order. We add a second maxim scarcely less important, namely: cultivate the practical habit. Have a practical end in view always, and let everything bend to that result. Dr. Candlish said of a sermon which was submitted to his criticism: “This discourse consists of an introduction which might have been spared, a second part which does not deal with the text; and a conclusion which concludes nothing”—except, we suppose, the discourse. Contrast with this the solemn testimony of Robertson of Irvine,