LITERATURE should fall down before its King. Speech is the gift of God. We are not to regard blessings we enjoy as less a gift from on high because they come from second causes. Literature should be devoted to him who is the Logos. God has made a revelation of his will in the highest forms of literature. No one wrote purer history than Moses. Deeper themes are discussed in the book of Job, and in a grander manner, than in the tragedies of Æschylus. We have no lyrics like those by David. I shrink from comparing any other literature with the discourse of our Lord. Paul had a style much like his character, abrupt, living, piercing like a sword, and yet lifting us to Heaven by its sublimity. Our literature owes much to Athens and Rome, but much also to Jerusalem. The Bible has given the world new ideas, such as are not found elsewhere in the province of letters,—the grand and tender ideas, thrown into the thought of men by religion. Superb themes for poetry and eloquence have been furnished. It is thus that high enjoyment is attained and the mind refined.