The Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

2 COR. iii. 17, 18.

Be calm, my soul; there is an unseen sphere
Where thou shalt learn whate'er is now unknown;
Therefore, my soul, be filled with present cheer,
For even now thou knowest all thine own!

ARTHUR E. LOCKE

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THE HE wisdom that sees through a tangled mass of affairs does not come when are pacing the room more anxiously than they who watch for the morning. The strength which rights the wrong at last despairs of entering a body which tosses all night on a sleepless bed. Such wisdom and strength have chosen, as their favorite time for growing, the hours when you are resting in peaceful slumbers. So that, when you awaken in the morning, the right way has grown wonderfully clear to your sight and easy to your feet. The brain solves the hardest of all problems when left alone to itself by night while the will is quietly sleeping; and, on the morrow, it acts with its new wisdom and strength. It is not literally a panacea to cure all the ills of life, and yet the reach of its influence is far wider than is commonly supposed.

RICHARD METCALF

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For so he giveth unto his beloved in sleep.

PSALM CXXVII. 2 (margin)

Not in our waking hours alone
His constancy and care are known;
But locked in slumber fast and deep
He giveth to us while we sleep.

HAVE read somewhere

FREDERICK L. HOSMER

I will verify it by present search that Luther's translation of the verse in the Psalm, "so he giveth to his beloved sleep," is, "he giveth his beloved sleeping," or while asleep. Yes, so it is-literally, in English, "It is in vain that ye rise early, and then sit long, and eat your bread with care, for to his friends he gives it sleeping."

I believe that the mind in the quiescence of its consciousness in sleep comes into a less disturbed contact with its origin, the heart of the creation; whence, gifted with calmness and strength for itself, it grows able to impart comfort and restoration to the weary frame.

GEORGE MACDONALD

Let us take the mind when it is returned to us at the moment of awaking from sleep, when it has been purified by contact with Spiritual Cerebration, and protect it from that time forth through each day, by refusing to import suspicion, anger or worry into it, a process that is easier than not, and pleasanter and more profitable than any.

HORACE FLETCHER

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Father! my soul would be

PSALM Xxiii. 6.

Pure as the drops of eve's unsullied dew,
And, as the stars whose nightly course is true,
So would I be to Thee.

ANONYMOUS

NONSIDER that everything is opinion, and

opinion is in thy power. Take away, then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and, like a mariner who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable and a waveless bay.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Freedom comes to him only who will set all others free. The first step to take is to declare the absolute freedom of all with whom we associate to think and act for themselves. Break down the barriers for others, and walk through the open ourselves. Freedom means the individual's right to live his own life, coupled with a care to aid one's neighbor to live his own life, without infringement upon the other's right. The whole law and gospel of Freedom is taught in the command "Let my people go." Let us harden our hearts no longer. Rather let us remember that when we turn joyfully to the work of unfettering every one within the bounds of our influence, we are earning our own freedom as well, and that we are fulfilling the promise that 'my people shall be a free people and shall sorrow no more."

CORA MORSE

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine, I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame, shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame, or whether before they have had a natural history like that of this body you see before you; but this one thing I know, that these qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness, nor buried in any grave; but that they circulate through the Universe: before the world was, they were. Nothing can bar them out, or shut them in, but they penetrate the ocean and land, space and time, form and essence, and hold the key to universal Nature. I draw from this faith, courage, and hope. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm, and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn: they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

EMERSON

A man is not the slave of circumstance,
Or need not be, but builder and dictator;
He makes his own events, not time nor chance;
Their logic his: not creature, but creator.

JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY

Week Tenth

THE MELODY OF TRUE LIVING

Prelude

GLIMPSES

One who hath gone down but lately
To the brink of those dark waters
That from things unseen divide us,
Unto faith has added knowledge,-
Knowledge how the soul asserteth
Over clay divine dominion;
How the spirit groweth stronger
As the conflict groweth sharper;
And when dear familiar faces

In the deepening mist have vanished,
How the Father draweth nearer,
And reveals himself in mercy;
Having heard the prayer repeated
That his son breathed in the garden,
Heard the trembling flesh outcrying,