Secret Of A True Life

Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, gives in ono of his letters, an account of a saintiy sister. For tvventy years, throughsome disease. she was confined to a kind of erib; nevcr once could slic chango her position for all that time. "And yet," said Dr. Arnold, and I think his words are very beautiful, "I neversaw a more perfect instance of the power of love and a sound mind. Intenso love, almosttothc annihilation of seliishness; a daily marlyrdom for twenty years, duriDg which she adhered to her early formed resolution of nover talking about herseli; thoughtful about the very pins and ribbons of my wife's dress, about the making of a doll's cap for a child, but of herself - save as regarded her improvement in all goodness - wholly thoughtless, enjoymg everythinglovely, grand, beautiful, high-mindcd, whether in God's worksor man's, withthe koenest relish; inheriUng the earth to the fulness of the promise; and preserved through the valley of the shadow of i death from all fear of impatienee, and I froni evfiry cloud of impaired reason j which might mar tho beauty of Christ's glorious work. May God grant that I might come witliin one lmndred degrees of her place in glory!" Sucli a, life was true and beautdful. But the radience of such a life never cheered this world by chance. A sunny patience, :i brigkt-höarted self-forgetfulness, a sweet and winning interestin the little things of family intercourse, tho divine lustre of a Christian peace, are not fortuitous weeds carelessly flowering out of the life-garden. It is the internal which makes the esternal. It is the force residing in the atonis which shapes the pyramid. It is the beautiful "souï which forms the crystal of the baautifnl life without. "Be what thou seemest; live thy creed; Huid up to the earth the torch divine ; Be what thou prayewt to be made; Let the great Mastcr's steps be thine. "Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure; Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright ; Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor, And flnd a harvest homn ol light."