great honor or joy-the father wins the high office the eldest son returns unscathed from battle the daughter is affianced to as noble a man as breathes and yet wife and children are not gathered as one voices the heart's gratitude to Him in whose hands are all the fountains of good. Or some sorrow comes-domestic bereavement, business failure, treacherous friend -yet they never gather-husband, wife, and little ones-before the hearthstone to confess their sins, express their submission, and beg for mercy. XIII "POWER AND BEAUTY" (Preached at St. Peter's Church, New York, February 20th, 1916.) "Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.”—Psalm XCVI: 6. By strength is meant power with especial reference to its application. It is force, not inert, but manifested. It is that quality which tends to produce results. By beauty we mean such an assemblage of properties as rouses the emotion of pleasure. It must be evident that such ideas applied in David's day to the sanctuary of Jehovah are to be taken in a spiritual and not a literal sense. For the Ark of the Covenant was not as yet invested with outward dignity. After generations of wandering it still rested in a tent. Though David had succeeded in bringing it from the house of Obed Edom to the hill of Zion, its majesty was apparent only to him who regarded |