Year: 1878

ness of one toward another The mother cannot i'm
pute her experience to the babe as it lies in the
cradle; but she can think instead of it, and
for il. We cannot transfer our faculties
| to Others but we eau use them for
Others Imputaton, dogma. is false. But there is
grea moral fact which men have striven to express
by it. Wherever individuals grouped together.
this fact comes out more plainly; Some men are
musical, while others are mute. One Is Opaque and
literal. without jest without pleasantly, without
humor standing like stone house in duh day.
very strong and substantial but nothing be more
cheerless. Another is brimful Of wit and shines
among his companions like . candle in a dark room
Each by association imputes to all the others his
strongest quality, and each possesses the combined
excellence of the whole circle 1t is very seldom that
the Church answers to this description this magni


cent conception of the multiform individual Men
are prone to envy each other If one is learned and
solid his dulness is reviled; If he is humorous. he


is accused of leviy If he is SOBER he is Thought 10
be acerb and ascetic.


ExcHANeE OF BENEFITS.


But when there is love and harmony our lives are
perpetually the lend; we are constantly issuing
forth in worldwide influences. As we strengthen
others wherein they are weak. and as we are
strengthened in turn does the everlasting Saviour
the invisible of all high stimulation supply all


the deficiencies in all his creatures. standing
OF Him are We in Christ Jesus. who Of God is made
unto wisdom and righteousness and sanctihcation
and redemption It Is not tina. These h,,t .has aa
Christ is working them out in men. The system IN
this world is very imperfect and sketchy as It were
Yet in sense it is prophetic and foretells the
higher and nobler system. At every move
upward in our chain of existence that which



ner grows more and more real We are per-
petually seeking counterparts Every man Is
feeding upon some other man, and yet not knowing
half of the time who is his benefactor We are all
beggars. As in nature there is perpetual giving
and receiving of heat so in the whole realm OF God
there is constant action and rection or mlno upon
mind. This is the grand central philosophy which
forms the moral government or His creatures 1t Is
not less potent because it is silent Men try more
and more analyze their feelings and inspirations,
and in doing too often annihilate them. 1t is like
plucking flower to pieces, petal by petal TO learn OF
what it Is composed gain the desired knowledge,
but destroy the flower.


NO BOUNDS 10 THE INFINITE.


Then too there is opposite tendency to the ideal
or the imaginary. The infinite cannot be brought
down to a definite basis. 1t must of necessity be
be the infinite. How do know that there Is
summer at the equator? / the birds focking
thitherward, drawn by dreams of the rich verdure,
the sunshine, the delicate perfumes and the
have never been there yet believe that
there summer exists eternally. So 1t is
with the infinite; must have something
beyond my knowledge must have conception OF
which no thought draw diminishing lines. When
leave here the limits of the body and rise to that
supernal society where are the holy men of old, the
prophets and the apostles, will find that heaven is
more than dreamed of. 1t will be tran
than imagination has pictured 1t as seem TO US III
manhood the dreams of the little, child. Joy in
heaven tell you. will not consist altogether in
standing around the throne like so many wax candles
and now and then saying .Haelujahl Eoallelujah!"
You will find there Head who is competent where
you lacking; one who is constant where you are
changeable; who, while your are cold and unen-
thusiastic, pours out His enthusiasm the whole
making for you will stand in the midst OF the souls
summer. Not one of us knows how far forward he
shall go. Things that to broken and discon-
nected will in the sight of God be complete and per-