You and I; . hout its company inflection. Would wenot be as tinkling cymbals and sounding brass ? But they arenot shocked, for they had pierced our subtle armor of veneer-ing long ago. They had appraised us at our own value, and,so far as they are concerned, we could discard our whole piti-ful make-up, and at least be honest brass! Then we wouldreceive sincerity for sincerity, instead of hypocrisy for ourduplicity. What are we worth? What have we for theformation of character, for the ennobling of all the powerswhich constitute the higher life of man. To have knownher was a liberal education,
You and I; . hout its company inflection. Would wenot be as tinkling cymbals and sounding brass ? But they arenot shocked, for they had pierced our subtle armor of veneer-ing long ago. They had appraised us at our own value, and,so far as they are concerned, we could discard our whole piti-ful make-up, and at least be honest brass! Then we wouldreceive sincerity for sincerity, instead of hypocrisy for ourduplicity. What are we worth? What have we for theformation of character, for the ennobling of all the powerswhich constitute the higher life of man. To have knownher was a liberal education, was said of a grand we convey our education, our accomplishments, ourintegrity to those with whom we come in contact — diffusingan aroma of intellectual sweetness, as we do the perfume ofroses of our garments? Then, indeed, have we not livedin vain. Soul, be but inly bright,All outer things must smile, must catchThe strong, transcendent light. THE INFLUENCES OF NATURE. BY REV. SYLVESTER F. AN may claim to beabove nature but hecannot be independentof nature. Havingwithin him a spark ofdivinity with a moralresemblance to hisMaker and an invin-cible free-will, he be-longs in one sense tothe supernatural; yethe is as clearly allied to nature as he is distinct from it. Thechain of being, in which he is a distinguished link, is as vitalfrom below as from above. The one column of existence—nature the pedestal, man the shaft, and God the capital—hasmuch more than a mechanical connection. The life of natureis in man as surely as the life of God is. The body is boundto nature as both body and soul are bound to God. And asthe soul is so interwoven with the body that even a perfecteternity is inconceivable without this reunion, nature mustthrough the latter profoundly affect even the former and thus 165 1(36 YOU AND J. influence the whole being. We are not slaves to nature, asmaterialism would make us; but we lie so close to it, are sofed by it and fixed in it that
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