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

LIFE THOUGHTS. 47
happy. When God is the entertainer of his people,
he thanks no man for " dim, religious light," or for
casting forth the flowers, and extinguishing the
lamps of hope and joy in the sanctuary.
THERE are two classes of people in the church:
the religionists, who love God by trying to do right;
and the Christians, who are inspired to do right by
loving God.
WHEN once the filial feeling is breathed into the
heart, the soul cannot be terrified by augustness, or
justice, or any form of divine grandeur; for then,
to such an one, all the attributes of God are but so
many arms stretched abroad through the universe,
to gather and to press to his bosom, those whom he
loves. The greater he is, the gladder are we, so
that he be our Father still.
But, if one consciously turns away from God, or
fears him, the nobler and grander the representation be, the more terrible is his conception of the
divine Adversary that frowns upon him. The God
whom love beholds, rises upon the horizon like
mountains which carry summer up their sides to
the very top; but that sternly just God whom sine
ners fear, stands cold against the sky, like Mon$