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{{sm|“A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it; else the hand would cut itself, which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose Made is false, but whose handle is true.”

{{sm|“It is not conviction of truth which does men good; it is moral consciousness of truth."}}

{{sm|“A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative; but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral-bell is already rung.”}}

{{sm|“Night-labor, in time, will destroy the student; for it is marrow from his own bones with which he fills his lamp.”}}

A great-hearted, eloquent, fervent, live man, full of religious emotion, of humanity and love,—no wonder he is dear to the people of America. Long may he bring instruction to the lecture associations of the North! Long may he stand in his pulpit at Brooklyn with his heavenly candle, which goeth not out at all by day, to kindle the devotion and piety of the thousands who cluster around him, and carry thence light and warmth to all the borders of the land!

We should do injustice to our own feelings, did we not, in closing, add a word of hearty thanks and commendation to the Member of Mr. Beecher’s Congregation to whom we are indebted for a volume that has given us so much pleasure. The selection covers a wide range of topics, and testifies at onee to the good taste and the culture of the editress. Many of the finest passages were conceived and uttered in the rapid inspiration of speaking, and but for her admiring intelligence and care, the eloquence, wit, and wisdom, which are here preserved to us, would hate faded into air with the last vibration of the preacher’s voice.