Love is the crowning grace in Heaven, but faith is the conquering grace upon earth.-THOMAS WATSON.

Now, faith is the assurance of things hoped for-the proving of things unseen. --ST. PAUL.

You must mix some uncertainty with faith, if you would have faith be.-ROBERT BROWNING.

God will honor our faith.-MOODY.

FAME.

Love and Fame.

I looked for Fame,

And Love came

Fluttering by,

And paused awhile

With bated wings to sigh;

But still I looked for Fame,

And Love fled by.

Fame came at last,

When hope was almost sped;

Fame came at last,

When youth and joy had fled,
And then I looked for Love--

But Love was dead.

W. T. MARSHALL.

Condensed Comments.

Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath blowing her own trumpet.-ANDRew Fuller.

It is better to live forever in the grateful memory of one true heart than to float for a little hour on the highest crest of fame.--CHARLES C. ALBERTSON.

In the Temple of Fame there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the race.-ZIMMERMAN.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.--Socrates.

FAMILY.

A United Family.

How strong it makes a family when all the sisters and brothers stand together! And what an awful wreck when they disintegrate, quarreling about a father's will and making the surrogate's office horrible with their wrangle! Better that, when you were little children in the nursery, with your play-house mallets you had accidentally killed each other while fighting across the cradle than that, having come to the age of maturity and having in your veins and arteries the blood of the same father and mother, you fight each other across the parental grave in the cemetery.

Of all the families of the earth that ever stood together, perhaps the most conspicuous is the family of the

Rothschilds. As Mayer Anselm Rothschild was about to die in 1812, he gathered about him his children-Anselm, Solomon, Nathan, Charles and James-and made them promise they always would be united on 'Change. Obeying that injunction, they have been the mightiest commercial power on earth, and at the raising or lowering of their scepter nations have risen or fallen. This instance illustrates how much on a large scale, and for selfish purposes, a united family may achieve. But suppose that, instead of a magnitude of dollars as the object, it be doing good and making salutary impression and raising this sunken world-how much more ennobling! you do your part. Brother, do your part.-Talmage.

The Sovereignty of the Family.

Sister,

There are several sovereignties in this country: First, the sovereignty of the American people; second, the sovereignty nearest to us all-the sovereignty of the family -the absolute right of each family to control its affairs in accordance with the conscience and convictions of duty of the heads of the family. I have no doubt the American people will always tenderly regard their household sovereignty; and, however households may differ in their views and convictions (as to meat and drink), I believe that those differences will be respected. Each household, by following its own convictions and holding itself responsible to God, will, I think, be respected by the American people.-GARFIELD.

A Legacy to the World.

A man can not leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family. --THOMAS SCOTT.

FAREWELL.

The Serious Word.

The Lord watch between thee and me when we are absent one from another.—BIBLE.

If thou dost bid thy friend farewell,

But for one night though that farewell may be,

Press thou his hand in thine.

How far from thee

How canst thou tell

Fate or caprice may lead his feet

Fre the tomorrow come? Men have been known

To lightly turn the corner of the street,

And days have grown

To months, and months to lagging years,
Ere they have looked in loving eyes again.
Parting at best is underlaid with tears-

With tears and pain.

Therefore, lest sudden death should come between,

Or time or distance, clasp with pressure true

The hand of him that goeth forth.

Fate goeth too.

Yea, find thou always time to say

Unseen,

Some earnest words between the idle talk,

Lest with thee henceforth, night and day,

Regret should walk.

ANONYMOUS.

The Long Farewell.

We are ever taking leave of something that will not che back again. We let go, with a pang, portion after po tion of our existence. However dreary we may have fel. life to be here, yet when that hour comes-the winding up of all things, the last rush of darkness on our spirits, the hour of that sudden wrench from all we have ever known or loved, the long farewell to sun, moon, stars and light-brother men! I ask you this day, and I ask myself, humbly and fearfully, what will then be finished? When it is finished, what will it be? Will it be the butterfly existence of pleasure, the mere life of science, a life of uninterrupted sin and selfish gratification? Or will it be: "Father, I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do"?-F. W. ROBERTSON.

Condensed Comments.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again.

in life.-RICHTER.

What is sadder in our reflection, and yet what more frequent, than our unconscious farewells!--GEORGE ELIOT.

Christians never see one another for the last time.— CHARLES C. ALBERTSON.