Soared on the wings of science wide and far,
Measured the sun, and weighed each distant star-
Pierced the dark depths of ocean and of earth,
And brought uncounted wonders into birth-
Repelled the pestilence, restrained the storm,
And given new beauty to the human form;
Wakened the voice of reason, and unfurled
The page of truthful knowledge to the world;
They who have toiled and studied for mankind,
Aroused the slumbering virtues of the mind,
Taught us a thousand blessings to create-

GREAT.-The Truly

These are the nobly great.-Prince.

Those men only are truly great who place their ambition rather in acquiring to themselves the conscience of worthy enterprizes, than in the prospect of glory which attends them.-Addison.

GREAT and GOOD.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends:
Hath he not always treasures, always friends-

The good great man?-three treasures-love, and light,
And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath;

And three firm friends, more sure than day and night-
Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.-S. T. Coleridge.

GREATNESS-in Humble Service.

Greatness consists in humble service, not in pompous lordship. Better to help a poor man to heaven than be a king and not render service.-J. C. Gray.

GREATNESS.-Intellectual

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another. What you can manufacture, or communicate, you can lower the price of, but this mental supremacy is incommunicable; you will never multiply its quantity, nor lower its price; and nearly the best thing that men can generally do is-to set themselves, not to the attainment, but to the discovery of this; learning to know gold when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds out of our own charcoal.-Ruskin.

GREATNESS-never an Object of Contempt.

He who is great when he falls is great in his prostration, and is no more an object of contempt than when men tread on the ruins of sacred buildings, which men of piety venerate no less than if they stood.-Seneca.

GREATNESS.-The Obtainment of

Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.-Shakspeare.

GREATNESS.-Repose in

Repose in greatness can exist only where the inmost, deepest nature is great. To be calmly, serenely great, implies that the greatness is no merely external accident, something adventitious or unreal, but that it hath its seat in the depth of one's being.-Dr. Ullmann.

HABIT.-The Law of

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Habit is the deepest law of human nature: it is our primal fundamental law. -Carlyle.

HABIT.-Mental

The mind frequently acquires a strong and invincible attachment to whatever has been familiar to it for any length of time. Habit, primarily introduced by accident or necessity, will inspire an affection for peculiarities which have the reverse of intrinsic merit to recommend them.-Dr. Cogan.

HABIT-Use and

How use doth breed a habit in a man!—Shakspeare.

HALLELUJAH.-A Loud

What a thunder clap of hallelujah when all the prayers of all saints for our poor world, long, long laid up, shall all be answered in one event!-Powerscourt.

HALLELUJAH.-The Use of

Christ and His Apostles sang a hymn, part of the great hallelujah, which was usually sung at the end of the Paschal Supper. Hence the Lord of all praise gave to this sublime exclamation a double consecration.-Bishop Taylor.

HAND. The Expression of the

We speak of the hand as an organ of expression. Formal dissertations have been composed on this topic. But were we to seek for authorities, we should take in evidence the works of the great painters. By representing the hands disposed in conformity with the attitudes of the figures, the old masters have been able to express every different kind of sentiment in their compositions. Who, for example, has not been sensible to the expression of reverence in the hands of the Magdalens by Guido, to the eloquence in those of the Cartoons by Raphael, or in the significant force in those of the Last Supper by Da Vinci? In these great works may be seen ail that Quintilian says:-"Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these, I may say, speak for themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate, we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time."-Sir C. Bell.

HANDS.-The Folding of the

In the Old Testament, and likewise at the commencement of the New, it was the custom to pray with the arms and hands extended, so that the body of the suppliant formed a perfect cross. This custom was suggested to the early believers by the remembrance, and was intended also to serve as a memorial, of

their Lord's death. In subsequent times it gave place to our method of folding the hands, which has not only the same, but a much larger import. We pray with our thumbs across, and this ought to remind us to found our expectations of being heard upon our crucified Saviour. The fingers intertwined admonish us, in like manner, to pray in sincerity, with pacific and forgiving hearts. Finally, the folding of the hands conduces to humility in prayer; inasmuch as we thereby present ourselves before a righteous God in something of the attitude of malefactors, with our hands bound.-Scriver.

HANDS. The Imposition of

The Apostles called the seven disciples, and "when they had prayed they laid their hands on them." An instance parallel to this is in the imposition of hands upon St. Paul and Barnabas, in the first ordination that was held at Antioch Here was the ordination and imposition of hands complete: and the imposition of hands is a duty and office necessary for the perpetuating of a Church, ne gens sit unius ætatis-lest it expire in one age. The thing was not temporary, but productive of issue and succession, and therefore as perpetual as the clergy, as the Church itself.-Bishop Taylor.

HAPPINESS Characterized.

Happiness is as the glory of the sunshine.-Gasparin.

HAPPINESS-Confined to no Locality.

True happiness had no localities,

No tones provincial, no peculiar garb.

Where Duty went, she went; with Justice went,
And went with Meekness, Charity, and Love.
Where'er a tear was dried, a wounded heart
Bound up, a bruised spirit with the dew
Of sympathy anointed, or a pang
Of honest suffering soothed, or injury
Repeated oft, as oft by love forgiven;
Where'er an evil passion was subdued,
Or Virtue's feeble embers fanned; where'er
A sin was heartily abjured and left;
Where'er a pious act was done, or breathed
A pious prayer, or wished a pious wish;

There was a high and holy place, a spot
Of sacred light, a most religious fane,

Where Happiness, descending, sat and smiled.-Pollok.

HAPPINESS the Design of the Creator.

God has made all nature "beauty to our eye and music to our ear," when it was wholly unnecessary for the perfect operation of her laws; and the inference is irresistible-that He delights in the happiness of His creatures. Nor can the fact that evil exists in the world destroy the force of this statement, unless that evil is so general as to be obviously the design of the Creator in devising and arranging the system of the world. While we admit its existence, we say that it is only incidental, and that pleasure is so often superadded unnecessarily, as to prove happiness to be the design, and evil the exception.-Professor Hitchcock.

HAPPINESS-not a Fruit of Nature.

Happiness is not a fruit of nature, and does not grow spontaneously on the stem of life; it must needs be grafted there by a divine hand.-Professor Vinet.

HAPPINESS never Perfect.

We never enjoy perfect happiness: our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.Corneille.

HAPPINESS-in Proportion to Virtue.

Every one possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion, taking God Himself as our example, who is completely happy and blessed, not from any external good, but in Himself, and because He is such by nature.-Aristotle.

HAPPINESS.-Wisdom and Virtue Dependent on

Without her, wisdom is but a shadow, and virtue a name: she is their sovereign mistress; for her alone they labour, and by her they will be paid: to enjoy her, and to communicate her, is the object of their efforts, and the consummation of their toil.-Colton.

HAPPY A Sin not to be

When earth, and heaven, and all
Things seem so bright and lovely for our sakes,
It were a sin not to be happy.-P. J. Bailey.

HARANGUES.-The Advantage of

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a manuscript :-every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent; whereas similar efforts, when written, although they might not cost the writer half the time in his closet, will never be appreciated as anything more than the slow efforts of long study and laborious application.-Colton.

HEARER. The Holiness of a

A Christian minister is not bound to be one whit holier than a Christian hearer. But the individual, by his ideas of the minister, tries to lose himself in his shadow: he magnifies his estimate of the minister by adding to him what he has subtracted from himself; and thus, thinking that he is of very little importance, and that the minister is of very great importance, he infers, logically enough if the premises be correct, that little can be expected of him, and that everything must be expected of the minister. In contrast to such notions, however, each one is bound to be just as holy as Christ Himself. "Be ye holy as I am holy" is addressed to the hearer as well as to the minister.-Dr. Cumming. HEARER.—The Principal

He who is the light of the celestial temple and the fount of all truth, is the principal hearer in every religious assembly.-Dr. Davies.

HEARER.-The Wants of a

Elegant dissertations upon virtue and vice, upon the evidences of Revelation, or any other general subject, may entertain the prosperous and the gay; but they

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will not "mortify our members which are upon earth;" they will not unsting calamity, nor feed the heart with an imperishable hope. When I go to the house of God I do not want amusement: I want "the doctrine which is according to godliness:" I want to hear of the remedy against the harassings of my guilt, and the disorder of my affections: I want to be led from weariness and disappointment to that "goodness which filleth the hungry soul:" I want to have light upon the mystery of providence; to be taught how the "judgments of the Lord are right," how I shall be prepared for duty and for trial; how I may "pass the time of my sojourning here in fear," and close it in peace. Tell me of that Lord Jesus "who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree." Tell me of His intercession for the transgressors as their "Advocate with the Father." Tell me of His Holy Spirit, whom "they that believe on Him receive," to be their Preserver, Sanctifier, Comforter. Tell me of His chastenings—their necessity and their use. Tell me of His presence, and sympathy, and love. Tell me of the virtues, as growing out of His cross, and nurtured by His grace.

Tell me of the glory reflected on His name by the obedience of faith. Tell me of vanquished death, of the purified grave, of a blessed resurrection, of the life everlasting, and my bosom warms. This is Gospel: these are glad tidings to me as a sufferer, because glad to me as a sinner. They rectify my mistakes, allay my resentments, rebuke my discontent, support me under the weight of moral and natural evil. These attract the poor, steal upon the thoughtless, awe the irreverent, and throw over the service of the sanctuary a majesty which some fashionable modes of address never fail to dissipate. Where they are habitually neglected, or lightly referred to, there may be much grandeur, but there is no Gospel; and those preachers, have infinite reason to tremble, who, though admired by the great, and caressed by the vain, are deserted by the sorrowful, and such as "walk humbly with their God."-Dr. Mason.

HEARERS.-The Action of

The hearers of a sermon ought to leave the Church prepared to do as well as to believe.-Dean Ramsay.

HEARERS.-Counsels to

Of all preached from the pulpit, read from the press, and heard on the platform, the prescription is—“Take heed what ye hear;" but of all written in the Bible, spoken by Christ, recorded by the Spirit, it is written-"Take heed how ye hear." The first may be truth mingled with error, and it is your duty therefore to discriminate and separate the precious from the vile; the last is pure unadultered truth, and the responsibility lies, not in discriminating where there is nothing to discriminate, but in how you hear and receive it.—Dr. Cumming.

When you are under the Word, beware of sitting rather as judges than as criminals.-J. Fletcher.

Be on your guard against critical hearing of sermons preached by good men. It is an awful thing to be occupied in balancing the merits of a preacher, instead of the demerits of yourselves. Consider every opportunity of hearing as a message sent you from heaven.-Richmond.

I wish each of you to hear as if everything were meant for you personally. specifically, and alone. The great object of a minister's sermon is-that the minister is to collect all the scattered rays of God's truth into one intense focus, and you are to try and place your soul, your heart, and your conscience in that