The Christian's faith was not intended to sit him down in ease, but to stimulate him to the discharge of his duties. So the work of faith is a noble work, a life of labor.


MISCELLANEOUS.

The oft-repeated story that man had his beginning in a low state of barbarous cannibalism is a groundless assumption.


What is the difference between getting more out of a thing than there is in it and creating something out of nothing?


"If the religious foundations and sanctions of morality are to be given up, what is to be substituted for them?"—Lord Selborne.


The Orang and Pongo monkeys, which are classed with those which make the nearest approach to man, have three vertebra fewer than man.