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conversation is sometimes at variance with the feel- 

 ings and resolutions experienced at the close of Sun- 

 day's sermon. 



It is as long ago as the days of Charles II. that in 

 one of these same ' Sunday sermons ' a remark was 

 made which has not only travelled down safely to 

 our own time, but enjoyed the more remarkable 

 truth-stamp of instant activity in its own, in being 

 carried away by two listeners, who the following day 

 met each other half-way to shake hands, and settle 

 by a little mutual concession some matter that had 

 long kept them wide apart. The remark was that 

 ' Selfishnesse seeking but its own sunshine is blynded, 

 lookynge on the light; but wisdome, like a true 

 archer, turneth his back to the sunne, and letting 

 the light fall upon the object, taketh the steadier and 

 surer aym : and thus should he who seeketh his long 

 happiness consider well the posture of his neighbour, 

 and placing himself therein, look back as it were 

 upon his own ; and most surely, after due habit (for 

 the tryal is at first of difficult empryse), he shall find 

 the whole matter between them such as one may 

 presently know wherein the due correction lyeth.' 



To those complicate relations of life in which there 

 is at once antagonism of interest yet mutuality of 



