The Outlook says, in an article on "Learning from Life:" "One often hears the remark made that life goes hard with a certain person; when that person's life is analyzed it will almost always appear that it is characterized more by stubbornness or by sheer resistance than by acceptance and willingness to be taught. To those who are not willing to learn, life is almost intolerably hard. They bear the brunt of the terrible onslaught of events as they sometimes come rolling in like the waves of the sea, but they are not lifted by them and when the flood is passed they are stripped of their possessions."

A short time prior to the convention of the Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association, held in Philadelphia, October 11 to 14, the Congregationalist said: "The Emperor of Russia is to send two delegates. These men, Messrs. Reitlinger and Shidlovski, are connected with the administration of Russia's railways. They come, not as a part of the bureaucracy of the empire, but because the Czar is interested personally in religious and relief work, and has sent these representatives here to find out all about Association methods."

The (Methodist) Christian Advocate quotes F. B. Meyer as follows: "Do not try to do a great thing; you may waste all your life waiting for the opportunity which may never come. But since little things are always claiming your attention, do them as they come, from a great motive, for the glory of God, to win His smile of approval, and to do good to men. It is harder to plod on in obscurity, acting thus, than to stand on the high places of the field, within the view of all, and do deeds of valor at which rival armies stand still to gaze."

The (Baptist) Watchman says: "Of course the Bible is literature, but it is also a revelation and a message. You may get a telegram that is very poor literature, but of transcendent importance to you as a message, and, vice versa, very good literature may be worthless as a message. You cannot apply the same standards of criticism to the Bible as literature and to the Bible as revelation. Much of the current praise of the Bible as literature ignores its worth as revelation. The Bible as literature is only the vehicle for the Bible as revelation."

The Universalist Leader says: "Too many churches and ministers spend all their time and energy in trying to get a bigger congregation, when they have not begun to mould the few they have.... What would it not mean to the world if the Church in the next ten years should work over the material it now has on hand in membership alone, into really righteous men and women, and turn loose on this country twenty-seven millions of real, practical followers of Jesus Christ? They would soon bring the kingdom of heaven to hand."

The Homiletic Review publishes an article by D. S. Gregory, D.D., on "The Forward Movement—How to be Brought About," in which the following is found: "It cannot be reasonably denied that on the divine side everything is absolutely ready for forward movement and victory all along the line and on the scale of the world. Divine Providence has made ready the whole world and provided all the forces and agencies, means and men, required for its spiritual conquest. Divine grace is all-sufficient."

When your feelings are hurt, keep still, till you recover from your excitement, at any rate. Things look differently through the unagitated eye.... Wait till you can speak calmly, and then it may be you will not need to speak. Silence is the most massive thing conceivable sometimes. It is strength in very grandeur. It is like a regiment ordered to stand still in the mad fury of battle. To plunge in were twice as easy."

The World's Crisis.

A writer in the (Unitarian) Christian Register says: "When Jesus said of a little child, 'Of such is the kingdom of heaven,' it was a revelation. In it was the strange and heavenly lesson which the Christian world has never yet fully learned: that there is a childhood into which we have to grow, as there is a childhood which we have to leave behind before we can enter into the fulness and sweetness of a pure Christian life."

In an editorial the (Baptist) Examiner says: "We hear others talk of love, and we talk of it ourselves, and think we know what it is as we think we know so many other things we talk of. But of most things concerning which men express themselves they know little, and of love least of all. It is the fathomless affection. God is love."

The Christian Register says: "The time has come when we ought to be able to discuss all matters of religious thought without prejudice and with the sole desire to know the truth. How can any intelligent person wish anything less than the truth? It is surely our faith that whatever is true must be also serviceable for the spiritual life."

The (Baptist) Watchman says: "The heathen probably did not conceive at first of idols as gods. Idols were only symbols of spiritual beings; but gradually the idol itself came to be worshiped. The flag is only a symbol, but there are some indications that there is a tendency abroad to put the symbol above what it stands for."

In an editorial paragraph the Christian Advocate says: "The English Dictionary of Dr. Murray presents a singular coincidence. One of the numbers begins with 'brandy' and ends with 'brute.' This is merely a coincidence, but the evolutionary process suggested by it is being wrought out every day."

The (Unitarian) Christian Register says: "We have a thousand modes of intellectual and religious improvement; but we no longer get very near to our fellow-beings, to the finding of the inmost fibre of truth and conviction that is in them. Cold intellectuality cannot take the place of this vital contact."

The (Baptist) Standard says: "Start the day right. Life is lived by days and we do not have to live through more than one at a time. How simple and trite the saying, and yet it would solve three-fourths of our worries if we could apply it. It is so often to-morrow, not to-day, that burdens us."

Bishop Pendleton, in the New Church Life, says: "Separation or disjunction from God is the cause of all evil, and evil closes the spiritual mind, causing ignorance, and that mind is opened only by repentance and the shunning of evils as sins. This is the only pathway."

The (Baptist) Watchman says: "The estimated expense for religious buildings to be erected in New York City during the next six months is $4,000,000. The largest single amount is involved in the erection of the choir of the new Episcopal cathedral, $750,000."

The (Baptist) Standard says: "The last instruction which Mary Lyon ever gave to her scholars at Mount Holyoke contained the characteristic sentence: 'There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fear to do it.'"

The Congregationalist says editorially: "The best work for the future is possible to the least of us all. It is the improvement of character. It is adding to the sum of patience, purity, charity, diligence, and fidelity to divine ideals."

The Methodists are making good progress in their efforts to raise a Twentieth Century thank-offering of $20,000,000. Already $5,000,000 have been subscribed toward the several enterprises included in the offering."

Exchange.

"More than half of the unhappiness in the world comes from a perverse unwillingness to look on the bright side so long as a dark side can be discovered," says the (Baptist) Standard.

"Tenderness and strength! Boundless charity and dauntless courage! In combination these go far towards the making of the saint," says the Church Standard.

"'Knowledge is power.' So runs the adage. and the saying is true if the knowledge be real," says the Examiner.