to vilify me as they please. I can not prevent it. Practically they say it is convenient to call you a materialist, and you shall be a materialist whether you like it or not."

Perhaps these are the strongest utterances against the flood-tide of that crude opinion which would rule out of the universe the power behind all other powers whom we call God. It should cause us to be thankful and take courage that one whose intellect has come nearer than almost any other to encircling the mighty realm of thought thus far attained by man deems himself wounded and slandered by the intimation that he has not seen and felt the power of that endless life from which all our lives have sprung.-FRANCES E. WILLARD.

Revelations of God.

Life, love, joy! What are these in their tale to the spirit, as Spring sends them flowing into our hearts? They are a revelation of the Being of God. Its first attribute is infinite life. In this world of decay and death, where sorrow, apathy and dullness play so large a part, it is unspeakable comfort to know that there is above us and in our God an eager, unwearied, universal life. Nothing in Spring gives me so much joy as that thought. It is God's life that is moving everywhere, breathing in the sunlight, in the blossom, flowing in the running water, growing in the corn, singing in the birds, glittering in the dew that nourishes the grass-the inexhaustible fountain of God's life that makes the world in the rushing of its stream.-STOPFORD A. BROOKE.

Condensed Comments.

For all that God in mercy sends

For health and children, home and friends,
For comfort in the time of need,
For every kindly word and deed,
For happy thoughts and holy talk,
For guidance in our daily walk-
For every thing give thanks.

ELLEN ISABelle Tupper.

He who breathes forth this steady desire after God's holiness is upright, reconciled and humble; he is truly in peace of conscience, even when most full of sacred contrition. He has no infinite standard of goodness; for, although what he dimly imagines as perfection is only a limited idea of his own mind, it is both above what he has yet reached and rises the moment he seems about to reach it. This state of things is the exact reverse of selfrighteousness, which is stagnation.-F. W. NEWMAN.

Be not afraid of those trials which God may see fit to send upon thee. It is with the wind and the storm of tribulation that God, in the garner of the soul, separates the true wheat from the chaff. Always remember, therefore, that God comes to thee in thy sorrows as really as in thy joys. He lays low and He builds up. Thou wilt find thyself far from perfection if thou dost not find God in everything.-MOLINOS.

"It is good for me to have the

Let Diotrephes say: pre-eminence." Let Judas say: bear the bag." Let Demas say:

"It is good for me to

"It is good for me to

embrace the present world." But do thou, O my soul,

say with David: "It is good for me to draw near to

God."-BISHOP ARROWSMITH.

Resemblance to God results from our intimacy with Him. We soon assume the manners of those with whom we are familiar, especially if we love and revere them. Upon this principle, the more we have to do with God the more we shall grow into His likeness and "be followers of Him as dear children."-JAY.

You have only to open your eyes to see the handwriting of God upon every object. The shading of the flower, the song of the bird, the form of the tree, the breath of the air, the tint of the sky, the green of the grass-all are thoughts of God, and are designed to help you think of Him.-DANIEL MARCH.

The German poet, Hoffman, pitifully said with his last breath: "We must then think of God also." Happy is he who early determines not to put God among the "alsos," but to make Him the keystone of the arch.— FRANCES E. WILLARD.

Every event in this world is a syllable breaking from the lips of God. Every epoch in affairs is a completed sentence of His thought; and the great stream of human history is God's endless revelation of Himself.--REV. J. H. ECOB.

No man in the world should be so happy as the man of God. It is one continual source of gladness. He can look up and say: "God is my Father, Christ is my Savior, and the Church is my mother."-MOODY.

God is Love.

It is God's true name.

asked:

Why not, in"Who

deed, teach the children to say when

made you?" "Love, the Father." "Who redeems "Love, the Son." "Who sanctifies you?"

you?"

Love, the Holy Ghost."--G. GILFILLAN.

God is a sun shining with perpetual splendor, and not like the ruler of the day, who is sometimes eclipsed and at other times clonded, now retires from us and then returns, according to the revolution of the year.--JOHN DICK.

"I Am" is the name of God; and it imports that in His existence the distinctions of past, present and to come have no place.--JOHN Dick.

All things in the natural world symbolize God; yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.--BEECHER.

Belief in the existence of God has been almost universal among men.-J. P. BoYCE.

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THE GOSPEL.

Gladstone's Idea.

There is but

It

can, and will, All men at the

Talk about the questions of the day! one question, and that is the Gospel. correct everything needing correction. head of great movements are Christian men. During the many years I was in the Cabinet I was brought into association with sixty master minds, and all but five of them were Christians. My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with Divine revelation.-GLADSTONE.

The Gospel for the People.

Then, on this interpretation of the Gospel, what a grand religion ours must be for working people—and we are all workers—especially those who are waiting and toiling and making little or nothing by it, except getting wet and weary and disappointed! In these days, when the word "unemployed" is continually in our ears and the dismal thing perpetually in front of us, what a splendid religion is the religion of Jesus Christ! What a difference it makes between the unemployed man who believes in Christ and the unemployed man who has no such belief! According to Cutter Morison, this religion is all for the other world, and not for this. Therefore, he says, let us give it up. But if this miracle is true, that objection is overwhelmingly answered. These two unemployed men are not alike. Toto Calo-by the