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O be wise, and turn Maker, voluntarily enters into an agree- unto the Lord; with weeping and lamenment with death, and, consequently, tation, look to Jesus; so shall you enjoy receives the due reward of his iniquity. true riches, which will endure for everThe damned in hell must ever blame more. themselves for their damnation. The Would you begin the New Year, PROOF SEEK JESUS. cerning Jesus, thus it is written-"We have not an High Priest which cannot The year is nearly ended-I am nearer to my grave. Is there any way wherein be touched with the feeling of our infirThoughts for the Conclusion of I can escape from the certain con- mities." "In all their afflictions He was sequences of my guilt? There is; listen afflicted." Jesus Christ the SAME yesterto the gospel declaration, yield obedience day, and to-day, and for ever." When THE Scriptures are very explicit in de- to its requirements, look unto Jesus, and sorrow comes, you will surely sink beclaring the total ruin of all mankind by be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth. neath its weight, unless supported by sin. Such solemn passages as the follow-"The BLOOD of Jesus Christ (God's Son) Jesus. Take Jesus as the antidote for ing occur frequently in the word of God. cleanseth us from all sin." "Him that all pain-as the balm for every wound— "In sin did my mother conceive me." cometh to me I will IN NO WISE CAST as the support of your heart in the hour "All have sinned, and come short of the out." "He is able to save them to the of distress, and your portion for ever. glory of God." "The soul that sinneth, UTTERMOST that come unto God by Him." Would you begin the New Year singit shall die." "The wages of sin is Though man has sinned, yet God can ing? SEEK JESUS. He who has found The first of these passages save the sinner, and maintain the require-Jesus, can sing one of the Lord's songs. teaches us, that man is a sinner from ments of His justice, through the shed- He can "rejoice evermore;" yea, he can He was born in sin, and ding of Jesus' blood. God is willing to “rejoice in the Lord always." The wanshapen in iniquity. Sin is natural to pardon ALL WHO COME pleading the effi- derer from God cannot rejoice, he may man, he inherits it from his parents, and cacy of Jesus' blood. No sinner, making experience excitement, but to real, to by his whole life proves that he loves sin an application for forgiveness of sins lasting joy, he must ever be a stranger, by choosing its paths. The second pas- through the shedding of Jesus' blood, until he is brought back by Jesus. The sage brings before us the universality shall ever be rejected. "Why will ye die?" worldling's mirth is of short duration; of sin, with its terrible results. 66 'All Be determined that you will secure the in a few brief years it vanishes away. have sinned." Every man, woman, and salvation of your soul before this year None, save Jesus, can give solid joy child are sinners against God. All have has closed. You may not live to behold and lasting peace. SEEK JESUS, as the transgressed His commands, insulted is the commencement of the New Year, source of all real pleasure -- pleasure justice, defied His authority, and de- therefore, Now come to Jesus, and you flowing from the right channel, even from spised His grace. High and low, rich shall obtain eternal life. Let this year a knowledge of sins pardoned, iniquities and poor, young and old, all, ALL have see you a penitent, lying low at the blotted out, transgressions covered, and sinned. By sin, all have "come short footstool of mercy, pleading for pardon the soul saved. If you would be happy, of the glory of God." God's glory is for the sake of Jesus; then shall the you must SEEK JESUS. If you would tarnished by the transgression of man- New Year see you rejoicing in the Lord, be enabled to live, you must SEEK JESUS, kind. Shall the transgressor go unpun- as your Redeemer. Would you If you would be prepared to die, you ished for this? No. "The soul that mence the New Year PROSPEROUSLY? must SEEK JESUS. sinneth, it shall die." Death is God's SEEK JESUS-"Seek ye first the kingdom curse against sin, and he who delights in of God and His righteousness, and all sin, shall surely be visited with that these things shall be added unto you." The death of the body is the SEEK JESUS, So shall ye be able to sing, SEEK JESUS, then you shall find Him, sure forerunner of the death of the soul, "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not and shall thus be enabled to begin to all who die impenitent. The death want." his birth. curse. f com "Tis Jesus only that can give, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty One with of the soul consists in everlasting banish- Would you be RICH? SEEK JESUS. the certainty of realizing A HAPPY ment from the presence of God, and ever- "The silver and gold is mine, saith the NEW YEAR! WHAT IS THE CHURCH? A SOLEMN WORD TO PROFESSORS. “A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant frits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief sreams from Lebanon. Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south: blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden, and eat His pleasant fruits."-SOLOMON'S SONG iv. 12-16. spices: a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and In a time like the present, when men are tacking on the word church to so many things, and when, we fear, so many are deceiving themselves, by supposing that all is right with them, because they belong to some so-called church, it becomes spot in this wilderness world; all else, whether of God. It is the indwelling Spirit that is given pagan or professedly Christian, is barren and Christ, is further characterized by fruit-bearing- that all is directed by the God of love for our a matter of the deepest importance that we But what is the church? The text for our consideration beautifully shews us at a glance, what we find brought out so fully in various parts of the New Testament. 1. It is a people, though in the world, not of the world; having life, and bearing fruit"a garden inclosed." 2. A people standing in near relationship to Christ,my sister, my spouse." 3. The church is watered by living water," a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." 4. Under the special culture of God,-"Awake, O north wind." &c. 1. The church, then, is composed of those who have life-living plants. They were the fruitless branches of the corrupt tree, briers of the wilderness; but the Spirit of God hath put breath in them, and they live. They were dead in sins, but they have heard the voice of the Son of God, and live. They have believed in Jesus, and have everlasting life. They are now in Christ, justified by His blood, and passed from death unto life. Thus they belong to God's church, by union with Christ. Hence the apostle says that the church is the body of Christ, and that Christ is the head of the body the church. (See Eph. i. 23, and Col. i. 18.) How different this is from what man naturally supposes! The common thought is, that we must first belong to the church, in order to belong ultimately to Christ; but this is, as we see, entirely opposed to Scripture, which teaches us that those only really belong to God's church who have a vital union with the risen Son of God. These are the plants of God's right hand planting. They have life in Christ, and therefore, not like those who have only a name to live, and are dead. They know in whom they have believed, and are persuaded that He is able to keep that which they have committed unto Him against that day, and dread not the fulfilment of our Lord's thrilling declaration, "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up." Thus we see that no Christless soul really belongs to God's church; he may think he does, and even be an official by man's appointment, but he belongs not to the church, because he belongs not to Christ. The true church, from her vital union to peculiar people, that ye should shew forth the 2. THE CHURCH IS A PEOPLE STANDING IN The great sin of the professing church is refusing the Holy Ghost and exalting man. Human eloquence, which charms and intoxicates the senses, is preferred to the way of faith and dependance on God. Therefore, men ransack their mental faculties, and work hard in the study, to meet the intellectual cravings of those around them, instead of labouriug in prayer, and selfexamination, and searching the Scriptures in the closet, in dependance on the Spirit's teaching, and going forth with firm reliance on His neverfailing help. And also those who hear, looking to men instead of depending on the Holy Ghost to use them, tends to grieve and quench His holy operations. When the Spirit of God is honoured, the message reaches the heart, stirs the affections, and raises the conscience, while the persuasive eloquence of man's wisdom leaves the heart as careless and the conscience as dull as it found them. NEAR RELATIONSHIP TO CHRIST,-"my sister, He taketh He is the hus and the chilling north wind is necessay to purify, Supper; am always to my post in the Sunday-sure we can get on better than we do now." and invigorate, and cause the spices to flow out. school; subscribe to my utmost ability to every The mother looked at him, and she saidJonah tells us that he cried unto the Lord by religious institution; have long filled a credit-"No, my child, I would sooner live on bread reason of his affliction (chap. iii.), and so we find able office in Mr. So-and-so's church; am and water all my life than lose you." Howit now. Many are so oppressed with cares, that following in the steps of many of our good old they cannot find time for reading the word and forefathers, and it is uncharitable to suppose that ever, in a day or so, he persuaded his mother prayer; their souls, therefore, grow lean. They they and I can all be lost. Stop, my friend. Allow to let him go; he was determined not to go on get away from God, and converse not on heavenly me to say that this shews me that you have only thus any longer, so she consented, and they things. But God calls the north wind-He lays a false hope, that you are on a sandy foundation; went to look at the vessels, and at last found them low on a bed of sickness-then they turn in fact, that you have not been born again, that a good captain, who said he would be kind to to God, read His word, pour out their hearts you are still without an interest in the blood of the lad. Then his mother packed up his before Him, and soon speak again of Jesus and Christ, and therefore have not peace with God. clothes, and the day for his departure came. His love. Then the spices flow out. The north Oh! let me beseech you to consider your state On the last morning, as he was having his wind has done its work, and it ceases. On before God, for He says that "all have sinned," breakfast for the last time with her, she put a other occasions, God sees a different way the best "all are guilty," "all have gone astray;" this little Bible in the chest for him, and asked for His people. He encourages, comforts, cheers, therefore, is God's testimony concerning your him to grant one last request. "What is it?" and sends abundant. answers to their prayers, and be assured that none of your fancied good and they experience the war south wind; they works can blot out one sin, not any of your he asked, "To kneel down here, and I will feel that the beauty of the Lord their God is supposed holiness is acceptable to God for with- pray for God to be with you, when you are upon them, and that He prospers the work of out faith it is impossible to please God. All the away upon the billows, and that you may retheir hands. Thus, their hearts are melted with creature-merit with which you may holster member you have had a mother's prayers for divine love, and constrained by God's gracious yourself up, cannot make you fit for God's pre- your safety." They knelt together for the dealings increasingly to serve and honour Him, sence, and only proves that you are still living last time, and she said, "The Lord go with they dedicate themselves afresh to His service. in rebellion against Christ, that you are "going Thus, again, the spices flow out. Thus, we see it about to establish your own righteousness, and my dear little Johnny; the Lord be with him." is clearly the mind of God that His people should have not submitted yourself to the righteousness When they got to the pier, and he put off to bear fruit to His praise. We are taught elsewhere, of God." As long, then, as you refuse to come the ship, the mother's last words were, "The that the fruit of the Spirit is "love, joy, peace, to Christ, as an unclean and undone sinner, for Lord be with you!" And when the ship had long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek-pardon and cleansing through His blood, what-left the shore his mother still prayed for him. ness, temperance." (Gal. v.) Happy indeed are ever you have, or whatever you think of your- One night, about five or six weeks afterwards those who, in the consciousness of living in the self, or whatever others think of you, you are they were still out on their long voyage, when Spirit and drawing out of Christ's fulness, are still guilty of the most hellish, foulest, and the wind began to blow, and threaten a storm. able to say, "Let my beloved come into His gar- eternally-condemning sin of rejecting Christ as The poor old mother was awake, and thought den and eat His pleasant fruits." the Saviour whom God hath sent. O my, reader, Great beyond description are the privileges of let me remind you that it is written, that He of her boy out at sea, and she fell upon her God's church; but the obligations also are very that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, knees, and prayed for God to be with him; solemn. It is blessed to feel ourselves in the enjoy-but he that believeth not the Son shall not see there was one upon those billows whom she ment of the one, and profitable to be occupied life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." Think, loved. And there upon that ship the lad with the other. Those only are really happy then, of these words, O Christless professor! found his Bible, and read it and talked about Christians, who, drawing all comfort and bless- and while thou still hast the words of our it to the sailors, and they grew to like him ing from Christ crucified, bear fruit to the church," "our people," and "our religion," on very much, and to wonder at the number of honour of His name. thy lips, oh, fear and tremble, lest God's fierce things he knew, as he said repeatedly, "My anger fall upon thee; for wherever thou art, His truth declares, that the wrath of God abideth on mother taught me this, or, my mother taught thee, in health or sickness, day and night, alone me that." When the storm came that night, or in company with others, in thy so-called and the vessel was expected to perish, the church, or out of it, on a dying bed and in crew got into the boat, till there was no more eternity, oh, how terrible to utter, but alas! room, and two were left on the deck, the how true, THE WRATH OF GOD ABIDETH ON widow's son and a man. He had the Bible THEE. in his hand, and he said, "Tell my mother, if you get to land-tell my mother that her Johnny went down in the waves, with the Bible in his hand, and that God was with him." Stop, poor sinner! stop and think, For, unless you warning take, Into the burning lake! You may His mercy know, And now, my reader, allow me solemnly and affectionately to enquire if you really belong to Christ's Church? I ask not where you go on the Sunday, or what Society you belong to, but I do beseech you to consider whether or not you belong to Christ? The Lord Jesus is coming for His Church; then all belonging to it-all that are Christ's will be caught up to meet Him in the air. How immensely important then, the question as to whether you will form one of that eternally happy company? or be left behind for judgment, and put under His feet? For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. If you really belong to the church of the living God, you have fled to Christ as the only hope set before you in the gospel; you have found deliverance from your guilty fears-cleansing of conscience in the precious blood of Christ; you trust in Christ and in Christ only for present and eternal peace-Christ is precious to your soul, and you willingly obey His voice. This being the case, you need not pray to be justified, for you are justified from all things (Acts xiii. 39); you need not pray for life, for you have everlasting life (John v. 24.); you need not pray to Pray for your Children. be saved, for you are saved (Luke vii. 50); you CHRISTIAN parents! bring up your children need not pray to be made a child of God, for you according to God's word. Train them up in are a child of God. (Gal. iii. 26.) While you the way they should go, and when they are may pray to be more in the power of the Spirit, old they will not depart therefrom. Earnestly, and to be filled with the Spirit, you do not honour continually, believingly, perseveringly, pray God to ask Him to give you His Spirit; for you for them." have the Spirit. (Ephes. i. 13.) You are in God will hear you, and answer Christ, a member of His body, His flesh and your prayers in the name of Jesus, in His bones; and, therefore, belonging to Ilis garden inclosed-His blood-bought church-and have a place of service in relation to it, according to the grace given, and may well rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Sinners He invites to come; He says, "There still is room." They saw the vessel sink with the poor boy on the deck. In time the Bible got to land. It was the boy's Sunday-school prize, and had his mother's address in it; it was taken to her. You can only realise how she felt by imagining yourself in the same position. There was only one thing which could give her comfort, and that was, that her lad had marked the passage where he had been reading, “The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin," and near it he had written, "Mother, if I never see you again upon earth, I will meet you in heaven." A few years passed away, and the old woman heard of her daughter, of whom she had known nothing for a very long time; and she came to see her mother when she was nearly dying. One day a sailor knocked at the door, and wanted to see Mrs. —. He said "I have news of her son; I was on the same ship with him, and the message he sent was, Tell my mother the Lord was with me.' The message was given to the daughter, who asked the sailor to go up stairs to her mother. When the poor woman saw him, she said, But perhaps my reader says, "This is going Do you know anything about my dear too far; nobody can be sure of salvation till Johnny?" "Yes," he said, "I was on the they come to die." We reply, that this would deck when Johnny went down into the sea; be quite true if salvation depended on our works, or on our righteousness in any degree, we should I knew a widow woman who was left with his last words were, 'Tell my mother that the then be always uncertain whether we had done two children, a girl and a boy to provide for. Lord is with me,"" "Thank God, then," she the right things, or in the right way; but as sal- Her little boy was employed in an office, and replied, for I shall meet him in heaven, and vation is wholly of God, wholly based on what used to get three shillings and sixpence, or my prayer that the Lord might be with him is God has done in Christ by His death and resur- four shillings a week. But the mother had answered. But I think,' she continued, rection, what He has promised in His word, and very hard work to get a living. She used to that eye looks like my lad's eye." "Yes," what He now accomplishes by His Spirit in mak- eat dry bread, and drink her tea without sugar, said the sailor, "I am he; and God has been ing known to souls His grace in Christ, we can in order that he might have butter on his with me, mother, and has blessed me, and he easily see that those who believe the record God bread, and sugar in his tea. One evening it is who has brought me to you once more behas given of His Son have the fullest warrant when he was stirring his own tea, and saw his fore you depart." Very shortly after this, for the present assurance of salvation. own time and way; but do not cease to pray. mother: Some may say, we must not be so particular. mother depriving herself for him, he said, "I the poor woman died in his arms, shouting, I am quite content to be as I am. I am a mem- am determined I will not stop at the office; I" Victory! victory! through the blood of the ber of a church; regularly attend the Lord's will go to sea, and seek my fortune, and I am Lamb!" The Spirit's Work. BY JAMES SMITH, CHELTENHAM. atonement of Christ entitles us to glory, [DECEMBER 1, 1860. A Word to a Stonebreaker. PRECISELY what the blows of your ham I LOVE to meditate on the work of the prepares us to possess and enjoy it. We mer are to the stones, the Lord Himself Holy Spirit, to whom we are so much must be washed, justified, and sanctified declares His word is to the hard or rocky indebted, and from whom we receive such in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by heart of man. (Jer. xxiii. 29.) Have you great and invaluable blessings. To Him the Spirit of God, or we cannot be ever felt its power? Some of your blows I feel that I am indebted, for every good saved. thought, and every good work. If I will fail to break the stones. Well, that's like the Word of God coming in word only. that which is good, it is because He Doing is undoing, if put in the Perhaps you have read the Bible all your wrong place. John.-"Well, James, how does the hope so; we worketh in me to will; and if I do that It re O that I was more deeply minds me of what Paul tells the Galasensible of my obligation! O that I was tians: If ye be circumcised, Christ more grateful, that I might praise Him from day to day! shall profit you nothing.' If it is trust in James.-"Why, John, what could hel do? It seems to me that he had to be quiet, and to trust entirely to God to save him.” life, and never yet known and felt what a vile sinner you are-your danger of hell fire, and your need of a Saviour; but only read it as a duty, thinking you did God service; or, may be, you never read it at all. But should the Word come with power, it will be like one of your good, telling, effectual blows. You will cry out under it, "God be merciful to me a sinner!" And you will believe God's testimony, that the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth from all sin. As you wield your hammer ponder these things. Hymn for the Weary. In the darkness of thy woe, Be thou still! * Vainly all thy words are spoken, Rest thou still! It was the Holy Spirit that quickened Christ, and do a little to be accepted, it me when dead in trespasses and sins, im-is a great dishonour to God; it is as parting a new life, infusing new thoughts, much as saying that Christ's sacrifice and producing new desires in my soul. was not perfect, when God tells us that Having quickened, He conquered me, by one offering He hath perfected for subduing the enmity of my heart, the ever them that are sanctified;' and that obstinacy of my will, the worldliness of He that sanctifieth, and they who are my affections, and bringing every thought sanctified, are all of one for which into subjection to the obedience of Christ. cause He is not ashamed to call them Having conquered, He comforted me, as- brethren. Tell me, James, what had suring me of an interest in the love of Noah to do when God shut him in the God, the perfect work of Jesus, the pre- ark? (which was the place of safety God eious promises of the word, and the rest had planned for him.) I say, what had that remaineth for the people of God. Noah then to do?" By quickening, conquering, and comforting, He sanctified me, separating me from the world, and setting me apart for my Redeemer's glory and praise. As my sanctifier, He became my guide, leading me into the truth, conducting me out of the paths of danger, and directing me into the way everlasting. Not only my guide, but ray guard, preserving me from danger, protecting me from foes, and becoming a wall of fire round about me. Still in all He does for me, He treats me as a rational and accountable creature; (Noah) built an altar, and offered up "PLEASANT words are as an honeycomb, and, therefore, whenever I wander, He re-burnt-offerings unto the Lord; and so, sweet to the soul, and healing to the proves me; when I wilfully go astray, He James, is it with the man who trusts only corrects me, and makes me smart for my in God's salvation — Christ. folly. The work He began so long ago, an one has to do, being 'complete' in He carries on, nor will He withdraw His Christ, is TO BE QUIET as it regards SELF; hand from it until it is perfected, and but to be rejoicing in the Lord always; I am fully fitted for glory. offering up sacrifices through Christ conReader, what know you of the work of tinually, even sacrifices of praise, the the Holy Spirit? Has He quickened fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His you? Has He conquered you? Does name." John.-"True, my friend, he ceased entirely from his own works when he entered that ark. God shut him in. God steered the vessel. God kept him from shipwreck; and God landed him safely, in His own good time, on the mountains" of Ararat; and there this man of faith All such "Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it to stoop, but a good word maketh it glad." "A soft answer turneth away wrath." "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver; as an earring of gold, as an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear." He comfort you? Are you sanctified by James.-"May the Lord, then, help us His presence, power, and operation in to be content with Christ, delivering us your heart? Does He guide you by His from unbelief and this wretched self, "The words of a man's mouth are as counsel, guard you by His power, and clear waters; the well-spring of wisdom correct you for your follies? The work is a flowing brook.". of the Spirit within us is as necessary as the work of Jesus for us; for if the |