Unless we close our eyes to the light, and do to death the
instincts implanted within us, we cannot mistake vice for
virtue, we cannot confound evil with good. Between them
there is an impassable chasm. No merely accidental, but an
essential difference exists between one and the other. And
the standard marking this difference is plain. It is the ob-
jective order of things, things as they are, things as they
ought to seem to you and to me, things as they shall inev-
itably seem to you and to me, if we only follow the light
vouchsafed us, and cherish conscience for a friend. This
standard never shifts place. Styles of dress change with
the season, the etiquette of to-day is other than that of our
forefathers; but the measure of moral rectitude is the same
to-day, yesterday and forever. It is founded on the good-
ness and wisdom of God, and partakes of their immutability.
TERMS

Destiny. End, when viewed as a something imposed on an-
other by on'e in a position to exercise this prerogative, is
called destiny. Man's last end is an inheritance of his na-
ture, and as such proceeds from the author of nature, God.
Its fulfilment is a law of nature, and the initial step towards
the same, or the right ordering of his life, may with justice
be called his destiny.
Happiness on Earth. We speak at present of incomplete,
or imperfect happiness, which consists wholly in the fact that
the sum of blessings enjoyed outweighs the sum of evils en-
dured, considering only the blessings and evils inseparably
connected with virtue and vice, with intensity not extent for
standard.
