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A professor of pulpit eloquence once said with much truth: “Out 
of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh,” and that by its tones 
as ivcll as by its words. The dominant traits, whatever they may be, that 
color the inner life will also color the media, of expression.”—And again, 
“The great, noble, holy, magnanimous, consecrated soul, educating every 
fiber of the body, training every attribute of the mind, will speak the word 
of the Lord most powerfully and win most trophies for the world’s Re¬ 
deemer and His glorious Church on earth.” 
Lar^pur. 
A plant with showy flowers, usually of a vivid blue color. 
Fickleness. 
HAT more, clear reader, could our loving God have 
done for you, than He has done % And yet, where, in 
return for all that, has been the steadiness of your 'fidelity and 
|/ virtue ? “You were young and as yet innocent,” says just as 
truthfully, perhaps, as beautifully, an excellent English divine, 
“and you seemed to flourish as a green plant set by running 
waters ; your growth tended upward towards Heaven, and 
your healthy branches spread on every side. 
“A perfumed breeze of pleasure came, soft and enervating; it played 
and dallied with you, and scarcely had you felt its touch but you bent be¬ 
neath it; its poison reached your core, and the sap of your virtuous ener¬ 
gies was parched up. 
“You, perhaps, fancied yourself strong and powerful, as the cedars of 
God, you believed you had twined your roots round the cleft rock of divine 
