can offer, that we are bound to bring into the service of the Highest! Our best tastes, our finest sensibilities ought not to be outraged in the way of our approach to public worship. But everything about the sanctuary, the building, the furniture, the music, and the ministrations, ought, as far as possible, to be a means of helping us to realise the power and glory of the Highest. We ought to make it clear that our hostility to Ritualism does not rest on the ground of any objection to the sight of anything beautiful within the Sanctuary, but only on the ground of our discernment of the utter emptyness and worthlessness of those weak sacramentarian doctrines and empty forms of Priestcraft which the Ritualists seek to clothe in the attractions of a showy ceremonialism. To get hold of the strength of living truth is our first need; for it is only by the strength of truth that we can reach the beautiful.

'Tis first the True and then the Beautiful,
Not first the Beautiful and then the True."

Far better to have only forms of ugliness before our eyes, if we can see eternal verities through them by the eye of faith, than to

walk in a vain show that hides from us the things belonging to Our peace. Far better to worship in a barn in the strength of a clear vision of eternal truth and righteousness, than in a grand cathedral in the weakness of a blind idolatry and a gross delusion.

If we have the strength of highest truth within our souls, we cannot fail to realize the highest beauty, for it will be upon us.

Divine grace is that which we name Virtue-strength. All that is really beautiful in life must have its root in strength of character. The fair appearances of virtue that spring out of weakly thought and feeling are all short-lived, as Jonah's gourd, or the seed sown on the stony ground, which forthwith sprung up because it had no deepness of earth, but was scorched when the sun was up, and withered away because it had no root in itself.

It is not possible to develope a truly beautiful and noble life, except by deepening and widening the basis of our acquaintance with the principles of truth and righteousness. It is only by becoming strong in faith that we can glorify God. It is only by building up the habitations of our spirits with the gold, silver, and precious stones of deepest spiritual experience, that we can—

The union of the divinest strength with the divinest beauty in our nature is only possible when the portals of our souls are lifted up to let the King of Glory in, to make his tabernacle with us, for "Strength and Beauty are in His Sanctuary."

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