Bishop Paret's address before the Episcopalian Convention regarding the religious instruction of children is given an important place in the Church Standard. Concerning the duty of parents toward their children, the bishop says: "Common notions of these later days have confined it almost entirely to the mothers. God put it first of all upon the fathers. It was to fathers He was chiefly speaking when He commanded concerning the principles and precepts of His earlier religion, 'thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children." It was to father's He said, through St. Paul, 'bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.' It was to Abraham and not Sarah of whom He said in praise, 'I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord.' "

I cherish the virtue of humility in proportion to the scarcity of it in the world. When associated with active and energetic powers it is truly admirable. But there is great danger in that humanity which implies the sacrifice of one's own judgment to the opinions and wishes of others. In all the relations of life, public and private. I have found this difficulty constantly recurring, and, when compelled to decide, have erred, sometimes in following the dictates of my own mind, and sometimes in yielding to the persuasions of others. The only true reliance is from above.—John Quincy Adams.

The Rev. T. A. King, in a sermon published in the New Church Messenger, says: "No matter what the outward life may be—clean, polished, and cultured, or disfigured and unclean—internally the individual is an idolator until he fully and sincerely turns away from loving himself. If one is sincere in this supreme moment of his life, fire will fall from heaven, a real, genuine love will descend from the Lord into his heart, as truly as fire fell from Elijah's altar. He will then see that self has no such power; that no fire of an all-consuming divine love can come into life so long as it is self-centred and self-seeking."

In an editorial concerning the Bible, the New York (Baptist) Examiner says: "The printed book shall pass like all else in the fire that shall consume all things. But its truths shall remain through eternity. As history it is confirmed by evidence dug up from the depths of the earth. As philosophy John Stuart Mill said, 'It is impossible to find in the ideas of any philosophy, even the latest, a single truth which is not anticipated and ennobled by Christianity.' As morals, its teachings rest on universal experience. Happiness follows obedience to its precepts; misery is the penalty of their disregard."

The Universalist Leader published a children's number recently, the leading editorial of which presented some characteristics of child thought from which adults could learn much wherewith to sweeten their own lives, noting especially the trustfulness of childhood. Commenting on the opposite characteristic, the editor says: "The confirmed doubter of other people's virtue and ability exerts a harmful influence in society and in business walks, and weakens the courage of him against whom depressing criticisms are directed."

The (Baptist) Watchman, in an editorial article entitled "The Power of Preaching," says, "One of the most serious symptoms of the church life of our time is the gradual decline of the value set upon preaching. There is a tendency everywhere to crowd the sermon into a secondary place in the scheme of public worship, and the tone in which some ministers are described as 'mere preachers' discloses the lessened appreciation of this function of the ministry."

Miriam Hope says, in an article in the (Baptist) Standard: "If we spend an afternoon calling on friends we find the majority full of various worries, some one thing, some another; there is hardly a word in the dictionary more freely used—we really do not stop to think how much we worry over this, that, and the other. Distrust is a great disintegrating force that scatters far and wide blessings that might be ours."

On June 22 the town of Northampton, Mass., paid a long delayed tribute to Jonathan Edwards, the great preacher who was expelled from the pastorate of that parish in 1750. A tablet was placed on the walls of the church which expelled him, inscribed with a brief story of his life. The tablet cost $2,000 and a large part of this sum was collected in England.

The (Baptist) Standard quotes Richard Fuller, D.D., as saying: "The gospel is transcendently glorious because it reveals our common parentage, because it discloses God to us as a common father, a father from whom we have most unnaturally estranged ourselves, but who still yearns over us with the tenderest love."

A writer in the Congregationalist says: "In the sermons and the prayer-meeting talks of a generation ago the question was often asked, 'Where will you spend eternity?" That question served its temporary uses, but with our modern thought of God and of life the better question for us is, 'How are you spending eternity?' "

The (Unitarian) Christian Register says: "It is a rule of nearly universal application that in all lands and churches men and women of the same range of intelligence, learning, and culture, take almost idential views of religion, morals, and manners. Barbarism divides, while civilization unites."

Better one idea carried out, walking on the ground and working in the world, with real hands and feet, than a dozen beautiful fancies—than a hundred beautiful dreams.

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"It is hardly consistent to say that interest in the Bible is declining while 2,500,000 copies of it are being printed every year," says the Congregationalist.

The Reformed Presbyterian Synod at Atlantic City decided not to ordain tobaccousers to the ministry.