go to your work of a morning, take a good long sniff at the tar--it's a fine healthy smell is tar--and maybe it'll be a help to you the whole day. There, I've done." And he sat down as abruptly as he had risen, amid the hearty cheers and laughter of his hearers. The vicar then introduced Dr Prosser, remarking that he was sure that those who had heard him lecture last April would be delighted to listen to his voice again. The doctor, who was vociferously cheered, stood forward and said:-- "I have the greatest pleasure in being with you, dear friends, to-day. I have heard a great deal of what has been going on from your excellent vicar, and have now listened with the deepest interest to the characteristic speeches which have just been made. I shall be glad now to say a few words, and to add my testimony to the importance of certain truths which need enforcing in our day. Thomas Bradly is to follow me, and I feel sure that his homely eloquence and plain practical good sense will be a fit termination to this most truly interesting meeting. "What I would now urge upon you all is this,--the unspeakable importance in these days of grasping realities instead of hunting shadows. I have been, I fear, till lately, more or less of a shadow-hunter myself. I used to sympathise with the cry,-- "`For names and creeds let senseless bigots fight-- He can't be wrong whose life is in the right.' "But I don't think this now. We men of science are too apt to deal with abstractions, and to follow out favourite theories, till we are in danger of forgetting that we have hearts and souls as well as heads; that, as has been beautifully said, `The heart has its arguments as well as the understanding;' and that, as God's Word tells us, `The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.' I am more and more strongly persuaded of this every day. We are living in times of immense energy and surprising intellectual activity, but, at the same time, are surrounded with unrealities or half-realities. We want something to grasp that will never deceive us, never fly from us. Anything--like mere vague generalities will never satisfy beings constituted as you and I are; and thus it is that we cannot do without something real in our religion, something definite. We want to come into real communion with a personal Being, whom we can consciously, though spiritually, approach, love, and reverence. We want a real person such as ourselves, and yet infinitely above ourselves; and such an one we have in the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour--one who is like us as man, yet infinitely above us as God--one who can smile on us, because he is human, and can watch over us, guide us, and bear with us, because he is divine.