Life thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. By one of his congregation.

LIFE THOUGHTS.- 231
and fly with the wind; and then how like a gleam
of light do their white wings flash down the bay
faster than eye can follow! So, when we cease to
resist God's divine influences, and, turning towards
him, our thoughts and feelings are upborne by the
breath of his spirit, how do they make such swift
heavenward flight as no words can overtake!
Yet, wonderful as are the desires and thoughllts
of the soul, the apostle's measurement is more than
these; for he says, "Now unto Him that is able to
do exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or
think!" Truly his riches are unsearchable.
If we dwelt more upon God's fulness, and his
desire to make us partakers of it, our Christian
character would be richer. God never reveals
himself to us as a distant, glimmering light. Of
all stars he calls himself " the bright and morning
star "- the star that lingers longest in the sky,
and swims and glorifies an avant courier of the
sun, as John the Baptist did in the rising splendor
of Christ. Many people get a wrong idea of God
by thinking of him as infinite only in justice and
power: but infinite applies to the feelings of God,
as much as to the stretch of his right hand. There
is nothing in his nature which is not measureless.
Many think God sits brooding in heaven, as storms
brood in summer skies, full of bolts and rain, and