ant as well as in the soul that walks in royalty of place or power. And wherever this truth is realized it comes as a gift of strength, of courage, of confidence, of comfort.

"Of Strength. This often proves a hard world to men and women. The barriers in their way are many and great. The forces that oppose them mock at their might. It seems like a pigmy contending with giants. They are every now and then baffled and beaten. The struggle for bread is often a hard one; the struggle for integrity is often a much fiercer thing. To keep a good conscience seems, at times, well - nigh impossible. But when one has grasped and taken home the idea of God's helpfulness, it is a great gain. He is almighty. He rules in the earth. He is pledged to aid the true and trustful. What they lack, he can give. As a soldier in the advance column is ten times the hero he would otherwise be because he sees the whole army of disciplined veterans at his back and knows it will support his attack, so a weak Christian is braced into a strong one when really assured that God is at hand with succor and help. He will at once be abler to dare, endure and do. And though we may not quite know how it is that God breathes his might into a feeble nature, the fact is often plain enough, and the result shows how real and large and wondrous is the gift of power which is granted.

"Of Courage. A brave soul is half a victor because of its bravery. A courageous look scares half one's perils away and demoralizes the rest.

They who never give up are they who compel others to yield to them. They may seem to be beaten, but they are on their feet again the next instant, and girded for another fight. This quality, when it is simply human rather than Christian, is the backbone of manhood and the key that unlocks half the doors to success. It is greatly needed in the Christian sphere. It gives steadiness and persistence to effort. It braces the will. It renders purpose like rock. It makes a song break often out of cloud and tempest. It prompts cheerful daring and doing, and each step taken under its inspiring influence suggests a conqueror marching to his triumph.-There is nothing else that will give this quality in its highest and best form like the sense of God's nearness and the full assurance of his help. When he is thus apprehended as the helper, fears lessen, hopes rise, and the very thought of retreat and surrender is displaced by a fresh resolution.

“Of Confidence. If God be for us, who can be against us?' That is the question of one to whom God's helpfulness was a constant reality in experience as well as a leading article of faith. Such a soul is beyond serious and palsying doubt. There is ever a calm looking for victory. There may be clouds, dangers, disasters, repulses, but, in spite of all, there is the calm utterance, I know that my Redeemer liveth;' 'I know whom I have believed;' Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil;'

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Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory!' Such a sense of God's helpfulness is a blessing that no words may fully express. What it is worth only they can know of whose life it has become a part. It is at once the rock on which their feet rest without shaking and the distant peal of the trumpet that heralds their coronation.

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"Of Comfort. Because thou hast been my help, therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.' It is worth more to us than words can express, at times, to have a strong, noble, capable human friend assure us that we are not to be for

gotten or left unaided in our need.

But for such

words, how many hearts would have utterly sunk, which, stirred by them, have lifted up their eyes in gladness, smiled through their tears, and stopped their sighs with a song. And when it is God that comes with both the pledge and the gift of help, the comfort is sometimes so deep and peculiar as to choke speech with gratitude and blur the vision with tender tears. There is no other comfort like that; he who has it in abundance is rich in the divinest possessions and his heart can never go unsolaced.

"God is such a helper, even though we fail to take home the fact. He is a helper to such as we, to those plagued with our trials, burdened with our weaknesses, torn with our sorrows, tossed about with our anxieties and fears. It is to the actual levels and experiences of our daily life that he thus comes, low and bitter as these may be. He is even now near and ready to aid us in getting on and

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through and over hindrances and discouragements. He comes freest when we need him most. comes in spite of folly and sin if we are in earnest to get rid of both, though a sincere, loving and resolute fidelity is what will make this help of his seem most real, abundant, sure and precious. Without that help even the strongest are liable to fail, while with it even the fearful and feeble are going on to certain victory. We want many things, both for the sake of the inward life and the outward success, but this is the chief and vital thing on which almost all else depends."

V.

MEMORIALS

OF HIS

DEATH AND CHARACTER.

"Champion of Jesus, on that breast
From which thy fervor flowed,
Thou hast obtained eternal rest,
Tae bosom of thy God."

It was deemed best that he should remove from Boston to the quiet of his sister's home in Providence, where he might enjoy the kindly, valuable ministrations of long - cherished friends. On the morning of the day on which he was to leave Boston, a little more than a week after writing his last editorial and about the time of its appearance in the Star,— he conducted prayers for the last time with his family, singing, "Jesus, lover of my soul," with great tenderness of expression.

Thence we follow him amid shadows and inscrutable darkness which gathered thickly around him,