensations that are the reward of the grateful man who gladly recognizes and esteems his mercies, and who renders thanks to God, the giver of every good and perfect gift."

In an editorial article regarding the formation of great industrial combinations, the Church Standard says; "It is curious to see how the socialistic tendency is being swept on by individual will; but the social demand is growing quite as rapidly as corporate power; and, in the end, society will always be found mightier than the greatest of its parts. Yet in human hands power is a perilous possession. Let us hope that the newborn socialism of corporations may be wisely used. If it shall be so, it may guide the modern world into many a good thing in the coming century; if not it may collapse as suddenly as it has risen."

A sermon published in the New-Church Messenger contains the following: "The prayer that counts most is the living prayer of a good life, which looks continually to the Lord and, from Christian habit, brings every word and act in line with the teachings of the Christ.... The watch the Lord would have us keep is a life-long watch, a constant guarding against evil, a wide-awakeness to spiritual things, a never-ending hope of better things, an expectation of them, and a working for them. Doing this we shall be faithful and wise servants that wait for the coming of their Lord."

A committee representing the members of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Boston, refused an offer last month of $1,500,000 for their old place of worship on Tremont Street, in the heart of the shopping district. This site is an exceptionally fine one for business purposes and it will continue to increase in value. If the property were subject to taxation on the same terms as adjoining sites, the congregation would not likely be able to maintain religious services in the old house. The edifice was built eighty years ago.

The Congregationalist reports the following: "The owner of a factory in Washington, Ind., has engaged the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the town to visit his factory each morning and give a fifteen minutes' sermon to the operatives, the preacher being on the pay roll of the factory and the men receiving pay for the time taken to listen to the sermonette. Since the men will not go to the church, they are to have the gospel taken to them."

William R. Moody, son of the great evangelist, said in a recent address at a meeting of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association: 'Sin is a stain, and when a man has sin in him, he is befouled, corroded, blighted. Sin separates us from God. No man really prays to God if he is still living in sin. There is nothing more lonely than sin. A man with sin has the worst disease that any man can have—one infinitely more to be feared in its results than the small-pox."

The Universalist Leader says: "If you are not in the place to do the best of which you are capable, get into that place as soon as you can. Show by your fitness, your faith and earnestness, that you are qualified for it. If you are not doing all you can where you are, stay there until you more than fill the position. Overflowing labors of the sort demanded by the situation open the way to larger fields and improved circumstances."

The Chautauquan says: "American people pay $2,000,000 a year for Bibles, $500,000 a year for hymn and tune books. $60,000 a year for prayer books, and $11,750,000 for religious periodicals and other Christian liteature. Methodists North alone pay into their two book concerns in New York and Cincinnati over $8,000,000 each four years, and since their establishment in 1848 have paid to them almost $70,000,000."

A writer in the Congregationalist says: "Unkind words may be forgiven, but long years go by and they are not forgotten. We who spoke and they who heard may desire to have them drop out of remembrance, but they come back to thought again in spite of us and hinder love. How brief the gratification of their utterance! How indelible their record in the heart!"

The (Baptist) Standard says: "If the world is to be saved through the instrumentality of the churches, the churches need to be more largely made up of those whose religion is becoming more and more their very life; something that determines and regulates and controls all the relations and activities of life."

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton at eighteen.

The Christian Register says: "All the world has been celebrating greatness and goodness. In America the virtues of the English queen and the great qualities of a chief justice of the United States have made renewed ideals of character familiar, and have renewed the hope that they will finally prevail in human society."

The accession of King Edward to the throne makes it necessary to discard all the copies of the "Book of Common Prayer" new in use in Church of England and substitute a revised book embodying the changes in the prayers for the royal family.

"It is a lovely and graceful thing to see men natural. It is beautiful to see men sincere without being haunted with the consciousness of their sincerity."

F. W. Robertson in the Examiner.

The (Methodist) Christian Advocate says: "The law of God includes thoughts, feelings, and words no less than acts. To qualify him for this every man must be born again."