they were to be as a corpse and as a staff in a blind man's hand. To this will of Christ we come, not that we may become corpses, or an insensible staff in another hand, but in our very submission the dead becomes alive, that which was lost is found, and in submission we find our largest liberty.

To this masterhood there is a development. It is a beautiful suggestion of the usage of Jesus Christ, as we follow the terms by which he called his disciples. At first they were disciples of the Master, submissive. Further on in history he calls them friends. When nearer the end, he speaks of them as little children, and after his resurrection he tells Mary" to go and tell my brethren." He that yields to the Master becomes not only a disciple, but a friend and companion; and he who walks in the companionship of Jesus Christ, in submission to his will, becomes by and by as a little child, the highest ideal to the divine lips of heavenly life and character; and walking and submitting, in the love and unquestioning obedience of the child, we are brought into the brotherhood of the risen One, pulse beating with pulse, shoulder standing to shoulder, hope joining in hope, love inflamed by kindred love, spirit informed by kindred spirit, joint heirs with the elder Brother unto the heavenly inheritance.

"Rabboni," says Mary. Here she would find her rest in the arms of the risen One. "Touch me not. Go tell my brethren." It is well that by voice of him, by Sabbath service, by actual experience, we be lifted into recognition and exultancy in the presence and communion of Jesus Christ. It belongs to our life that there shall be sweetness, rest, exhilaration and uplifting of thought and life; but that is the best obedience which carries itself out into the companionship and service and brotherhood of Jesus Christ, and yields itself in

loving service, like unto the Master himself; for the disciple must not and cannot be greater than the Master. Not pleasure but labor, not ectasy but service, not experience but works, are the testimony of the fact of our Christian faith and our Christian life.

Thus Jesus brings himself to you and me, pointing in the ascension to my Father and his Father, to my God and his God, as he sends us now, here in the lowly Sabbath school work, there among the poor, now on sick beds, wherever the word can be spoken, wherever the tone of truth, of love, of sweetness can be heard, not always in formulated statement, not always nor chiefly in stated solemn service, but in our casual experience, in our daily work, in our common task, carrying the inspiration of his presence and power, that all our life shall have the divine presence, and the greeting "Mary," shall wake the hope and unlock the sealed lips and give recognition, not of us, but of the Christ within us, "Rabboni."

How sweetly quaint George Herbert speaks of our life. "How sweetly does my Master' sound; my Master,' as ambergris leaves a rich sense unto the taste, so do these words a sweet content, an oriental fragrance, my Master.""

MICHIGAN FEMALE SEMINARY.

Incorporated 1856, with an article in its constitution providing that the appointment of its trustees shall be submitted to the approval of synod, this seminary has been in touch with the synod from the beginning and annually visited by synod's committees. Every such committee has reported the seminary as true to its original purpose of establishing "a seminary of learning for young women that in every department should be second to none." While its methods and plans have been from time to time modified to meet the requirements of modern education, the main direction of its growth has been along the broad, deep lines laid down in the beginning. It is not in any sense a "finishing school." Students are made to feel that when they leave the school the process of education is only well begun, since all life is education. College bred women are teachers here, and the seminary offers excellent college preparation for those desiring it. There are many girls who for various reasons will never go to college. For all such the seminary undertakes to give a course of study equivalent to that of a standard high school, with two years of college added. A high standard of intellectual work is upheld, every effort is made to promote the most vigorous physical development, and the prime object of all education is kept constantly in view, viz., to send into the world young women with sound bodies, trained minds and well rounded characters, strong in Christian faith and life.