“There is much use made in the present day of the word ‘holy.’ Our ears are wearied with ‘holy church,’ and ‘holy baptism,’ and ‘holy days,’ and ‘holy water,’ and ‘holy services,’ and ‘holy priests’; but one thing is a thousand times more important—and that is, to be made a really holy man by the Spirit. We must be made partakers of the Divine nature while we are alive: we must sow to the Spirit, if we would ever reap life everlasting. (II. Peter i. 4; Gal. vi. 8.)”—Bishop J. C. Ryle.
THE COST OF DANCING.—A Dance cost John the Baptist his head, and he is not the only one who lost his head through dancing! The influence and associations of dancing have taken away many a man’s head and heart and home. Whirling makes one light-headed in more senses than one.—John Horne.