reveals itself naturally as a grand play of forces subservient to purposes of Art. The time may come when every child shall instinctively feel that the Lord is to be listened for in no form of thunder, but rather in the still small Voice. LIBERTY AND LAW. “O LAW, fair form of Liberty, God's Light is on thy brow! O Liberty, the soul of Law, God's very self art thou ! One the clear river's sparkling flood that clothes the bank with green, And one the line of stubborn rock that holds the waters in ; Friends whom we cannot think apart, seeming each other's foe; Twin flowers upon a single stalk with equal grace that grow. O fair ideas, we write your names across our banner's fold; For you the sluggard's brain is fire, for you the coward bold! O daughter of the bleeding past! O hope the prophets saw! God, give us Law in Liberty, and Liberty in Law!" E. J. CUTLER. 'WORLDS UNBORN SHALL SING HIS GLORY." A CHOIR was singing a hymn which ended in a long-sustained chord of the tonic. Another choir, at the other end of the cathedral, sent forth a faint note, the discord note of the minor seventh, which converts the common tonic chord into the governing chord of a new key. This note swelled and grew in volume till it became as loud as the original notes; then both choirs burst into a new strain in the higher key. And this process, we know, might be repeated ad infinitum in an ever-ascending spiral of modulation. A CONDITION OF GROWTH. A TRUE Church must be a growth, not a manufacture; a living root which puts forth blossoms in the natural course of progress towards the bearing of fruit, not an erection to which flowers and fruit are artificially attached. Now, the first principle of spiritual gardening is, that if you want your plant to be long-lived and long beautiful and fruitful, you must not force it into premature bloom by the application of stimulating ingredients, but bury plenty of effete prejudices at its root. |