'A PEACE-MAKER."-From the Painting by Stone.

ANGER.

Capacity for Anger Desirable.

The child should be taught to restrain his anger; but he can not restrain it if he has not got it.

Anger is like

fire-a good servant and a terrible master. Without capacity for anger Luther could not have fought the battle of the Reformation; nor our fathers the war of the Revolution; nor our reformers the war of Emancipation. -LYMAN ABBOTT.

Righteous Anger.

The spirit which flushes with resentment at an oath is infinitely better than the spirit which listens with indifference, or which laughs with pleasure.

"Abhor that which is evil," says the Divine command; no man is safe unless he does.-LYMAN ABBOTT.

Anger at Sin a Duty.

Every great sin ought to arouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.-LYMAN ABBOTT.

"Be Angry and Sin Not."

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry and sin not.-LYMAN ABBOTT.

Anger and Rage.

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure! People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit, and time has been when men have actually choked themselves with passion, and died on the spot. Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as be ing angry about it; for passion shortens life and poison: peace.--SPURGEON.

ART.

The Rose of Art.

Following the sun, westward the march of power!
The Rose of Might blooms in our new-world mart;
But see, just bursting forth from bud to flower,
A late, slow growth-the fairer Rose of Art.
R. W. GILDER.

Ideals in Art.

Our age is moved deeply by the study of ideals in art. Each generation is amazed at its own progress. In the great Field Columbian Museum one can see the history of many an idea: The boat idea, beginning at three logs bound together with a piece of bark and passing on toward the ocean palace; the transportation idea, beginning

with a strap on a man's forehead, passing on through the panniers on a goat or a donkey and reaching to the modern express train; the sculpture idea, moving from some. stone or earthen or wooden outlines onward toward the angelic forms that seem about to live and speak. There you will see the wooden eagle which marked the grave of some Indian. And what a creature it is! Nothing but the infinite kindness of civilization could persuade us to call it a bird of any known species. And yet, perhaps, the Indian when dying was happy that such a wooden bird was to stand on his grave and keep his memory green. into our age, so full of new and grand conceptions in art, there must come the marching ideals of human life. Man is moving through a redemptive world. All lips should sing each day the song of the old harpist: "Who Redeemeth Thy Life from Destruction." What our age needs is a rapid advance of the ideals of life. A Catholic priest who has spent thirty years in the temperance cause has said: 'The saloon is the greatest enemy that Rome has left in the world. The criticisms which the Protestants make of Rome's dogmas are harmless compared with the ruin of mind and soul wrought by the saloon and its defenders." No one will deny the truth of the priest's complaint, and all are glad to mark the new effort of the Romanists to set up new ideas. Protestants should not, can not, hate a Catholic; but all good citizens must cherish little regard for any one who has not gotten beyond the saloon idea.-SWING.

Angelo and Raphael.

Christianity helped to make Angelo and Raphael by furnishing them with grand themes. As no lips can be eloquent unless they are speaking in the name of a great truth, so no painter can paint unless some one brings him a great subject. Heaven and hell made the poet, Dante. Christianity made Beatrice. Paradise made John Milton. The mother of our Lord and the last judgment made Angelo. It is the great theme that makes the orator, the painter, the poet. The great theme lifts up the soul and makes it the revealer of a new world. --SWING.

Music the Child of Christianity.

There is an art which Christianity created almost wholly, asking little of outside aid. Music is that peculiar child. The long-continued vision of Heaven, the struggle of the tones of voice and of instrument to find something worthy of the deep feelings of religion, resulted at last in those mighty chants which formed the mountain springs of our musical Nile. There could have been no music had not depth of feeling come to man. The men who went up to the pagan temples went with no such love, with no sorrow of penitence, with no exultant joy. It was necessary for Jesus Christ to come. along and transfer religion from the form to the spirit, and from an "airy nothingness" to a love stronger than life, before hymns like those of Luther and Wesley and Watts could break from the heart. The doctrine of repentance must live in the world awhile before we can have a "Miserere," and the exultant hope of the Chris.