do, your work will be a failure unless you have this element in your
life.

These three things go far toward forming a well-rounded life. Some of
us may not have these ingredients in their right proportion, but if
you are lacking in one or the other of them, then pray for it and work
for it that your life may be rounded and complete as God intended it
should be.




PAX VOBISCUM. (Copyright, James Pott & Co. Used by permission.)


I once heard a sermon by a distinguished preacher upon "Rest." It was
full of beautiful thoughts; but when I came to ask myself, "How does
he say I can get Rest?" there was no answer. The sermon was sincerely
meant to be practical, yet it contained no experience that seemed to
me to be tangible, nor any advice that I could grasp--any advice, that
is to say, which could help me to find the thing itself as I went
about the world.

Yet this omission of what is, after all, the only important problem,
was not the fault of the preacher. The whole popular religion is in
the twilight here. And when pressed for really working specifics for
the experiences with which it deals, it falters, and seems to lose
itself in mist.

The want of connection between the great words of religion and