Welsh Journals

No. 19. JULY, 1865. Price 2d. #ttr Copg-fcroh*. "■ ^IFE is a writing. After every thought we have entertained, and every word we have uttered, and every deed we have performed, we can repeat the words of Pontius Pilate in reference to the subscription which he put on the cross—w What I tave written, I have written/' In addition to the striking and full analogy between life and a writing, the idea that we write in all we do is fairly suggested and plainly supported by passages from Holy Writ. " My tongue is the pen of a ready writer." "Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men.'* " Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God." "The Lord shall count, when hewriteth up the people, that this man was born there." *' Thou hast written bitter things against me." And the names of all believers are written in the Lamb's book of life. It being admitted then that we write in all we do, which means nothing more than that we exert an influence and produce impres¬ sions by means of all our doings, it becomes a question of consider- able moment—What are the copy-books on the pages of which we are wont to write ? In reply, we answer:— First,—Every man is a copy book ta himself. We write on the lines of. our faces; and on the front, sides, and back of the figures of our personality. The wrinkles in the cheeks, the pointedness or bluntness of the features, the gait, carriage, the step and the expres¬ sion of the countenance are only as many strokes of the pen drawn by ourselves, or as many written sentences partially inscribed by the individual himself on his own person. Everyman's character is written so to speak on the pages of his appearance. The material part of human nature was net made merely to hold the soul, the