Do not forget to practise much self-denial. Do not neglect to be zealously affected in a good cause. Do not neglect to admonish your brother. Do not seek the praise of men. Do not do anything through strife or vain glory. Do not be afraid of the devil. Do not think your trials are greater than those of others. Do not neglect to bear the burdens of others. Do not neglect to bear your own burdens. Do not fret, worry, nor murmur. Do not testify to something you do not live. Do not let your thoughts wander idly about. Do not neglect to show meekness and kindness to all men. Do not compromise with sin to the least degree. Do not neglect your salvation. Do not weary in well-doing, knowing in due season you shall reap if you _Do not faint_. PURITY. There are but few words in the English language sweeter and more beautiful than the word _purity_. What tender, mellow light beams out from its depths through its crystal clearness! what a halo of glory encircles it! what a sweet melody is contained in the sound, which, as it falls upon the soul, awakens all that is manly, noble, and godly there! Purity! who can repeat this word and not feel and hear a sweet rythm reverberating through all the avenues of his spiritual being? "_Keep thyself pure."_ Is there a soul so deep in slumber, so stupefied by the opiates of sin, as to know no awakening by the sweet melodious chimes that ring out from this heavenly command! Dismal, indeed, must be the heart in which no aspirations for a pure, devoted life are awakened by these glorious words. Listen, O my soul, to the sweet music, "_Keep thyself pure_." Tuned by the Spirit and sung by the voice of inspiration, in the bright morning of this glorious gospel day, it comes ringing down through the ages and is awakening desires and aspirations for the truest nobility of manhood, the deepest piety, and the highest plane of moral purity to which man can attain through the redeeming grace of God. The command to you, young man, is, "_Keep thyself pure_"; and to you, young lady, "_Keep thyself pure_"; and to all who are farther down the stream of life and hastening on to the boundless ocean of eternity, "_Keep thyself pure."_ If you desire to comprehend something of the true meaning of purity, think of heaven: what purity is in heaven, so it is on earth; what it is in the life of Christ, so it is in the life of man. Here upon the shores of time we look away, by an eye of faith, and behold the purity of heaven and its inhabitants. We behold the angels and the great white throne, upon which sits the King of glory; but who, of all mankind, will really be eye-witnesses of that fair scene? The Lamb, who is the light over there, makes answer, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."