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"A LOVE LETTER."-From the Painting by Lowcock.

things; but it is the true way to get rid of the enslaving dominion of the greater passions. It will bring peace at last, for it is at the root of God's peace. It was the source of the calm of Christ, and when He left us His last legacy of peace He left the means of it in the New Commandment: "Love one another as I have loved you."-STOPFORD A. BROOKE.

Condensed Comments.

Faith that increaseth, walking in light;
Hope that abourdeth, happy and bright;
Love that is perfect, casting out fear—
These shall insure you a happy New Year.

FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERgal.

There are nine different qualities: Peace, gentleness, long-suffering, hope, patience, charity, etc. But you can sum them all into one, and you have-love. I saw something in writing the other day, bearing upon this subject, which I just took a copy of: "The fruit of the Spirit is in just one word-love. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love-enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battle-field; meekness is love, in school, and temperance is love in training. And so you can say that the fruit is all expressed by one word-love."-MOODY.

No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will

speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words-words of love, affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend-a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.-MOODY.

All true love is one. The first commandment is very great, but the second is not little. They are upper and nether pools, and the same fountain fills them. He who is the richest in the love of God has the greatest advantage for loving his neighbor.-HAMILTON.

None loves God but he who loves good. To love God is to love what God is. God is true, pure, just; and he who loves these things out of God may love them in God.-F. W. ROBERTSON.

Love, that geyser of the soul, can melt the ice and snow of the most frozen regions; wherever its warm springs well up, there glows a southern climate.BRADEN.

As fire goeth out if it be not maintained with wood, so, likewise, love groweth cold which is not mixed with good works.-CAWDRAY.

Love is the Queen of the Graces. It outshines all the >thers, as the sun the lesser planets.—THOMAS Watson.

To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a merely sentimental thing. STANFORD.

But now abideth faith, hope, love-these three; and the greatest of these is love.-ST. PAUL.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.-F. W. ROBERTSON.

The most delicate, the most sensible, of all pleasures consists in promoting the pleasure of others.-LA BRUYERE.

She is only half a mother who does not see her own child in every child.—HELEN HUNT JACKSON.

He doeth much who loveth much; and he also doeth much who doeth well.-THOMAS A KEMPIS.

LYING.

Silence Kills Some Lies.

A great lie, if unnoticed, is like a big fish out of water —it dashes and plunges and beats itself to death in a short time. To answer it is to supply it with its element, and help it to a longer life. Falsehoods usually carry their own refutation somewhere about them, and sting themselves to death. Some lies especially have a peculiar smell, which betrays their rottenness to every honest nose. If you are disturbed by them, the object of their invention is partly answered; but your silent endurance disappoints malice and gives you a partial victory, which God in His care of you will soon turn into a complete deliverance.-SPURGEON.

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