EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS.

happier the world loould he than it is. Who does not know that quarrel lings, strifes, selfishness, and unkind- ness cause half the miseries by which mankind is visited ? Who can fail to see that nothing would so much tend to increase happiness as the S2)read of Christian love, such as is here recommended by our Lord ? Let us all remember this. Those who fancy that true religion has any ten- dency to make men unhappy, are greatly mistaken. It is the absence of it that does this, and not the presence. True religion has the directly contrary effect. It tends to promote peace, and charity, and kindness, and good- will amono' men. The more men are brouo;ht under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, the more they will love one another, and the more happy they will be.