One often trembles to hear persons make high professions, and use expressions of intense devoted-ness, whether in prayer or otherwise, lest when the hour of trial comes there may not be the needed spiritual power to carry out what the lips have uttered.

We should ever remember that Christianity is not a set of opinions, a system of dogmas, or a number of views; it is pre-eminently a living reality-a personal, practical, powerful thing, telling itself out in all the scenes and circumstances of daily life, shedding its hallowed influence over the entire character and course, and imparting its heavenly tone to every relationship which one may be called of God to fill.