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The Universalist Leader quotes these words from Dr. Washington Gladden:—

"There is nothing that the Church needs to-day so much as faith in God. Its weakness is not due to its uncertain hold on some of the minor theological beliefs; it goes a great deal deeper. The doubt which paralyzes it is the deadly uncertainty about God. We are hearing much of the need of a new evangelism, and the need is great; but the note of this evangelism which must he sounded first and clearest is the glorious truth that God reigns, and His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and that His dominion endureth for ever and ever. If one church could really get hold of this truth and believe it, and make men believe it; if Mammon could be cast down from his throne in the hearts of the Christian people and God could be exalted thereupon; if men could really feel that the justice, and truth, and purity, and integrity, and love in which God is revealed are worth more than money; that the weapons which are not carnal are mightier far in our warfare than all the powers of this world—the feebleness and infirmity of the Church would soon depart, and she would go forth to her conquests fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners."

Are the ideals of the Spirit possible of achievement? Are they worth the sacrifice their attainment demands? Out of the past comes the answer in the cry of the soul's loyalty, "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning!" Whatever the cost, the things of the Spirit are supreme. No man can surrender to Babylon's seductions without forfeiting his manhood. Shadowy the ideal may seem, in contrast with the very real prizes of sense, but none the less it is more real than they, and no lower satisfaction can be compared with the reward with which God crowns the loyalty of the soul.

The Congregationalist.

There are things that remain when all earthly pursuits and achievements pass away. Some things on which we have relied may be "shaken"—to use the New Testament word—but other and more important things "remain" to bless us to all eternity. Every truth of God we learn is ours forever. Every holy sentiment of love we cherish remains, likewise. All the strength of moral purpose we develop, all the purity of heart and righteousness of soul we obtain, all the spiritual capital we accumulate in this world will be ours to possess and enjoy in the next and forever.

The Universalist Leader.

The Churchman quotes Bishop Hall as follows:—

"Christian Science sets forth and insists on an element of Christian truth which we, and the Christian Church at large, have allowed to be too generally ignored. We have not shown forth in our lives this temper of trustfulness and tranquillity and superiority to external troubles, and so this has been thought of as no part of the Christian religion. And we are to blame."

Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. He is the Saviour of men, but he saves no man who does not turn from evil to good. The evidence that we are saved is found in the expression of a new character. We become right with God because of the exercise of our own volition under the touch of the Son of God. We are not saved in sin but out of it.—The Standard.

"It is not, 'Let your lips speak,' but, 'Let your light shine.' The living epistle is not known and heard of all men, but known and read."—Pacific Baptist.

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