ful to his own personal want and sense of truth, the compiler has gathered the best utterancesthe best for him-concerning the Moral Life of Man, he finds that he has stored up something more than a mere heap of unrelated particles even of gold, he discovers that the thought-edges of one saying match with those of another, and the emotional flush of one mounts into the warmer glow of another, as if each had been made for each. It could not be otherwise. The compiler's fidelity to himself would allow him to select nothing that had not its counterpart in his own inward pattern of the perfect, the true, and the helpful. The writings, besides, of the Seers of to-day, of the Saints of the Church, the Apostles, the Prophets, the Stoics, and the Sages of Athens and and the East,-where there is kinship in thought and feeling,—are alike also in imagery and in simplicity and dignity of phrase. Lastly, the Moral Life itself reflects in literature not only its variations, but its own identity, which marks it everywhere, and is of yesterday, to-day, and forever. His book then, if the compiler has not failed, becomes more than a mere collection of quotations. The once separate parts lose themselves, and find their meaning in the whole. Each piece, therefore, need not be labelled with the name of the quarry whence it was taken. For curious readers, however, an index appended to the book should cite the author, the volume and chapter, so far as possible, of the original of each selection; where any portion of a sentence has been left out, the fact should be stated; and wherever a few words have been inserted (as here and there a little filling-in of cement makes the whole evener and firmer), this too should be confessed. When, however, these precautions have been taken, no charge of theft or mutilation can be just. If also the book gives evidence of painstaking and of time spent in pondering finer meanings, then even the compiler's work will, like a Prophet's word, inspire the reader to conscientious service. LONDON IV WE MAY BE IN DANGER OF MORAL DEATH V FELLOWSHIP IN THE MORAL LIFE IS THE WAY OF VI WE HAVE NO LIFE APART FROM OTHERS 19 - 22 VIII WHERE THE CONSCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE IS AROUSED INIQUITY WILL BE ROOTED OUT XVIII RETURN NOT INTO THE EVIL WAY XIX HE IS FREE WHO CAN WILL WHAT HE OUGHT XX SPIRITUAL LIFE IS A CONSTANT GROWTH |