should make them INTENSELY GOOD; not "goody-goody," which is very
different, but heartily and wholly spiritual and godly.

THE MEN WE LOVE.

The men whose names are brightening as the ages fly, were not men
who were always free from prejudices and blunders. They were not
men, as a rule, from university quadrangles nor college cloisters.
They were not the wise, nor the erudite, nor the cultivated, nor
the rich. They were the good men. Brilliant men tire us; wits soon
bore us with their gilt-edged nothings, but men with clean, holy
hearts, fixed convictions, bold antipathies to sin, sympathetic
natures and tender consciences never weary us, and they bear the
intimate and familiar acquaintance which so often causes the
downfall of the so-called "great" in one's estimation.

THE PERSONAL TOUCH.

We may forget an eloquent sermon pilfered from Massillon, but we
will never forget a warm handclasp and a sympathetic word from an
humble servant in God's house. Jesus never went for the crowds--he
hunted the individual. He sat up a whole night with a questioning
Rabbi; talked an afternoon with a harlot who wanted salvation;
sought out and found the man whom they cast out of the synagogue,
and saved a dying robber on an adjacent cross. We do not reach men
in great audiences generally. We reach them by interesting
ourselves in them individually; by lending our interest to their
needs; by giving them a lift when they need it.

SANCTIFIED FISHERMEN.