it to you.

And after his death he gave his disciples their mission, and he gives it to you; let me read it to you: "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit." What does that mean? What is the Holy Spirit? "The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." What Christ tells us is this: This spirit was in me. I give Do you want it? Now go, and so live as to manifest it. The fruit of the spirit is love; what kind of love? every kind of love; be truer to your friends, love with a wider and a more catholic sympathy, be merciful and helpful to all who are in need. Joy! What kind of joy? Every kind of joy. The merriment. that maketh glad like a medicine; the soberer joy of maturer life in active living; and, most sacred of all, the joy that illuminates sorrow and gives us a song in our night. Peace! Not merely the deliberate effort of a self-conscious peacemaker, who sees people quarreling and says, I must set these people right, and generally succeeds in setting them more at variance than before; but the spirit of peace which carries benediction in the presence of its possessor, the peaceful spirit of a loving heart. Meekness; the spirit that does not grasp; gentleness; the spirit that we call tact; goodness, that is serviceableness, the impulse to help wherever opportunity to help is given; temperance, or the power of self-control, the hand on the helm. Christ says, Take this spirit of life and then live your life naturally, spontaneously, unconsciously. Be, and the doing will come.

As Christ did his work, so God does his. We may learn something even from the agnostic, though I am no agnostic. God works-if I may so express myself anonymously. He hides himself. He is not in the tempest, he is not in the earthquake, he is not in the fire, he is in the still, small voice. Ten thousand times ten thousand are those that feel some impulse to higher life, some aspiration to

something better, some impulse to love, gentleness, mercy, some spiritual perception which comes they know not how, and which they think is from their own spontaneous life, but which comes from him; they are led and lighted by him and know it not. To go through life incognito as Christ went, unknown as God goes, and yet everywhere to carry this high, inspiring, quickening presence, this is supreme;

this is best of all.

You are going out into the world, some of you into law, some into medicine, more into teaching, many of you back to your homes, to father and mother and your village. And perhaps sometimes you will say, Was it really worth while? I am not winning a great name, nor accomplishing a great mission, nor achieving any great result. Yes; it is most of all worth while to live in a home, the home that is made for you by another, or the home that you make for yourself, and on every branch of the home tree to hang the fruits of the indwelling spirit, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, meekness, gentleness, goodness, temperance.

When the orchestra is getting ready, and every artist is tuning his instrument by letting it down or bringing it up to the right key, and they are all consciously trying to get their instruments into tune, it is not an enjoyable sound which they make in the process. By and by the tuning is over and the conductor stands before them, and raises the baton and gives his signal, and they begin their work, and each one plays the score that is set before him, and out of all these several scores there arises a harmony that entrances us. Go out into life and play the score that is set before you. If God gives you a kettledrum and bids you beat it, beat it and make a noise, and endure what people call fame. If God gives you the first violin and makes you a leader, do not fear, but lead as well as you can. But if he sets you at the harp and says, Play one score of chords and that is all, play your score of chords and do it well, and be satisfied. For to be is more than to do. She is greatest who is most full of the Spirit of God, who "lets "the mind be in her which was in Christ Jesus, and then goes her way, and does her work, and lives her life in sweet unconsciousness.

NE who has been privileged to sustain living relations with the educational work of the East and the West of our country soon realizes that the educational atmosphere of each section has qualities which are peculiar to it, and soon sees that the points of view, the habits of thought, and the ways of going about things east and west of the Alleghanies are quite distinct. Educationally the East is given to wisdom, is deliberate, has quite as much resistive power as aggressiveness, is inclined to be suspicious, and refuses to initiate a movement until it thinks it sees clearly what the end will be. The West is hearty and impulsive, plunges into whatever engages its interest, relies upon its resourcefulness, and worries very little about results. The results are never disappointing. If the outcome is good much is made of it; if not, the movement is lightly regarded, for by that time the mind is fully occupied with other things. The Westerners are easier travelers, better "mixers," and more enthusiastic and aggressive searchers for information than the Easterners. An Eastern schoolman knows much about schoolhouses and appliances, and is reasonably content with what he knows; a Western man is never too old or too tired to go to the top or the bottom of a school building, in the hope of finding a new appliance or a fresh suggestion in it. The Eastern men may go to educational conferences two or three times a year, in the stern performance of a religious duty; the Western men want a convention every week, and seldom lose an opportunity to be in at the start and open a discussion of facts and philosophies at a

canter.

Many of the Western schoolmen have lived in the East, and although they have been lured by the star of empire, their interest in the East will never abate. More of them go to the Middle and New England States every year, for they will travel, and all the roads lead that way and much may be gained by following them.

Practically all of them read the Eastern educational periodicals, gaining information and looking for things worth discussing or proposing at home. One result of all this is that the Western men know infinitely more about matters educational in the East than the Eastern men do of such matters in the West. Indeed, it is not too much to say that many of the schoolmen in the great States which are now central in the Union are quite as much in touch with matters educational in the East as many of the Eastern men are themselves. The converse of all this is not generally true, and it is strikingly untrue so far as an understanding in the East of the growth and the work of Western universities is concerned.

Of course the intellectual activity and the prevalent commercial spirit of the West have combined to produce many concerns which are worthless, some of which should be brought within provisions of the Penal Code and engage the active attention of the police. The proprietors seek highsounding names for such establishments, and the public sense of propriety and of justice has not yet reached the point of aiding the worthy by stopping the misappropriation of titles by the unworthy to any such extent as has been well commenced in the East. Yet there are encouraging signs of public interest in the subject, and when it has advanced a few steps further corrective remedies are likely to be applied with a rush.

The West is dotted over with commercial institutions, many of them worthy enough, trying to sustain names which do not fit and which really curse them. While this is not at all peculiar to the West, it is true that it is more common there than in the East. May the time speedily come when the common sentiment of the country will make it clear to educational enterprises that it will be to their advantage to discriminate in the use of titles and claim only what they are able to perform, and that it will be quickly to their hurt to