Yet, it is a magnificent book, full of information and suggestions sparkling and eloquent. It is a gritty whetstone to sharpen up on. The style is nervous and pleasing, and he leads you captive and amused, even in those places where you suspect he is himself bewildered. A few specimens will awaken a desire to enter the rich mine of sparkling gems whence they were taken. "Man is so essentially a religious being that he makes a sort of religion out of irreligion itself."

"Ignorance and uncertainty are not errors; error begins when the mind arrives at a false conclusion."

"Logic imprisons liberty in a network of contradictions from which it only escapes when, by a sudden stroke of the wing, it rises into the higher region of intuition, where conscience commands without arguing, and the supreme authority is duty.'

"The prejudice against the idea of the Divine must be strong, when mind is assigned by preference to the material atom, rather than admit a spiritual power."

"It matters nothing that man can only dispose of the quantity of force that he derives from food, air, and sunshine, it is enough that he has the free disposition of this to make him responsible for his acts."

"Universal love becomes the keystone of the arch of social science, and the purely mechanical is eliminated."

"It is impossible to confound the anguish of mind caused by a violation of the moral law, with the regret resulting from a misfortune or a failure."

"All the avenues of the soul lead up to God. The metaphysical, the moral, the active life, all terminate in the Divine; there is not one of our faculties which is not in its highest aspect religious."

The book is well printed and neatly bound, and comprises 515 pages.

THE CHRISTIAN INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTARY, for 1886, is a well printed book of 281 octavo pages, by B. W. Johnson. Bro. Johnson is the author of "A Vision of the Ages," in which he has used to good advantage his great store of historic knowledge, and the same has been drawn upon in the preparation of this Commentary. Both the Common and Revised Texts are given in each lesson; the Introduction is clear and condensed, the Notes are full, and the Practical Suggestions are eminently practical and satisfactory. It is an excellent help for the Sunday-school teacher and advanced scholar.

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HARRY SOMERS; OR, LIFE IN BURTON.

CHAPTER XVI.

All Burton was moved as never known before. There had been religious revivals, during which excitement ran high, and the people seemed to enjoy religion, as they would any other sensation, as long as it lasted; but anything to equal the deep, thoughtful under-current that now pervaded the community, had never been experienced.

Like all deep, strong movements that leave a mark on the time to come, this commenced in a quiet, humble way-ten or twelve meeting in the village schoolhouse to listen to the gospel in its simplicity; and in its exponent we recognize the same bold speaker who gave the first blow toward breaking the chains of unbelief with which our hero was bound-Charles L. Dacy.

Following the example of Paul, he reasoned out of the scriptures, and insisting so strongly on the necessity of a knowledge of God's word, that it became quite common for most of the little band who went to hear him, to take their Bibles with them, and diligently refer to them as he directed while preaching.

The novelty of this, while it was not so intended, attracted attention, and many who came out of curiosity, "to see what that feller is about," staid to join eagerly in the study they had at first felt disposed to ridicule. Gradually the congregation increased, until at the end of two weeks the school room was insuffi