emanate from the pulpit, and never be strangled there. A special privilege is vested in the ministry. How shall it be used? Sacredly, — in the interests of the individual, not of sect.
Children should obey their parents. Insubordination is a growing evil that blights the buddings of self-government. Parents should teach their children at the earliest possible period the truth of health and holiness. They are more tractable than adults, and will learn to love the simple verities that make them happy and good. Says Charles Swain: —
| Men are agents for the future; |
| As they work, so ages win — |
| Either harvests of advancement, |
| Or the products of their sin. |
The power of will should be exercised only by the higher faculties, and curbed by the sentiments, or it will hold the reins, misguide the judgment, and let loose the lower propensities. To guard and govern thought is the province of the higher faculties, acting upon the body beneficially.
Will-power is capable of all evil. It can never heal the sick, for it is the prayer of the unrighteous; while the exercise of the higher sentiments — hope, faith, joy — is the prayer of the righteous. This prayer, governed by Science instead of sense, heals the sick.
Mozart and Beethoven experienced more than they
expressed. The rapture of their grandest symphonies
was never heard. They were musicians before the world
knew it. Mental melodies, and strains of sweetest music,
precede notes, or conscious sound.
