The way to preserve the peace of the Church is to preserve the purity of it.-Henry.

The still and quiet soul is like a ship that lies still and quiet in the harbour. You may take in what goods, what commodities, you please, whilst the ship lies quiet and still; so, when the soul is quiet and still under the hand of God, it is most fitted and advantaged to take in much of God, of Christ, of heaven, of the promises, of ordinances, and of the love of God, the smiles of God, and the counsel of God; but when souls are unquiet, they are like a ship in a storm, they can take in nothing.Brooks.

The peace which Christ gives is infinitely more valuable than that which the world gives. The world's peace begins in ignorance, consists with sin, and ends in endless troubles; Christ's peace begins in grace, consists with no allowed sin, and ends at length in everlasting peace. Henry.

It is this inward tranquillity, this well-founded sense of safety, this readiness for all changes, even for the last great change, and this meetness for another state, which alone can warrant a true enjoyment even of this life.— Jane Taylor.

POVERTY.

"I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness."-Psalms.

POVERTY in the way of duty is to be chosen rather than plenty in the way of sin.-Henry.

PRACTICAL GODLINESS.

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PRACTICAL GODLINESS.

"Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works."-St. James.

NOTHING, indeed, can be more futile than even the

most correct system of religious opinions if our

faith has no influence on the heart, and fails therefore to produce its legitimate consequence-a godly life and conversation; everything in Christianity is directed to practical purposes, and in the day of righteous retribution it will only aggravate our condemnation to have heard, understood, and approved the word of the Lord, if we shall have persisted in refusing to follows its dictates. -J. J. Gurney.

An elevated purpose is a good and ennobling thing, but we cannot begin at the top of it. We must work up to it by the often difficult path of daily duty.

PRAYER.

"Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."-St. Paul.

OU complain that you cannot pray; at least, then, you have one petition that you are bound to offer.

-Anon.

Prayer is knowing work, believing work, thinking work, searching work, humbling work, and nothing worth if heart and hand do not join in it.—Adam.

Where prayer doth not lead, repentance must follow. -Annesley.

We do not pray to inform God of our wants, but to express our sense of the wants which He already knows. -More.

When prayers are in our mouths, praises must be in our hearts. Henry.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends, the other descends.-Bishop Hopkins.

They that pray for God's grace must aim at God's glory.-Henry.

My prayers can only be answered in the way of a severe mortification, and I would have the business done without.-Adam.

Those that trade with heaven by prayer, grow rich by quick returns; the correspondence between earth and heaven is never let fall on God's side.—Henry.

People never tell more lies than in their prayers.—Adam.

It is the will of God that we should in everything make our requests known to Him by prayer and supplication; not to inform or move Him, but to qualify ourselves for the mercy. The waterman in the boat, that with the hook takes hold of the shore, doth not thereby pull the shore to the boat, but the boat to the shore; so in prayer, we do not draw the mercy to ourselves, but ourselves to the mercy. Henry.

Whatever is the matter of God's promise, must be the matter of our prayers; for promises are given, not only to be the ground of our hope, but also to be the guide of our desire in prayer.-Henry.

Prayers of faith are filed in heaven, and are not forgotten, though the thing prayed for is not presently given in. Prayers made when we were young, and coming into the world, may be answered when we are old, and going out of the world.-Henry.

If you would pray fervently, walk watchfully, rest not in forms.-P. Henry.

Solid devotions resemble the rivers which run under the earth; they steal from the eyes of the world to seek the eye of God; and it often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.Caussoin.

It is the fervent prayer that is the effectual prayer.— Henry.

A hungry man might as well be expected to abstain from food, or a thirsty man from drink, as a Christian from prayer. Prayer is the breath on which the Christian lives, and from which he derives peculiarly its power, activity, and enjoyment.-Dwight.

We cannot easily hate the man for whom we pray.— H. More.

What we win by prayer we must wear with praise.— Henry.

Let every man study his prayers, and read his duty in his petition.-J. Taylor.