separate part of life, but an inspiration of the whole; not a sentimental feeling appropriate to Sundays and churches, but a vitalizing power creating love, thought, and action all the time. It gives a wellrounded character, in which action and love, mnorality and piety, works and faith, are harmonized and made one. It makes the natural life also supernatural; it brings down heaven to earth and lifts earth to heaven. Some men do not incline to sentimental piety, nor to sacramental piety, nor to the piety of creeds, excitement, and revivals. They do not easily accept the piety of atonement and expiation, which loves God because of one's personal salvation from death and destruction. They have not much taste for philosophical or mystical piety. But they are well fitted for the piety which is born out of daily duty; for the prayer uttered when occasion. arises, and not as a form or ceremony. They are constituted for this kind of religion, and I hope that through them may come another sight of divine love acting through steadfast law, that influx of life which comes into every soul that seeks strength for it. This will be an influence from God to revolutionize the world. Then will the love of God and the love of man be seen to be one, and the whole Christian life be formulated in four blessed words, from God, for man! No doubt all these forms of piety are meant to be united. The time will come in which we shall meet God in the church and also in the street; in the communion of saints and in the loneliness of the agony of the Garden; in the depths of spiritual thought, and the daily life of duty. All will be steps of Jacob's ladder leading up to heaven, on which the angels of God will go up to carry prayers and come down to bring blessings. XVI. WHAT WE POSSESS AND WHAT WE OWN. "If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?” THE 'HE doctrine of the New Testament is, that man is a steward, not an owner, of his possessions. His powers, faculties, opportunities, time, wealth, are talents confided to him, for which he is to give The joys of this life do not belong to an account. us; we are never sure of them. God may resume them at any moment. We possess them, but do not own them. By "being faithful in that which is another's" is, therefore, plainly meant "being faithful as stewards of what God lends us." But what, then, is meant by the last clause of the text, "Who shall give you that which is your own?" If we are only stewards of our possessions, do we own anything? What is meant by "that which is our own"? I answer that what we possess is outside of ourselves, and not necessarily ours; what we own is |