The Congregationalist publishes the following prayer of Jeremy Taylor: "O Almighty God, give to thy servant a meek and gentle spirit that I may be slow to anger, and easy to mercy and forgiveness. Give me a wise and constant heart that I may never be moved to an intemperate anger for any injury that is done or offered. Lord, let me ever be courteous and easy to be entreated; let me never fall into a peevish or contentious spirit, but follow peace with all men, offering forgiveness, inviting them by courtesies, ready to confess my own errors, apt to make amends and desirous to be reconciled. Let no sickness or cross accident, no employment or weariness, make me angry or ungentle and discontented, or unthankful or uneasy to them that minister to me; but in all things make me like unto the holy Jesus. Amen."

In a recent editorial the New Church Messenger says: "Why preach always to the sinner in ourselves or in our brother? Better a million times to make our appeal to the slumbering spirit of good, to the captive soul sleeping and bound with chains. What are the powers of evil beside the glorious and unconquerable might of the spiritual man aroused to break the illusory bonds of a lower inheritance and habit and to lay hold of his prior birthright to a share in the limitless creation and unfoldment of the Kingdom of Heaven? In the contemplation of our infinite opportunities how our petty impulses to wrong thinking and wrong doing shrivel up and roll away like a cloud that is past, and we stand facing the glorious East with its thrilling promise of a never ending day!"

Charles William Pearson, A.M., of the department of English literature in the Northwestern University, in an open letter to the General Methodist Conference, published in the Chicago Tribune, says: "The question is not, Are we doing some good? but, Are we doing all the good we can? How can we in consistency ask the heathen to abandon their errors if we refuse to abandon ours—ask them to receive new truth from us if we ourselves refuse new truth? If we refuse the flood of light that the nineteenth century has poured upon the world shall we not become blind leaders of the blind? 'Be ye perfect' is the law, and when once that is deliberately set aside not only is it impossible to progress, it is impossible to stand still; the only possible thing is decline and decay."

The following is an extract from a prose poem on "The Dew," by Mrs. Merrill E. Gates, published in the (Baptist) Watchman: "The dew suggests the unseen, gentle, actual refreshing of our inner nature by the Holy Spirit. Not consciously always does the divine healing of the dew of the Spirit fall upon our spirits. We are renewed, we are refreshed, we are lightened we know not how. We have heard no sound of rain. We have had no shower of overflowing moisture. Yet we are conscious of invigorated vitality. It is the time of dew-fall, and so we continue to be sure of the unseen realities. The dry, the hard, the stony and implacable aspect of life is softened, some entrance for the things of God seems to be given amid the sordid, sensual, hardened, and scoffing spirit of the world."

Concerning the cure of loneliness the Sunday School Times says: "Selfishness is one great cause of loneliness. If a man builds walls around himself, so that he may keep all that he has to himself, he soon finds that he has built walls around himself which shut out all that might come in to him from others. So the cure o" loneliness may be the overcoming of selfishness. The medicines for this disease of loneliness are potions of generosity, of thoughtfulness for others, of self-sacrifice, taken in large doses."

The New York (Baptist) Examiner says: "Our Saviour's heart was full of compassion for the suffering and needy, and those in whom his spirit dwells will naturally feel as he felt. Hard-heartedness and indifference in the presence of suffering is un-Christlike. It is the spirit of the world, of selfishness. We have need to beware lest the constant sight of the sorrows of poverty dry up our compassion, and render us callous to the need of our brother."

The following is from an article entitled "Cant and Business" by Charles S. Kay, published in the (Baptist) Standard: "We live in times when it is well to be circumspect, and to discriminate. Much supposed opposition to religion is not such at all; it is simply disgust with cant. There are few persons, indeed, no matter what their own opinions and habits may be, who, in their inmost hearts, despise 'pure religion and undefiled' as scripturally defined."

A writer in the Universalist Leader says: "Human sympathy and the sense of human brotherhood are larger to-day than ever before. Trade considerations and commercial advantage can no longer precipitate war against a weaker nation without calling forth a protest from the people who are waging such a conflict. And it is the progress of real Christianity which is bringing about such changes in the affairs of the world."

New Church Life, (Swedenborgian), says: "Outspokenness is often practised under the guise of frankness, without deserving that name. 'Plain speaking may be made a stalking-horse from behind which to shoot an envenomed dart.' To speak one's mind is commendable only when the mind is animated by charity, and by a wholesome fear of doing injustice in any way, even by mistake."

The Congregationalist says: "The statistics of Congregational churches for the last year indicate that the denomination is nearly stationary so far as numbers are concerned. The total membership, 629,874, is a net gain over the previous year of 1,640.

The New York (Baptist) Examiner says: "Lives that lift are lives that are hid with Christ in God, and so are strong in His strength who is 'mighty to save.' There is no other lifting power in the world that is of enduring value."