[4] Character is consolidated habit, and habit forms itself by repeated action. Habits are like paths beaten hard and clear by the multitude of light footsteps which go to and fro. The daily restraint or indulgence of the nature, in the business, in the hope, in the imagination, which is the inner laboratory of the life, creates the character which, whether it be here or there, settles the destiny.--_J. Baldwin Brown._ [5] It is not great, or special, or extraordinary experiences which constitute in the best sense the _religious_ character. It is the uniform daily walk with God, serving Him in little things as well as great--in the ordinary duties and everyday avocations, as well as in the midst of grave and eventful contingencies. As the sublimest symphony is made up of separate single notes;--as the wealth of the cornfield is made up of separate stalks, or rather of separate grains;--as the magnificent texture, with its gorgeous combinations of colour, is made up of individual threads;--as the mightiest avalanche that ever came thundering down from its Alpine throne, uprooting villages and forests, is made up of tiny snowflakes;--so it is with the spiritual life. That life is itself the grandest illustration of the power of littles. Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words, thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishnesses, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptations, submissiveness under trial. Oh it is these, like the blending colours in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.--_Macduff._ THE NOBLEST ART. i. 17. _Learn to do well._