"Be courageous, Be gentle Be liberal, Be just,
Be aspiring, Be humble, because you are dust.
"Be penitent, circumspect, sound in the faith,
Be active, devoted; Be faithful to death.
"Be honest, Be holy, transparent and pure;
Be dependent, Be Christ-like and you'll be secure."
Here is a swarm of between forty and fifty bees. The religion of Jesus will help us to make these all our own. How great then must the value of religion be! Surely it is worth while for each of us to try and secure it!
I think I never saw a better view of the value of religion than is seen in the following statement of what it does for us. I know not by whom it was written, but it is put in the form of that sacred sign to which we owe all the blessings of salvation—the sign of
THE CROSS.
"Blest they who seek