TACT is both a mental and a moral virtue. It consists partly in clear perceptions of the relations of things, which is purely intellectual, and partly in nice regard for the feelings and rights of others, which is distinctly moral sentiment. Tactless men are always persons of imperfect perception, men who never see things as they are, but through some spectacles of preconceived notion; they are almost always men of blunt feelings, careless of the rights and comfort of others. A minister without tact is a sight to make the careless laugh and the judicious grieve. No man can do more harm by blundering than can he. No man is brought into contact with so many people of different temperaments, opinions, plans, habits of life. His intimacy with men and women is equaled only by that of the family physician, and perhaps not even by his. He is with his people in the privacy of their homes, in sickness and health, in prosperity and adversity. He can derange the delicate social machinery by lack of tact as easily and as fatally as an unskillful hand can derange the works of a fine watch. His capacity for doing harm is almost without limit, and that without any vicious intent or immoral conduct on his part, but merely by saying and doing the wrong thing at critical times. How important, then, that he of all men should seek to develop this quality of tact in dealing with men; that he should so far as possible avoid mistakes, but above all seek to learn from the blunders that he does commit so as never to duplicate them.—The Examiner (Baptist).