: i~ccllaiu oax. RELIGIOUS NOTES. If a preacher fails utterly to inter est the spiritlislly minded, it is a proof that lie has mistaken his call ing. But the fact thatlis preaching Is not attractive to the multitude, is no proof that he is 'not "a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." • The sceptic may hold, i he will, that to nil human observation thiere are spots on the . sun's disc; I only task him to admit—and it would not seem an unreasonable request—l only ask him to admit that the pun shines, nevertheless. Dr. James Walker.. We know not 'what evils we have been preserved from ; for- dazzling prospects -do not always bring the cheer and comfort we expect, anti Protribe. of future gOod- often results in disappointment And Sorrow:- There , are blessings and privileges in every let us be 'thankful for those 'which fall to our lot.—lntelligeneer. Every real and searching effort at self-improVement is of itself a lesson of profound humility. ' For we can not move a step: without` learning and feeling the „waywardness, the weakness, the vacillation of our movements, or without desiring to be set upon the Rock , that .is higher than ourselves.-- , W. B. Gladstone. Ours is a religiop of life, not of selitilehres or relics. Precious indeed is every elic of the work of the hand we ina . )4tonch no more, but the hand of him we adore is working around us everyntere. The true relinquary of the Church is the Bible. Let us, if we will, treasure every idle of the deakwe honor. But Christ is not dead. rHe liveth evermore. Harm. is done by everything which - tends to vulgarize religion. Religion is the highest and most solemn con cern of man. Anything like an'ade ipmte c onception of God will inspire a religious assembly and a preacher with a profound 'awe. Everything • that savors of levity or 'flippancy, in connection with this subject, ought ,to excite the deepest. repugnance.— : .Selected. -.; Every object in nature is impress ed with , God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble OF p - earl,' Weed or rose, the flower spang ed sward beneath, or the star span; ed sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or abound- . less oiean o in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nattr4 that he might save our souls. —Gqihric Wanted, a religibn thik has no he rois4fit cannot translate into every-' day 11 - fe; no sublimated sentiments that like party clothes are : too good forjeti•e:y day wear. Wanted, a reli gion that shall at once be independent, m4nly and tender,_ womanly ; is roll ddn that can tear self out I bf the heart, and fling the; doors wide for God and humanity.- What crowns we would all bare to fling at the feet of Christ, if, like him, we went about doing good.—s , ,+lthern Churchman. The-man who is bent first of all upon thronging his Church, will ot ten he compelled to resort to expedi ents unworthy of a preacher of the gospel. lie will; even though uneon selotisfrhold in the back groUnd • - those doctrines which are uninter osting or orfenSive twthe world; and, on the other ha - rid, embrace a good deal in his preadiing, that is foreign t 1) " Christ•and him 'crucified." lie will often be tempted to be sensa tional at the expense of truth, and . seek to be novel a nd thrilling rather than edifying.— Sin . Sit -William Napier said 'ot Sir John 'Moore, in his account of his "Be saw the inspiring! hope' of taiumph disappear,"imt the austere alof of suffering remain, and with 3 s t iron heart he aeeepted. the (rift of a severe fate." P believe that the peace makes joyful dying and useful livingAiossible will never conic .to any of us, till, like Sir John 'Moore, we actept as a matter of course the ihevieable•trials . of existence, and ae z relit them as a gift, as something td be eherishe'd and kept as our very own till death. - person at Newcastle who had a house to let took an applicant or it to the top floor, spoke of the