. From the pulpit to the palm-branch; . , and which will be carried on as here-tofore, are still in need of generous support. Let everymercy prompt an offering from thankful hearts. The hand-writing of both articles is as distinct as anything the belovedauthor ever penned; and those who read them will at onceperceive that his mental eye was not dim, nor his spiritualforce abated, when he wrote as follows :— Weto l^zaf^ Has, 1892. At Menton, the first day of the year was as one of thedays of heaven upon the earth. Almost cloudless and wind-less, beneath the bluest of skies, the day was warm and
. From the pulpit to the palm-branch; . , and which will be carried on as here-tofore, are still in need of generous support. Let everymercy prompt an offering from thankful hearts. The hand-writing of both articles is as distinct as anything the belovedauthor ever penned; and those who read them will at onceperceive that his mental eye was not dim, nor his spiritualforce abated, when he wrote as follows :— Weto l^zaf^ Has, 1892. At Menton, the first day of the year was as one of thedays of heaven upon the earth. Almost cloudless and wind-less, beneath the bluest of skies, the day was warm andbright with the glorious sun. Did we draw the inferencethat, all the world over. New Years Day was like summer ?Did we disbelieve the paragraphs in the daily journals whichtold another tale of other lands ? We were not so foolish. A certain brother has an exceedingly rapturous experi-ence, full of confidence, communion, and conquest. Doeshe, therefore, conclude that all true Christian experience From the Pulpit to the Palm-Branch. 47. 48 From the Pulpit must necessarily be of this delightful order ? Does he casta doubt upon the sincerity of others, whose spiritual weatheris clouded, and even darkened with storms ? Let us trustthat he will not be so uncharitable, so unjust. But if a friend, from a land of fogs and frosts, shouldinsinuate that our report of the New Year at Mentonwas fanciful and fictitious, because he had experienced fardifferent weather, would he not be very ungenerous? Sothe brother of sombre spirit and troubled experience is notacting as he should do when he judges the cheerful as beingfrivolous, condemns the rapturous as excitable, and looksupon the confident as presumptuous. He has no right toset up his painful experience as the standard by which todiscern the people of God; neither is he justified in deny-ing the possibility of unbroken peace because he has neverlong enjoyed it. We may not judge others by ourselves. We may notinfer general facts from indi
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