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Ancl St. Paul says: “Let- every one of you please his neighbor unto 
good, to edification.” 
And St. Peter says: “Have your conversation good among the gen¬ 
tiles : that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by the 
good works, which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of 
visitation.” 
“By example,” says also very truthfully a pious author, “whatever 
grace God gives us is increased and multiplied; it attracts to itself what¬ 
ever is the work of grace in others; and thus the gifts of God are changed 
into instruments of His service; neither gifts nor graces are given us for 
ourselves alone.” 
“Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
Ancl, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time A 
— Longfellow. 
Lilie^. 
IS EMBLEMS OF CONFIDENCE, GROWTH, AND PURITY.' 
: Tlie great ocean hath no tone of power 
Mightier to reach the soul, in thought’s hushed 
hour, 
Than yours, ye Lilies, chosen thus and graced.” 
— Mrs. Hemans. 
“Consider the lilies of the field,” was one of the exhortations given 
by our Blessed Lord and Master, as He taught on the mountain side, when 
surrounded by the multitudes who followed Him from all parts of Pales¬ 
tine, in the early days of His public ministry. Prom every part of God’s 
creation, lessons of deepest significance are to be learned by us; the 
