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Let us search now, and inquire who the Christ is, and then see if there be any text whereby we may ascertain whether we do believe on Him in our hearts.

It is written in 1 Cor. x. 4, "They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."

of prayer, "Through Jesus Christ our Lord" they always say; but to them the Almighty is some one else.

If you do not go to Jesus believing, as it is written, that all the fulness of the Godhead dwells in Him bodily, you do not believe on the Christ of the Bible. If you do really Do you not believe that David's Rock and treat the Lord Jesus as if He were risen from Fortress was no other than Christ?

At the 9th verse again we find "Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted." The reference shews that the Israelites tempted "the God of Israel."

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was indeed the God of Israel?

Paul declares in the 9th of Romans, that Christ is "over all, God blessed for ever."

John testifies of Him in the last verse but one of the 5th chapter of his 1st Epistle, He also says in the 1st chapter of his Gospel, "The Word was God, all things were made by Him.” "The world was made by Him," and "He came unto His own."

that He is "the true God."

Isaiah declares in the 6th verse of his 9th chapter, that the Lord Jesus Christ is no other than "the mighty God, the everlasting Father."

Our blessed Lord declared Himself to be "the Almighty." in Rev. i. 8, &c. He claimed to be the great "I Am" of the Old Testament in the 8th John 58th verse.

Many more passages might be quoted from both Old and New Testaments to the same effect, but surely the above are sufficient.

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It is still God in Christ you worship. It is only when we thus worship the Trinity in Unity that we really approach God.

The Lord Jesus fully answered the disciples' anxious question, "Shew us the Father," in the 14th of John's gospel.

The Believer's Privileges Brought out in the first and second chapters of Colossians are: 1. "Made meet" for

Believer! go, stand among them; hear your Lord's reply; get it into your very heart as the dead, and were now over all God blessed the only explanation He ever gave of this for ever; if you do “ 'go and tell Jesus," great mystery, and be satisfied to glorify "the casting all your care upon Him, believing Father in the Son." "I and my Father that He careth for you; whatever pleasant are one." feelings you may want, you do truly believe that He is the Christ; you "have life" in thus coming to Him, and you shall never perish, but have everlasting life. If you have not as yet thus believed con- glory. 2. "Delivered from the power of cerning "the Christ," I beseech you to darkness." 3. "Translated into the kingdom "search the Scriptures whether these things of God's dear Son." 4. "Having redempbe so;" and may God "shine into your heart tion in Christ, and through His blood-the to, give the light of the knowledge of the forgiveness of sins." 5. "Peace with God glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." (2 through the blood of the Cross." 6. "ReconCor. iv. 6.) ciliation through Christ's death." 7. "Christ in us the hope of glory." 8. "Completeness in Him, who is the head of all principality and power." 9. "The body of the sins of the flesh put off by the Cross." with Christ." 11. "Quickened together with Christ." 12. "The ordinances and handwriting which was against us, and contrary to us, taken out of the way by being nailed to His Cross."

By walking in fellowship with Him to which indeed you are called by the Father, (see 1 Cor. i. 9,) you will be daily strengthened in the faith of Christ crucified for you; your life will be strong, and you will go on your way rejoicing, “ever holding the beginning of your confidence firm." By thus living on, and abiding in Him, you will be strong in the faith of His having redeemed you from the curse of the law (Gal. iii. 13); and will be like "a city set on a hill; an epistle read and known of all men; a "branch bringing forth much fruit." God grant such a high and happy christian experience every reader of this paper!

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The second Scripture test of faith "Love."

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John says in the 14th verse of the 3rd chapter of his 1st Epistle, "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren."

Saul, the persecutor, had authority to bring bound to Jerusalem, those only who prayed to the Lord Jesus (see Acts ix. 14, 21); and Our Lord said, "If ye love me keep my as soon as he himself was converted, his first commandments." "A new commandment I prayer was to Jesus, "Lord what wilt thou have me to do?" And his 1st Epistle to the Corinthians is addressed to "All that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord."

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Now what proof will suffice that you believe in your heart that He is raised from the dead, and is now over all, God blessed for ever;" "The mighty God;" "God manifest in the flesh;" "Emmanuel God with us?" There are two scriptural evidences of true faith.

Hear what Paul says (Rom. x. 13), “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved; how then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?"

Directly Saul believed, he worshipped. Thousands say they believe, but never really go to Jesus, believing Him to be the mighty God-the Almighty himself.

They have miserably low thoughts of Him. They think His proper place is only at the end

give unto you, that ye love one another."

It is also written, 1 John v. 1, “Every one that loveth Him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of Him."

Here then is a never failing test. Do you truly love every one who loves the Lord Jesus

Christ?

Every one who truly comes to Christ, and gets life, is also drawn and "taught of God" to love the brethren.

His love to the whole world also will manifest itself in his new life. His heart's desire and prayer to God will be, that his brethren according to the flesh might be saved.

It is the Lord Jesus Christ who reveals, declares the Father. By coming to Him then, we get more and more drawn to the Father: truly apprehending the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ to be our Father also.

The man who lives nearest the Lord Jesus, is most drawn to walk in fellowship with the Father also, ever ready in the sweet spirit of adoption to cry, "Abba, Father."

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"Happy they who trust in Jesus,
Sweet their portion is and sure.”
"Belay all that."

THESE are words heard on board ship. They are an order to hold fast and not let go an inch of the rope gained, but to fasten it firmly to the belaying pin. Exactly so should the young believer keep firm hold of what he has gained. Paul says in the 6th and 14th verses of the 3rd chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, "Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end;" and, "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end."

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So the believer is expected to start with rejoicing. There is no hoping and trusting here. The apostle never preached any gospel of prospective forgiveness. "Who hath saved us;' "Which delivered us from the wrath to come; Having forgiven you all trespasses; "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law;" and so forth. What convicted sinner can really believe such good news and not go on his way rejoicing. The Ethiopian directly he heard went on his way rejoicing, and so do you, O believer. Adopted into his heavenly family, all your trespasses forgiven, rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.

But you may say, many start rejoicing, and after a time cool down. Too true, but you see Paul contemplates no such losing, but rather the holding fast of confidence. What is confidence? it is assured trust; you fully But never forget that in this happy fellow-believe and then have confidence.-Yes. You ship, in thus truly having "fellowship with fully believe Christ died in your stead and so the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ," you know your sins are gone; you fully there is no separation of the unity of God. believe his righteousness is yours, and so you

know your inheritance is secured. But why do so many lose their confidence? They live far from Jesus the centre of all light, and heat, and joy, and blessedness. Do you live very near Him and your peace will flow as a river, and you will indeed hold fast the rejoicing of the hope. "God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Walk then in this fellowship, continually casting all your care upon Jesus, and so living near the Son, you will avoid those chills and backslidings so many mourn over. "Thou hast LEFT thy first love," said Jesus of the Ephesian church. Take warning and keep very near Him who is the "chiefest among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely."

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Ver. 4. "For he is the minister of God to chadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander, and Augustus, thee for good. But if thou do that which is and that when the first of these forgot the evil be afraid;" &c. A new element is here true source of power, he was deposed and introduced. If understood, it would have became as a beast, until he had learned that hindered many a rude encounter between the he held his authority in subjection to the Ecclesiastical rulers, and those of the State, God of heaven, and what he was when left to both in the dark ages, and since. Although himself. When Judah was outcast, it was power in the Church and in the world are the advice of Jeremiah (chap. xxix. 7) that distinct, yet they are never at variance, con- they should "pray unto the Lord' for sidered in their source, and not in all cases Babylon, dissociated. It is clear, from this verse, that have peace." This duty is surely ours, and for in the peace thereof shall ye no shelter is afforded to a Christian if he be- thus are we not driven to abstractions. If comes amenable to any breach of the public the Church kept her place, she would no law, under which, as a man, he lives-an eva-doubt have a healthier action on the "powers sion often attempted, as between clergy and that be," than by commingling herself with laity whilst, on the other hand, his influ- the political arrangements of this world; ence is both direct and indirect upon the whilst on the other hand, a power that is Ruler; for if the power is perverted to wrong of God could never, in its legitimate exerends, he may reprove it (Eph. v. 11-13), cise, damage another owning the same serwhilst his own life may be such as to illus- vice and authority. But these principles, trate those virtues which should adorn the pure from the New Testament, have long Thoughts on the Epistle to the Romans. Ruler. "For he beareth not the sword in since been obscured, and it is difficult to vain: for he is the minister of God, a reven-recover them. The Church has been supger," &c. We perceive how this passage planted by the Christian Kingdom, or in other overthrows the sickly sentimentality which words, by the nationalities of Christendom. would refuse a condign punishment for those This condition of things, under the name of deserving of it. The expressions, "bearing Babylon, has been prophesied of in Rev. the sword," and "revenger to execute wrath," xvii., xviii., but only, as in the end, to be cannot, under any fair interpretation, subserve utterly destroyed. the abolition of the punishment of death. Attempts to influence an executive in such a course, arise from not keeping in view the distinction between power in the world, and power in the Church.

CHAP. Xiii.

THE Apostle continues his advice, and takes occasion to shew the place that the authorities in the world occupy, with reference to the Christian.

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his honour in our eyes as an officer of God.
"Tribute (therefore) to whom tribute," cus-
tom (tax, duty, toll) to whom custom." These
seven verses form a manual of the relation

"Whom having not seen we love."
"I TRUST in One I never saw!"

His name is Christ the Lord;
He bids me come to Him and draw
My comfort from His Word.

I love Him, yet I never saw
His hands, and feet, and side;
But trusting in His precious blood,
My soul is justified.

I know Him! yet I never heard
His sweet melodious voice;
But faith in His unchanging word,
Has made my heart rejoice.

I follow Him at His command,
But cannot see Him near;

Yet still He holds me by the hand,
And whispers, "Do not fear."

I hope to see Him soon above,
And gaze upon His face;
Oh! then I'll praise Him for His love,
And condescending grace.

Sayings of Rutherford.

Verses 1, 2. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers." This means those powers which God has established for the government of the world. We are to be subject to them, as Jesus was. He has not yet taken His place of government. We too have the title (1 Cor. vi. 2, 3) to govern, but we are not yet in possession, nor shall we be Ver. 5. "Wherefore ye must needs be subuntil He comes. "For there is no power, ject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience but of God." It is our contentment and sake." The two forms of power agree in privilege to own no lower source. "The this, that both are against evil. If it were powers that be, are ordained of God." This not so, neither could possibly emanate from sentence was, most probably written in Nero's God. A Christian then has two motives in time, the greatest monster who ever ruled; not doing evil. First, he should justly fear yet no permission is given to dispute the title, the wrath of the civil magistrate. Secondly, or to rebel. It is certain that everything his conscience, informed by the word, tells comes perfect out of the hands of God. If him that he is set under magistrates and rulers vitiated by the channel through which it as of God. passes, its misuse does not give us liberty to Verses 6, 7. "For. for this cause pay ye question its source. The history of England tribute also," &c. It is not only that the and of other countries, affords examples of word commands subjection in great matters, mistaken zeal for a fallen dynasty. Such but every tax-gatherer, every policeman, has mistakes have their origin in ignorance of a believer's heavenly calling, from which also springs the unscriptural alliance of Church and State. If this union be in existence, an oath imposed by, and yielded to a reigning of the Church to the State. Throughout they KEEP your love to Christ, lay up your faith dynasty, ought, surely, not to be lightly are viewed as distinct powers. There is no in heaven's keeping, and follow the Chief of broken; but if, as in the writings of Paul, supposition that we make the world's laws, the Church and State were viewed as two or execute them; no directions are given as the house of martyrs, that witnessed a good co-ordinate powers, each having its distinct to how a Christian is to behave himself as a confession before Pontius Pilate. sphere, no cath would be demanded and none king, or in any lesser executive capacity. No Let my broken words go up to heaven; offered; for rightly understood, they could doubt many kings and magistrates have been when they come up into the great angel's not clash; and thus, whatever the form of Christians. But no directions are given for government, and whatever its incidental their conduct, simply because a Christian king golden censer, that compassionate Advocate, changes, Christians would yield due obedience was not supposed-is, in short, an anomaly will put together my broken prayers and perto it as unto God. In truth its changes are during the time in which the great King-fume them. Words are but accents of prayer. not intended to affect them. They are to be the Lord Jesus Christ-is rejected from the Make Christ your music and your song; thankful that God has ordained civil govern- earth, and the Church His co-partner and for complaining and feeling of want doth ment, and that He intends it for their good. co-heir, is rejected with Him. Christians Without it, the world would be, as before the are not now for high places, although it is often swallow up your praises. flood, "Corrupt, and full of violence." Most readily allowed that many in such positions generally those men, often, humanly speaking, have been converted. (1 Tim. ii. 4.) Obedinoble and disinterested, who have led the way ence, then, is inculcated, but not the assumpin resistance to constituted authority, have tion of office; and to this answers 1 Pet. ii. been disappointed in their hopes, or have 13, 14, and Titus iii. 1: "Put them in mind fallen victims in the struggle, however much, to be subject to principalities and powers, in the sequel, God may have owned these to obey magistrates." In 1 Tim. ii. 1, we are efforts for the mitigation of human misery, told to pray for kings, and for all that are and the enlargement of national liberty. in authority; that we may lead a quiet and Ver. 3. "For rulers are not a terror to good peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." works, but to the evil." This is what they And here an interesting enquiry arises: What are instituted for. They are supposed to be does God expect from an ungodly man? a terror to evil works, and the praise of that How can such be the maker or executor of which is good. "God is one." No govern- laws? In truth, we cannot dive into these ment is set up to deny Him, whether in the secrets which appertain rather to the order of Church or the world, and therefore, in what creation than to the domain of grace. How we may call the natural relationships between God, short of real conversion, would establish God and man, the Ruler is supposed to esteem the good works of the Redeemed, as being those which he is set up to praise.

the principles of Justice and Wisdom in a
ruler's heart, we cannot investigate. This we
know, that He had eminently qualified Nebu-

Lend Christ your melancholy, for Satan hath no right to make a chamber in your melancholy; borrow joy and comfort from the Comforter.

Christ will make your losses grace's great advantage.

I hope you fetch all the heaven you have here in this life, from that which is above, and that your anchor is cast as high and deep as Christ.

Cast your disjointed spirit on Christ's bosom, and lay your burdens and cares upon one who is so willing to take them from you.

The worst things of Christ, even His cross, have much of heaven from himself; death is but a step over time and sin to Jesus Christ, who knew and felt the worst of death.

Learn to believe that Christ is better than His strokes; Himself and His promises better than His frowns.

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Oh, my sufferings," he said; "but my Saviour suffered far more for me. Oh that

It was the second night after the boat had God would send to every wounded soul the joy and bliss he has granted me." Again and of food and raiment, if they knew how to forward started for one of our western cities. Among again he begged those around him to love his

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The following thrilling account has come to hand, "With respect to Lancashire, there are about 230,000 persons relieved by the Poor Law Guardians; nearly 100,000 by Relief Committees; total, 330,000.

To this, add 40,000 deficiency of returns. I do not doubt that there are 370,000 daily supported, and the distress increasing widely. There are about 70,000 young women out of work, and only 13,000 in sewing classes. The relief hitherto is only enough to keep body and soul together, certainly not to maintain health, for they have been accustomed to live well. Clothing is very acceptable, and can be sent by some rails free of charge It may be sent to the Central Relief Committee, Manchester, with label, for the distresssed operatives.

"I am thankful for the general feeling in the country about the distress."

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these last fifty men were two lieutenants, both
of whom the surgeons prononced fatally

wounded.

It was evident to the kind ladies who sat by Lieutenant M—, that he could scarcely live throughout the night. He talked of his home, of his childhood, and of his mother. "I have been a Universalist," said he; but in terror he added, "I feel God's wrath upon me now; it is burning me; throw me from this bed; oh my tortures of soul and body! Can it help my wretched soul that I have died for my country?" Then he began to rave on the wicked men who forced this war upon the land, and pronounced the most fearful curses upon their heads. The lady who watched by him said, "Lieutenant M, your soul will soon be in the presence of your God; do not go with oaths upon your lips." With a look of despair he turned his face from her, and gave one piercing sigh. Tenderly she talked of Jesus and the thief upon the cross; there was no reply. She looked again, but the cursing lips were fixed in the last bitter expression of woe, and the offers of mercy had fallen upon the ear of death.

precious Saviour, and commended them all to God.

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While his face was pale from loss of blood, it was serene and smiling, his eyes beaming with love and peace. The deck of that floating hospital was indeed the gate of heaven. At last he spoke clearer and louder: "The grave is conquered: thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

Dear reader! If you were to die to-day, which of these men would you most resemble?

Christ is all, and in all.

Col. iii. 11.

THE Lord Jesus Christ is "all, and in all" to each and every soul who by faith hath received Him. He "is all, and in all," as the GIFT OF THE FATHER. God loved the world, with love so rich and enduring, that He freely gave up Jesus, His well-beloved and only-begotten Son, to die in the place of transgressors, "that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." We value the love of our friends by the sacrifice their affection prompts them to make. The gift bestowed is often received as an expression of the love of the giver. Who can measure the expression of God's love, as seen in surrendering up Jesus to a cruel death, even the death of the Cross, that sinners who believe might have everlasting life?" God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." With Jesus, the Father has given us all He has to bestow. He has given Christ, and all things else in Him. In Jesus God has given us life. “When promises, verse after verse; then prayed again; Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then and thus continued, with a strength which shall ye also appear with Him in glory." seemed given him, that in a few hours of Our life is from Christ in its first commencedying grace he could speak for his Master ment, and is in Christ until its final consumwords which will influence the future lives of mation in glory. He it is who frees us from many who heard him.

The Two Lieutenants. (FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.) Ir was a calm, mild night in April, and the In the silence of the scene there arose the moon shone peaceful on the western rivers voice of prayer. It was from a bed at the and woods. Strange sight, the stars looked upper end of the guards on the same side of down upon that night: the sky was blue and the boat, where lay Lieutenant D. With still, the forest-trees in full leaf in the beauty strength and earnestness he prayed for his of spring; but the green earth was crimsoned young wife and little children, and intrusted with blood, blackened with the bodies of the them to the tender care of Him who has prodead, and for miles around desolation and mised to be a Father to the fatherless, and horror covered the land. There, at Pittsburg support to the widow. He needed not the Landing, the fierce battle had raged. There light to read the Scriptures, for they were was busy work, as the labours of thousands printed on his heart. He repeated precious of hands raised upon the trampled sod more than four thousand graves; and there was yet busy work to search woods and fields, and find the suffering and the wounded. A steamboat, with its band of willing helpers, lay by the shore almost ready to start, crowded with its precious burden, when the command came to prepare for fifty more. Hastily the guards of the boat were arranged with beds, and tarpaulins spread around to screen from the dews and chilly air of night.

In a deep ravine, fifty living men had been found who for three days had lain, some in

How he begged for mercy and forgiveness for the wounded, sin-sick souls around him; and many of the sufferers near hid their faces, while their pillows were wet with tears of penitence. Nurses and surgeons gathered around the deathbed. Men who had looked unmoved upon the horrors of the battle-field,

condemnation, and thus delivers us from legal death. By this love the enmity of our carnal minds is destroyed, and thus we are freed from spiritual death. The believer's "life is hid with Christ in God;" it is a hidden life, hid from sin, the world, and the devil; none who believe in Him, can ever die; they have eternal life as a present possession. We are

not required either to wait for life, or to work for life, it is FREELY GIVEN to us the instant we receive Jesus as the gift of God.

"It is the Saviour's voice I hear,
He bids me cast away all fear,

And come to Him for rest;

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I know 'tis He, no other voice
Could make my spirits thus rejoice,
And animate my breast.

us to himself for ever. Poor sinners are joy? If you have Christ as your groping in a worse than midnight darkness, in all," you are rich to all the intents of bliss. until they believe in Christ as the gift of God. If you have never made Jesus your all and In Christ Jesus God has given to us RIGHTIn Christ Jesus, God has given to us wis- in all," you are poor, miserably poor, BeEOUSNESS. He is Jehovah Tsidkenu, the Lord DOM. To be made "wise unto salvation" is the lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and our righteousness; He is of God made unto highest, and most ennobling, of all wisdom. be saved. Say,us righteousness; we are perfectly righteous" The holy Scriptures" are able to make us in Christ Jesus; He has taken away all our unrighteousness, and has given unto us His own righteousness. As God viewed the entire human race in Adam, so God views all believers in the last Adam, Jésus Christ, the Lord from heaven. Christ and all who believe, ever appear as one in God's sight. We were lost in Adam through sin, we are found in Christ through righteousness. "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Grace reigns "through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." We have a perfect and an everlasting righteousness in Christ the moment we receive Him as God's gift; as He is upon the Father's throne, so are we.

In Jesus, God has given to us PEACE. War between man and his Creator was caused by sin; the Lord Jesus, by His finished work on the Cross, has removed the cause of war; for He there put away sin for ever. The sins of His people may be sought for, but they can never be found. As Pharaoh's hosts were drowned in the depths of the Red sea, so the believer's sins are drowned in the depths of Divine forgetfulness. Jehovah says, "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." The blood of Jesus Christ, as it is rested in, pacifies the conscience, rendering it void of offence before God and man. Rest in the perfect sacrifice of Jesus, gives that peace of mind which the world can neither give, nor, blessed be God, take away. I can never know peace until I know Christ; but knowing Christ, He is my peace. My peace is made with God by Jesus, and He is the pledge of the peace He has made for me, as He sits at the right hand of the Father. What a terrible mistake the sinner makes who says, “I have made my peace with God, and I hope it is all right." Miserable delusion! Instead of being "all right," it is all wrong. No sinner can make his peace with God, none but Jesus can do that. And He has done it on the cross, for all who are made willing, by God's power, to accept Jesus as the Father's gift.

In Christ Jesus God has given to us LIGHT. "The Life was the Light of men." In Him we see all the attributes of the Father clearly brought forth, harmonised, and manifested. In Jesus we see God to be Love; He reveals to us all the attributes of God which we could have discovered nowhere else. As sinners, we never could have seen the mercy of God, had we not seen it in Christ. He came as the Light, we received Him by faith, and at once beheld, what we had never seen before, a just God and a Saviour. Truly the study of Jesus is the noblest of all the sciences; for while in nature we discover something of God, in Christ Jesus we can see all of God. In Him we see God powerful to defend us, merciful to pardon us, gracious to bear with us, wise to instruct us, and loving to receive

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"wise unto salvation, through faith, which is
in Christ Jesus." By believing in Jesus, we
discover the way from sin to holiness, from
death to life, from bondage to liberty, from
sin to justification, and from misery to glory.
We are made "wise in Christ," This wisdom
being from above is first pure, then peace-
able, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality, and with-
out hypocrisy." Jesus Christ, is of God,
"made unto us wisdom." This "wisdom is
better than rubies; and all the things that
may be desired are not to be compared to it."
Jesus makes known the secrets of heaven to
us, and thus we are made wise. In studying
Christ we are studying the wisdom of God.
If, my reader, you would get wisdom, I do
earnestly beseech you, get Christ, who is the
gift of God.

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Just as I am, O Lord, I come,
All full of sin, a worthless one,

A dry and barren tree;
Thy written word, I know runs thus,
We love Him 'cause He first loved us;
And Lord, I DO LOVE THEE."
T. W. M.

"No Admittance."

(AN EXTRACT). SUCH was once the significant "Notice," written in large and distinct characters, and placed upon the outside of the door of a room in one of our New England seminaries. As it was a measure quite new in the career of In Christ, God has given to us STRENGTH. the occupant of the room, it excited among By constant communion with Him our the many who passed the door not a little hearts are made strong. In ourselves, even wonder. What could it mean? "Has T— at our very best estate, we find nothing but really become all at once so studious as to weakness; but in the Lord Jesus Christ we have no time for anything but study?" "Is have always a mountain of strength. In he sick" "Has he left town?" "Is he Him, God has given to us consolation. It is ill?" Such were the inquiries which were the special prerogative of the Holy Spirit, to exchanged, but only to receive no answer. comfort us when we are cast down. This he There were a few, however, who understood does by taking of the things of Christ, and it. A revival of religion had just commenced, revealing them unto us. The blessed PARA- and the occupant of that room had manifested CLETE, delights, not to speak of himself, but a hostility to it which was specially bitter. Jesus. In Jesus, God has given to us HOPE. On ascertaining that some of the students had Yea, He Himself is our hope. A good hope, resolved to converse personally with every iman assured hope, a confident hope, a hope penitent member of the institution, and make that never makes its possessor ashamed. a direct appeal to the individual heart and Christ, to the believer, is the assured hope of conscience, he declared that he would be an heaven. All who believe, are built up in exception, that he would not engage in any Christ, are accepted in Christ, are complete such conversation, would not hear any such in Christ, are preserved in Christ, are called appeal, and to he secure against any intrusion, in Christ, are found in Christ. God looks would not admit any one into his room. for his people, and finds them all secure in Christ: for "Christ is all, and in all."

Christ is HIS OWN GIFT to sinners, He loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might redeem it unto Himself, by the shedding of His own blood. Jesus is the gift of the Holy Spirit to all who believe. He reveals Christ to the soul, and by quickening the man, who before was dead in trespasses and sins, enables him to receive Christ as his "all and in all." Jesus as a gift of love from the Triune Jehovah, is given to remove guilt, by Himself being made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God IN HIM. Jesus is God's gift, freely given to all who need Him, as freely as air is given for all who need air, and as water is given to those who are thirsty. Whosoever will, let him take the water of life FREELY."

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Reader, is Christ your all? Are you prepared to obey Him as your Master? Are you willing to be instructed by Him as your Teacher? Do you earnestly desire Him as your chief good? Is Jesus Christ, who once died, but now lives, the only source of your

The words "No Admittance" were therefore full of meaning to the little band of praying students, and they immediately resolved to test the virtue of prayer in opening the bolted door. Fervently and unitedly they committed the case to God, entreating him not only to unbar the door, but also and especially to unlock and take possession of the stubborn heart within the door. And never can they forget the thrill of wonder and joy which they felt when the message, "Behold, he prayeth!" was announced to them. While they were appealing to God, one of their number knocked at the bolted door, and to his great surprise, as he listened for a response, heard the most earnest cries and sobs within. The Holy Spirit had evidently gained admittance -not only into the room, but into the far more strongly bolted heart, and the bitter enemy of revival was pleading for mercy.

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In a short time the door was opened, the "Notice" was removed, the praying student was welcomed, and the result was, that in a day or two the enemy joined the ranks of the friends of Christ.

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