pain. The individual who would be a power for good, and would reform social life, must not let his subjects know that they are being reformed. If you tell a man he is an arrant knave, even though he be one, he will tell you that you lie.

Seneca has most wisely said: "The manner of saying or of doing anything goes a great way in the value of the thing itself. It was well said of him that called a good office that was done harshly and with an ill will, a stony piece of bread: it is necessary for him that is hungry to receive it, but it almost chokes a man in the going down."

Even fine gifts and attainments are of little worth if we have not the faculty of setting them forth agreeably and attractively. Says Locke: "Courage in an ill-bred man has the air, and escapes not the opinion of brutality; learning becomes pedantry, and wit buffoonery."

If a delicate and sensitive soul has found for us a fine way of doing a thing, and it has been called good by such souls ever since, let us be glad that it was discovered before our day, and lose no time in learning the formula and profiting by it; for if it is the right way to treat some one else, it is the way in which we ourselves would wish to be treated, and the law is for our protection as well as our restraint. There is always a best way of doing a thing, if it be to sweep a room. If we are willing to give much time and labor to the attaining of proficiency in handling a chisel or drawing a line, shall we not give as much to the mastery of those things which shall, in a great measure, make the success or failure of our lives? Do you say: "But these are mere hollow forms, these rules of fashionable etiquette." I can only answer: even form is built upon reality, and all courtesy means love. Have we a higher law than love?

There is very little danger of the true lady or gentleman becoming a mere martinet, "a thing of shreds and patches"

of form and ceremony. The fragrance of the rose will always distinguish it from the French imitation, be it ever so clever. Mankind, which can not be long deceived by base metal, even with the guinea stamp, will also be sure to know the sound of pure gold when it rings.

"What if the false gentleman almost bows the true out of the world?" says the philosopher. Real service will not lose its nobleness. All generosity is not merely French and sentimental; nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's."

Place the matter in whatever light we will, we can not afford to ignore the rules of polite behavior. A subject which has engaged the attention of great men, philosophers and poets, from Bacon and Spencer down to Emerson, is certainly one deserving of attention. Edmund Burke, the great and eloquent writer on philosophy and politics has even asserted: "Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon these, in a great measure, the laws depend."

Alice E. Dres.

THE DAY OF HEAVEN.

(A Paper on the Sabbath.)

BY

REV. WILL C. WOOD, A. M.

Not preach foolishness of no preaching

N earth as in Heav

en," - prayed our Lord, and taught to pray; and of all means to make his prayer a reality-Heaven upon earth-none can equal the Day of Rest given

to man.

ing; though "it pleased God by the preaching to save men;" for there is like the Sabbath calm; and preaching needs the restful opportunity and serene back-ground of the Sabbath, and preaching is little without the silver trumpets and pealing bells which call to the Sabbath worship. Not the Ministry, nor the Church, nor the Sabbath School, nor the Home; for all these depend for much of their efficacy upon the Sabbath. And over and above the gracious power which it lends to these means, the Sabbath has a quiet efficacy of its