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Webster defines "liberty," in part, as follows: "The state of a free person; freedom: opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. " The same authority calls "license" "excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law and decorum; disregard of law or property.

ONE of the sublime lessons expressed in nature and the visible universe is law and order. To the seeing eye, the opening petals of a flower disclose wonders of beauty in color and perfection of form; symmetrical yet varied is the veining and outline of each separate leaf in the foliage of a giant forest tree, rising in stately strength from a single root, to trunk, branch, stem, leaflet, all in orderly, beautiful development.

Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; .

I cannot but think that one of the truest ways in which Christianity has made humility at once a commoner and a nobler grace, has been in the way it has furnished work for the higher powers of man, which used to be idle and only ponder proudly on themselves. Idleness standing in the midst of unattempted tasks is always proud.

THE writer of the epistle to the Hebrews assures us that we are the house of Christ, "if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. " Here is truly the test of Christian faith, and here is the real presence of Christ manifest in the daily life of the Christian—if our hope gives not only confidence but rejoicing.

WE often hear it said that the most marked tendency of these times is centralization; the elimination of circuitous routes; the shortening of processes. We are said to be living very fast nowadays, and there is constant effort toward doing away with delay and useless circumlocution in all lines.

Creation is an eternal and continuous act, an act without beginning or end.

ST. PAUL thus characterized his own preaching: "We speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.

THE unbelief which stands in the way of spiritual progress is not so much disbelief of the truth which has been presented, as it is the occupation of the mind with beliefs which are contrary to the truth. Since the mind is thus preoccupied, it has no hospitality for the truth.

TRUTH is radical, authoritative, absolute. It proceeds from eternal, divine Principle.