9.

There rise before me

The sluggard Pity's vision-weaving tribe,

Who sigh for wretchedness, yet shun the wretched,
Nursing in some delicious solitude

Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies.

10. But if thou wilt a little pinch thy flesh, or deny thyself, and live more sparingly and thriftily, that thou mayest have the more to give to the poor, this is commendable indeed.

11. The benefit we receive must be rendered again line for line, deed for deed, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in thy hand.

GIVE THE LIFE WITH THE LAW

12. The Christ himself had been no lawgiver, Unless he had given the Life too, with the Law.

13. When I give, I give myself.

14. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the

lame.

15. I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

16. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me,

17. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

18. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

WHAT SERVES ALL IS RIGHT

1. He doeth well that rather serveth the commonweal than his own will.

2. It were a thing much more happy to fail in good and virtuous ends for the public, than to obtain all that we can wish to ourselves in our proper fortune.

3. Ask thyself, as to every act thou commitest within the circle of family or country: "If what I now do were done by and for all men, would it be beneficial or injurious to humanity?"

4. And if thy conscience tell thee that it would be injurious, desist, even though it seem that an immediate advantage would be the result.

5. The first principle of natural ethics is the sole and supreme allegiance of conscience to the community.

6. There are no self-regarding virtues properly socalled; those qualities which tend to the advantage and preservation of the individual are only morally right in so far as they make him a more useful citizen.

7. The great and almost only commandment of the gospel is, to command nothing against the good of man, and much more no civil command against his civil good.

8. If we understand not this, we are but cracked cymbals, we do but tinkle, we know nothing, all the

sweat of our toilsomest obedience will but mock us. And what we suffer superstitiously returns us no thanks. 9. We must re-ascend to the conception of Humanity, in order to ascertain the secret rule and law of life of the individual, of man.

10. There is a nobler glory which survives Until our being fades, and, solacing

11.

All human care, accompanies its change;—
The consciousness of good, which neither gold,
Nor sordid fame, nor hope of heavenly bliss,
Can purchase;

But a life of resolute good,

Unalterable will, quenchless desire

Of universal happiness, the heart
That beats with it in unison, the brain

Whose ever wakeful wisdom toils to change
Reason's rich stores for its eternal weal.

THE MARRIAGE BOND IS HOLY

DUTY SANCTIFIES AFFECTION

1. What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

2. Marriage has a sacred dread; Holy as she was before,

3.

Is the maid when she is wed.

Our marriage rite

Is our resolve that we will each be true

To high allegiance, higher than our love.

4. For thereof comes all goodness and all worth ; All gentleness and honour thence come forth; Thence worship comes, content, and true heart's pleasure,

And full assuréd trust, joy without measure,

And jollity, fresh cheerfulness and mirth ;

5. And bounty, lowliness and courtesy,
And seemliness, and faithful company,
And dread of shame that will not do amiss;
For he that faithfully Love's servant is,
Rather than be disgraced would choose to die.

6. True Love is but a humble, low-born thing,
And hath its food served up in earthen ware;
It is a thing to walk with hand in hand,
Through the everydayness of this workday world,
Baring its tender feet to every flint,

Yet letting not one heart-beat go astray; 7. A simple, fireside thing, whose quiet smile

Can warm earth's poorest hovel to a home. 8. Such is true Love, which steals into the heart With feet as silent as the lightsome dawn, That kisses smooth the rough brows of the dark, And hath its will through blissful gentleness; 9. A love that gives and takes, that seeth faults, Not with flaw-seeing eyes like needle points, But loving-kindly ever looks them down With the o'ercoming faith that still forgives; 10. A love that shall be new and fresh each hour, As is the sunset's golden mystery,

Or the sweet coming of the evening star.

11. The love that takes us as it finds us degrades us. What watch we must keep over the fairest and purest of our affections, lest there be some taint about them!

FIDELITY

12. Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself. 13. The light abandonment of ties, whether inherited or voluntary, because they had ceased to be pleasant, would be the uprooting of social and personal virtue.

14. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? 15. What the earth is full of iniquity, full of groans, the light is still struggling with a mighty darkness, and