"I am the Lord's " will be the watchword of those who are fired by the idea, "All for God, all with God." Others will place the name of "Jacob" in the foreground, because they are inspired mostly by the nation's history; others, again, will, as if by their sign manual, pledge their lives to the public service of God; whilst yet others will write on their banners, "Israel, Wrestler in the midnight darkness." So far, then, from warning against these different modes of manifestations the prophet hails them as signs of the coming revival. O, that we learned wisdom from this seer who never sacrificed true unity to mere uniformity. E would be one in hatred of all wrong, One in our love of all things sweet and fair, One with the joy that breaketh into song, G. G. XVII. The Invisible Church. And the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth . . . and the king arose from his throne and laid his royal robe from him and sat in ashes and caused it to be proclaimed: Let every one cry mightily unto God, turn from his evil way and put away the violence that is in his hand. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God forgave them and did not bring on them the evil that He had sent word by Jonah, the prophet, He would bring.—Jonah ii. 5–9. ENDORSE willingly and with my whole heart, all the good you say of the moral teachings of the New Testament. I am myself assured that many of those things which Christian Rabbis have ascribed to Jesus, never entered his mind or crossed his lips; things for the denial of which they slew men and allowed themselves to be slain. A Christianity such as yours would change this earth into a paradise, if it were generally accepted. In a matter of such transcendent concern to mankind, why stop to quarrel about a name? Call it Christianity if you think that that name would be helpful in speeding on that golden age; but that Christianity is of a surety, an Invisible Church, consisting of Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, Chinese and others, and from which, above all, the ancient Greeks and Romans must not be excluded. Strange, how our judgments conflict with each other; in history we lavish praise on those nations, admitting freely that we are much below them in almost all things; but when we come to the reward of goodness which a just God cannot withhold from anyone, we do not mention them, nay, worse, with wicked ingratitude, consign them to Orcus. From a letter to a Christian, by MOSES MENDELSSOHN. HEN let each human spirit Enjoy the vision bright, The truth that comes from heaven Shall spread like heaven's own light. Till earth become God's temple; Shall join in one great service, Each happy in his part. XVIII. The Invisible Lodge. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.Isaiah v. 20. HERE is an Oral or Traditional Law in every healthy society, more potent than the written, which rules in the courts of justice; it is handed down from every honest sire to his sons and daughters. By it, men and women are judged in the hearts of their fellowmen; from it no appeal lies anywhere. There is something majestic in the silent, but implacable judgment of society. Every respectable man and woman is of the jury. Without joint consultation, sentence is pronounced. Society is deeply concerned in the preservation of its judicial supremacy, for it determines the value of that which, to the upright soul, is dearer than life itself-character. Our time is prolific in novel associations of all kinds. But of far greater importance than any of these is the Invisible Grand Lodge of all righteous souls; it is without framed creed, without written code, without recognized symbol, and is yet one and undivided. It speaks the universal language of conscience and its head is: The Everlasting Master, before whom there is no respect of IVE forth thine earnest cry, O Conscience, Voice of God! To young and old, to low and high Within the human breast Thy strong monitions plead, Still thunder Thy Divine protest Against the unrighteous deed. person. G. G. XIX. race. Apostles of Righteousness. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.-Daniel xii. 3. UR feeling of Brotherhood should broaden out in the direction of the great Teachers and Inspirers of the world, the acknowledged Masters of the human No blame to him who chooses one for his guide, nay, for his God, if no lower place can satisfy him than the throne of heaven. But why must that make a man blind to the merits of other Masters, who "from their urns still rule the world." I think the hour is coming, nay, is even now, when the immortal words of Buddha and Zoroaster, Confucius and Socrates will be heard, and heard gladly in both Christian and Jewish churches. We shall never succeed in banishing them from the memory of men, never silence their voices, never make their teachings of no effect. Let us raise our eyes sometimes beyond the limits of our own faith, that we may have a vision of the greatness and the glory of the Kingdom of God on earth. Let us ever honor the memory of those master-builders that laid its foundations so deep in the hearts of men that they can never be moved. SSIST us, Lord, to act, to be What nature and Thy laws decree, Worthy that intellectual flame Which from Thy breathing spirit came. May our expanded souls disclaim XX. The Pride of Faith. G. G. Now, the man Moses was more meek than any man on the face of the earth.-Numbers xii. 3. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before the fall-Prov. xvi. 18. THE Chinese carry courtesy so far as to praise the re ligion of their neighbors and to depreciate their own. You, honored sir, they would say, are of the |