We use it most reverently when most habitually; our insolence is in ever acting without reference to it, our true honoring of it is in its universal application.

I have been blamed for the familiar introduction of its sacred words.

I am grieved to have given pain by so doing, but my excuse must be my wish that those words were made the ground of every argument and the test of every action.

We have them not often enough on our lips, nor deeply enough in our memories, nor loyally enough in our lives.

The snow, the vapour and the strong wind fulfil His word.
Are our acts and thoughts lighter and wilder than these, that we should forget it ?"--_Ruskin_.
"I expect to pass through this life but once.