of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing, and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have no love, it profiteth me nothing. And now abideth: faith, hope and love, these three; but the greatest of them is love. -From the Epistle to the Corinthians. I have not made gold my hope nor said to fine gold: thou art my confidence. I rejoiced not at the destruction of him that hated me, nor lifted up myself when evil found him. Neither have I suffered my soul to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my door to the traveller, yet did I not cover my transgression as men do nor hide my iniquity in my bosom. Neither did I fear a great multitude or was terrified by the contempt of families.From Job, xxxi. PARSES, justice ever be thy guide; May malice never gain upon thy will, Malice that makes the wretch more wretched still. The good man, injured, to revenge is slow; To him the vengeance is the greater woe. Ever will injurious courses fail, And justice ever over wrong prevail. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflame them! And the harp and the viol, the tabret and the flute, and the wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of His hands.-Isaiah V. II, 12. JN regard to temperance in the use of strong drinks He does not Total absti the Jew is a law unto himself; perhaps it is more correct to say: his religion made him so. wait for the civic law to keep him sober. nence, which we should always treat respectfully, springs from a loathing of the poisoned cup which destroys its thousands and ten thousands. But, as in the days of Egypt's judgment, the plague has not entered the Jew's home; he "does not fear the wine because it is red." The genius of our religion is anti-ascetic. It looks with no friendly eye upon the Nazirite, and treats him more like a sinner than a saint, as he seems to need extra bridles to tame his fleshly appetites. Keeping other and longer fasts than the law ordains, the Talmud hesitates not to stigmatize as foolish piety; it is more meritorious, say the masters, to offer God a hundred benedictions every day for blessings enjoyed, than to smite the breast and weary the tongue with penitential lamentations. But, although not altogether approving of total abstinence, we Jews are, nevertheless on the same side of the problem; we assist its solution in our own way. Our vow of faithfulness to the covenant includes all that is truly beneficial in the pledge of the abstainer. ETTER to weave in the web of life A bright and golden filling, And to do God's Will with a ready heart And then blame heaven for the tangled ends XXIII. The Greatness of Little Things. DR. G. G. Blessed are they that keep judgment; and they that do righteousness at all times.—Psalm cvi. 3. Every man shall give as he is able according to the blessing of the Lord, thy God, which he hath given thee.-Deut. xvi. 17. R. JOHNSON wisely said: "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything." Life is made up of little things. It is but once in an age that occasion is offered for a great deed. True greatness consists in being great in little things. How are railways built? By one shovelful of dirt after another; one shovelful at a time. Thus drops make the ocean. Hence we should be willing to do a little good at a time, and never "wait to do a great deal of good at once." If we would do much good in the world we must be willing to do good in little things, little acts, one after another, speaking a word here, giving a tract there, and setting a good example at all times; we must do the first good thing we can, and then the next, and the next, and so keep on doing. This is the way to accomplish anything. Thus only shall we do all the good in our power. UR life is but the twinkle of a star In God's eternal day. Obscure and dim His grace and blessing, and I fall supine; XXIV. ANONYMUS. Consummation of the past. One generation goes, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth always.—Ecclesiastes i. 4. LET us not forget that it is not only great thoughts and great men that the past needs for its consummation; it is that power and consecration which come from every individual life. These great forces of love and justice and truth are not committed to a few alone; they are committed to us all. They are the forces by which God means to finish this world. Some of this force is given to you. It is the love in your heart, the righteousness which may work through your conscience, the truth which may illuminate your intellect. And every time you help to speed the truth, every time you give a nobler moral judgment than the conventional standard of morality, every time you overcome the spirit of hate with the spirit of love, you are helping God to finish his world. Do not stand in the way of these forces; do not obstruct them. Let them work in you and through you. You have not created them, but you may learn to apply them. It may not be yours to announce a new discovery, to proclaim an invention, to lead the world to the victories of peace, but you may put a nail in here, a brick in there-you may help to finish what some other life has begun. SAM. T. BARROWS. MOULDST thou from sorrow find a sweet relief? Or in thy heart, oppressed with woes untold, XXV. ME Human Kinship. They helped every one his neighbor, and every one said to his brother: be strong!-Isaiah xli. 6. E must teach every youth to stretch out his hand to the drowning, show the right way to the stray |