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Deep Sen 9oundings.

The adaptation OF animal life in the ocean
to surrounding circumstances, while showing
the design of Creator, affords also strik-
ing analogy Of the adaptation Of the spiritual
life, by Gods grace, to those various condi-
tions in which Christian may be placed.
Professor Bailey believed that the ocean bed
was one vast mortuary, because II the ami
malcules had lived there their frail little
textures would have been subjected in their
growth to a pressure upon them Of column
Of water 12, 600 feet high, equal to the weight
of 4O0 atmospheres." But if we can once
prove that animal life does exist, we see in
this striking instance of the universal law
of adaptation.
We turn from the kingdom Of nature to
the kingdom Of ,grac' a we may say to
distresses, "God is faith. who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
able.n The history of the church Of Christ
Is one grand illustration Of the law Of spirit
ual adaptation. The word, "My grace is
sufficient for thee,n has been tried by count
less children of sorrow, and each has been
able to testify to its force and its truth.
Every minister of Christ Of any experience,
and every student Of the history Of the
church of Christ, has seen the child Of God
supported under weight Of trial which he
might deem phenomenal, did he not remem-
ber the promise, ."My God shall supply all
your need according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus" Under the pressure Of the
heaviest external calamities, many q Chris
tian has said with st. Paul, ''Our light af-
Fiction, which is but for moment, Is work
ing for US far more exceeding and eternal
weight Of glory"
The absolute stiffness which reigns in the
depths of the sea hos its analogy in the silent
submission to Gods will-the soul rest which
has been found in those who have been led
into the depths Of divine Christening. There
is something very impressive in the thought
that while the surface Of the ocean is ever
restless-liable to be tossed by storm and
tempest-there is q vast region in the ocean
depths where all is still, silent, and at rest.
Sir Emilius Bayley observes that the silence
Of the soul before God is a very high attain
ment in the spiritual life; and that "only
unto God my soul is silence tliteral render
ing of the opening sentence Of the sixty-sec-
ond Psalm) expresses the resignation Of abso-
lutte trust, the perfect acquiescence Of the
soul in the will Of God."-[From Glimpses
Through the Veil
When we come back from the battlefield.
weary yet victorious, we may look for our
King Of Peace coming to meet us with bread
and wine and his own priestly blessing, that
we may be strenPthened and refreshed by
himself. IF. R. HavergaL.
The humanity consists not in squeamish
ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking
at tales Of misery, but in a disposition Of
heart to relieve ii. True humanity apper-
tains rather to the mind than to the nerves,
and prompts men to use real and active en-
deavors to execute the actions which it sug.
gests.-[C. j. Fox.
The worlds history is a divine poem, Of
which the history Of every nation Is a canto,
and every man word. Its strains have
been pealing along down the centuries, and
though there have been mingled the discords
OF warning cannon and dying men, yet to
the Christian philosopher and historian
the humble listener-there has been a d.
speaks Of hope and halcyon days to come
RI. A. Garfield.