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 CHRISTIANS, SCEPTICS, 
 AND WORLDLINGS. 
 
 BY H. T. PALMER 
 
 lt)ancouvcr, J8.C. 
 
 Tkythall, CriY rRiNiiNu Works, 50 Cordova SfREEt. 
 

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 CERTIFICATE. 
 
 Vancouver, March 27th, 1893. 
 
 n DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that the things 
 ^ written in this Book, referring to my visit to 
 another world, and experience of leaving the body on 
 different occasions, in March, A. D. 1888, and the 
 nine visions which God has given in answer to prayer 
 ' in connection with this work, were positively realized 
 by me, and that it is not fiction, superstition, or fancy. 
 And, furthermore, that this work has been written 
 under the influence resulting therefrom ; written 
 under the directions of God, through the key of com- 
 munication, for the advancement of His kingdom, 
 and for his glory : in whose presence I place my sig- 
 nature ; whereby I certify to the above statement. 
 
 (Signed) HENRY Thomas Palmer. 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 rirrilTHIN the reach of every child of God, there 
 is a key of communion by which to com- 
 municate with Him ; and by which, always, to receive 
 a direct command in reply : a mysterious, yet easy 
 way to talk with God. Each communication— as a 
 covenant — is binding on your part, to be fulfilled ac- 
 cording as the Lord directs. For instance, if through 
 this key you ask the Lord to direct you in the way 
 that you should go, or should act, in reference to any- 
 thing that might bear upon your social or spiritual 
 welfare, and with a natural expecting ; — therefore 
 living faith — fully decided to do your part in obedience, 
 through the covenant, to God's will, you perform the 
 covenantal rules, then the Lord will answer and never 
 fail to lead you in the right way : but you must abide 
 by His decision. The command in reply is always 
 received, without delay, just as easy as a message 
 through the telephone, but you must have the same 
 kind of natural expecting, living faith in God, as you 
 would have in the man at the other end of the tele- 
 phone. This covenantal key has long been sealed to 
 all, and ever will be sealed to those who know not 
 
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God. Therefore, we have not given the full particu- 
 lars concerning it. Its substance is composed of love, 
 faith, and obedience on our part, in connection with 
 the Bible and Bible numbers Without the pearls of 
 faith and obedience, no man can use this key, by 
 which every sentence of this book has been accepted 
 by the Lord, and that which was not accepted has not 
 been written. Difficult points were made clear and 
 plain through it, by the Holy Spirit, and the Word of 
 God. 
 
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 VICTORY, THROUGH CHRIST. 
 
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 " Not by might nor by power, but by my word saith the 
 
 Lord." 
 
 *IK|0 man by mental shrewdness, or b)' ph) sical 
 force, can gain one single victory for his soul, 
 or climb one step towards the standard of a conse- 
 crated life upon the great ladder of love, which our 
 Lord has brou^jht from heaven to earth, that we might 
 ascend and be transplanted into another, better world. 
 The first great standard platform, of this consecration 
 ladder, is the new birth (John iii., 7) " Marvel not 
 that I said unto thee, ye must be born again." Born 
 of the Spirit of God, cleansed from the disease of sin, 
 justified by the atoning blood of Christ, placed upon 
 the Rock of God's mercy, sanctified, set aside from the 
 guilty nature that seized Adam and Eve which caused 
 them to hide from the presence of the Lord. 
 
 The second great standard is a sanctified body, con- 
 secrated to the service of God, made free from the 
 power of the great temptations — the besetting, powers 
 that controlled and dragged the soul into sin. Sanc- 
 tified, brought into obedience, made subject to the will 
 
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 of the soul. This standard, which cannot be attained 
 unless you follow Jesus wherever he may lead, repre- 
 sents a sanctified, but not perfect Christian. 
 
 The third is the highest standard of God's golden 
 ladder of love and righteousness, to which man in this 
 body can .attain. A sanctification unto holiness ; a 
 life hid with Christ in God, free from the world's 
 temptations, doubts and fears ; ever rejoicing in the 
 Lord, because the presence of God is ever with them, 
 filling their souls with praises. Planted by the waters 
 of the River of Life, yielding forth the fruits of Right- 
 eousness, resting in the peace and light of God. PVom 
 this high standard only, can man or woman go forth 
 and lay down their life unto death as a martyr for the 
 Lord's cause. And yet we cannot reach perfection 
 even in this life of Holiness, but must wait until pro- 
 moted to the higher life, within the pearly gates of 
 paradise above. 
 
 The wanderer may ask, How do you Christians 
 know these things ? We know them by experience. 
 We know that the guilt is gone, and peace instead 
 now fills our soul. We know that the tempter's power 
 is broken ; and feel the freedom of Salvation. We 
 know the blessed fellowship of love divine and feel 
 the Father's hand that guides us day by day, as we 
 feed upon the riches of God's unbounded grace. This, 
 dear reader, is not only the experience of the writer, 
 but of countless thousands, whose robes are washed, 
 
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 whose lamps were filled and shining with the presence 
 of the Lord. Whose foot-prints on life's ocean here 
 below, will never cease to guide the wanderer to life's 
 better way ; who shine as stars in Heaven for ever, 
 and forever more. Now, if you are not, you may and 
 ought to be, of this noble standard, living in the at- 
 mosphere of infinite love. Jesus is waiting to bless 
 you. O come with us, and taste of the riches of grace 
 in the presence of God, We have been to the fountain, 
 and know of its manna most sweet ; and long for the 
 hungry to taste it. Will you come to this fountain ? 
 Come and eat. I pray that each reader may know it 
 and find it in Christ, a salvation complete. With a 
 deep longing for .souls, as in the very presence of God, 
 under His controlling will we write, while drinking 
 of His own sweet presence, which fills every soul with 
 light, and love divine, who closely follow all the 
 guidance of His most blessed will. As in the presence 
 of Jehovah, who knows man's inmost thoughts; whose 
 invitation is but a command to duty, in obedience to 
 His word. This book is not a fable, a theory, or an 
 imaginary picture made by one to excite the admir- 
 ation of others, but the true, the real and personal 
 experience of the writer, who expects soon to render 
 an account of all the deeds of this life, whether they 
 be good or whether they be evil, and to be rewarded 
 accordingly bcfoi^ a pure and just God, who cannot 
 look upon sin with any degree of allowance ; before 
 
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 whom the h'ar, the deceiver, and the false witness is an 
 abomination, and so rcah'ze the responsibih'ty placed 
 upon me. We have been careful to please God rather 
 than man. It is plain to the average reader that this 
 work is not intended for any one class on earth, but 
 for all Its mission is the advancement of the king- 
 dom of God, and its nature is love : a little spark 
 of God's unbounded love : so may it shine to glorify 
 our God who leads His people here, for beneath 
 the banner of His own, sweet, perfect love, the living 
 Church of God moves on triumphantly ; kept in the 
 hollow of His own mosl glorious hand led forth to 
 victory. A grand eternal victory, for her Lord. On 
 earth her sins are covered with a crimson stain, from 
 off the cleansing fountain, reflecting the sweet presence 
 of the King of Kings, proclaiming God is love, making 
 her very life and character reflect once more the 
 image of her Master. In Heaven, her living garments 
 all spotless and unstained by sin, sparkling with the 
 splendor of His presence, speaks more perfectly of His 
 unbounded love. His very presence fills the soul with 
 joy unspeakable and full of glory. 
 
 In a vision, while bathing in the sweet calm of 
 gentle sleep, we stood upon the thick, massive, but 
 only partly constructed walls of a building ; the mor- 
 tar of which was so wet and soft, that the wait com- 
 menced to crumble to the ground. We decided to 
 save the bricks and to wait for a more convenient 
 
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 season in which to build ; but was shown another 
 larger, grander building, than we expected to construct. 
 This was the guiding hand of our loving, Heavenly 
 Father. We aw^'-o to a higher sense of the work 
 which lay before u.s uid decided to wait and watch 
 more carefully the directions of the Lord, and to 
 write only as direct jd by the Holy Ghost, accepted 
 of I lim, through the key of communication with the 
 Lord, the result of which you may find within the 
 following pages of this book. 
 
 Read Luke xvii., 20-26. Not with observation and 
 outward show or earthly pomp or power, but with 
 righteousness and meekness. A kingdom of love. 
 We need not expect the Lord to come in form, 
 visible to our mortal eyes, during this, the Gospel age 
 which is drawing to a close. The kingdom of God ii 
 within you ; you who are redeemed, sanctified. The 
 bride is being gathered into ths feast of the marriage 
 supper here and promoted from this to the great 
 majority, to join the grander feast above. The 
 apostles would desire to see the gospel spread as it is 
 to-day over the world, but did not see it. Theirs was 
 a time of light and martyrdom ; ours of light and 
 freedom. In this, the day of the Son of Man, religion 
 is free and the beautiful light of the Son of Man, the 
 Star of Bethlehem, fla.shing across from heart to heart 
 and from nation to nation, lights the whole face of 
 the waters of the earth with His glory, raising the 
 
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 heathen from their darkness. Christians must first 
 suffer many things and be rejected by this 
 generation. The suffering is past, the victory 
 of our redemption won, and Christ the King 
 of Kings is ruh'ng the affairs of His kingdom 
 in this world, purging His floor and gathering His 
 wheat into the garners of another. (Verses 27-33.) 
 As people were living in sin and for self at the time 
 of Noah and of Lot, so in this the present day, 
 when Christ is revealed, and with all the responsibili- 
 ties of gospel light, men are living for :>elf; living in 
 sin, unless sanctified by the love of God to his service. 
 You cannot serve two masters. Now is the day of 
 the Lord and thousands of souls are lighted with the 
 beautiful rays of His presence, stamping upon them 
 His own unchanging likeness and image. His charac- 
 ter of love. Thousands are following Satan across 
 the sinking sands of time, being stamped with his 
 nature of sin, and fitted for his abode of darkness and 
 hate. Now is the gospel age. Now is the coming of 
 the Son of Man, and thousands every day are being 
 divested of their earthly tabernacle and are taken 
 unawares from time into eternity, prepared or un- 
 prepared. They behold the coming of the Son of 
 Man : some from the field, some from the shop, and 
 some from their beds, to behold the coming of the 
 Son of Man. Then, must they appear in their nature 
 of sin and hate> or cleansed and sanctified. The re- 
 
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 deemed are taken to enjoy God's presence forever, but 
 
 the lost who rejected and closed their hearts against 
 God's mercy, are left to the adversary of their souls, 
 to await the last great day of judgment. Whosoever 
 seek the things of this life, can lay up no treasures in 
 Heaven ; therefore lose their life, its privileges of pre- 
 paring for the eternal world, the new Jerusalem above. 
 If there we would live and reign as kings and priests 
 unto God, we must be members of his body here ; 
 circumcised in heart, those who are circumcised in 
 flesh only, are not of the Israel of God. The remnant 
 of Israel to be gathered, are bein^^ gathered, the 
 Apostles and followers of Christ, are being assembled 
 there, and the Throne of David most gloriously trium- 
 phant, is being established pure and undefiled. The 
 Bride in the New Jerusalem above, the place of the 
 marriage supper, all who enter there, must go beneath 
 the blood-stained banner of the Cross. Israelites cir- 
 cumcised in heart. (Acts xv., 14, 17.) Simeon hath 
 declared how God at the first, did visit the Gentiles, 
 to take out of them a people for His name; 15, and 
 to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is 
 written ; 16, after this I will return, and will build 
 again the Tabernacle of David, which is fallen down 
 and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will 
 set it up ; 17, that the residue of men might seek after 
 the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name 
 is called, saith the Lon\ who doeth ail these things- 
 
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 He whose heart is not circumcised, whether Jew or 
 Gentile, is not meet to surround the Throne of 
 David, the new Jerusalem above, for sin cannot dwell 
 there, and put no difiference between us and them, 
 purifying their hearts by faith, giving them the Holy 
 Ghost, even as He did unto us. Simeon hath declared 
 how that God at the 5rst did visit the Gentiles, to take 
 out of them a people for His name. After ^his I will 
 return, and will build again the Tabernacle of David 
 which is fallen down, and I will build again the ruins 
 thereof, and I will set it up, that the residue of men 
 might seek after the Lord. The Tabernacle of David : 
 meaning the body of sanctified ones upon earth. The 
 body of Him who is sanctified, set apart in love to the 
 service of God, is but a part of the Tabernacle of 
 David, the Tabernacle of the immortal soul, the 
 Temple of the Living God, know ye not that ye are 
 temples of the living God. Just think in comparison, 
 of the body as the metal, and of the soul as the elec- 
 tricity, while you examine a wire charged with the 
 fluid, you can see and feel nothing but the metal, 
 yet you know that in and all around it, there is a 
 continual electric current of several hundred horse 
 power, driving the cumbersome train from station to 
 station. When that same fluid passes out into other 
 metal, under other circumstances, it may both be 
 seen and felt as it lights the streets with its presence. 
 So the body as the Tabernacle is filled with the soul, 
 
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 this fact was realized in a wonderful experience by 
 the writer, that should not fail to convince the most 
 hardened, intelligent sceptics, if they could only 
 realize what I did ; if the veil were lifted to them, the 
 world would soon be free from infidelity, crime, dark- 
 ness and hate. The time to test religion and its pos- 
 sessor, and the sinner, is when the soul is about to 
 take its departure from its earthly home ; then the 
 sceptic, the sinner, and those who siy in their heart 
 " there is no God," are tormented with an agonizing 
 fear — a foretaste of Hell— bitter indeed, as he longs 
 for another lease of life. But the redeemed of the 
 Lord, he whose soul is fully resting on the finished 
 work of God, hath perfect peace, more than peace — a 
 joy beyond description, a sweet communion with the 
 Lord, sweeter than tongue can tell. This is no theory, 
 or fancied delusion, to please the mind, for the love of 
 God is seen in the calm, sweet look of the dying 
 Christian, who has already a foretaste of Heaven. 
 
 Isaiah Ix., i : "Arise, shine ; for thy light is come, 
 and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." 
 
 5. "Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine 
 heart shall fear, and be enlarged ; because the abun- 
 dance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the 
 forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee." 
 
 1 1. "Therefore thy gates shall be open continually ; 
 they shall not be shut day nor night ; that men may 
 bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that 
 
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 their kings may be brought" 
 
 14. " The sons also of them that afflicted thee 
 shall come bending unto Ihee ; and all they that des- 
 pised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of 
 thy feet; and they shall call thee. The city of the Lord, 
 The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." 
 
 19. " The sun shall be no more rhy light by day ; 
 neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto 
 ihee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting 
 light, and thy God thy Glory." 
 
 21. " Thy people also shall be all righteous : they 
 shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my 
 planting, the work of my hands, that I may be 
 glorified." 
 
 22. " A little one shall become a thousand, and a 
 small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it 
 it in his time." 
 
 " Arise, and shine, for thy light is come." Si . 
 hundred and ninety-eight years before the Star of 
 Bethlehem shone out upon this world in its darkness, 
 the Lord proclaimed the coming of His kingdom 
 when time should be changed and all things made 
 new ; and we, looking back, can see the closing up of 
 the old world, the Jewish dispensation ; can see the 
 then coming Messiah, as the risen Saviour, the Son of 
 God ; can see the beginning of the New World, the 
 gospel dispensation, the kingdom of which is a king- 
 dom of love : so complete is the change that even our 
 
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 Sabbath-day of rest, befi^an with this our new world. 
 If it were not so, Christ would not have said " behold 
 I make all things new." He who knew just what and 
 when our Sabbaths were going to be, would not have 
 given the example which He gave to His disciples, by 
 meeting with them always on the seventh day from 
 that of the resurrection. The Lord knew when our 
 Sabbath would be observed, and did not speak a word 
 against, but rather encouraged it ; that we might be 
 free from every yok? of bondage, belonging to the 
 old world, for it was clothed in garments of darkness ; 
 but the glory of the Lord hath shone through the 
 darkness, and the kingdom which the Lord hath es- 
 tablished in God, is the light of the world. Its gates 
 are open, both day and night ; the great, the rich, and 
 the poor, alike, are continually passing through, going 
 even from nations who hated and persecuted the 
 Church, and passing into the glorious sunshine of the 
 kingdom of God. 
 
 Neither sun nor moon can give light to this king- 
 dom, for the King of Glory, the Sun of our Souls, 
 giveth it light. Though the eyes of his body be blind, 
 the consecrated sou!, walk in the light of God's 
 presence, and feels His rays of love beaming down 
 upon his soul, eradicating every form of sin, placing 
 there once more the likeness and image of its Creator, 
 changing man from hatred to love, from death to life, 
 and from sin to righteousness. The people ofthjs 
 
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 kingdom arc all righteous, a dead professor — a hypo- 
 crite — is not a member of this icingdom ; no Jew or 
 Gentile can be an Israelite of this New Jerusalem un- 
 less circumcised in heart. When the Holy Ghost, the 
 Comforter, was sent, the Church was but a little one. 
 To-day it is represented by countless millions in 
 Paradise, and hundreds of thousands here on earth ; 
 and the time is at hand when righteousness shall pre- 
 vail, when the ri£{hteous shall make laws that will 
 bind Satan's powers ; for he must be bound for a 
 thousand years, and speedil}' the Lord is bringing it 
 to pass. 
 
 I. Cor. XV., 22. ** For as in Adam all die, even so 
 in Christ shall all be made alive." 
 
 28. And when all thinf,s shall be subdued unto 
 him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto 
 him that put all things under him, that God may be 
 all in all." 
 
 29. " Else what shall they do which are baptized 
 for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? why are they 
 then baptized for the dead ? " 
 
 43. " It is sown in dishonour ; it is raised in glory : 
 it is sown in weakness ; it is raised in power." 
 
 49. " And as wc have borne the image of the 
 earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 
 
 50. " Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and 
 blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; neither 
 doth corruption inherit incorruption." 
 
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 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on 
 incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on im- 
 mortality, then shall be brought to pass ..' e saying 
 that is written, Death is swallowed up in Victory." 
 
 In the day that Adam disobeyed the command of 
 God, he became dead to the nature of innocence and 
 love, that was gently burning in his soul reflecting in 
 him the image of his Creator, and became dead to his 
 birthright, was no longer fit to have fellowship with 
 God, was no longer a Son of the King of Kings, but 
 was stamped with eternal death ; alive to a nature of 
 guilt and hate, which brought him darkness and 
 shame; this is the first death the human family ever 
 tasted ; but. Glory to God in the highest, through 
 Christ all are made alive, every one, without an ex- 
 ception, and the devil cannot claim a soul, until they 
 first, like Adam, taste of guilt through sin, by rejecting 
 God's love, as shown, upon the cross of atonement. 
 By the awful price that was paid to satisfy the eternal 
 law of God's perfect justice, and to place within man's 
 reach the only means that we can find on earth to 
 change man's fallen nature from darkness and hate, 
 to light and love. Since Christ the Sun of our Souls, 
 the Son of God, became onre with us, He has put all 
 things under our feet, even as the Father hath put all 
 things under Kis feet, that wc might tread down every 
 power of sin, escape the sting of deatn, and rob the 
 grave of its victory. But we cannot tread one step 
 
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 alone ; only as wc follow Jesus can we triumph over 
 sin. If we reject Christ, we cannot escape the dam- 
 nation of Hell. If we repent, by turning from sin, 
 having faith in Christ, which gives us inward peace, 
 realizing that He is our personal Saviour, and are 
 baptized with the Holy Ghost and the fire of love, we 
 are made anew, the sons of God, and shall be kings 
 and priests unto Him who has loved us and given us 
 the victory. We believe that the Lord was immersed, 
 baptized in water, not for himself, but in behalf of all 
 who should have received it, that their righteousness 
 might be complete and acceptable through the re- 
 demption in Christ ; not for us of this dispensation, 
 but for all the human family previous to the resurrec- 
 tion of the Saviour, who was the first fruits. They 
 who understood not Christ's mission, could not ac- 
 knowledge Him in biptism by water, but Jesus made 
 the way for their acccpiance by being baptized with 
 the baptism of which the water is only symbolical. 
 Inasmuch as they were accepted through faith and 
 burnt sacrifices by God in a coming Saviour, even so 
 it pleased the Lord to fulfil for them their righteous- 
 ness by repre=;enting them as their brother, whose 
 faith was well pleasing unto God the Father, and thus 
 we see the whole of the old world immersed in the 
 baptism of Christ. But we of this new world cannot 
 claim that baptism of water by the Lord. It does not 
 fulfil our duty for us, as a people living in the light of 
 
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 God, it is our duty to fulfil this righteousness for our- 
 selves, and G^d has prepared a way for all who are 
 worthy to have this righteousness fulfilhd in their 
 behalf, even in this present kingdom, who have not 
 been able to show their allegiance to God, by being 
 baptized personally before the world, while they were 
 in it. Every jot and every tittle of the word of God 
 must be fulfilled, and if we thus honor God with our 
 mortal bodies here, we shall be honored in our im- 
 mortal bodies hereafter. Our little acts of obedience 
 and love to the Lord, while here, will be developed 
 into a glorious service of love to God hereafter. As 
 we rejoice in the blessings which God has suited to 
 us in this world, we shall also rejoice in the grander, 
 more glorious blessings for which we arc suited in 
 Heaven. You are forming your birth for all eternity. 
 Oh, do not fail to remember it. All eternity ! Flesh 
 and blood cannot enter into Heaven, but must decay 
 and pass into the one great body, called dust, and of 
 that same material, of which our mortal bodies are 
 a part, shall the Lord give us an immortal glorious 
 body, if we have a part in the first resurrection. 
 
 If through the life, the death, and the resurrection 
 of our blessed Saviour, you, my beloved reader, are 
 justified by faith, and know your sins forgiven, but 
 are not yet wholly sanctified (set aside), from the 
 drawing influence of your besetting sins, whatever 
 they may be, although the sting of death is gone, yet 
 
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 they may hover h'ke a cold dark cloud around, and 
 keep you from the sunshine of God's love, and though 
 you wish them gon(.% they will remain to rob and 
 blight your soul, for the Lord will not change you as 
 you might the crank of a machine, and you have 
 nothing to say in the matter. God is always more 
 ready to show you His will and to manifest His love 
 to you than you arc to receive it. Do y(ju think that 
 God will do great things for you, when you are con- 
 tent to do very little for yourself? How often we 
 need to have mercy u.; ourselves, remembering that 
 God will forgive us as we forgive our enemies. When 
 we know that it is the will of God that we should be 
 sanctified against an evil, it becomes us to work and 
 wait, to watch and pray, especially to pray in the very 
 moment of temptation, then will the Lord give victory, 
 complete victory ; your very nature will be changed 
 from grace unto grace, and you will be sanctified 
 against the temptation. 
 
 It is God's will that you thus overcome, and grow 
 in grace, and it should be your longing desire to see 
 your brother and sister in Christ overcoming also. 
 It becomes followers of the Lord Jesus Christ to live 
 righteous, unspotted lives, which you cannot do if 
 walking far from God. Love your enemy, though 
 you hate his sin ; for the Lord is the avenger of all 
 that is evil, and has calle:l us unto holiness. If we 
 despise that which is holy, we despise God, who has 
 
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 given us His Holy Spirit. To have the spirit of God, 
 is to have love one for another. If you, dear reader, 
 are alive, see to it that your life shall in no way prove 
 a stumbling block, to prevent those who are asleep in 
 sin from coming to life, light and liberty ; but that 
 your lamp bj trimmed and brightly burning, to help 
 them on to God. 
 
 James v., 20. " Let him know, that he which con- 
 verteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save 
 a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." 
 
 I. Peter i., 4. " To an inheritance incorruptible and 
 undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in 
 Heaven for you." 
 
 7. " That the trial of ^our faith being much more 
 precious than gold that perishcth, though it be tried 
 with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and 
 glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 
 
 13. " Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be 
 sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be 
 brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 
 
 22. " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying 
 the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the 
 brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure 
 heart fervently." 
 
 23. " Being born again, no'; of corruptible seed, 
 but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth 
 and abideth for ever.'' 
 
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 24. " For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of 
 man as the flower of grass. The grass withcreth, and 
 the flower thereof fallcth away." 
 
 Saved from death ; not from mutilation, not from 
 perpetual oblivion ; but from an awful death, death to 
 all that is good ; separation from God and from the 
 glories of Heaven ; separation from love, joy and peace, 
 from the good, the noble, and the true. Joined to the 
 devil and his agents of darkness and hate, buried in 
 the association of fiends for ever, whose very desire 
 and nature is to torment and torture each other and 
 so make the very brimstone of Hell. If your sins are 
 hidden beneath the precious blood of Christ, is it not 
 your bounden duty to try to rescue others? Can you 
 watch the slumbering sinner, intoxicated with the 
 tempting powers of satan as he walks over the very 
 jaws of hell, and not seek to rescue him ? If so, his 
 blood may be required at your hands. Will you be 
 counted worthy of an inheritance incorruptible and 
 undefiled, if you have not the love of God in your 
 heart towards your fellow man ? Although of a very 
 different nature, the soul like the body must receive 
 food or it cannot grow, and the nature of its likeness 
 and character will appear in eternity, according to the 
 food upon which it has grown. If fed upon sin, which 
 cultivates ct nature in you that rejects God's love as 
 shown in Christ, you will not have a nature of love 
 which is the wedding garment that must seal your 
 
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 passport, if admitted through the pearly gates of the 
 New Jerusalem. 
 
 Love and faith are two of the pearls you must 
 have. The whole web of the wedding garment is 
 composed of those essentials, which only can be ob- 
 tained through a risen Saviour. How precious then 
 is the trial of your faith ! Your preparation for the 
 coming of the L rJ i For as you are passing over the 
 Jordan into eternity, the Son of Man shall appear, 
 wherefore gird up the loins of your minds, hope, have 
 faith to the end, for the grace that shall be brought 
 unto you at the revelation, the appearing of Christ. 
 If, by obedience to the voice of the Spirit of God, you 
 are purified, made free from condemnation, and have 
 the peace of the love of God in your soul, you will 
 love the brethren ; and see to it that you work for 
 God in winning souls, being born again by the word 
 of God, which liveth and abideth for evsr, the gospel 
 which is preached unto you. 
 
 II. Thess. i., 6. "Seeing it is a righteous thing 
 with God to recompense tribulation to them that 
 trouble you." 
 
 7. " And to you who are troubled rest with us, 
 when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven 
 with his mighty angels." 
 
 8. " In flaming fire taking vengeance on them 
 that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
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 g. '' Who shall be punished with everlasting des- 
 truction from the presence of the Lord, and from the 
 glory of his power." 
 
 lO. " When he shall come to be glorified in his 
 saints, and to be admired in all them that believe 
 (because our testimony among you was believed) in 
 that day." 
 
 ii., I. Now we beseech you, brethren, by the com- 
 ing of our Lord Jesua Christ, and by our gathering 
 together unto him." 
 
 3. Let no man deceive you by any means : for 
 that day shall not come, except there come a falling 
 away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son 
 of perdition." 
 
 We find in the first part of this lesson, that it is a 
 right thing with the Lord to punish those who are 
 opposed to righteousness, and to give rest to those 
 who are troubled for righteousness suke ; also in 
 I. Thess, v., 9, we learn that Gad has " no pleasure in 
 the death of the wicked." No oleasurc in banishinc: 
 man from all that is good ; has not appointed us to 
 wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus 
 Christ. This salvation is appointed for every one. 
 It is for you, dear reader. Hav'c you accepted or re- 
 jected it ? Are you really asking God to wait until 
 some other time, and thus rejecting the marvellous 
 love and mercy of your Heavenly Father ? Are you 
 going to face Justice with a plea of good intentions ? 
 
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 Or, of chance ? Or. with morality? Justice knows no 
 mercy. Morality or chance can never save you. You 
 must bj born again. Must get a new nature that 
 overcomes the old, born of the Spirit of God, cleansed 
 in the atoning blood of the risen Saviour, before you 
 can enter Heaven. Are you carelessly rejecting the 
 Saviour? Ifso, youare preparing your eternal des- 
 tiny : a home with fiends and demons, a place of 
 darkness and hate. Oh, why not stop now? Just 
 now, before 'he thread of time is broken ; it may be 
 this very day, and mercy's voice may stop, and you 
 be lost ? Lost ! Ves, lost for ever. Oh, awful thought, 
 lost ! lost ! and it mjght have been otherwise. 
 
 Dear reader, why not accept the Saviour now ? 
 Just now, before it is too late, for serious are the effects 
 of sin, even in this world, and serious the fruits of 
 delay and putting off. A woman recently, with a 
 mother's heart, residing not far from Hamilton, On- 
 tario, who allowed her child to grow up without a 
 proper religious influence, was one day smitten with 
 a serious blow : her child was lost. Lost ! Gone, 
 she know not where ; her darling girl — whom .she had 
 fed perhaps on literature degrading to the mind, and 
 novels that defile the heart, cultivating sin and pride, 
 and marking the stamp of death upon the soul— was 
 gone ; helped forward to ruin, perhaps, by the cold 
 grasp of jealousy through an unfaithful lover, into the 
 
 jav/s, the very jaws of Satan's power, into the slum 
 
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 over which is written, in invisible letters, the word 
 " death." How bitter the trial, the aching heart and 
 sleepless nights of that poor mother as time passed 
 on ; but, at last, one night amid her uneasy slumbers 
 she thought that she heard a rattling noise, a knock- 
 ing at the door. Who can it be ? But all was still 
 again. Who is there ? No answer. Let them knock 
 again then. I will arise and see who it is, seemed to 
 be the half-awakened thought of the drowsy woman ; 
 but the knocking came no more. She fell into an 
 excited stupor, scarcely u 'rthy to be called a sleep, 
 to arise with the morning, anxiously wondering who 
 had been at the door. Might it.have been — ah, now 
 the thought arises — might it have been my darling. 
 As she quickly opens the door, to see if there are any 
 indications, — ah, yes, there are a woman's footprints 
 in the newly fallen snow. Could it have been my 
 darling child ! and she started, half-wild with the 
 exciting powers of a mother's affections ; upon the 
 track — across the yard to the right or to the left, 
 down by the lane, around and around, until at last, 
 just in front, stiff and cold upon the snow, there met 
 that woman's gaze. Oh, what a sight, as she beheld 
 her darling girl within the arms of death. What was 
 the bitterest sting? What the crudest thought that 
 burned into her very soul, that pierced the heart, and 
 brought the cold sweat upon the brow? It was this 
 awful fact, this cruel reality, that it might have been 
 
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 otherwise. It might have been. Oh, why did I not 
 spring from the bed, burst through that door, and 
 clasp the darlin,^ to my bosom safe again ? Why, oh 
 why? It might have been ! It might have been ! 
 
 And so — if you, dear reader, in carele'-^':ness, wick- 
 edly cast away the Saviour's m?rcy, and the crown of 
 life eternal — you will find among the burni'-:jj flames 
 of hell this brand to scorch your soul. It might have 
 b3en otherwise ! Oli, it might have b22n othor^vise ! 
 I might have been saved. Then arouse I Oh, arouse 
 from the slumbers of sin ! Open your heart to wisdom 
 now ; just now ; and let the Saviour in. Accept the 
 Saviour's pardon now, by accepting God's beloved 
 Sdu. But you siy, How can I acc2pt theSiviour? 
 You cannot accept the Saviour until you want salva- 
 tion, and you cannot want salvation until you feel 
 that you are lost. Lost, dead, alienated from God by 
 nature, under the unchanging law of God that seals 
 your doom. When first the love of Jesus demanded 
 your soul's surrender, and yoii refuseJ.just refused 
 until some other time ; then the blood was removed 
 from the door posts and lintels of your soul ; and then, 
 just then, the angel of death entered, and is holding 
 the avenging sword of justice, awaiting the moment 
 when the banner of mercy is folded for ever. Then, 
 oh, what then will your eternity be ? What will it be ? 
 Understanding as we do, by experience, the meaning 
 of Christ's words, when He said, " Ye must be born 
 
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 again," it is our earnest desire that you also might 
 understand it by experience. Born again or lost ; 
 b^rn of the Spirit, having a new desire to serve God ; 
 a new nature of love that mikes you happy in His 
 service, that makes you feel the presence of God in 
 your soul. Born of the Spirit ; the nature of God, 
 which is love. There is nothing under Heaven that 
 can elevate and bless nations and individuals like the 
 love of God. Just as everything in nature, which God 
 has made, was made to suit mankind, to feed and 
 bless the body ; so the new birth is suited to our souls, 
 giving us the nature of God. Christ is the Bread of 
 Life. To feed on Him, is to partake of His nature, 
 and to prepare for another world ; to accept Christ 
 as your personal Saviour, by simple trusting faith, 
 vvith a determination to follow wherever he may lead, 
 with prayer and fasting. Fasting from sin, means to 
 y.,u eternal life, jo\', peace, and glory, being ever with 
 the Lord. Why then do you not trust Him and receive 
 the blessing now, just how ? Reject the Saviour and 
 you cannot escape, the death sentence is already 
 sealed. God is not mocked. If you reject God's 
 mercy, then justice demands its own ; justice, perfect 
 in itself, without mercy. Paul says, " he who belicveth 
 not is condemned already." The sentence is already 
 passed ; no waiting until the judgment day, but 
 doomed already ; waiting, only waiting until the ban- 
 ner of love and mercy is folded, and Jesus invites you 
 
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 no more. Then stop, dear reader, stop trifling with 
 God. Do not trifle with your own welfare. Be in 
 earnest ! Win Christ while you can. 
 
 If you know God as a loving Father, through His 
 word by faith, and through His presence by love in 
 your soul, then God will be a glorified in your life, 
 and you will rejoice in the coming of the Lord, and 
 in fellowship one with another, and need not be afraid 
 or troubled, though the world were just coming to an 
 end. To know God, is to get a new nature — a spark 
 of God's nature. God, is love. His love will enable 
 you to pray for your enemies, and will destroy the 
 carnal nature, that selfish, revengeful disposition : the 
 nature which enabled a mother to murder her own 
 son, of which we will give you a brief statement. The 
 following is an exact copy taken from a paper com- 
 menting on the case : 
 
 " KILLED HER OWN SON. 
 " Fatal mistake of a Mexican Mother — She commits 
 
 suicide. 
 
 •' Santa Fee, March 3rd, 1892.— A terrible tragedy 
 came to light this week at El Rito, a little Mexican 
 town about fifteen miles from this city. Some ten 
 years ago a young man, named Rodrigo Martinez, 
 left home for old Mexico, to Avork in the mines ; he 
 told his old mother and his sweet-heart that he would 
 return wealthy and would care for them in good style. 
 He had been gone about three years and wrote at 
 
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 long intervals. Then suddenly all communication 
 ceased. Finally it was learned through a man, who 
 was supposed to be a friend of young Martinez, that 
 he had been killed in a fight in the mines. Rodrigo 
 meanwhile had received word from his old home that 
 his mother had died, and then that the girl who had 
 promised to wait for him, had married another. After 
 working hard for ten years, he returned to his native 
 town, to learn that his mother was still alive, and his 
 former sweetheart was not married. He met the man 
 who told his mother that he was killed and this man 
 advised him to go to his old home in disguise and 
 surprise his mother. The idea was acted upon, and, 
 while he was sitting in his mother's house, as a 
 stranger introduced by the friend, he was suddenly 
 set upon by the old woman, who stabbed him to the 
 heart. She had been told by the supposed friend, 
 that he was the one who had killed her son, and she 
 took immediate revenge When .she learned the 
 truth, she went raving mad, and cut her throat from 
 ear to ear. The intended wife of Rodrigo heard of 
 the details, and through her instrumentality the false 
 friend also met his death." 
 
 Psa. Ixxxi., 9. " There shall no strange God be in 
 thee ; neither shalt thou worship any .strange God. 
 
 10. "I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee 
 out of the land of Egypt : open thy mouth wide, and 
 I will fill it." 
 
 
 
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 " 13. "Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, 
 and Israel had walked in my ways." 
 
 16. '• He should have fed them also with the finest 
 of the wheat : and with honey out of the rock should 
 i have satisfied thee." 
 
 Psa. Ixxxii., i. "G . standeth in the congrejjation 
 of the mighty ; he judgeth among tlie gods." 
 
 2. " How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept 
 the persons of the wicked ? Selah." 
 
 8. •' Arise, O God, judge the earth : for thou shalt 
 inherit all nations." 
 
 We are all children of one loving, Heavenly Father, 
 created by the same Almighty Creator, responsible 
 alike for the talents and privileges He has given ; and 
 it should be our delight to know all we can concern- 
 ing His will towards us. And of our duty towards 
 each other, and to our God ; our delight to study His 
 marvellous works, called nature. Nature, because of 
 their perfection. In nature you cannot find the foot- 
 prints of chance ; they cannot enter there. Chance 
 means confusion. God's works, perfection ; and, in 
 all His marvellous works, we behold His wonderful 
 love and goodness, and the unchanging almighty ir- 
 resistible nature of His perfect law of justice. Justice 
 that knows no cruelty. Justice that knows no mercy, 
 because of its perfection. If you hold your hand in 
 the fire, it will not be spared, though you are the king 
 of a nation ; but if you accept, and take the blessings 
 
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 it offers, they will not be withheld, though you are the 
 beggar among beggars. Such arj the laws which 
 control the works of God, even in man's earthly sur- 
 roundings, and in all His works ; wherever there is a 
 need, a vacancy, a longing, the exact thing is mar- 
 vellously and perfectly made to 'fill the vacancy ; to 
 supply the need, to satisfy the longing. Eyes to 
 guide the hands an J r;et ; mouth to feed the stomach ; 
 aTections to satisfy the heart. So all earthly th'n^s 
 that are only of time on earth, have on earth their 
 longings satisfied, excepting where God's laws arc 
 broken and the penalty follows. There is only one 
 thing on earth which God has pronounced immortal, 
 the immortal soul of a human being ; and the soul is 
 the only thing that is being created for another world 
 and longs for something more than earth can supply. 
 The wild man and the heathen in their darkness long 
 for something more than earth can give ; they 
 know not what ; and worship something for a 
 god. If this need, this vacancy, this longing 
 were not supplied, God's works would not be 
 4)erfect, and man 'vould find, for the first time, 
 an avVful imperfection in the works of our All-wise 
 Creator ; but, glory to God, there is the all-sufficiency ; 
 the satisfying portion in the Lord Jesus Christ the 
 Bread of Heaven, the fountain of livi ig waters, we are 
 feeding on. Are you, dear reader? If not, the Saviour 
 is calling you now ; just now. Are you living for the 
 
 
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 world, then you arc following satan. Do you love 
 money, or worldly folly, more than your Creator ? 
 Then that is your god, and it is a strange god ; strange 
 to your immortal nature, for it cannot satisfy the long- 
 ings of your immortal soul. Thy Creator says, thou 
 shalt have no other gods, no strange gods in thcc. 
 God, your Creator, who has protected and spared you 
 until this present moment, says, " Open now thy 
 mouth wide and I will fill it." Oh, don't you want 
 your soul to'be satisfied ? Don't you ? Filled with 
 the Holy Spirit of God ? Having sweet communion 
 with the Saviour, filled with love to God and to your 
 fellow-man ? Oh, won't you come with us, and drink 
 and live ? Come now, just now ' Don't wait. To 
 wait, is to obey the devil, your bitterest enemy. 
 Hearken unto the Lord now ; just now, while He is 
 calling and waiting to save. Oh, follow in His ways 
 and you shall be fed with the finest of wheat, and 
 with honey out of the Rock of Ages, and your soul 
 shall be satisfied. God, who standeth in the midst of 
 His people, knows where your heart is attracted most ; 
 knows your gods ; and asks how long you will judge 
 unjustly ; accepting the wicked, the bad, in preference 
 to the right, the good. How long will you follow 
 satan across the plains of deception, seeking for peace 
 you never can find ? Your enemy will not lead you 
 to fountains of blessings. No, but to the jaws of an 
 awful abode. God is now judging the people, and 
 
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 will sift out the wicked speedily and the meek shall 
 inherit the earth. 
 
 Isaiah xi., i. " A "id there shall come forth a rod 
 out of the stem of j esse, and a Branch shall grow out 
 of his roots." 
 
 • 4. " But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, 
 and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : 
 and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, 
 and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the 
 wicked." 
 
 5. " And righteousness shall be the girdle of his 
 loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." 
 
 14. " But they shall fiy upon the shoulders of the 
 Philistines toward the west ; they shall spoil them of 
 the east together : they shall lay their hand upon 
 Edom and Moab ; and the children of Ammon shall 
 obey them." 
 
 15. " And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue 
 of the Egyptian sea ; and with his mighty wind shall 
 he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in 
 the seven streams, and make men go over dry-shod." 
 
 Isaiah xiii., 9. " Behold, the day of the Lord Com- 
 eth, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the 
 land desolate : and he shall destroy the sinners thereof 
 out of it." 
 
 1 1. " And I will punish the world for their evil 
 and the wickpd for their iniquity ; and I will cause the 
 
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 arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the 
 haughtiness of the terrible." 
 
 God is not only the Father, the Creator, but the 
 life of man, and His mercy endureth forever, His love 
 is unbounded : it cannot be measured by mortal 
 minds. He has given all things, even the body in 
 which we dwell, to feed and to bless the soul, and all 
 things, even temptations, must result in blessing to 
 those who shall inherit God's eternal life. His presence 
 for ever. Before man's fall he was happy in the 
 presence of the Lord, because he was innocent ; like 
 the butterfly or the humming bird that dance from 
 flower to flower, their life all full of pleasure, unblight- 
 ed by sin, so was man in his natural state of innocence ; 
 but, not like them, he bore the image of his Lord — a 
 never dying soul — capable of being ; and intended to 
 be made responsible for every action, and prepared 
 for the garners of another world, and by one command 
 was made responsible, and permitted to partake of 
 evil with the good. The greatest thing on this earth 
 known to man, is man ; and the greatest responsibility 
 and grandest privilege placed upon him is to glorify 
 God his Creator. If w? do so in this life we shall reap 
 an eternal reward ; what we sow that also shall we reap, 
 and reap through an endless eternity. 
 
 Dear reader, don't forget it. Don't think it a small 
 matter. It is of most vital importance to you, whether 
 you are sowing unto life eternal, or the seeds of death. 
 
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 Whether the fruits of your labours here will yield an 
 eternil harvest of love, joy, and peace, in the presence 
 of God — a nature that is to you a robe of ri^diteous- 
 ness, a crown of life, the wedding garment, which 
 Jesus is offering you now, just now ; or whether you 
 shall reap the fruits from the seeds of sin, a nature 
 that will debar you from the glories of Heaven and 
 fit you only for darkness and hate, to be left, when 
 your body dies, instead of b:ing taken into Para(h"se ; 
 left to be dragged by fiends, down into their eternal 
 habitations, to await the final judgment ; to lose every 
 vestige of human affection, to retain only selfish 
 affections and the power to hate, but not to love. Can 
 you risk your whole eternity another day ? Oh, what 
 a risk to run ! What mad lolly ! How dare you do 
 it, when God commands you to accept salvation now? 
 Just now ! S^'v. n hundred and thirteen years before 
 Christ, Isaiah, inspired of God, told of a rod that 
 should come out of the stem of Jesse, a branch that 
 should grow out of his roots, and we behold the Star 
 of Bethlehem, the Rose of Sharon, the Prince of Peace, 
 the King of Kings, the Redeemer of this fallen world 
 as that rod. By accepting Christ as your personal 
 Saviour, through faith and obedience, you will be 
 grafted into Christ, the true vine, as a branch, and 
 bring forth true fruit unto life eternal. By rejecting 
 Him, you must remain a wild olive tree, only fit for 
 .destruction. Can you do so ? Can you afford to lose 
 
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 all that is valuable, for all eternity? You cannot. 
 
 You must not While God's mercy and lovin^^ kind- 
 
 n:iss endures for ever, His luvs of perfect justice can 
 
 nc\er waver, but demands atonement for every act 
 
 of sin. Dj you think that God is too merciful to let 
 
 His child burn in fire, just because it has broken a 
 
 law which He has madj? Do you ? Then try it. 
 
 Hold your hand in the fire and see if the law which 
 
 God has established there will not demand its 
 
 claim and you pay the penalty. Such are the laws 
 
 of our God. Fire is given to bless the world by its 
 
 use, but throui^h its abuse it has burned thousands to 
 
 cinders. If the wicked were permitted to dwell in 
 
 Heaven, it would no longer be Heaven. The law that 
 
 keeps them out, is a law of love and mercy : it is 
 
 God's protecting care, His law of love and mercy to 
 
 the pure in heart, to the countless hosts of Heaven 
 
 who dwell within the vast pavilion of His love. But 
 
 that law is a consuming fire to the man, who cruelly 
 
 places himself beneath its grasp. Those who reject 
 
 the love of Jesus Christ, must accept a home in hell, 
 
 the fires of which are kindled, fed and fanned into a 
 
 furious heat by devils, fiends, and de;iJons. Will 
 
 you, dear reader, run the awful risk, for just one tflore 
 
 day, of having to sp,Mid your eternity with them in 
 
 darkness ? Can you bj so simple, so deluded ? Will 
 
 you allow the drawing power ot satan to drag you 
 
 down, when you can escdpe ? Wil! you follow and 
 
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 serve your deadly enemy, and despise the loving kind- 
 ness of your best friend, just for a little while longer? 
 You will then ; it may be for eternity. How can you 
 endure the thought of being a fiend in hell, when you 
 have the privilege of enjoying the glories of Heaven, 
 by accepting Christ now ? Not to-morrow, but now. 
 Just now. We hope, dear reader, that you have ac- 
 cepted Jesus as your Saviour, and are basking in the 
 sunshine of His most precious love, feasting as only 
 the child of God can, upon the riches of His grace. 
 If you have not done so, and have no desire to do so, 
 it is becaui^e you do net fully believe in the existence 
 of God, or of devil, of a heaven, or of a hell. Perhaps 
 your lips say you do ; but your actions fully prove 
 that you do not. Could any intelligent mortal* run 
 the awful chance of losing Heaven and gaining hell, 
 who really believes in his heart that there is a hell to 
 escape, a Heaven to win, a devil to fear, to despise, and 
 to avoid ; a God to love, to honor and to obey ? Could 
 a man believe it in his heart and then serve the devil? 
 Could he realize the truth as it is and then rest one 
 moment on the brink of ruin ? No ; he could not rest. 
 Could any man, but a fool in this enlightened age, 
 siy in his heart there is no God, no Heaven, no hell, 
 no sin, no righteousness ? Surely not, when he can 
 hear from all his surroundings the silent voice that 
 speaks the presence of God, and see in all created 
 things the perfect wisdom, love and power of an All- 
 
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 wise Creator, by whom, and like whom man himself 
 has been created. 
 
 Go down into the depths of the ocean, and there 
 among the countless millions of its living creatures, 
 we li.iit Id the marvellous wisdom of Almighty God. 
 T!i fool says in his heart, it happened to be so, by 
 i i :; mysterious chance. The eyes and mouth of the 
 t':;' happened to be placed in the most convenient 
 place, b3cause it was necessary ; its scales and fins 
 also grew on the right way, th^ right si-'.e, and the 
 right shape, because it was necessary. But for his 
 very life, he cannot tell you how it happened that 
 chance has placed in each fish just the exact amount 
 of compressed air, in the exact part of each one, to 
 bilance and enable it to swim naturally, and with 
 perfect eas3. If it were placed a little nearer the 
 head, then the tail would sink ; or nearer the tail, and 
 the head would always be going down. This won- 
 derful balance of the fish was made by Wisdom 
 similarly, but vastly higher than that which put the 
 balance wheel in the watch. And alike fool'sh are 
 they who think th?t either were made by some power 
 without knowledge ; some moving, but dead, unin- 
 telligent matter without reason, taste, refinement, or 
 wisdom. They who think so, after seeing in flowers 
 trees, birds, and human beings, the wonderful wisdom, 
 tast-", and refinement that is manifested there in the 
 works of God, are like unto him, who says in his 
 
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 heart, " there is no God." Can a man be wise who 
 thinks ther^ is no Heaven, no grander world than this, 
 inhabited by nobler, brighter beings than mortals 
 hkc himself? After gazing out upon the countless 
 millions of heavenly bodies, in their perfect ri^tion, 
 among which this earth is but a babe or a dr: p >:■ :he 
 ocean's bosom? Could ho be; wise who thinks this 
 the only world, the only great centre ; and that no 
 other kin 1 of Heavenly bo:ly could exist ? After 
 seeing and feeling the beautiful rays of our solar 
 system's marvellous centre, would it not be just as 
 reasonable to think this the only world in space, as 
 that we are the only intelligent beings? 
 
 Is it not just as reasonable to think that the earth 
 is as great as the sun, as that man is as great and ?.r. 
 wise as the angels of God ? But reason tells us iii t 
 it is not, and all things proclaim with unerring voic * 
 that man is not the highest power of knowledge, for 
 he does not understand the source of the simplest 
 works by which he is surrounded. Is he wise, who 
 thinks there is no hell, w hen the All-wise and glor' 
 ous Creator, God, proclaims that there is, and vh^.a 
 its very brimstone sparks have scorched the tremblin.: 
 sinner, even before he cast away his earthly taber- 
 nacle ? How bitter is the .:>tir-; ..ver' bjfore the body 
 dies? Can he be wise who thin k.s inere is no sin, 
 when he can feel it in himself, and trace its footsteps 
 all around, and knows that falsehood, jealousy and 
 
 
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 hate, have dragged countless millions of suffering 
 mortals to a blood)' death upon the field of battle, 
 and that the gambling hells and liquor dens, and sin- 
 stained slums of death have cursed unnumbered mil- 
 lions with the bitter fruits of sin ? Though man may 
 look upon sin as a trifle, God does not, and could not 
 let it go unpunished, but came Himself to pay the 
 law's demand, to cleanse and get us freedom it we 
 through faith and loving obedience will accept the 
 gift. 
 
 And, again. Can he bo wise who says there is no 
 righteousness upon this world, when he sees that 
 nations are ehvatcd, and made nobler by righteous 
 lav/s ? and that the greatness, of the greatest nations 
 on earth is the result of the leaven of God's Word of 
 righteousness, moulding the hearts and lives of men : 
 that its sway has raised millions from pits of ignor. 
 ance, sin and suffering, and touched their hearts and 
 minds wiih love, like the sweet perfume of the love- 
 liest flowers, or budding forth like living trees from 
 seeds which righteousness has strewn along their 
 path, turning darkness into lig'it, breaking down the 
 walls of ignorance, and making smooth the places 
 that are rough, giving love for hatred, and wisdom in 
 the place of ignorance ? When righteousness is so 
 truly good and sin so bad, why do men indulge in 
 sin at all ? Why, if it is not that their very nature is 
 bad ? Human nature, in itself, lias not a spark, a 
 
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 mite, a speck of righteousness that is not saturated 
 through and through with sin. The morah'st may 
 th'nk that he is good enough, but without Christ he 
 cai.i nter the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem. 
 Withu the crown of life, the wedding garment, the 
 likeness of our Lord, the love of God, he could not 
 be happy in the presence of God and the holy angels. 
 *' Whosoever will be my disciple, let him take up his 
 cross and follow me," is the loving invitation of our 
 blessed Saviour. Oh, will you not accept the gracious 
 call and get the blessing now? Just now, for Jesus is 
 tenderly calling, but will not always strive with you ; 
 will not always be seeking for you, drawing you with 
 the tender cords of mercy. Perhaps even now )ou 
 are under the influence of the unpardonable sin, 
 scorning and laughing at the loving, entrcatinjj' voice of 
 the Holy Ghost, getting your .soul hardened against 
 the Holy Ghost ; hardened into such Jik state that you 
 have no desire to be good, or to do good, if it means 
 repentance. When you scorn, the thought of repen- 
 tance, then, are the offers of grace withdrawn, and you 
 left to your own will, to your own fate, but as long as 
 there is a spark of love, a grain of repentance, you 
 may be pardoned, saved with an eternal and glorious 
 salvation. Man's fallen nature, is to wander from 
 God ; and, if we WILL, to let that nature have its 
 way, we walk towards the gates of hell ; but, when 
 we WILL to serve our Lord, He lea Is us to the 
 
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 mansions of His glory. In nriarching down to hell, 
 you tread beneath its darkening smoke, and taste its 
 sparks of torment as they sometimes light upon the 
 soul, and the nearer you approach, the hotter is their 
 glow. But the path to Heaven is a glorious road of 
 righteousness and every spark that lights upon 
 the soul is a beam of life, a ray of lovo, that thrills 
 the soul with joy. The predominancy of man's WILL 
 points out the road where God permits him to walk, 
 and for which he is held responsible, according to his 
 Mght. 
 
 In Joel ii., 28, it is written "your young men shall 
 sec visions and y jur old men shall dream dreams." 
 It is, perhaps, not necessary in this enlightened age to 
 say more in regard to the nature of a vision, than 
 that it is a picture, an object lesson stamped upon 
 the camera of the soul, like a tree that is complete, 
 having roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and fruit, perfect 
 in itself; not merely the production of the mind, but 
 an impression stamped upon the mind. We wil-l 
 relate a vision, in which we had started on a journey. 
 The way was broad and fenced on either side, and, 
 as we passed along, we met a crowd of men, who 
 wore a dark, wanton, ghastly appearance ; and seem- 
 ed to mutter out some words of jealous hatred, as 
 they hurried by. We felt, with sorrow, that they 
 were going to an awful doom, going of their 
 own accord, as it were, to the very jaws of hell. We 
 
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 only spoke a word, but did nothing to stop them. 
 Soon wc turned towards the beautiful hills, beyond 
 which we could sec a bright light looming up in 
 splendor, like a sunset in autumn ; and, on one side 
 of the road, we came to a yard in which some sheep 
 had stopped, instead of going on with the multitude, 
 which we knew had already gone to the beautiful 
 hills. We tried hard to send them on, or to take 
 them with us, but some kept looking back the way 
 the fugitives had gone , they would not walk forward 
 with the rest of us and could not go back the way 
 they w.re looking. Our sorrow was very great, on 
 their account, and, just at that point, the vision ceased. 
 We awoke. The vision was printed as a picture 
 within the camera ; stamped upon the mind, not to 
 be erased ; the meaning of which is too real to be 
 mistaken. 
 
 In starting life's journey, in this world, w? arc 
 placed upon the broad road that leads directly to 
 another. Upon this road there are just now about 
 one billion and a half of mortal souls hurrying on, 
 some to a grander world than this, but, awful to know, 
 some to a worse. The sheep, the redeemed of the 
 Lord, to enter into the iold of God's love to enjoy 
 His presence forever ; the goats, the haters of right- 
 eousness, to a world where nothing is right, to endure 
 the torments of hell, because sin is their choice. 
 Upon this great path through time, some are going 
 
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 on towards the better life, while others step toward 
 
 the gates of hell. When a man reaches that better 
 
 life, his way is chancjed ; he is born again ; he beholds 
 
 the beautiful hills of faith, hope, love, charity, over 
 
 which he can see the glorious sunshine of his Father's 
 
 House, and feel the bright rays of His love. Born 
 
 again, changed from a goat to a sheep, having the 
 
 name written in the Lamb's Book of Life ; whose 
 
 sins are blotted out, never to be remembered against 
 
 him any more, for Jesus hath borne them on the 
 
 cross. Previous to the new birth, a man cares little 
 
 and does little for the salvation of his fellows, who 
 
 may be deep down in the chains of sin and satan, but 
 
 will calmly watch him sink in death's deep ruin ; but, 
 
 when born again, he longs to see the salvation of God 
 
 extended to his fellow, brother or sister, however low 
 
 and black their life may be. Tc-day, as in ages past, 
 
 there are people, who, believing that Christ is the 
 
 Saviour of the world, have walked by faith until they 
 
 turned toward the beautiful hills. Were born of the 
 
 spirit through 'faith in Christ, as their personal 
 
 Saviour ; saved ^vjih an everlasting salvation ; became 
 
 the properly of the King of Kings ; and no longer 
 
 Satan's property by choice ; and not their own, they 
 
 are sons and daughters of Jehovah. But, they are no 
 
 longer walking by faith, they have disobeyed the 
 
 loving voice, by which Jehovah would lead them on 
 
 to victory, not to redemption. They arc redeemed 
 
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 already, but have to work out their own salvation ; 
 to lay up treasures in Heaven ; to win crowns, to 
 characterize the nature of their being for eternal ages. 
 They have halted : the world, the flesh, and the 
 devil have led them into a side track, to grow weaker 
 and colder until they scarcely know whether they 
 belong to God, or not. If they continue so unto the 
 end — saved though as by fire — they will suffer an 
 awful loss, for all shall be rewarded according to the 
 deeds done in the body. They are the sheep which 
 halted by the way ; they walk no more by faith, but 
 keep looking toward the world. Are you, dear reader, 
 looking back to the allurements of satan ? A poor 
 wretched Christian, starving upon the husks of sin ? 
 Jesus is asking you to put on the whole armour of 
 righteousness. You, who have been redeemed, shall 
 be punished — though a child of God — according to 
 the light and privileges by which you are surrounded 
 knowing your duty, and failing to do it, because, you 
 are standing still. And, looking back will bring an 
 awful reward. The fire of time is burning away, as 
 it were, the eternal mansion that should be yours ; 
 burning away your very life by every moment that 
 passes ; burning away all the treasures of character 
 that should be yours ; burning up the riches that 
 should be laid up in Heaven. " Saved though as by 
 fire," the Lord has no pleasure in the eternal loss 
 which you must suffer. You must jcndcr your ac- 
 
 
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 count, as written in living characters upon your soul 
 and receive a like punishment or reward. You have 
 been redeemed, but have you grown in grace ? Are 
 you sanctified against your besetting sins, and so 
 worthy to bs counted among the meek of the earth ? 
 Is righteousness the girdle of your loins and faithful- 
 ness the girdle of your reins ? The Lord will estab- 
 lish your goings, will bless your labors in His vineyard 
 and give you the bright, the Morning Star. 
 
 Rev. ii., 26. '' And he that overcometh, and keepeth 
 my works unto the end, to him will I give power over 
 the nations." 
 
 27. " And he shall rule them with a rod of iron ; 
 as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to 
 shivers : even at I received of my Father." 
 
 28. " And I will give him the Morning Star." 
 Will enable you to fly upon the shoulders of the 
 
 Philistines, that is to overcome evil ; to tread down 
 sin ; sinners shall be slain, brought into a newness of 
 life by tlie Lord through you, as his instrument. Th? 
 tongue of wicked nations shall be destroyed. The 
 Lord shall shake His hand over the river, the religi- 
 ous influences in the world, and smite it in the seven 
 streams, the seven influences of the spirits, the stars 
 of the angels of God. You may trace them most 
 easily from the word RELIGION ; the spirit of 
 Righteousness, the spirit of Education, the spirit 
 of Love, the spirit of Industry, the spirit of 
 
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 Gentleness, the spirit of Obedience, and Nazareth. 
 With these pearls of great price, you may tread 
 in the path wlij^re the Master has troJ, without 
 .sin leaking into your soul, as it were dry shod. Oh, 
 how important, how vitally important, that you have 
 these pearls, without which you cannot enter in 
 through the pearly gates. For the day of the Lord 
 Cometh, both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the 
 land desolate, and He shall destroy sinners. The 
 wicked' shall be punished for their iniquity, for 
 God says, " I will punish the world for their evil, and 
 the wicked for their iniquity ; and will cause the ar- 
 rogancy of the proud to cease." But how shall we 
 get these living characters established in our hearts. 
 We cannot place them there at our own wills. We 
 cannot change our nature. No, but you can have a 
 desire for the new birth, a desire to be good. If not, 
 you cannot take a higher place than thousands who 
 are down in hell. They were lik:- you are. If you 
 want to live the life of the righteous, you must com- 
 mence at the roots and climb to the branches before 
 you reap the fruits of the tree of life. When you feei 
 the Holy Ghost drawing you to Jerus, you must fol- 
 low ; not wait to be dragged by some unnatural 
 influence to the cross ; but come just as you are and 
 accept and follow Jesus. Then your nature will be 
 changed, and, according as you live in clo.se commun- 
 ion with the Lord, will the great brush, by the Perfect 
 
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 Artist, paint upon your soul, in living characters, the 
 image of Himself. If, when Jesus called some of the 
 twelve to follow Him, they had put it off and waited 
 to be carried, or, for some unnatural influence to 
 make them go, they might have remained in the ranks 
 of satan, and had their abode in hell. Their loss no 
 tongue could tell ; but they started at the roots, just 
 as they were, and followed when Jesus called ; they 
 grew in grace, and became sanctified more and more, 
 and the Morning Star, the Pearl of Great Price, the 
 price of calvary's cross, was painted in full length upon 
 their souls. They were ready to give their bodies to be 
 burned, if necessary, for righteousness' sake. " Seek 
 Him early," is the command. Seek the Saviour now ; 
 not to-morrow, but now ; for this day thy soul may 
 ^e required of thee. 
 
 The writer was converted in his youth ; born again, 
 filled ivith love, peace and plca^"re ; raised through 
 Christ in the gloiious resurrection from sin unto right- 
 eousness ; changed from life unto death — dead to 
 Satan's kingdom; and from death unto life— alive 
 unto the kingdom of God ; born of the spirit, washed 
 in the blood, drinking deeper and deeper of the won- 
 derful fountain of love that flows from the Throne of 
 God, sailing upon its waters clear as crystal. Guided 
 by the Holy Ghost, I have been enabled to 'overcome 
 ev'ery foe, even self, man's rrreatcst enemy. Victory 
 after victory has been given by the Master. By seek- 
 
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 ing in earnest, I found the pearl of greatest price ; 
 and through believing with a simple, trusting faith, 
 have received victory all the way. In writing of my 
 experience, while just at the edge of the grave, and 
 the wonderful visit to another world, it is necessary 
 first to give a tew facts bearing upon the connecting 
 circumstances. While residing at Broadview, in the 
 North- West Territories of Canada, A. D. 1888, was 
 suddenly taken very ill, and continued to grow :er 
 
 each day, although Dr. Hutchinson (of Grenfell, about 
 sixteen miles distance), the nearest available physician, 
 was in attendance. After about twenty days, he pro- 
 nounced my case beyond recovery. The body became 
 so weak and near to death's door, that it seemed at 
 times scarcely able to contain the man that was 
 dwelling within, and, on different occasions, during 
 about one week, I passed as it were out from the 
 body, and appeared to know the people in the room, 
 and knew that I had left the body, and was able to 
 consider the fact that I was a body and a soul, and to 
 say, now I know that I am two, for there is my body 
 and here is my soul ; and realized that I could leave 
 the body, but not at my own will. I was suffering 
 principally from extreme weakness, but never ex- 
 perienced the fulness of the love of God, as then ; the 
 presence of the Lord with my soul, was more than 
 words can show. One day, during this time, I was 
 told by One whose voice came as from a distant land 
 
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 like a roll of thunder, but perfectly natural, familiar 
 " and suited to the ears. Its harmony and melody can- 
 not be explained. Never will be forgotten the voice 
 which told me I was called to go ; to go to another 
 world. It was the voice of command, but it filled my 
 soul with joy which I cannot express. For about 
 three days I remained unconscious of the exact mean- 
 ing of the call, but was fully expecting to leave this 
 body to moulder into dust, and be taken to where 
 a deeper love and higher, closer walk with God, would 
 be my lot to share. Although just waiting death, yet 
 those were perhaps the happiest hours of life, the most 
 sublime ; for then I had the closest walk with God ; a 
 something more than joy, or peace or pleasure. These 
 we may have and 'with them a silent voice longing for 
 something still higher and nearer to God, not perfect 
 rest. This was a new manna, a higher feast upon the 
 Bread of Life. Joy, peace, pleasure and rest were 
 mixed together in the fountain of love, because His 
 presence, who is the sun and life and joy of our soiM.<? 
 was there, giving me a foretaste of Heaven. God is 
 love, for His presence fills the heart with love ; not 
 mere affection, but love, while in this earthly taber- 
 nacle ; and more than love when we leave this body 
 and are closer to Him, in our being. I know no name 
 for what I realized in the presence of the Lord ; but 
 felt and knew God's presence. It was glory to the 
 soul I will call it the new manna. If before their 
 
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 fall our first parents inherited b}' nature that new 
 manna, how awful was the death, to lose that glory 
 and get a nature of sin and hate. About three days 
 after the call I realized its fulfilment, by leaving the 
 body and going to a world the glories of which can- 
 not be described. It was like a world of worlds. I 
 say world of worlds, because each one was surround- 
 ed by another. Each like a great tressel work of 
 thrones, perfect in form ; like a ball within a ball, or 
 a gr^at sea of living splendor. The centre of centres, 
 the throne of thrones, enclosed in a globe composed 
 of glorious beings, and the globe is encased by 
 another, just as though the clouds which surround 
 this earth were covered with another world of clouds, 
 leaving a clear space between. They in turn were 
 surrounded with another, and so on, world after world, 
 SD that a world of thrones, ten thousand miles from 
 the centre of the middle world, would be about twenty 
 thousand miles in diameter and sixty thousand rnilcs 
 in circumference. The redeemed souls from this 
 e.irth would not fill the countless millions of mansions 
 in one of those globes in ten thousand years. Then, 
 think of countless millions of worlds encircling each 
 other, as one great world of worlds ; a grand pavilion, 
 God's eternal throne, inhabited by immortal beings, 
 clothed in living garments, brightly glowing with, the 
 presence of the King of Kings, too grand to be des- 
 cribed. Their form was like that of man, but they 
 
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 were perfect ; beautiful in feature, past man's under- 
 standing, among whom I was but a child. I remained 
 just where I first arrived, looking at those by my side; 
 then at the countless hosts who were sitting upon 
 thrones, or mansion's, which formed the encirclinn- 
 worlds ; or at the centre world, surrounded by 
 worlds, the glory of which could not be told. There 
 were no temples or palaces there to dwell in. It was 
 like one vast throne, a city whose streets were marked 
 off by pews, with tables like pulpits of bright beauti- 
 ful hue, flickering in living beauty, with which there 
 is nothing on earth to compare. But the most beauti- 
 ful of all were the wonderful beings who were there, 
 robed in white mantles of living splendour, whose 
 visages were perfection. Judging by the curve in the 
 circle of the world where I was, we were very far 
 from that centre of centres ; but could see at a dis- 
 tance the same as if near. After gazing at the 
 glories of the surroundings; an J, while calmly con- 
 sidering what I s.iw. One in that centre of thrones 
 arose, and pointing with the right hand away to the 
 opposite direction from v/herc I was, told me that my 
 place Was appointed there in the third Heavens. He 
 who spoke, did not turn or look towards me. The 
 voice came like a distant thunder, or trom a great 
 trumpet, and it was just the same wonderful voice 
 which li^d called me to go three days before, which 
 fact should convince the most doubtful that the call 
 
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 and its fulfilment, as written, was real, and that 
 Heaven is real, which many will find to their joy and 
 others to their sorrow. As soon as my place was ap- 
 pointed, I felt a darkness ; a strange feeling came 
 over me and then I knew no more until restored to 
 
 / the body. 
 
 Joel iii., I. " For, behold, in those days and in that 
 time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah 
 and Jerusalem." 
 
 2. " I will also gather all nations, and will bring 
 them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will 
 plead with them there, for my people and for my 
 heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the 
 nations, and parted my land." 
 
 3. " And they have cast lots for my people ; and 
 given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, 
 that they might drink." 
 
 4. " Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, 
 and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine ? will ye 
 render me a recompence ? and if ye recompence me, 
 swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence 
 upon your own head." 
 
 7. " Behold I will raise them out of the place 
 whither ye have .sold them, and will return your recom- 
 pence upon your own head." 
 
 II. " Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, 
 and gather yourselves together round about ; thither 
 cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord." 
 
 
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 12. " Let the he? then be wakened, and come up to 
 the valley of Jehoshaphat : for there will I sit to judge 
 all the heathen round about." 
 
 The I ord Jesus Christ is on the throne of God, on 
 earth as well as in Heaven. " All power is ^iven 
 unto me in Heaven and on earth " (Matt. x> viii. 18). 
 " All things are delivered unto me of my Father " 
 (Matt, xi., 27). 
 
 The Lord gives blessings to His childrjii according 
 to their love, faith and obedience. Not many are fit 
 to b2 translated as I'lijah was ; not many to wrestle 
 with the Angel '.f the Lord as Abraham did ; not 
 many to go into . ^ presence of the LorJ an 1 receive 
 the commandments of G >.! as Moses did. None in 
 themselves were fit, but through Chr.st, by faith, love 
 and obedience, they were permitted ; and ;o God, who 
 changes not, deals with His pcojjlc to-day, giving 
 blessings according to their standard of love, faith and 
 obedience. 
 
 " The Father loveth the Son, ana has given all 
 things into His hinds " (John iii., 35), and " hast given 
 Him power over all flesh " (John xvii., 2). If we are 
 Christ's we arc loved of God, " For the Father himself 
 loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have be- 
 lieved that I came out from God " (John xvi., 27). 
 
 Are you a follower of our loving, sympathising 
 Saviour, who has suffered that you might be free ? 
 Free from the penalty exacted, by the justice of His 
 
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 own unchanging law, which seals your doom ? Then 
 remember, He says, " I will never leave thee, nor for- 
 sake thee." Let all your care be this, the doing of 
 His will. " As ye have therefore received Christ Josus, 
 the Lord, so walk ye in Him " (Col. ii., 6); and be led 
 forth to victory by the Lord, who says, " To him that 
 overcometh, will I grant to sit with me on my Father's 
 throne, even as. I overcame '.nd am set down with my 
 Father on His throne.". No tongue or pen can lell 
 the vastncss of the meaning attached to those wordr,— 
 " on His throne ;" a glorious centre, a world of worlds. 
 Oh, brother, sister, run the race that is set before you 
 with all your might. You cannot afford to grow .vcary 
 in well-doing while you are preparing for eternity. If 
 you labour and are heavy ladened, go to Jesus, just as 
 you did at first ; for He says, " I will give you rest " 
 (Matt, xi., 2H). If your faith is weak, pray for strength ; 
 look away from yourself and look to Jesus ; keep look- 
 ing to Jesus " the author and finisher of your faith " 
 (Heb. xii., 2). Having by faith a living personal 
 union with Him who says " because I live ye shall 
 live also ; " then you can say with David, at the last, 
 " into thy hands 1 commit my spirit, thou hast re- 
 deemed me O Lord God of truth" (Psa. xxxi., 5); 
 and, like Stephen, befoic you have left the body, 
 whils the spirit is just letting go its earthly tabernacle 
 and you are about to depart, you will see Him ; and call- 
 ing upon God, Jsaying " Lord Jesus receive my spirit " 
 
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 (Acts vli., 59). You will fall asleep and be pro- 
 moted ; translated into another, a glorious home. If 
 you live upon earth in close communion with and in 
 strict obedience to God, following wherever Jesus 
 leads, you will have peace and pleasure every day, 
 and have " power with God and with men '' (Gen. 
 xxxii., 28). 
 
 Joel ii., 2. " A day of darkness and cf gloominess 
 a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning 
 spread upon the mountains: a great people and a 
 strong ; there hath not been ever the like, neither 
 shall be any more after it even to the years of many 
 generations." 
 
 3. "A fire devoureth before them ; and behind 
 them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of 
 Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wil- 
 de»-ness ; yea and nothing shall escape them." 
 
 4. " The appearance of them is as the appearance 
 of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run." 
 
 7. " They shall run like mighty men ; they shall 
 climb the wall like men of war ; and they shall march 
 every one on his ways, and they shall not break their 
 
 ranks." 
 
 II. •' And the Lord shall utter his voice before his 
 army : for his camp is very great : for he is strong 
 that executcth his word : for the day of the Lord is 
 great and vciy terrible ; and who can abide il ? " 
 
 19. " Yea, the Lord will answer ar.d say unto his 
 
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 people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and 
 oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith : and I will no 
 more make you a reproach among the heathen." 
 
 20. " But I will remove far off from you the 
 northern army, and will drive him into a land barren 
 and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and 
 his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink 
 shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, 
 because he hath done great things." 
 
 How natural it was for the people who were looking 
 for the day of the Lord to expect a grand time — a 
 tim3 of rejoicing for saints and sinners — having a 
 great earthly kingdom S2t up to moiiopDlize all other 
 nations, and to be filled with earthly treasures. They 
 themselves were to be fed and clothed with the richest 
 and best of earthly blessings ; yes, all the good things 
 for self; but death and destructions for others. 
 
 Oh, how natural for the unrcgenerated soul to think 
 thus, and to expect the pure love of God to descend 
 to cultivate and feed their carnal nature with just 
 whatever they desired and how hard it was for them 
 to see the real condition, of their own circumstances. 
 How hard to see the cruel monster of death, the 
 leprosy of sin, the nature of self, of hate and of pride 
 which had seized the hum in family, and by which 
 they themselves were separated from their God, not 
 only from the glorious presence of God in Heaven 
 above, but even from an Eden upon earth. As th 
 
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 day of the Lord found ':hose people in darkness, 
 so it finds the rejectors of Christ to-day : but the 
 Rose of Sharon, the Star of Bethlehem is shining 
 through the clouds, and awakening the dead ones to 
 life ; and, as the Lord warned them of the terrible 
 destruction as written in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 7th 
 verses and spared them because they repented, so He 
 is warning people of the second death — a home in hell. 
 All who repent, by turning to the Saviour, are being 
 saved from the powers of satan, saved from the nature 
 of devils, saved from a home in hell. Can God be 
 perfect in love and allow sinners in Heaven ? We 
 answer. No. Could Heaven be pure and holy if a 
 particle of jealousy were there? Could Heaven be a 
 home of perfect love and pleasure if hate's cruel bands 
 were there ? Could Heaven's perfect harmony exist if 
 sin's vile discord were allowed to clog the wheels ? 
 Oh, no. The justice of man's reason answers, No. 
 Man's nature answers with unerring proof that sin 
 and righteousness arc mighty powers. Powers that 
 are opposed one to the other, even in this world 
 The embodiment of the powers of sin is a living 
 nature, therefore no sin could exist on earth unless 
 man became sin. Then it is plain that the sinner is 
 sin, the embodiment of sin, while he by nature rejects 
 the Saviour's mercy and therefore could not dwell in 
 the presence of God. As sin and hate are oppos ed to 
 love and righteousness, so Heaven and hell are op-> 
 
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 posed by their very nature. To exclude the sinner 
 who rejects the Saviour's love from entering Heaven 
 only manifests the boundless perfect love of God ; 
 just as a parent would exclude from his family one 
 who has the leprosy, b^cius^ he loves the rest, so 
 God's love is manifested in banishing sin from Heaven. 
 Can God be perfect in mercy and cast sinners into 
 hell ? We answer. Yes, perfect ; perfect in mercy as in 
 all His attributes ; perfect in mercy as in all His 
 works ; perfect in mercy as in love and in justice. 
 Was God perfect in mercy when He paid the law's 
 demands upon the cross for fallen, sinful man ? When 
 He freely suffered in our stead, not only for a part, but 
 the whole world, so that every one who cometh into 
 the world are redeemed. " Therefore as by the offence 
 of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation ; 
 even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came 
 upon all men unto justification of life" (Rom. v, 18). 
 Yes ; it was boundless mercy brought the blessed 
 Saviour down to man's condition, to break the bars of 
 death, to satisfy eternal justice and to connect once 
 more to earth the glorious ladder whose steps are 
 made of mercy, love, and justice all combined. It was 
 mercy, love and justice that brought the King of 
 Glory down to seal it to earth, with his own blood ; 
 that, ascending from the tomb, he himself might 
 'make the way to take us with Him to the glories of 
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 sinners to the shelter of His fold ; and none can taste 
 the pangs of an eternal hell without they first reject 
 His offered mercy. No soul is lost without he first 
 refuses to climb the wonderful ladder of mercy, lead- 
 ing from earth to Heaven. The soul that beholds the 
 love of Jesus Chrigt bleeding on the cross for him and 
 coolly spurns the offered mercy, spending his life for 
 satan and the world, is past repentance. Like Judas 
 he goes beneath the law that seals his doom, and sends 
 himself to the place for which he has, by his own 
 choice, prepared. By nature he is only fit to dwell 
 with devils in the jaws of hell, not because God's 
 mercy is not full and free, but because the m:in has 
 no mercy on himseFand must go to the place he has 
 chosen. 
 
 What is hell ? Hell is the abode of the devil and 
 his followers, who once enjoyed the glories of Heaven, 
 who b2came sin and were cast out. They were par- 
 takers of the goodness of God, and fell after partaking 
 of the Tree of Life, the presence and love of God. 
 They having sinned under such li^;ht, knowing so well 
 what they were doing, became hardened, fixed in their 
 nature, just as Adam and Eve would have been, had 
 they been permitted to partake of God's presence and 
 love, after they had sinned. They must live for ever 
 in a nature which kindness cannot change, which can- 
 not be restored to love again and fitted for Heaven. 
 Even if the love of God, as shown upon the cross, 
 
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 were extended to them as it is to man they would not 
 be changed ; they might b2lieve but not b2 made any 
 better ; not born again, not fitted for Heaven ; their 
 iiciturc of hate would not be changed to love. If try- 
 ing to do good to some men in this world, is like 
 '' casting pearls before swine," it rhust be worse to 
 try to do good to devils, the nature of whose being is 
 hate and darkness, void of every particle of love or 
 justice. " Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, 
 neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they 
 trample them under their feet, and turn again and 
 rend you." — Matt, vii., 6. If you were to place a 
 number of savage bull dogs all together in one 
 room for the purpo;>e of doing them good, to 
 give them food and shelter, and, as soon as 
 you have turned them in, you gave them plenty 
 of good meat to satisfy their hunger, what 
 would be the result of your kindness ? How would 
 you be rewarded for your love to the brutes ? Why, 
 the chances are, that they would tear each other to 
 pieces instead of the meat ; and the rage and fury of 
 their nature would enable them to fight until many of 
 them were dead, or dying, and so their suffering 
 would be very much increased instead of lessened. 
 They would turn their abode into a prison of suff"ering, 
 hate, and slaughter, but that could not be compared 
 with the awfulness of hell, for. although they might 
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 being torn into pieces, yet the brimstone is not there 
 — the pain is only physical not mental. They are 
 not filled with the eternal fire of remorse, like devils 
 and fiends, over a lost Heaven, a ruined life, a lost 
 eternity. They only think of the present moment 
 and are not fired with the horrors of eternal ruin. 
 
 It is evident that God permits ruling powers to 
 have their own way in hell, as on earth, or in Heaven. 
 Eph. iii., lo : " To the intent that now unto the prin- 
 cipalities and powers in heavenly places might be 
 known by the church the manifold wisdom of God." 
 Also, Eph. i., 21 : "Far above all principality, and 
 power, and might, and dominion, and every name 
 that is named, not only in this world, but also in that 
 which iy to come." So that there are principalities 
 and powers in Heaven above as well as on this earth, 
 and God has established laws and fixed rules by 
 which angels, men and devils a^-e controlled ; by 
 which the wicked are judg:d and punished, and the 
 righteous judged and rewarded. As the rewards arc 
 great and eternal, so the punishments are great and 
 lasting. 
 
 In visions, I saw as it were the regions of hell, 
 Where the beings res mblcd nan in form; wliose 
 visage was dark and cruel, having a ghastly grey ap- 
 pearance, who spent their time in fighting and tortur- 
 ing each other. I was permitted to see but not to 
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 the dark abode, but I could see without a light, just 
 as some birds and animals can see in the dark, I 
 gazed with horror at the mustering ranks of devils, as 
 they formed in battle array and became as beasts or 
 elements of fury and vengeance, devouring each other 
 until they were tormented to the last degree of suffer- 
 ing, whose bodies, though torn asunder, would unite 
 together again as though drawn by gravity. There 
 was no dropping blood or wasting tissues. It was not 
 mortal and CDuld not b3 annihilated. I saw rank 
 after rank undergoing the continual process of torture, 
 compelled by each other to their awful fate, as if 
 under rules of order and controlled by some higher 
 powers of darkness, as well as their own dark cruel 
 natures. And again, as I with others, crossed a 
 vacant apartment, just beyond the wall or line of 
 safety, we were surrounded by devils who impeded 
 our way, and by wild threats, ti*ied to stop and take 
 us into their awful hell of hells, but did not stop us 
 while wc made towards the place of safety. As I 
 leaped across beyond their reach and turned and saw 
 one of my company, who had lingered just a moment, 
 seized and dragged to an awful doom. It seemed to 
 me that this world is that vacant apartment; and that 
 he who rejects the Saviour is the one who lingers and 
 is doomed to hell as his eternal home, to endure the 
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 to exist, and cannot cease while devils have the nature 
 which is theirs. 
 
 The torments of hell, called fire, existed before that 
 which man recognizes as b^in^:^ fire ; anJ thj Lord 
 has ordained that mm should call both by thj sam2 
 name, so that we might know something of the awful 
 sufferings of the torments of hell. When men get 
 enraged and fight and stab each other through and 
 through, do you think as you watch them suffering in 
 the agonies of death that God is not merciful because 
 they suffer so ? Oh, no, you understand that God has 
 made a law which they have broken, therefore they 
 must suffer. It cannot be other»vise ; they suffer the 
 burning pain, lit by the fires of hell. A material fire 
 may be fed by wood, brimstone, oil, or other substan- 
 ces united, which waste away and are consumed ; but 
 the fires of hell are fed by a brimstone that docs not 
 waste away and is not consumed — a brimstone com- 
 po.sed of sin's black fountain — hate, deceit, remorse, 
 and jealousy ; all united, flaming up into the furies of 
 an awful hell that does not cease and nev'cr can. 
 
 Are you .saved, dear reader ? Saved ! and can you 
 rest at ease, and watch a neighbour, a friend or foe, 
 make his bed in such an awful hell ? Can you ? Then 
 you better examine your own heart and see whether 
 the love of God is dwelling in your .soul or not. If 
 not, you had better go to the beautiful fountain for 
 cleansing; to the beautiful fountain of love, and get 
 
 
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 filled with love and the Spirit, and aroused to a higher 
 sense of your privileges and of yout responsibilities, 
 and so be led forth to work and to victory. 
 
 And again, I saw just inside the regions of the 
 damned, one whose features resembled that of a 
 woman, standing^ with back to a pillar or black looking 
 wall, fixed to remain there, with arms fastened behind 
 and the appearance of hell stamped upon her visage, 
 although not down into its awful centre. She repre- 
 sents the moral man, who tried to be honest with his 
 fellow-man, and, morally speaking, was a very g:A?H 
 living person, but rejected eternal Hfc, and the law of 
 God is still resting on him, which Jesus suffered to 
 save him from by changing his nature and paying his 
 debt ; but he refused the '.."fcrcd grace and is debarred 
 from entering heaven, ar»d is just by the borders of 
 hell awaiting the final judgment. Arc you, dear 
 reader, gliding down life's rapid river in tlie boat of 
 morality and respectability, for your liaviour, expect- 
 ing them to save you from hell. Then, stop. Oh, 
 fttop, just now, for you may enter the rapids of death 
 with only a moment's warning and be left to a fate 
 like hers to await at the portals of hell in the place of 
 the lo.st, instead of .seeing the Lord in the Heavens, 
 when the trumpet shall sound, calling you to the 
 glories of Paradise, to await with the redeemed ones 
 of earth, the same great day of final judgment, when 
 the last sound of the trumpet is given. That is now 
 
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 calling, and will then have called the last 'saint and 
 sinner from time into eternity. Then the books of 
 remembrance will be opened and the wicked be sen- 
 tenced to hell and the righteous to Heaven with perfect 
 justice, for God is not a respector of persons. 
 
 And again, I was shown just inside the entrance, or 
 one of the many large doorway.s. Some beings ap- 
 peared to be doing something with large vessels, like 
 boilers foaming with heat ; and a little nearer the 
 doorway, lying on the material below, was a being 
 fixed in a large dark-looking covering, or skin, • filled 
 with liquid, which embalmed the whole body. The 
 arms were bound to his side. He kept up a continu- 
 al wailing, and one of the beings every few minutes 
 would rush at him, cursing and pounding him in the 
 face, because of the noise of the wailing. So they 
 continued without stopping, which shewed the awful 
 nature of a devil, the brimstone of hell, and of its fire. 
 The ''urious hate, remorse and cruel vengeance of 
 devils and fiends is the brimstone that never ceases ; 
 never is consumed ; and the fire is its effects that is 
 poured out by the decrees of God. James iii., 6 : 
 " And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is 
 the tongue among our members, that it defileth tl e 
 whole body, and setteth on fire the course of natUiC ; 
 and it is set on fire of hell." 
 
 As in this world there is a cause for every effect, so 
 it must be in that world of torment. A few sparks of 
 
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 the fires of hell may be felt even in this world, where 
 sin's cruel hand has touched the golden cords of lifj. 
 In. all His works, which we call nature, God has made 
 laws that cannot be broken, without the penalty for 
 the breach is paid in full. If in childhood the arm is 
 crushed and amputated, the arm and all its usefulness 
 is gone for ever, and the man must suffer the loss all 
 the days of his life. The law of eternal justice de- 
 mands it. Cut a small nitch in the body of the sma 1 
 sappling, and in thirty years after )'ou may find that 
 it is a large mark on a large tree. The tree yon have 
 spoiled must remain spoiled for evjr, as the punish- 
 ment due for the law that was broken. Destroy the 
 eyes of man or beast, and they must remain in dark- 
 ness, never again to have sight restored ; perpetu il 
 darkness is the equivalent which the law demands. 
 A severe punishment it is, yet it must be paid. The 
 miser spends his life in hard, weary toil, stowing away 
 his money and his goods, feeding and clothing him- 
 self with a beggar's portion, hoping soon to enjoy 
 what he has saved. So he keeps on plodding and 
 hoping until his life is spent ; but the sword of ven- 
 geance is cutting all the time and giving justice what 
 he claims, for God has made the li le of demarkation 
 that satisfies plain justice throughout creation. If w.j 
 follow the miser's life of broken laws, we find the 
 punishment attending every breach. First, he thinks 
 more of the gold and silver lent him than he ought, 
 
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 and it is placed in a box or a bank by his own hands, 
 never to be used by him again, but kept for another. 
 Second, all the good things which God has provided 
 and placed within his reach are practically rejected ; 
 because he is too stingy to use them for good to him- 
 self or his friends; and, as a punishment he loses 
 the blessings for ever. Third, he meant to be rich, 
 happy and free ; but, with his money stowed away, 
 he was poor all his days : his food, his raiment and 
 his pleasures were limited, and he was always longing 
 for more property and money. The brightest as well 
 as the dullest boy, who sips the drunkard's social glass 
 is tainted by its touch ; each separate glass winds 
 around his conscience, his taste, and his will, as the 
 spider winds it web around its prey, leaving each time 
 a thin dark band of death, which, n continued, will 
 complete its work in moulding his character and seal 
 his doom. Each glass of poison seals its own brand 
 upon the nerves, the taste, and the brains ; and any 
 law in nature broken thus, can never be again as 
 though it had not been. God's laws in nature cannot 
 be broken without the penalty is paid ; the punish- 
 ment inflicted. He who rejects the Saviour's love 
 cannot have the love of God in his own heart ; nor 
 have eternal life while eternal death is living in his 
 soul. He cannot serve God and mammon ; neither 
 can he have eternal life and eternal death reigning 
 together. As we find that God's decrees of punish- 
 

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 m?nt for sin, in breaking laws of nature are very 
 severe and always executed, so, also^ the broken laws 
 which spoil the character of the soul is always punish- 
 ed, and c in:iot escape. The perfect law of justice 
 wh^ch says the soul that sins shall die, is united by 
 cdv.u-y's cross to the perfect law of mercy, which 
 satisfies justic- ; and says that whosoever will, may 
 for a lo )k at the cross have everlasting life, the 
 presence of God in his soul. 
 
 Rev. xxii., 1,2. " And he shewed me a pure river 
 of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the 
 throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the 
 street of it, and on either side of the river, was there 
 the tree of life, which bare tweVc manner of fruits^ 
 and yielded her fruit every month : and the leaves of 
 the tree were for'^he healing of the nations." 
 
 The river, clear as crystal, is pure as Christ was 
 p-.irc, and fl );vs frnm the wonderful fountain of God's 
 love and mercy, right from the throne of God and of 
 the Lamb, down to a lost and sinful world ; from the 
 Creator to the created ; from Heaven to sarth ; down 
 until it reached the depth of calvary's cross. All who 
 are immersed in its waters arc baptized with the 
 spirit of God and the fire of love. 
 
 In Bible language, waters mean people, not in a 
 physical sense ; not the bodies, but the spirit ; the 
 
 life, the nature, the souls. 
 
 And in the midst and on 
 
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 either side of the river," meaning the flowing together 
 
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 of the waters, is " the Tree of Life," God with rnan. 
 Christ has arisen from the dead and is become our 
 lite, administering to those who accept his atoning 
 sacrifice, his spirit ; the bread of life, through the 
 Holy Ghost, making them one in spirit, and one in 
 redemption, redeemed from the curse of the law. 
 
 Christ is the true vine, and we are the branches, 
 through whom, He, the Tree of Life, bears fruit ; 
 the fruit of righteousness; that vve through Him 
 might become sons of God and heirs of Heaven, and 
 so escape from the adversary of our souls, having life 
 and peace and joy for evermore. If you refuse this 
 wonderful salvation and reject the Saviour's love ; 
 just to follow the allurements of the world; and 
 nibble at the gilded bait of the adversary of your soul, 
 be sure that your doom lies in his hands and he will 
 drag you down to hell, because you choose it to be so. 
 What man seeks most, he may obtain ; but must 
 suffer the consequences. Tf you sow the seeds of love, 
 you reap the same. If you seek after righteousness, 
 you shall obtain the fruits it yields in this world, and 
 rich reward for all eternity. Then follow Jesus now, 
 wherever He may lead, and strive to do His blessed 
 will, for it is life unto your soul (yourself) for ever- 
 more. If you sow the seeds of hate and sin, bitter 
 will be the harvest you shall reap ; for every one 
 shall be rewarded according to the deeds done in this 
 body, whether they be good or evil. If you accept 
 
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 Christ ds your Saviour, you will have a mansion 
 amongst the greatest or among the least in the king- 
 dom of Heaven, according to the life you now live, 
 the preparation you now are making. If hell is your 
 doom, you will be deep down in its centre, according 
 as your nature has been prepared and hardened by 
 sin ; for to whatever extent it is permitted to touch 
 the nature, it taints the soul. Is he brave who is 
 afraid to do the right ; afraid to refuse the social 
 glass, though he knows that for him it contains a 
 prison ; afraid to speak a word, to save a fellow from 
 eternal ruin ; afraid to acknowledge Jesus Christ as 
 his Saviour ; afraid to die because he has not been 
 brave enough to accept (by turning from the devil) 
 the crown of life, and is therefore not prepared ; 
 afraid that someone might see him running away 
 from real danger although he knows he ought to do so. 
 Who — like the ostrich, sticking its head under the 
 sand through fear, because the huntsman is coming at 
 a distance— is hiding beneath the sinking sands of 
 chance, waiting with silent fear, hoping that the day 
 of death and judgment may not be near : so he 
 awaits just where he is, trusting to chance which 
 seems to sooth him, until the trumpet sounds, and his 
 privilege of accepting is past ; his nature se . for ever. 
 His fear comes suddenly upon him in reality and 
 satan claims him by eternal laws, which God has 
 made, that bar him out of Heaven. 
 
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 LOST. 
 
 He lost the Father's greatest gift, 
 
 The Son of (iod, to set him free, ** 
 Who, in his nature's fate is fixed, 
 Fixed in the great eternity. 
 
 He lost the great Redeemer's love. 
 
 That freely flaws from Calvary, 
 And, by God's never changing law. 
 
 Has sealed his own dark destiny. 
 
 . He lost far more than mortals know, 
 
 Of endless light, and glorious life with God, 
 
 Where love's sweet manna of living blessings flow, 
 W.io, rejecting Christ, hv, wandered far abroad. 
 
 He lost a pardon, its value none can tell, 
 
 Who longed not for the pearly gate. 
 But travelled in the ways of hell, 
 Feeding his soul on sin and hate. 
 
 He lost mach more than man may think, 
 
 In the wondrous gift, (Jod's own beloved Son : 
 When trifling, slept on death's dark l)rink. 
 Till days of grace on eirth wore d )nc. 
 
 He lost much more than time reveals, 
 By added wealth of centuries on earth, 
 
 For ceaseless rolling ages swell, 
 The one long night that seals his birth. 
 
 He rol)bed himself of all but hell, 
 
 Its nature and its fires that burn, 
 And fellowship with fiends to dwell, 
 
 For he the Saviour's love doth spurn. 
 
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 He robbed himself of all that's good, 
 
 By following o'er the sinking sands, 
 Feasting on that which is not food, 
 
 But husks of sin, from satan's hands. 
 
 He robbed himself of light and life. 
 
 And drinks the power of sin below ; 
 He struggled in the world's vain strife. 
 
 With selfish aims, for peace, which none can know. 
 
 Which he has lost ? Lost ! b3caus3 hz hardened his 
 heart against the Holy Ghost ; and against the 
 gracious invitations of the loving Saviour ; refused 
 salvation by rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ. Joel 
 ii., 20 : " But I will remove far off from you the 
 northern army, and will drive him into a land barren 
 and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and 
 his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink 
 shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, 
 because he hath done great things." The Lord 
 promised to drive the enemies of that people far off, 
 to the east sea ; or to a distant heathen people, who 
 knew nothing of righteousness, where there was noth- 
 ing to destroy ; and where he, the destroyer, would be 
 exposed for his iniquity ; the punishment of the 
 sins of a wicked people would have been sent 
 upon them, had they not repented by turn- 
 ing from evil. There are people to-day hardening 
 their hearts against the mercies of God, while He is 
 offering to drive their enemies far away and to set 
 
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 them at liberty ; liberty from self, and from their 
 besetting sin ; and liberty from the drink demon, or 
 liberty from the slums ; liberty from fornication, or 
 liberty from lying deceit ; liberty into the glorious 
 light of gospel truth, light that shows the awful nature 
 of sin, and what great things it has done to destroy 
 and blight its victims. Oh, if you are among that 
 number, accept the off^^red mercy, by starting now ! 
 Jiist now! to follow where Jesus leads, that you too 
 miy escape from those adversaries and receive the 
 blessing of the Lord in your soul. Then will He lead 
 you in the beautiful path of righteousness, to feast as 
 we and many others are feasting, upon the sweet pas- 
 tures of His presence, by the beautiful rivers of the 
 waters of life Awake ! you who arc sleeping on the 
 sinking sands of sin. Awake! forth~bi.ids of love 
 and mercy will quickly be severed by the knife of 
 justice. Then the cords of hell, that are now fasten- 
 ed to your soul, will drag you down into the awful 
 abode of the lost. Awake ! don't stop to look at 
 others faults until you are lost in hell. Don't stop to 
 argue with satan, who once was an angel of light, lest 
 his deception hinder your escape, and you be crushed 
 beneath His vengeance. Don't wait to consider 
 whether you are good enough or not, while death is 
 lurking in your soul. Never put off till to-morrow, nor 
 rest until you have peace through accepting Christ, 
 that speaks your sins forgiven ; the fellowship of love 
 
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 to God, that gives you joy of heart, a fountain of 
 pleasure in this lift;, and glory beyond this strife of sin 
 against righteousness. Every follower of God must 
 face this strife in this world, while there is a soul un- 
 redeemed, while there are dear ones to be saved from 
 the destroyer ; dear ones who are watching your life, 
 if you are a Christian nd expecting your aid. Oh, 
 Christian, be true to your God, to your brother, your 
 sister. Be true to those who need salvation, who are 
 drifting to an awful doom. B^ earnest in lifting up 
 t'.ie Saviour, that they might look and live ; lead them 
 t3 the fountain of living waters of life, that they with 
 yju may rejoice and be glad in the Lord for evermore. 
 Then, great will be your reward. Every act of love 
 and mercy done by you, in the name of Jcsuo Christ, 
 for a fellow creature is but another touch of the 
 Master's will, fitting and preparing you for a higher 
 mansion, a higher life with God. For as man is pre- 
 pared by nature, when he leaves this world, so his 
 glory will ^be great or small, and a mansion accord- 
 ingly suited to him in Heaven ; or his guilt fixed upon 
 him, and a place prepared in hell. Matt, xxv., 40-46 : 
 " And the Kingf shall answer and say unto them. 
 Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it 
 unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have 
 done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them 
 on the left hand. Depart from me, ye cursed, into ever- 
 lasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels : 
 
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 For I was an hungrcd, and ye gave mc no meat : I 
 was thirsty, and yc gave me no drink : I was a stran- 
 ger, and ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed 
 me not : sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 
 Then shall they also answer him, saying. Lord, when 
 saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or 
 naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto 
 thee ? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily, I 
 say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the 
 least of these, ye did il not to me. And these shall 
 go away into everlasting punishment: but the right- 
 eous unto life eternal." 
 
 " Ye have done it unto mc." It is not the mere act 
 that is valued and rewarded by the Lord, in frivin^'- a 
 cup of cold water in the name of Christ, but the 
 nature of the love in which it is given. The nature 
 that rejects the Saviour cannot give even a cup of 
 cold water in His name ; for, unless given in love, not 
 selfish affections, but the love of God, it is not given 
 in His name. However fine the outward show, or lip 
 profession, it will not be accepted of God, unless it is 
 love from the heart. Oh, the awful meaning of those 
 words — " Depart from me yc cursed into everlasting 
 fire "—that sentence, like a burning flame will fill the 
 being with fire of hell. To see himself barred out of 
 Heaven and given over to devils, because he chose it 
 so, will fill the soul with fire that ceases not to burn 
 and torment him, with the fires of hell in the presence 
 
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 of his God, and the holy atij^cls before tlic judgment 
 bar of God. How important then that we each one 
 search our ways and see if we are preparinjj to hear 
 the welcome home '* ye have done it unto me." Or, 
 will it be " depart from me ye cursed " *' inasmuch as 
 ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to 
 me." We are either preparing to suffer the second 
 separation from God, or to enjoy the glories of Mis 
 presence for ever. How great is the question. Where 
 am I going to spend eternity ? In a better world, or a 
 worse one than this. Happy are they, and blessed, 
 who beneath th.^ shadow of His presence upon the 
 Rock of Ages- can read through Christ their titles 
 clear to mansions in the sky. It is placed within the 
 reach of all to do so, but he who seeks an entrance 
 into Heaven on his own merits, through fear of hell 
 fire, and has no other motive to be a Christian than 
 a selfish one, can never be a Christian by nature, only 
 by name. He who is prompted to bj good only ■ 
 through fear of punishment can never be good by 
 nature. The fearful and the unbeliever shall be 
 turned into hell. Love casteth out fear. He who 
 wants salvation because he wants to be better in his 
 own nature, and asks the Lord to make him so, ex- 
 pecting what he. asks for, receives the blessing every 
 time ; for he cannot ask thus without faith. When 
 he repents by turning away from sin and follows 
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 Saviour, he receives the blessing of peace and 
 pardon, and h ith eternal life ; not thinks he has, but 
 has eternal life. To be a Christian because one wants 
 to be, is not hard, but easy ; to accept the Saviour's 
 offered mercy is not hard, but easy, if you really want 
 to do so. While you halt between two opinions the 
 way is hard. Some who want to have eternal life 
 through Jesus Christ the Saviour, are snared by satan, 
 who gets them to halt and wait until to-morrow. 
 They wait with good intentions for a time, which 
 never comes, and arc lost. 
 
 Rom. vi., 16-23 : " Know ye not, that to whom ye 
 yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are 
 to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of 
 obedience unto righteousness ? But God be thanked, 
 that ye were the .servants of sin, but ye have obeyed 
 from the heart that form of doctrine which was deliv- 
 ered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became 
 the servants of righteousness. I speak after the man- 
 ner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh : for 
 as ye have yielded your members servants to un- 
 cleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity ; even so now 
 yield your members servants to righteousness unto 
 holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye 
 were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then 
 in those things whereof ye are now ashamed ? for the 
 end of those things is death. But now being made 
 free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have 
 
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 your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 
 For the \vag05 of sin is death ; but the gift of God is 
 eternal lite through Jesus Christ our Lord." 
 
 If you yield to the influence of sin, you by obedience 
 become a servant of sin ; and, until you are made 
 free by the blood of Christ, you live in its atmosphere 
 and are a servant ofsatan. Just as the waters of a 
 river take the boat towards the ocean, so sin drags 
 tbj soul towards hell ; but, blessed be God, who hath 
 pitied our helpless condition and changed the whole 
 atmosphere above, and sent a gentle breeze to drive 
 us back !ip the current of the waters — a breeze which 
 flows abovC; with power to stop our downward speed, 
 and drive our little barque upwards, on the course of 
 life's fitful river, towards the pearly gates of Heaven. 
 If we will but hear his voice, and cha-^-e the helm 
 and raise the v.illing sails mercy's breeze to calch and 
 set us fr^^e from the powers of death below, then we 
 are free. No longer are we the servants of satan, 
 obedient unto death, but servants of the King of 
 Kings, children of our P'ather and our God ; heirs 
 through Jesus Christ to the aew Jerusalem above, 
 where glory fills the soul, for His presence will be 
 there, and that will be Heaven's highest glory, its 
 greatest joy. x^ 11 may taste the jo)' of His presence 
 her:.', e/^n here, w'.i::re \V2 cinnot see Hiii as He is. 
 Then we shall see Hnn face to face, and, if we know 
 and love him now, we shall know and love him then 
 
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 with a higher, purer love. Oh, shall we not hear the 
 call and accept His mercy now ! Why spend our time 
 in sin, au.i let life's chances pass forever? Why live a 
 life on earth that will yield the fruits of repentance in 
 the fires of hcli ? If not alrcatly saved, oh do not. rest 
 until you are ; nor cease to st-ive with all ) r ur mi^ht 
 to live a life of obedience unto righteousness. You 
 can find no fiuit that is good in sin ; none but those 
 which blight, and curse the soul. But the h-uits you 
 reap from serving God are holiness and everlasting 
 hfe. "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God, 
 is eternal life." Sin, when embodied, is a living 
 moving, nature of cruel, jealous, hating, covetous 
 deceit ; and he who is sin, is a child of satan, inasmuch 
 as satan is the father of lies. We cannct eo to 
 Heaven without the new birth, through the blood and 
 resurrection of Christ, for by the character of our 
 nature God will judge and give everyone a place in 
 the ranks which his character marks for him. The 
 joys which sinners find in sin are but, the sweetened 
 coatings of the fiery pills of hell, for its pleasures 
 quickly pa.ss and leave a deadly sting to fester in the 
 soul. Each little act af sin, each little hate, is but an 
 added drop to make the bands of hell more firm, until 
 the being is a nature lost through sin and turned 
 away from God. We pray for you who read, fearing 
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 of sin till life is past, and Heaven to them is lost, for 
 ever lost. 
 
 Rom. v., 6-13 : " For when we were yet v/ithout 
 strength, in clue time Christ died for the ungodly. 
 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die : yet 
 peradventure for a good man some would even dare 
 to die But God commendeth his love toward us, 
 in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died ^ •. vs. 
 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, vve 
 shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when 
 we were enemies, we were reconciled to God bv the 
 death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we 
 shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we 
 also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by 
 whom vve have now received the atonement. Where- 
 fore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and 
 death by sin ; and so death passed upon all men, for 
 that .ill have sinned : For until the law sin was in 
 the world : but sin is not imputed when there is no 
 law. 
 
 During the old world, before Christ, man did not 
 know God as we do, but were down in darkness from 
 which they could not rise. Without the light of life — 
 the Sun of our souls — neither can the sinner or the 
 heathen of to-day know God. They were in the dis- 
 pensation when God ruled by Angels ; but we are in 
 the dispensation of the Kingdom of God. Then men 
 knew but little of the indwelling of the love of God, 
 
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His presence, His mercy and justice. Therefore they 
 could not receive the image of God in their character, 
 nor receive the Holy Ghost the Comforter ; they could 
 not know God's boundless love, for they did not be- 
 hold in Him the one who would take their nature on 
 Himself and weep over a fallen world, of which He 
 Himself would become a part that they might be 
 raised. They could not say as we can, " He has borne 
 our sins Himself, and has paid our debt on the Cross, 
 has finished the work." They saw no victory over 
 sin for sinners won ; they did not even understand the 
 meaning of the sacrifices, the types of Christ, who 
 would die upon the cross for them, for they had not 
 strength to see their own lost and ruined state. They 
 could not realise the fact that they were Satan's prop- 
 erty, and that Heaven to them was lost and lost for 
 ever, unless redeemed ; therefore could not receive the 
 new birth, from selfishness and hate to love and right- 
 eousness. But we can see and know of a Saviour's 
 love, and have strength to grow '"n grace, the love 
 wherewith He hath loved us, because His love is mani- 
 fested in our behalf, reconciling us to Himself, bapti- 
 sing us with His own nature of love, and thereby fit- 
 ting us for the indwelling of His presence, giving 
 peace and rest, and preparing the mortal for immor- 
 tality and Heaven, and satisfying God's laws of divine 
 eternal justice. If those in darkness were held respon- 
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 sown, how much more are wc responsible, who have 
 the light of Go J shining upon us, if we do not use our 
 talents for His glory ? They had a few blessings or 
 talents, but wc have many. Much more perfection of 
 character will ba required of us, for every one must 
 render an account according to the blessings lent him. 
 Then search your own nature diligently and prepare 
 to meet the Lord, for the time is near at hand when 
 you must leave this life to meet the Judge who knows 
 your every thought, who will say to Christ's rejectors, 
 " Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire." " But God 
 commendeth His love to us in that while we were yet 
 sinners, Ciirist died for us," and rose that we might 
 have the resurrcctic)n power and be created for another 
 world. Before man's fall, he was created and fitted 
 only for this world, but was intended for another ; his 
 nature was such that he would yield to the first tempt- 
 ation and sin. He was not yet fitted for the paradise 
 above, to which he was intended to go and spend eter- 
 nal ages. His fljsh an 1 blood like all things of time 
 were to change and ripen, like the cars of corn, and, 
 falling asleep to crumble into 0'u<t OTtce more, to await 
 the resurrection morn, tor nhich the soul also should 
 wait in paradise above. I: prepared for death, then it 
 shall be clothed upon with an immortal glorious body ; 
 but if not prepared to meet the Lortl, must wait in the 
 borders of hell, to be clothed in its body of sin, tv> burn 
 in its fires, and waii ii^ its torments of woe. 
 
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 Stop now, and think ! Prepare, oh, prepare, for 
 soon you must meet with the King to be judged ! 
 I'hen don't fail ; don't fail, to prepare ! In the day 
 that Adam sinned, he died ; but his body did not 
 cease to live, he himself died. The nature of his soul, 
 that would have admitted him into paradise above, 
 was lead, and he was changed. Before the fall, he 
 was happy in the presence of God ; after, he was not 
 so and was unfitted for paradise below as well as that 
 above. In the face of eternal justice, he had become 
 another creature ; to renew that soul to life again is 
 to create a soul for Heaven, which is i;he second and 
 all important creation in connection with us. In this 
 second creation, we each one have a part to :ict, by 
 which we stand or fall, a test of love to gauge our 
 worth, to mark us wheat or tarjs. '' VVh:i-efore, as by 
 one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, 
 and so death passed upon all men, for that all have 
 sinned." i^ut Christ now offers pardv-n. Will you by 
 any means reject it and be doomed ? v )h, don't reject 
 the Saviour's love, but accept Him now. Just now, 
 before it is forever too late. Prepare now to meet the 
 Lord thy God. 
 
 As the sinner and liis sins arc one, 
 Or as poverty and u.iiU .'ijllulc, 
 
 So Christ's rejector, c(iiiie viiulone, 
 Satan uis i)ound in sin and pride. 
 
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 Each evil thought, the product of a cause within, 
 Is marked and seasoned by a devil's breath ; 
 
 Ignorance yields, but pride and sin, 
 
 And broken laws an endless lingering death. 
 
 And laws abound to bless mankind, 
 
 Laws both of good and evil. 
 That we through them might be refined ; 
 
 Created saints to dwell in Heaven. 
 
 Rom. viii., 6. "For to be carnally minded is death; 
 but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." 
 
 7. *' Because the carnal mind is enmity against 
 God : for it is not subject to the law of God, neither 
 indeed can be." 
 
 8. " So then they that are in the flesh cannot 
 please God." 
 
 9. " But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, 
 if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if 
 any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of 
 his." 
 
 10. " And if Christ be in you, the body is dead 
 because of sin ; but the Spirit is life because of 
 righteousness." 
 
 11. " But if th^ Spirit of him that raised up Jesus 
 from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ 
 from the dead .shill also quicken your mortal bodies 
 by his Spirit that dwcllcth in you." 
 
 I.?. " Therefore, brethren, we arc debtors, not to 
 the flesh, to live after the llesh." 
 
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 13- "For if yc live after the flesh, ye shall die : 
 but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of 
 the body, ye shall live." 
 
 To be cariially minded is to long for the things of 
 
 earth in preference to the things of Heaven ; to have 
 
 a nature that will sell the truth in order to obtain 
 
 earthly blessings ; to love evil rather than good, that 
 
 is carnal, that is death. Such arc dead to the likeness 
 
 and image of God, dead to the presence of the Holy 
 
 Ghost, dead to the nature of love and meekness that 
 
 fits a soul for Heaven, the white robe and the wedding 
 
 garment. Carnally minded, dead in sin, not the same 
 
 nature, therefore not the same creatures that they 
 
 ought to b„' ; instead of bjnig in harmony with God's 
 
 love, and thereby with His divine will, they are at 
 
 enmity against God, for they are not subject to the 
 
 law of God, for by their very nature, they cannot be. 
 
 To be spiritually minded is life and peace, happy in 
 
 the presence of God, like the child at its parent's knee, 
 
 because love casteth out fear. If we are in the flesh, 
 
 we cannot please God, because we are spiritually dead 
 
 while the flesh predominates, leading the soul into 
 
 sin, and controlling the man ; therefore, the soul is 
 
 dead unto righteousness and can do nothing ; and 
 
 the body is alive unto sin, through the consent of the 
 
 enslaved, dead soul. So then, they that arc in the 
 
 flesh cannot please God. You arc not of the Spirit 
 
 while you have the nature with which you came into 
 
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 this world ; not in the Spirit unless you have the 
 Spirit of God dwelling in your heart ; and, if Christ 
 be in you, the body is dead, because of sin, but the 
 spirit is life because of righteousness. He that raised 
 up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mor- 
 tal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. The 
 sceptic and the freethinker may doubt this marvellous 
 fact, to which the writer and countless thousands of 
 other redeemed ones can testify and do know by per- 
 SDnal experience of th*: chmgj, the quickening power, 
 of the new birth, from death unto life, from sin unto 
 righteousness, our mortal bodies quickened, sanctified, 
 set aside from sin, having God in our souls. This is 
 no mere theory of the writer's, but the practical per- 
 sonal experience of many. The infiJcl may argue 
 that he knows as much as the sanctified child of God 
 about the love of God, the presence of God, and the 
 will of God towards men, because he has studied and 
 read a great deal about the works of God ; and that 
 nature is his God, for ature, the works of the Creator, 
 are received by him as Goi, instead of the Creator 
 himself But alas, he who is blind from his birth 
 cannot see the beauties of land or sky, with their love- 
 ly flowers and beautiful star-decked Heavens, until 
 his sight is given. He may argue that he knows as 
 much as any one else, bccau.'^e he lives and fcclsjthe rays 
 of the sun and enjoys life in his own way, and so the 
 infidel may think that he knows as much as the 
 
 
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 child of God, the sanctified one, whose nature has 
 been changed^ who is following the Lord ; led on by 
 the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, drawn out into a life 
 of righteousness by wonderful cords of love, the love 
 and fellowship of God with his soul. But he who 
 looks upon some deeply hidden unintelligent thing, in 
 nature, as God knows nothing of the realities of the 
 divine evidences of the Christian experience of the 
 true child of God, for he is blind and dead to those 
 glorious blessings, and out of Christ ; he finds no 
 peace, no satisfaction, no rest for his soul ; for our 
 Creator, has ordained that it should be so in order 
 that man might search for and have the true riches, 
 in the character of his nature that fit him for another 
 — a better, purer life beyond, where joys will never 
 fade and love will never cease. You may educate a 
 mortal with the highest learning of the present age 
 and elevate him to earth's highest pinnacle of fame ; 
 but, apart from God, you cannot give him peace to 
 satisfy the longings of the soul. Education has never 
 changed a sinner to a saint, and never will. Honor, 
 wealth or fame, have never changed a nature from 
 hate to love and never can. It rs ordained that 
 nothing but the love of God — as revealed by the great 
 sacrifice in our behalf, the great freewill offering of 
 the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost — should re- 
 deem us from the curse of sin and the power of the 
 law and create a soul for the paradise above and the 
 
 

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 glories of Heaven, which is Ciod's chosen plan for 
 creating sons and daughters for Heaven, giving them 
 his own life, his own image and nature, and an inherit- 
 ance in eternal glory. Then, how awful must it be to 
 miss the mark of our high calling and lose the life 
 which is hid w ith Christ in God— so ficcly offered to 
 all — for whosoever will m ly come and drink of the 
 life-giving fountain of the love of G(xl. If God had 
 opened any other door to Heaven for us, excepting 
 that of love and free grace, or permitted us to enter 
 that door under any other merit than our own person- 
 al love, and personal responsibility to God, the respon- 
 sibility of loving God for His love to us, and of 
 acceoting and following Him, we could not enter as 
 sons and daughters, but as aliens. Not born of God, 
 we would be fitted for no purer world than this, having 
 overcome no powers of evil through Christ ; we would 
 have no wedding garments, no oil of love in our sculs. 
 In fact, we would not be fit for Heaven, therefore 
 there is no other way whereby we can be saved, and 
 that is why it reads in 
 
 Rev. v., 3 : " And no man in heaven, nor in earth, 
 neither under the earth, was able to open the book, 
 neither to look thereon." 
 
 4. " And I wept much, because no man was found 
 worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look 
 thereon." 
 
 5. " And one of the elders saith unto me. Weep 
 
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 not : behold the Lion of the tribe of Jiida, the Root of 
 David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose 
 the seven seals thereof." 
 
 Man hath broken the law and man must pay the 
 k'bt ; but since no man could do it, Christ became 
 man, that he mi;j^ht redeem and create us for the 
 home above. No other [)lan would do ; for, if men 
 were taken into Heaven like machinery and placed 
 there regardless of his own will, without his own efforts 
 or consent, he would not be worthy of a home in the 
 presence of God and the Holy Angels, and could not 
 be happy there The sinner, even in this world, is 
 not happy in the presence of God and often shuns 
 even the house of the presence of God, because of his 
 own guilty nature. 
 
 In a vision, the writer was in the interior of a large 
 building which was stcckcd with earthenware — dishes 
 of various kinds and sizes. The owner, a merchant, 
 was eagerly purchasing more, although he had in 
 stock all he needed and more than he could pay for ; 
 he was therefore in trouble on account of the debt 
 which resulted from reaching for too much at a time, 
 and yet he was buying more. But he was not more 
 foolish than those people who are not seeking first 
 the kingdom of Heaven, but the things of earth ; seek- 
 ing in eager haste for things that must pass away so 
 soon, in preference to the eternal riches that never 
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 true real blessings, which they are receiving, they 
 transgress His law and sell the truth 'and their own 
 souls for fleeting, fancied pleasures that lead to hell, 
 and which departing leaves a sting of death upon the 
 soul. I saw men, also, who came into the place ; 
 that were small, withered and black. My sister-in-law 
 informed me that one of them who had just gone out 
 had been her mother's slave in the old country. I 
 soon learned that her mother was the earth and that 
 it represented the one who seeks first the things of 
 this earth and was a slave to sin and the world, which 
 had been so effectually stamped upon him — the 
 nature of the likeness of his soul before God. He had 
 lived in the old nature, under the law of sin, a slave to 
 the flesh, the devil, and the world to which he had 
 gone to reap the fruits of the deeds done in this body. 
 Then a neighbour came in, who was in trouble, and 
 would not sit nor rest for one moment ; his shoes were 
 very thick and hard, made of sole leather all over, and 
 hurt his feet very much. He kept asking me about a 
 bond, and would not explain just what he meant, and 
 soon went out. I kncv the man to be one of good in- 
 tentions, who hoped to go to Heaven at last, yet he 
 was serving satan, in bondage to sin, and represented 
 those who are saved through the atonement of Christ, 
 as was the thief on the cross, who was saved ; though 
 as by fire, redeemed from hell. All his life's privileges 
 were consumed — gone forever — and he must appear 
 
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 empty handed before the great judgment throne, to 
 render an account and to receive his reward, which 
 cannot be the glorious eternity that might have been 
 his ; for he will, by nature, if saved, be among the 
 least in the kingdom above. No wonder that the 
 shoes of a backslider fit tight, ^vhcn his soul is encased 
 in the coils of the world. No wonder that he knows 
 not a moment of rest, or peace in God, when he ques- 
 tions the bond of satan's claim upon his immortal 
 soul. 
 
 Romans viii., 13. " For if ye live after the flesh, ye 
 shall die : but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the 
 deeds of the body, ye shall live." 
 
 Psalm xcii., i. " It is a good thing to give thanks 
 unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O 
 most High:" 
 
 2. To shew forth thy loving kindness in the morn- 
 ing, and thy faithfulness every night." 
 
 3. " Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon 
 the psaltery ; upon the harp with a solemn sound." 
 
 4. " For thou. Lord, hast made me glad through 
 thy work : I will triumph in the works of thy hands." 
 
 5. " O Lord, how great are thy works ! and thy 
 thoughts are very deep." 
 
 6. " A brutish man knowcth not ; neither does a 
 
 fool understand this." 
 
 7. " When the wicked spring as the grass, and 
 
 
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 when all the workers of iniquity do flourish ; it is that 
 they shall be destroyed for ever : " 
 
 8. *' But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore." 
 
 9. *' For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine 
 enemies shall perish ; ail the workers of iniquity shall 
 be scattered." 
 
 10. " But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of 
 an unicorn : I shall be anointed with fresh oil." 
 
 11. " Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine 
 enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the 
 wicked that rise up against me." 
 
 12. " The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree : 
 he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." 
 
 13. "Those that be planted in the house of the 
 Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.'' 
 
 14. " They shall still bring forth /"ruit in old age ; 
 they shall be fat and flourishing ; " 
 
 1 5. " To shew that the Lord is upright ; he is my 
 rock, and there is no un righteousness in him." 
 
 Galatians iii., 7. " Know ye therefore that they 
 which are of faith, the same are the children of 
 Abraham." 
 
 8. " And the scripture foreseeing, that God would 
 justify the heathen through faith, preached before the 
 gospel unto Abraham, saying. In thee shall all nations 
 be blessed." 
 
 9. ** So then they which be of faith are blessed with 
 faithful Al'aham." 
 
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 10. " For as many as are of the works of the law 
 are under the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every 
 one that continueth not in all things vvhich are written 
 in the book of the law to do them." 
 
 11. " But that no man is justified by the law in the 
 sight of God, it is evident : for, The just shall live 
 by faith." 
 
 1 2. " And the law is not of faith : but. The man that 
 doeth them shall live in them." 
 
 13. "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the 
 law, being made a curse for us : for it is written 
 Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." 
 
 14. " That the blessing of Abraham might come on 
 the Gentiles through Jesus Christ ; that we might 
 receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." 
 
 Only those, who are of faith, are the children of 
 Abraham, not meaning those of the same nationality 
 but those of the same faith. Abraham believed God 
 with a natural, satisfying, therefore living fiith, and 
 was blessed. The Israelites, believing fhat God ac- 
 cepted them through their sicrificjs, were saved, al- 
 though they understood not the great sacrifice that 
 was to come, of which their obedience and sacrificial 
 ordinances were typical. In faith they were children 
 of Abraham, and now all who accept Christ as their 
 own personal Saviour are of faith, therefore in faith 
 are children of Abraham, the seed of whom shall be 
 more than the sands of the sea fbr number. The 
 
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 kingdom of Israel, as existing on earth to-day, is 
 grander, nobler and l.iri^cr than it ever was before, 
 and is working in the beautiful rays of the Light of 
 God, as reflected through the Sun of our Soul. 
 
 In the old dispens:ition, before Christ, while its 
 people were chiefly composed of Jews, it stood beneath 
 tke cloud of separation from its God. Theirs was 
 but faith in a Saviour yet to com:?. Our faith is 
 scaled with, the glorious sunshine of His presence in 
 our souls. Theirs was in types an 1 symbols. Ours, 
 the substance, the love, the lifj restored again. Yet 
 ail, both Jew and Gentile, thr iu;,;li f liih are one : one 
 in Christ — the Israel of Gi 1. Do we wonder that the 
 Jews of this present age so completely fail to see and 
 recognize the way in wliich Gi\ his established His 
 kingdom ? Fulfilled His laws and promises to the 
 world through them, a chosen people, chosen not to 
 be the grandest, richest, or most independent, nation 
 on the earth, but chosen and used to fill His special 
 mission, that they might have ?ternal life secured 
 for them and all mankind, used as instruments to 
 bless all nations? Do we think it marvellous that 
 they remain a distinct and separate people from all 
 others ? Yet it is perhaps not so marvellous after all, 
 when we know that it is their choice. They do not 
 want to realize that all their sacrificial types and em- 
 blems were ei.ded and completed on Calvary's cross ; 
 were wound up and finished in Ciirist ; that the old 
 
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 world ended and this new one begun. They chose 
 lo be a separate people and God has said that they 
 would be so ; they reject God's plan of sa'vation and 
 lose its blessings, because it is their choice. They 
 look no higher than an earthly kingdom and an 
 earthly king, expecting to be justified before God by 
 their own good works ; to get a nature of love and 
 justice, the image of God's nature, by wearing a heavy 
 yoke of bondage, and so to grind down their nature 
 of evil by force. How miserably they failed ? Instead 
 of growing in love, they grew in hatred, until they 
 could murder a man for a small offence, whether they 
 were sure of his guilt or not. Even the Sanhedrim, 
 their highest assembly of justice could ru.sh upon the 
 innocent Stephen and murder him without law or 
 justice, because his speech offended. So then, bo:idage 
 does not purify the nature (loth verse) " For as many 
 as are of the works of the law arc under the curse : 
 for it is written. Cursed is every one that continueth not 
 in all things which are written in the book of the law to 
 do them." (nth verse) " But that no man is justified 
 by the law in the sight of God, it is evident : for, The 
 just shall live by faith. ' Christ has died that we 
 might live through faith, by accepting of God's mercy, 
 but only the just, those who have a desire to do the 
 will of God have the promise of this verse. (Gal. ii., 
 21.) " If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is 
 dead in vain." We know that law and bondage does 
 
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 not cultivate love and righteousness ; but rather a 
 nature quite opposite. In Gal. iv., we find Abraham's 
 two sons given in allegory, representing the two cov- 
 enants (24th verse) " the one from the mount Sinai, 
 which gendereth to boiidage, which is Agar." (25th 
 verse) ** For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and 
 answereth to Jerusalem " (not the buildings but the 
 people), " which now is, and is in bondage with her 
 children." To-day those who seek for righteousness 
 and the peace of God, out of Christ, are within that 
 mountain's darkness, held by the bondage of its law. 
 (26th verse) *' But Jerusalem which is above is free, 
 which is the mother of us all." (28th verse) " Now 
 we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." 
 "The just shall live by faith." 
 
 Psii. xci. 1st. The stale of the godly, jrd. Their safety. 9th. Their 
 hal)ilation. iilh. Their servants, i^th. Their friends ; with the effects 
 of them all. 
 
 1. "He that dwclleth in the secret place of the 
 most High shall abide under the shadow of the 
 Almighty." 
 
 2. " I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and 
 my fortress : my God ; in him will I trust." 
 
 3. " Surely he shall deliver thcc from the snare of 
 the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence." 
 
 4. " He shall cover thee with his feathers, and 
 under his wings shalt thou trust : his truth shall be 
 thy shield and buckler." 
 
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 5. " Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by 
 night ; nor for the arrow that flicth by clay ; " 
 
 6. " Nor for the pestilence that walkcth in dark- 
 ness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday." 
 
 7. "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten 
 thousand at thy right hand ; but it shall not come 
 nigh thee." 
 
 8. " Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and 
 see the reward of the wicked." 
 
 9. " Bicause thou hast made the Lord, which is 
 my refuge, even the most Hic^h, thy habitation ; " 
 
 10. " There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall 
 any plague come nigh thy dwelling." 
 
 11. " For he shall give his angels charge over thee, 
 to keep thee in all thy ways." 
 
 12. " They shall b-Mr th^e up in their hands, lest 
 thou dash thy foot against a stone.'' 
 
 13. " Thou .shalt tread upan ths lion and adJer : 
 the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample 
 under feet." 
 
 14. •' Because he hath set his love upon me, there- 
 fore will I deliver him : I will set him on high, because 
 he hath known my name." 
 
 1 5. " He shall call upon me, and I will answer him : I 
 will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him, and 
 honour him." 
 
 16. " With long life will I satisfy him, and shew 
 him my salvation," 
 
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 Rom. iii., 24. " Being justified freely by his grace 
 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus : " 
 
 25. " Whom God hath set forth to be a propitia- 
 tion through faith in his blood, to declare his right- 
 eousness for the remission of sins that are past, 
 through the forbearance of God ; " 
 
 26. " To declare, I say, at this time his righteous- 
 ness : that he might be just, and the justifier of him 
 which belicvcth in Jesus." 
 
 27. " Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By 
 what law ? of works ? Nay : but by the law of faith." 
 
 28. " Therefore we conclude that a man is justified 
 by faith without the deeds of the law." 
 
 29. " Is he the God of the Jews only ? is he not 
 also of the Gentiles ? Yes, of the Gentiles also : " 
 
 30. " Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the 
 circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through 
 faith " 
 
 31. " Do we then make void the law through faith ? 
 God forbid : yea, we establish the law." 
 
 Why is there redemption in Jesus Christ, whom 
 God has set forth to be a propitiation, through faith 
 in his blood ? And, why on account of Christ's right- 
 eousness, does God forbear towards the repenting 
 sinner, remitting his sins that are past and receiving 
 him as a child — an heir to Heaven ? Is it not because 
 Christ, as a great God of love attracting the sinner, 
 fills his soul with love, and so prepares him for God's 
 
 
 
 
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 presence ? Is It not because Jesus paid his debt, that 
 he, through asking in faith, receives remission for 
 all past sins, and bjcausc of the change in his nature, 
 that he is adopted into the family of God ? It is 
 through Christ's righteousness bf:ing manifested in 
 our behalf that our salvation is complete ; that we are 
 created and made meet for the kingdom of Heaven, 
 and in the crucified and risen Saviour is the only 
 power upon earth, that can teach man to love his 
 enemy and hi neighbor as himself; the only power 
 which gives a nature of love that is free from selfish 
 motives. It is the sacrificing love of Christ that 
 draws man out from sin and hate, and brings him 
 near to God. (28th verse) " Therefore we conclude 
 that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of 
 the law." Christ has satisfied the law, by paying its 
 demands, and therefore, as many as enter into Him, 
 by faith, through love, partaking of the nature of God, 
 are free with Christ, who hath taken our place : there- 
 fore we may have eternal life, but we must WILL to 
 have it, otherwise it cannot be ours. We must WILL 
 to have the new birth with a will that is willing to put 
 off the old man ; with all — even the very appearance 
 of— sin ; and to become a new creature in Christ. 
 But, before you can have a will like that, you must 
 believe God's word, that Christ is the Saviour and 
 that you are by nature under the condemnation of 
 eternal, unchanging justice ; cursed by sin, debarred 
 
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 from the presence of God, who loves your soul and 
 expects you to receive the wediling f]farment. Have 
 you, dear reader, slighted — directly or indirectly — the 
 Saviour's love, lefuscd his call, rejected his pardon, 
 and so refused etemal life. If so, then you are under 
 the cli..inis of hell. It owns you for its victim, how- 
 ever goo.l your charact:r m:iy be. Your doom is 
 scaled, unless rcJocmed. For character has no pass- 
 port to talcc you into Heaven. You must accept 
 God's ofifjrcd mercy by deciding to follow J?sus, and 
 by following whcrcvv-f He may lead. Then you will 
 go in the path of th2 rif^-htcous, by the rivers of life, 
 perfumed with sweet roses of love, and tinged with 
 the red crimson blood which He shed, giving life to 
 your soul and a right to a home in His presencea bovc. 
 Then you will bj prepared for that home ; but you 
 must follow in little things as well as in big ones, and 
 all the time as well as at the hour of prayer ; ever 
 praising the L.ord with thanksgiving. If you want 
 to be a Christian, the way is easy and natural. No 
 trouble at all. When you really want to be — when 
 you decide to accept and follow Jesus just as his 
 apostles did — then He will lead you sweetly and gent- 
 ly through the gates of mercy into the New Jerusalem 
 on earth, where you will find peace, joy and pleasure, 
 through the presence of the Lord, with your soul. 
 He will lead you onward and upward, into the glory 
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 above. VVlicn a man wills to be good, he chooses his 
 surroundings to correspond with his will. You may 
 see it in his •I'-hoiis. You may hear it in his words, 
 or find it in n. . text book. For an example, the 
 following (--)pie(' rrf)m a IVtrr Crj\ gives the observing 
 reader an idea « f tlu n iture of the desires and will of 
 Commandai;! liooth : 
 A LKAK IRUM TIIIC O )M.\r AN'DANT'.S DAILY TK.XT 
 
 HOOK, Oji August 7Jth, lS(^2. 
 
 "Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of 
 hope." — Zech. ix., 12. 
 
 " God ia a refuge for us. — For who is God, save the 
 Lord ? and who is a rock, save our God. The name 
 of the Lord i.«, a strong tower ; the tighteous runneth 
 into it, and is safe. 
 
 " The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble : the 
 name of the G.)d of Jacob defend thee. The beloved 
 of the Lord shall dwjll in safety by him; and the 
 Lord shall cover him all .he day long and he shall 
 dwell between his slioulders. The eternal God is thy 
 refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms ; and 
 he shall tliryst out the cncm)' from before thee, and 
 shall say, destroy them. 
 
 *' Israel then shall dwell in safety ; for He hath 
 said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. God is 
 in the midst of her ; she shall not be moved ; God 
 shall help her, and that right early. 
 
 * The Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom 
 
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 shall I fear : the Lord is the strength of my life ; of 
 whom shall I be afraid ? for in time of trouble He 
 shall hide me in His pavih'on : in the secret of his 
 tabernacle shall He hide me. 
 
 " Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength 
 to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, 
 a shadow from the heat. Happy art thou. Oh Israel : 
 who is like unto thee, Oh people saved by the Lord." 
 
 Psa. xxvii, 1st. David sustaineth his faiih by the power of God. 
 
 4th. By his love tc the service of Cod. gih. By prayer. 
 
 A PSALM OF DAVID. 
 
 Psalm xxvii., i. " The Lord is my light and my 
 salvation ; whom shall I fear ? the Lord is the strength 
 of my life ; of whom shall I be afraid ? " 
 
 2. " When the wicked, even mine enemies and my 
 foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled 
 
 and fell." 
 
 3. " Though an host should encamp against me, 
 
 my heart shall not fear : though war should rise against 
 me, in this will I be confident." 
 
 4. "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that 
 will I seek after ; that I may dwell in the house of the 
 Lord all the days of my life,. to behold the beauty of 
 the Lord, and to enquire in his temple." 
 
 5. " For in the time of trouble he shall hide me In 
 his pavilion : in the secret of his tabernacle 'shall he 
 hide me ; he shall set me up upon a rock." 
 
 6. " And now shall mine head be lifted up above 
 mine enemies round about me : therefore will I offer 
 
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 in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy ; I will sing, yea, I 
 will sin^ praises unto the Lord." 
 
 7. " Hear, O Lord, when I cr}- with my voice : have 
 mercy also upon mc, and answer mo." 
 
 8. " When thou saidst, Seek ye my ^ace ; my heart 
 said unto thee. Thy face. Lord, will I seek." 
 
 9. " Hide not thy face far from me ; put not thy 
 servant away in anger : thou hast been my help ; leave 
 me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation." 
 
 10. " When my father and my mother forsake me, 
 then the Lord will take me up." 
 
 11. " Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in 
 a plain path, because of mine enemies." 
 
 12. " Deliver me not over unto the will of mine 
 enemies : for false witnesses are risen up against me, 
 and such as breathe out cruelty." 
 
 13. "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the 
 goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." 
 
 14. " Wait on the Lord : be of good courage, and 
 he shall strengthen thine heart : wait, I sa}', on the 
 Lord." 
 
 This vast world of human thought and action was 
 intended to be but a transient home, where mortals 
 with immortals dwell— a refinery for the soul, intend- 
 ed to bring forth saints and fit them for another world. 
 This life, so full of joys and pleasures, deep and rich, 
 is always mixed with misery, grief and pain. Here 
 evil is permitted to exist, to teach man right from 
 
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 wrong, that he might overcome the evil with the 
 good, and that he might be born again ; created a 
 being for the New Jerusalem above ; crowned with 
 the life, the spirit and the resurrection of God's own 
 glorious Son. As sons of God, and one in Christ, we 
 have the recurrcction power — through his free grace 
 bestowed — if vt will but accept His grace. To-day 
 the multitude who arc accepting and receiving the 
 new birth into the kingdom of the Israel of God, is 
 larger and grander than ever it was before. 
 
 hut, there is the other side — the evil with the good 
 — which makes the earth similar to a military school, 
 where every soldier puts on his armour and learns the 
 ways of war. So every pupil, in this more important 
 school of life, put on their armour and responsibility 
 as soon as they kno»v right from wrong, good from 
 evil ; and, in tender years, start out under the quick 
 marching orders and heavy drill of battle, which can- 
 not cease until some fatal shot or sabre stroke free 
 them from their earthly robe, which must moulder in 
 the dust until the trumpet sounds that ushers them 
 into the presence of God who gave them being. So, 
 both wise and foolish virgins march on in one va.st 
 multitude, through time into eternity. The teeming 
 millions of this earth, like the marshalled armies of 
 two opposing nations is divided by the laws of God's 
 eternal justice into two classes : the Godly who are 
 wise ; the bad who are foolish. 
 
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 Consider the army of the godly .and the path on 
 which they march — the good path — the way of wisdom, 
 love, faith, hope, and charity ; these are the beautiful 
 hills all bright with the presence of God. He has set 
 Ihem to mark the standard of the pilgrims' righteous- 
 ness, to elevate their life, that they might be sanctified 
 and set aside from the tempter's power. Sometimes 
 we find it hard to climb these hilis to nobler character, 
 but our Leader always gives strength sufficient for the 
 day and helps the willing, earnest traveller onward to 
 constant victory, over sin. Above this noble army, 
 you behold the cross of Jesus : ever drawing them up 
 to the measure of his own great boundless love. Their 
 path is far above the deadly paths of sin and darkness 
 of the world, and has a peace which the world does not 
 know and cannot give. You watch a little closer and 
 observe that the great majority grow stronger and 
 stronger all the way, until safe on Canaan's shore. 
 
 We will follow for a few moments along the foot- 
 prints of the average child of God, to see his life, his 
 character, and his victory, through Christ the Lord. 
 Born like other sinners, with a nature that seeks after 
 evil, he spends about fourteen years of life in sin, and 
 represents the average sinner, and is kept from crime 
 — only by the feai: of man. He has no rest from sin, 
 but feels a longing for som: better life ; he has no 
 future prospects until looking up, he beholds the Star 
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 Christian's way, and beholds the Son of God upon the 
 cross, and knows it was for him ; to give him life and 
 set him free, that the Saviour suffered there. His 
 heart is touched with a living spark from off the altar. 
 He asks for pardon and receives new life, believes, has 
 faith in God, and repents by turning away from sin, 
 and seals his obedience by willingness to be with 
 Christ baptised ; therefore h^ is b^rn again and 
 acceptc 1 of the Lord. The love of God so fills his 
 soul that the remainder of his life is spent in service 
 of the King of Kings. The g )sp j1 scsJij grow year by 
 year within his nature, leading him higher and higher 
 on the beautiful hills which comprise the mountain of 
 the Lord, called Zion. At last with life's journey 
 almost over, he sits upon the banks of Jordan, rejoicing 
 in the Lord, praising and blessing God for the way he 
 has been led, just waiting the command of the Master's 
 call, that he might enter the beautiful gates of the 
 eternal paradise above. 
 
 In the gospel dispensation of Christ's kingdom on 
 • earth, all must be of the same spirit of love in Christ, 
 or they are not of the Israel of God ; all must have 
 the same faith in Christ as their personal Saviour, or 
 they have not eternal life ; and all must have the 
 spirit of obedience in love to G)J, or they cannot 
 belong to the New Jerusalem on earth, and must enter 
 God's presence at last, as the foolish virgins, without 
 any spiritual growth in grace of character. The ]qw 
 
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 must become as the Gentile, and the Gentile. must 
 become as the Jew, and the heathen as the Christian : 
 all of one spirit, born again made one in Jesus Christ 
 in order to be heirs of Heaven. The heathen Gentile 
 must be lifted above his sins — his idol worshipping 
 and superstitions ; saved from his fiendish nature of 
 ignorant hate and selfishness, with its awful work of 
 slaughter ; of slavery, tyranny and martyrdom ; 
 changed, like Saul of Tarsus, from a nature that 
 dragged to their death all who were opposed to his 
 claims unto a nature of love and good-will towards all 
 before he is a child of God. The learned Jew must 
 be raised above his selfish claims for earthly power, 
 above his nature that required the bondage of all the 
 Jewish laws, to teach him obedience to the Lord and 
 make him the natural man ; serve the purpose which 
 God intended him to serve. Before Christ, God, 
 ruled man by law and justice ; but now, through love 
 and justice. Christ came a mightier king than the 
 Jews expected, but iheir nature was too corrupt and 
 earthly to see his glorious mission, though he gave 
 himself a ransom to make them free from the bondage 
 of sin. He brought then, light and life everlasting, 
 while they expected only a kingdom of temporal 
 blessings. Their nature was dark and sinful, but on 
 the cross the Saviour said, " Father forgive them, for 
 they know not what they do." Their eyes were 
 covered as with a veil that they might not see the 
 
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 Tree of Life, which was protected with the flaming 
 sword of the presence of God ; nor eat of its fruits, 
 while their hands were red with the blood of the in- 
 nocent ; for if they had tasted of the love of God in 
 their souls and saw His glory, as the saints and 
 prophets did, then they would accept no forgiveness 
 from the Father, but would live for ever in their hard- 
 ened nature, unchangeable, like devils, whom love and 
 pardon never can renew or change. 
 
 But the veil of the law of bondage was rent and the 
 Tree of Life is not protected from the Israel of God, 
 for Christ, our advocate, has passed beneath the sword 
 of justice in our stead. It pierced His brow, His 
 hands. His feet. His side, before He gained for us ad- 
 mittance to the presence of the Father. All who now 
 behold His love to them are kindled into love. The 
 nature of Hia own do live, like Him, through His 
 atoning death and resurrection power, for they have 
 eternal life ; not a temporary life, but fixed upon the 
 soul. We, therefore, do not need the law of bondage, 
 but of love and justice, to make us serve the Lord, 
 which to the Israelite of Christ's new kingdom is an 
 easy, a glorious service ; but, to the Jew in bondage, 
 a heavy burden of hard service, which he cannot per- 
 form. No man, by trying to keep the law, can work 
 out his own salvation. Law does not change his 
 nature ; it does mould his actions and change his 
 course in life, but never fits him for the courts of 
 
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 Heaven. James ii., lo : " For whosoever shall keep 
 the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is 
 guilty of all." James iv., 17 : " Thercfoij to him that 
 knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is 
 sin." Sin is therefore a nature of selfish, ignorant 
 rebellion against God's will and is opposed to all that 
 is good. It deadens the conscience and hardens the 
 heart, and is the seal by which satan is permitted to 
 mark his willing victims ; but, glory to God, the seal 
 is broken, and every one who will accept His grace 
 are free. Are you among the foolish virgins ? Are 
 }'ou slumbering beneath the power of sin, refusing to 
 obey the loving entreaties of the Lord, willing to 
 tread the enchanting path that leads to hell, because 
 you are not inclined to believe that God's word is true, 
 or that the path to Heaven is a reality, though the 
 lives of millions do testify that it is? Then you are 
 not fulfilling the mission of your life, as do the insect, 
 the fowl, or the beast, which fulfil their mission as 
 God designed. The ant, though it has never seen a 
 winter, is made to build its home and to stow away 
 the necessary food for the winter's use. The bee also 
 selects its home for shelter, gathers the material, and 
 constructs the cells to hold the honey which it gathers 
 to feed on through a winter af which it knows 
 nothing. What of the spider ? It prepares not for 
 winter and it is not necessary that it should, but it 
 prepares for its daily food as God intended it should. 
 
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 Its system is made to be fed on flies and insects ; 
 therefore, it is not provided with wings to fly from 
 flower to flower, as the bees, nor a long extended bill 
 to sip the sweets which God has placed within their 
 little bosom, nor a system which can refine and pre- 
 pare the honey for the cells. With a wonderful sys- 
 tem of manufacturing organs, the spider produces the 
 material, of which it carries a constant supply with 
 which it builds its own web and it is perfectly suited 
 to catch its food, that it might live and fill its little 
 but important mission on the earth. If the spider's 
 appetite called for honey, it could not easily get the 
 food it needed. As with the spider, so it is with 
 every creature. The body is always made capable of 
 .securing the right material to feed and clothe, and so 
 satisfy its own longings. God has made all things 
 perfect in themselves for themselves. The trees, the 
 fowls, or the beasts care not for .he morrow, as man 
 does, for the future. They perform their daily mission 
 In perfext harmony with the design of God's perfect 
 will, while man in his spiritual life is not made like 
 them to obey God's will, but is held respDusible for 
 the life he spends. If man goes in the ways of hell, 
 against the grace of God, trampling under foot the 
 love of Christ, then he runs to his own destruction 
 and God will hold him responsible under laws which 
 do not change. If God's laws in temporal things de- 
 mand of us the awful forfeit of the penalty in full for 
 
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 every breach, how much more awful will it be in con- 
 nection with things eternal ? If the man, who with his 
 beloved wife and fair young daughter, in the dark 
 drove carelessly over the high emban'.ment, had to 
 pay the penalty by his life and mangled bodies on the 
 rocks below, how much greater will be the penalty 
 you must pay for wilfully neglecting so great a sal- 
 vation as Christ has di^d to secure for you ? How 
 great will be the forfeit of Heaven and of eternal life? 
 When you know that God commands you to follow 
 him in righteousness, and when you feel the Holy 
 Spirit drawing you to Jesus, it is your bounden duty 
 •to accept His grace and reach out, with all your 
 might, to receive the crown of life. The bird, which 
 God has ordained to fly in autumn to a summer land 
 of flowers, which it has not seen, must perish in the 
 frosts of winter if it fails to go ; and so you must 
 walk with Christ, by faith in God, or parish in the 
 fires of hell. You must inherit the glories of Heaven, 
 through Christ, or suffer the torments of hell, through 
 sin, because it is your choice. You must choose to 
 serve God, or the devil. How great then is th:. re- 
 sponsibility that rests upon you ? Oh, trifler of the 
 world, while God is calling, will you not obey and live 
 that you may feast upon the manna of his love and 
 enjoy His presence through time and in eternity ? 
 God's presence is manifested to us just according as 
 we desire to know Him and believe His word. A 
 
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 man will only seek for blessings according to his faith 
 in the promises of God. 
 
 St. John i., I. "In the beginning was the WjrJ, 
 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 
 
 2. " The same was in the beginning with God." 
 
 3. "All things were made by him ; and without 
 him was not anything made that was made." 
 
 The Word was not a mere language of words. 
 The apostle refers to the power of the presence of the 
 will of God. The Word with us is God, God mani- 
 fe.-^ted to man. Th^ Lord has manifested Himself in 
 three great letters, which form the Word of God, 
 perfectly to our vision. 
 
 The first great letter is the world in which we live, 
 with all the works of God, speaking forth the power 
 of His unlimited wisdom. 
 
 The second, the firmament of innumerable mighty 
 worlds, suspended in vacuum, each in its own appoint- 
 ed place, in perfect order, a part of which we can see 
 from this small world speaking forth the wisdom and 
 majesty of His unlimited power. The third letter is 
 man himself; the mortal body and immortal soul, 
 capable of possessing the image of God's own nature, 
 or the nature of devils. Man, planted on earth to be 
 tempted and refined and fitted for Heaven. Man, 
 lifted to a life of righteousness by God's own life, 
 death and resurrection. Man, for whom the Saviour 
 suffered on the cross, and who became man's Sun, and 
 
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 man's Life, telling of God's unbounded love and justice 
 In that Word we see the boundless and perfect 
 wisdom, power, love and justice of our God. It is the 
 privilege and duty of every reader to study the Word 
 and to study it in the light of God's written Word, 
 and under the direction of the Holy Ghost, that you 
 might see in it the Glorious Creator and know God 
 by His works, just as you would see and know an 
 absent friend by looking at his picture. The earnest 
 diligent Christian recognizes God in His word. But 
 yet there is a higher, fuller sense by which the Chris- 
 tian knows God and is happy in his presence All 
 may have this joy if it is their will to live the life of 
 righteousness, of faith, and love ; being hid with 
 Christ in God ; and s^ have His presence abiding in 
 their soul. 
 
 God's presence with man may be likened to the 
 great network of the Electric Tram and Light Com- 
 pany's wires of a large city ; and His love likened to 
 the electric fluid that is rolled forth from motor to 
 motor, flashing along the wires from every throb of 
 the mighty engines. The presence and power goes 
 from the power house to each corner of the street and 
 to every dwelling and office where wanted. People 
 sacrifice a little that it might be there to drive away 
 the darkness of the night. So the love of God, flow- 
 ing down the wondrous cords of grace, reaching from 
 Heaven's high throne to Calvary's Cross for us, bring- 
 
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 ing light and life and never ending pleasures to alf 
 who will accept salvation, and sacrifice the devil's al- 
 luring powers of sin. All who are reaching forth with 
 all their hearts* desire to clasp the mighty cords of 
 grace, shall ever drink and feast upon the living, cease- 
 less manna of His love. The servant of the Lord, 
 who is thus in touch with God, shall overflow with 
 praise and adoration all day long, partaking, as the 
 apostles did, of the presence of the Lord. 
 
 Psa. xix. I. The creatures shew God's f?lory. 7. The word his 
 grace. 12. David prayeth for grace. 
 
 TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, A PSALM OF DAVID. 
 
 I. " The heavens declare the glory of God ; and 
 the firmament sheweth his handywork." 
 
 2. •' Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto 
 night sheweth knowledge." 
 
 3. •• There is no speech nor language, where their 
 voice is not heard." 
 
 4. "Their line is gone out through all the earth, 
 and their words to the end of the world. In them 
 hath he set a tabernacle for the sun." 
 
 $. " Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his 
 chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race." 
 
 6. " His going forth is from the end of the heaven, 
 and his circuit unto the ends of it : and there is noth- 
 ing hid from the heat thereof." 
 
 7. "The law of the Loid is perfect, converting the 
 
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 soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise 
 the simple." 
 
 8. *' The statutes of the Lord arc right, rejoicing 
 the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, en- 
 lightening the eyes." 
 
 9. " The fear jf the Lord is clean, enduring for 
 ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and right- 
 eous altog(- her." 
 
 10. " Mort to be desired are they than gold, yea, 
 than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey and the 
 honeycomb." 
 
 11. " Moreover by them is thy servant warned : 
 and in keeping of them there is great reward." 
 
 12. " Who can understand his errors ? cleanse thou 
 me from secret faults." 
 
 13. " Keep back thy servant also from presump- 
 tuous sins ; let them not have dominion over me : then 
 shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the 
 great transgression." 
 
 14. Let the words of my mouth, and the medita- 
 tions of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, 
 my strength and my redeemer." 
 
 Heb. ix., 21. " Moreover he sprinkled with blood 
 both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the 
 ministry." 
 
 22. " And almost all things are by the law purged 
 with blood ; and without shedding of blood is no 
 remission." 
 
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 23. " It was therefore necessary that the patterns 
 of things in the heavens should be purified with these ; 
 but the heavenly things themselves with better sacri- 
 fices than these." 
 
 24. " For Christ is not entered into the holy 
 places made with hands, which are the figures of the 
 true ; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the 
 presence of God for us : " 
 
 25. " Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as 
 the high priest entereth into the holy place every 
 year with blood of others ; " 
 
 26. " For then must he often have suffv^red since 
 the foundation of the world : but now once in the end 
 of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the 
 sacrifice of himself" 
 
 . 27. " And as it is appointed unto men once to 
 die, but after this the judgment : " 
 
 28. " So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of 
 many ; and unto them that look for him shall he ap- 
 pear the second time without sin unto salvation." 
 
 What love the Father hath bestowed on us, in that 
 we are by grace made sons and daughters of God. 
 We, whose doom was written, sealed by His eternal 
 justice, barring us forever from His presence, because 
 the devil's image was written with the indelible ink 
 of sin in living letters on the soul. Stamped with a 
 seal in our nature, which none could break until 
 justice was satisfied ; which demanded that nature's 
 
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 death in the soul, so that the soul must become dead 
 unto the image of satan's nature, and alive unto God, 
 before justice could be satisfied, or the seal be broken. 
 Nothing could give us this new birth of nature, but 
 the love of God in the heart, and, though His love 
 could change our nature, yet the seal of the death 
 sentence must be broken, in order to give us liberty. 
 As the soul was alive, so the body also was alive, to 
 sin : both alike under the sentence of death, and the 
 blood representing the life must be shed, and man 
 must pay the awful penalty for his sin. But from 
 beneath his nature of sin, and the power of justice, no 
 man of himself could raise ; for he could not keep the 
 law, nor raise himself up from hell. It was quite 
 beyond man's power, for that which is being created 
 cannot create itself; and just here, the wonderful love 
 of God is bestowed upon us, for when we were doom- 
 ed to the eternal slavery of devils, and the torments 
 of hell, not being fit for the glorious courts of Heaven 
 where sin can never dwell. He came, in the person 
 of His Son, to Calvary's Cross, to wear our nature 
 and to break the seal, by his broken body, and to 
 cancel the sentence by the blood he shed, in behalf 
 of the sinner. So Christ satisfied the law, broke the 
 seal, and established a beacon light upon the c-oss, 
 which is growing brighter and brighter unto the per- 
 fect day ; as the Sun of our Souls warming all with 
 the radiance of His presence, who will but reach out 
 
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 with eager, earnest, trusting hearts, and receive his 
 offered grace. There are some souls, so cruelly satu- 
 rated by Satan's nature, that offered mercy only chills 
 their soul, and God's love can never reach their heart, 
 because their selfish ignorant pride hardens them 
 against his grace ; and satan leads them in the broad 
 ciuel ways of death, bidding them forget the future; 
 and the fact that they are his slaves, marching in 
 chains to his eternal habitation, telling them that they 
 are after all not so very bad. When conviction of 
 sin bears hard upon them and they wish to escape 
 the powers of sin, he tells them to wait a little longer, 
 and they w ait ; for their nature is to linger in the 
 ways of sin, rejecting the mercy of God's boundless 
 love. So they await their adversary's pleasure, until 
 the curtain of eternal justice is lifted, and they are 
 awakened beyond the reach of the precious blood, 
 without which there is no repentance, therefore no 
 forgiveness. The^nature is forever fixed just as the 
 tiger's nature, which cannot be changed by receiving 
 pardon, or allowed to roam at large, in our towns and 
 cities. Neither can sinners be allowed in Heaven. 
 There is no remittance without the shedding of blood, 
 and no repentance without the power of love, for no 
 power can change man's nature, but that of love : and 
 it is the only way by which we can receive the new 
 birth into the kingdom of God, in this life, and into 
 the paradise above. 
 
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 " The Son of Man fs come to seek and to save that 
 which was lost," Luke xix., lo. *' He that believeth 
 on the Son hath everlasting life," John iii., 36. To 
 believe on the Son is to have a loving, satisfying con- 
 fidence, that Jesus is your personal Saviour, and, in 
 order to get this living faith, you must study diligently 
 the word of God, in his book of works, and in his book 
 of Words. They are laden with treasures of blessings 
 rich beyond the reasonings of man's mind, yet the 
 simplest may feast upon them as well as the wise ; the 
 poor as well as the rich ; the weak as well as the strong. 
 If it is your desire, you may be full and running over 
 with the love of God. In order to love God, you must 
 learn of Him, whose presence should be sweeter than 
 earth's fairest pleasures, and His word more pleasant 
 than liberty. Oh, how much we need His precious 
 truths to enlighten our mind, and the precious blood 
 of Christ to cleanse the soul, yet the fool rejects it, 
 iaying there is no God. 
 
 Oh, how precious is the Word, since it holds the 
 sanctifying fountain of cleansing for man. Oh, how 
 much the sinner needs the truths it teaches, the life it 
 reveals, and the character it demands, in order that he 
 might have the portion it promises and the person it 
 pictures. If you would grow in grace, you must 
 apply the word of God to your personal habits, your 
 social possessions, and your religious associations ; 
 then you may follow Jesus Christ into the higher 
 
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 life and grow more and more sanctified in character 
 from your besetting sins. You must strive to obey 
 every precept and walk in its light. It is your privi- 
 lege to cherish every promise, to feed on its treasures 
 and to hide it in your heart. Without it, the wise of 
 this world are but fools and must lament their folly 
 while the endless canvas of ages move. 
 
 Unless redeemed by the blood of Christ, he who 
 lives afar off and do3s not cherish the word in his 
 heart, though he be saved as by fire through faith in 
 Christ, yet he will suffer a vital, eternal loss, in the 
 nature of his wedding garment : a mansion will be 
 given suitable to his nature. If one of the least in 
 the kingdom, his place will be in the outer globe ; 
 not among the worlds of mansions nearest the throne 
 of God's glorious presence. All who have Heaven 
 for their home, may be satisfied in themselves and 
 their surroundings ; each will be in his own natural 
 element, the small vessel full of joy as well as the 
 large one. As all having life in this world are satis- 
 fied in themselves : the snail is satisfied, with the ful- 
 ness of its life and surroundings ; the bird, the fish, 
 and the brute alike with mm a-e filled with th3 sat- 
 isfaction of life in themselves. But some are creatures 
 capable of pleasure and honor, while others are not; 
 and, according to their nature, their station in life is 
 fixed. So it is in the world beyond, in reference to 
 the redeemed. A man's wedding garment and the 
 
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 oil in the lamp of his soul gain for him his low estate 
 or the crown and throne of glory, as the Lord appoints^ 
 and so we arc weaving our garments each day, either 
 of the golden thread of love, or the dross that will 
 burn ; of the riches of Heaven or the dead things of 
 earth ; preparing each day for eternity ; preparing 
 for the small or for the great ; but some are not 
 preparing, only walking the dark road to hell. Do 
 you choose to go down with the sinful and low, by 
 rejecting God's mercy and love ; to repent when too 
 late, in darkest despair ; to suffer your horrible doom ; 
 to realize that the train of time is past and that you 
 are lost. ? Are you quietly treading in the path to 
 hell ? We ask it again, dear reader, because the loss 
 is more than you can stand. To miss the blessed 
 fellowship of the Holy Ghost and the wonderful love 
 of God, through rejecting Christ, is to lose that »vhich 
 fits your soul for Heaven. Oh, will you not hear the 
 Saviour's loving voice and accept His gracious call 
 before time seals your doom ? True, Christians long 
 to guide you to the blessed Shepherd's fold. " The 
 Spirit and the Bride say Come." Will you not hear 
 (if yet unsaved) the loving, warning voice of God? 
 still calling ? Will you not accept the pardon, the 
 crown of life, and everlasting joy ? or Will you linger 
 a little longer suddenly to behold the coming of the 
 Lord in judgment, as a thief comes in the night ? 
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 brimstone of fire in His presence, because of the very 
 fact of your awful folly, and to receive your eternal 
 doom. Now is the day of grace ! Not to-morrow, 
 but now ! Oh, do not wait, nor rest, until you are 
 happy in the Lord, through faith and willing obedience 
 to his Divine and Glorious will. 
 
 Prov. xxix., I. " He that being often reproved 
 hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and 
 that without remedy." 
 
 2. " When the righteous are in authority, the 
 people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule, 
 the people mourn." 
 
 3. " Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father : 
 but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth 
 his substance." 
 
 4. " The king by judgment establisheth the land : 
 but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it." 
 
 5. " A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth 
 a net for his feet." 
 
 6. " In the transgression of an evil man there 's a 
 snare : but the righteous doth sing and rejoice." 
 
 7. " The righteous considceth the cause of the 
 poor : but the wicked regardeth not to know it." 
 
 8. " Scornful men bring a city into a snare : but 
 wise men turn away wrath." 
 
 9. " If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, 
 whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest." 
 
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 10. " The bloodthirsty hate the upright : but the 
 just seek his soul." 
 
 11. "A fool uttereth all his mind : but a wise man 
 keepeth it in till aftarwards." 
 
 12. " If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are 
 wicked." 
 
 13. "The poor and the deceitful man meet to- 
 gether : thi Lord lighteneth both their eyes." 
 
 14. '* The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, 
 his throne shall be established for ever." 
 
 15. "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a 
 child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." 
 
 16. " When the wicked are multiplied, transgres- 
 sion increascth : but the righteous shall see their fall." 
 
 17. '* Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest ; 
 yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul." 
 
 18. *' Where there is no vision, the people perish : 
 but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." 
 
 19. '' A servant will not be corrected by words : 
 for though he understand he will not answer." 
 
 20. " Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words ? 
 there is more hope of a fool than of him." 
 
 21. " He that delicately bringeth up his servant 
 from a child shall have him become his son at the 
 length." 
 
 22. "An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious 
 man aboundeth in transgression." 
 
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 23. " A n.cin's pride shall brincj him low : but 
 honour shall uphold the humble in spirit." 
 
 24. " Wlioso is partner with a thief hatcth his own 
 soul : he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not." 
 
 25. " The fear of man bringoth a snare : but who- 
 so puttcth hir trust in the Lord shall be safe." 
 
 26. "Many seek the ruler's favour; bul: every 
 man's judgment cometh from the Lord." 
 
 27. " An unjust man is an abomination to the just : 
 and he that is upright in the way is abomination to 
 the wicked '' 
 
 Ephcsians ii., 12. " That at that time ye were with- 
 out Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of 
 Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, 
 having no hope, and without God in the world : " 
 
 13. " But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes 
 were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.'' 
 
 14. " For he is our peace, who halh made both one, 
 and hath broken down the middle wall of partition 
 between us ; '' 
 
 15. " Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even 
 the law of commandments contained in ordinances ; 
 for to make in himself of twain one new man, so 
 making peace ;" 
 
 16. "And that he might reconcile both unto God 
 in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity 
 thereby : " 
 
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 I/. " And came and preached peace to you which 
 were afar off, and to them that were nigh." 
 
 1 8. " For through him we both have access by one 
 Spirit unto the Father." 
 
 19. " Now therefore ye are no more strangers and 
 foreigners, b'lt fellowcitizens with the saints, and of 
 the household of God." 
 
GOD'S UNION WITH US. 
 
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 <^N all the appointed works of God there is perfect 
 ^ harmony blending with infinite love and justice. 
 All that stands in opposition to that harmony is of 
 sin and is directly opposite to righteousness. Heaven 
 and love are one in God, and God is love. If you are 
 of God, your nature must be love. Hell and sin, 
 united as one, are the products of the devil's nature, 
 and he who loves to make and to tell a lie is himself 
 a lie. Spiritual unions are of more vital importance 
 to man than earthly ones, because their issues are 
 eternal and lead to Heaven or to hell. The only 
 great and perfect union relative to the human family 
 is that of our united fellowship in love, through Christ, 
 with God our Creator. Why has this union steadily 
 grown for nearly two thousand years^ with mighty 
 power, lighting the world's dark vale of death, break- 
 ing the powers of hell, and fitting man for a better 
 world ? Why have about fifty millions of Christians, 
 since Christ, given their bodies a sacrifice as martyrs 
 for His sake, for the advancement of His Kingdom 
 and the salvation of their fellow man ? Why is this 
 
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 union between God and man so strong and change- 
 less ? It is because the love of God changes not, and 
 the sanctifying blood of Christ, reaching the soul, is 
 ever the same, making the dead to live, the hater to 
 love, and the unrighteous man to fors.ik^ his way?. 
 Nothing but the love of God, as shown by the precious 
 blood of Christ, can change the soul from sin to right- 
 eousness ; or pay the law's demand. Yet fools in 
 their folly have sought a substitute— another way to 
 enter Heaven, which never can be found. Then, how 
 precious is the blood that Jesus gave for you ? Oh, 
 how great the sacrifice which saves the sinner who 
 wants salvation, and how precious the gift of pardon 
 since it unites the soul with God in love that casts out 
 fear; and puts a sweet assuring peace within the soul. 
 Surely we can bless the Lord and magnify His name 
 at all times, like the Psalmist of old, for a salvation 
 that keeps us every moment, while we trust Him. I 
 bless the Lord for the new birth, and praise Him for 
 a full salvation ; the resurrection from death unto life, 
 and for the Holy Ghost the Comforter. I bless God 
 for the fact that I know for myself, by personal ex- 
 perience, of the new birth ; of what it is to be born of 
 the Spirit of God ; changed from the dead, cold, dark, 
 hating, guilty, sinful nature, to the living, loving, trust- 
 ing, enlightened nature of willing obedience to God. 
 Every intelligent person must know and feel in their 
 own soul, that this first nature referred to leads its 
 
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 victims towards the gates of ruin and the nations into 
 hell ; while the second leads it willing followers 
 towards the beautiful gates of Paradise, and tends to 
 make our world an Eden of Love. Yet, some with- 
 out a reason, take the downward road to death, know- 
 ing that they are wrong. For instance the leading 
 infidels of to-day, knowing that the gospel of Jesus 
 Christ is the power that elevates mankind and is the 
 secret of every truly great nations' greatness, are still 
 speaking and working against it The only reason 
 we can give, is that their nature is in league with the 
 downward path, or they would not want to rob the 
 world of its goodness and fill it with the horrors of 
 hell. The freethinker may be free to say what he 
 thinks about these things, and I bless God that I am 
 not only fiee to speak what I think about salvation, 
 but know (t for myself I know in whom I am trust- 
 ing, and have passed from death unto life. I know 
 the presence of God who leads me day by day, and I 
 know the peace the Saviour gives which the world 
 cannot know. The moralist may think that it is only 
 a feeling of excitement that makes the soul rejoice. 
 If so, it is the kind of excitement God has made to 
 elevate the soul and it has lasted me for years, grow- 
 ing stronger and brighter ; deeper and milder all the 
 time ; and I bless and magnify the Lord because 
 countless multitudes can testify the same. Yet the 
 proud rejector of the Saviour's love, fails to believe 
 
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 the sincere earnest testimony of their experience ; 
 fails to see the difference between good and evil ; fails 
 to recognize the deception of his cruellest enemy ; and 
 must fail to attain the i^lorious purpose for which he 
 is placed on earth, while he chooses to remain beneath 
 the alluring mists of sin that cloud the world. But' 
 praise the Lord for the thousands who are coming out 
 from beneath the vale of satan's kingdom every day 
 into the marvellous light of Gospel truth and love, 
 being united as one new man through Christ in God. 
 The prayer and desire of the redeemed in this world 
 is that sinners, wandering from God, may be destroyed 
 from off the face of the earth and quickened into a 
 newness of life, changed into saints of the Lord ; that 
 aliens from the common wealth of Israel, whether 
 Jews or Gentiles, who are strangers to the covenants 
 of promise, " having no hope and without God in the 
 world," who are " afar off," may be " made nigh by the 
 precious blood of Christ." I bless God because he has 
 broken down the middle wall of partition that separ- 
 ated the sinner from the Tree of Life, with its fruits 
 of love, charity, faith and peace with God ; who has 
 abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of com- 
 mandments contained in ordinances, for to make in 
 Himself of twain one new man; so making peace, 
 and that he might reconcile both unto God in one 
 body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby ; 
 and now in the word of God, preached through Him, 
 
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 we both have access by one spirit, unto the Father. 
 
 If the Lamb of God, the great sacrifice slain from the 
 
 foundations of the world that saints might be created 
 
 for Heaven, w.is sent only to obtain a pardon for 
 
 sinners, leaving us in our sinful nature, we would 
 never be fit to enter Heaven. But, blessed be (lod, 
 who with pardon demands the new birth, the final 
 change from sin unto righteousness ; and so we find 
 in the sacrifice not only a ransom from the grave, a 
 resurrection for the body, and an atonement for the 
 separation of the soul from God, when the Saviour 
 said upon the cross " My God, my God, why hast 
 thou forsaken m3," but also the hidden manna, the 
 unchanging love of God, rcv^ealed in the cleansing 
 blood from Calvary's Cross, and in the precious words 
 which Jesus preached and sent his followers into all 
 the world to teach, that all might be brought into one 
 peace and fellowship unto God. So we find that both 
 Jews and Gentiles are one in spirit, through Christ 
 and no longer separate as foreigners and strangers, 
 but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the house- 
 hold of God. 
 
 Isaiah liii., 5. " But he was wounded for our trans- 
 gressions, he was bruised for our iniquities : the chas- 
 tisement of our pcifce was upon him ; and with his 
 stripes we are healed." 
 
 6. " All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have 
 
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 turned every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath 
 laid on him the iniquity of us all." 
 
 7. " He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet 
 he opened not his mouth : he is brought as a lamb to 
 the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is 
 dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." 
 
 8. " He was taken from prison and from judgment : 
 and who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut 
 off out of the land of the living : for the transgression 
 of my people was he stricken." 
 
 9. " And he made his grave with the wicked, and 
 with the rich in his death ; because he had done no 
 violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." 
 
 10. " Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he 
 hath put him to grief ; when thou shalt make his soul 
 an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall "pro- 
 long his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall 
 prosper in his hand." 
 
 11. " He shall see of the travail of his soul, and 
 shall be satisfied : by his knowledge shall my right- 
 eous servant justify many ; tor he shall bear their 
 iniquities." 
 
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 JJI MORTAL cannot grasp the height and breadth 
 of the love of God any more than you can un- 
 derstand the endless ends of the countless millions of 
 imaginary lines which pass you on every hand, of 
 which reason says they must begin somewhere and 
 have an end. While circumstances prove them end- 
 less, and causes man's highest reason to tail in Viank 
 confusion, with nature's sight, aided by the t u v c^;C> 
 you can see countless millions of miles of the s pu ? m 
 which you dwell, although you cannot see it ai . ^. 
 whose spiritual eyes are opened by gospel light, can 
 see a part of God's boundless love and glorious 
 presence ; have, through Christ, the risen Saviour, 
 a satisfying portion of the peace He givs , -ees 
 through Him the Father's boundless love, v;h?V> sur- 
 rounds the Christian in this life ; and fills Itu.-^ soul 
 with ceaseless hope and joy.-" !Jt.?peakable. He feels 
 and knows that the presence of v j Lord is with him. 
 He looks to Calvary's cross and beholds the Saviour 
 suffering there on earth to make him free from sin, 
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 know that this is true, by personal experience, and 
 that " He was wounded for our transgression, was 
 bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our 
 paace was upon him, and with His stripes we are 
 healed." Have you watched the thoughtless, unrc- 
 generated soul, while he was sinking beneath the 
 waters of affliction, approaching the gates of death ? 
 Have you sought to find in him the peace of the 
 presence of God ? If so, you have sought in vain. 
 The Lord does not dwell with us until our nature is 
 moulded by His own great love, the love of God ; 
 cleansed in the fountain of his blood. Let us not 
 forget that the blessed Lord and Saviour was smitten 
 for us, was afflicted of God, that we might escape hell 
 and the nature of devils, and that we might have an 
 entrance into Heaven. 
 
 God, in love and justice, will not permit a nature 
 of sin to dwell in Heaven, because He loves the angels. 
 When all we like sheep had gone astray, following 
 afier our cwn nature of sin, Jesus bore our iniquities 
 and was afflicted in our stead, and murmured not, 
 but went as a lamb to the slaughter ; from prison and 
 from judgment to Calvary's cross, because he loved 
 us. He was able to pay our debt, because his own 
 life was sinless, and he could lay it down and take it 
 again that we might rise with Him. He gave Hi.5 
 soul an offering for sinners because He loved us 
 Then, can we afford to neglect that gift of pardon, the 
 
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 crown of life and love, he offers, and rejec.; our souls' 
 salvation ? If we do, we cannot escape a home with 
 devils, for Jesus did not escape the cross, but paid the 
 ' " 's demand, and bled on Calvary. " He shall see 
 I , seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure 
 of the Lord shall prosper in His hands." This present 
 day is the day of the Lord that is prolonged ; and is 
 biing prolonged to cease only when the jubilee of 
 earth's great millennium is here, and the Lord shall 
 "see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied." 
 
GOD'S LAW WITH US. 
 
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 I. Peter iii,, 15. 
 4i iCUT sanctify the Lord God in your hearts ; 
 and be ready always to give an answer to 
 every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that 
 is in you with meekness and fear : " 
 
 16. " Hav ng a good conscience ; that, whereas 
 they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be 
 ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation 
 
 in Christ." 
 
 17. " For it is better, if the will of God b« so, that 
 
 ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing." 
 
 18. " For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, 
 the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, 
 being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the 
 :)p:Ht : " 
 
 19. *' By which also he went and preached unto 
 
 the spirits in prison ;" 
 
 20. " Which sometime were disobedient, when once 
 the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, 
 while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, 
 eight souls were saved by water.'* 
 
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 21. " The like figure whereunto even baptism doth 
 often now save us (not the putting away of the filth 
 of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience to- 
 wards God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ : " 
 
 22. " Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right 
 hand of God ; angels and authorities and powers 
 being made subject unto him," 
 
 Sanctification is a progressive state, meaning set 
 aside. Sanctify God in your heart, by seeking first 
 and above everything else to serve and glorify God 
 with your whole life, making everything of second 
 consideration. If you accept Christ for your Saviour 
 and obey Him with a willing loving obedience, you 
 have rest from a guilty conscience, a peace which is 
 the evidence of the new birth ; a change from guilt 
 and from a nature of sin to righteousness and loving 
 confidence in God ; then you are sanctified, set apart 
 from sin, but not made perfect. To sanctify God in 
 your heart should occupy the whole of the Christian 
 life, and mean a life of obedience in ail things — a 
 loving service to God, growing in grace and working 
 out your own salvation. After, you are redeemed, 
 preparing your nature for Heaven. God, in perfect 
 love, demands that none but blood-washed souls shall 
 enter Heaven. Are you sanctified through Christ in 
 love to God ? Then you should strive to sanctify the 
 Lord God in )our heart, by studying His word as 
 written in His books, so as to answer with meekness 
 
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 any man that asks for " a reason of the hope that is 
 in you," having a good conscience, which is the fruit 
 of walking in love through Christ with God, speaking 
 forth the life of Christ, testifying by your actions as 
 well as by your words of the presence of God in your 
 soul. You show to the world that, since Christ has 
 suffered: " the just for the unjust" to satisfy the law of 
 God and to bring us to Him, you accept His gr ce 
 and the baptism of death in the flesh, and through 
 God have been quickened with Christ by the Spirit. 
 When Christ was put to death for us He was quick- 
 ened by the Spirit, by which He also went and 
 preached unto the :;pirits in prison. The disobedient, 
 who had no part in the first resurrection, and were 
 left in prison until the final judgment — had they been 
 obedient to God's laws of perfect justice — they would 
 have been taken into Paradise at the first resurrection, 
 of which Christ was the first when He arose. They 
 had lived before Christ came and had not the privilege 
 to reject His salvation, therefore were not yet lost, 
 for Christ atoned for every one and He offered them 
 salvation, for that is what He preached. 
 
 While the Ark was being prepared, Noah waited in 
 obedience to God, through faith, and through that 
 faith (lod saved him by the waters which bore him up 
 and destroyed the wicked from the earth. And so 
 baptism, in a like figure, doth also nov/ save us. Not 
 the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the an- 
 
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 swer of a good conscience towards God, by the resur- 
 ^ rection of Jesus Christ. Baptism is a work of faith, 
 not to cleanse the body or the soul from sin, but a 
 spiritual dipping with God into the blood that stained 
 the cross on Calvary — a token of our death with 
 Christ to the world ; and resurrection with the Son of 
 God by faith through a loving obedience to the 
 Saviour's command. As it is not of works, but of 
 love, faith and obedience to God, it matters but little 
 whether you are baptised in a river or baptistry — in 
 much or little water — whether you arc sprinkled or 
 irimersed. If your love and faith is pure, natural and 
 sincere, God will accept your baptism as a righteous- 
 ness fulfilled and give you the answer of a good con- 
 science. 
 
 I was immersed in the waters of a river in the State 
 of Missouri. No other way would have sufficed than 
 the way of immersion, for I had been taught so, and 
 God requires that we do what we believe to be His 
 will Had I been taught that sprinkling or pouring 
 . on was an acceptable way unto the Lord, and followed 
 that teaching, it would net have lessened my love, my 
 faith or my obedience. It would have been accept- 
 able unto the Lord, because it is not an act of works, 
 but of faith — a loving service. 
 
 We find that God acknowledges baptism for 
 departed souls, who physically could take no part 
 in the baptismal form, but spiritually could ac- 
 
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 ccpt it through the act and faith of another. I. 
 Cor. XV., 29 : " Else what shall they do which arc 
 baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? why 
 are they then baptized for the dead ? " I myself, have 
 used the privilege offered in that verse for departed 
 brothers and sisters in the Lord, who confessed the 
 Saviour on their dying beds, from which they passed 
 to meet their God without having fulfilled thib right- 
 eousness, in obedience to the Saviour's will. We 
 believe that every jot and every tittle of God's law 
 must be fulfilled in behalf of every one before they 
 can enter Heaven. Angels, whose majesty and glory 
 are beyond our comprehension, and principalities and 
 powers obey God's will. The Almighty forms the 
 laws of Heaven and earth, and appoints kings and 
 priests to administer His laws of love and justice. 
 He gives each saint a mansion and a crown, or a 
 place in Heaven, according to the spiritual character 
 when brought before the bar of eternal justice, at the 
 last great judgment-day, when Paradise will be ex- 
 changed for Heaven ; or the prisoner doomed to 
 
 hell. 
 
 The fruits of the new birth is the answer of a good 
 conscience toward God. It matters little what your 
 feelings are, if you believe that Jesus is your Saviour, 
 and choose to follow Him. If you repent, by turning 
 away from sin and confess the Lord by baptism, you 
 have eternal life abiding in you, and you eat and 
 
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 drink of the spiritual food of the flesh and blood of 
 the Son of God, which is eternal life, and God will 
 raise you up at the last day, when your time on earth 
 is done. St. John vi., 54 : ** Whoso cateth my flesh, 
 and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will 
 raise him up at the last day." Then come to Jesus, as 
 the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon advises in the following 
 beautiful nymn : 
 
 FLY TO JESUS. 
 
 Guilty sinner, fly to Jesus ; 
 
 He alone can purge our guilt ; 
 Frorr. each deadly sin lie frees us, 
 
 'Twas for this His blood was spilt. 
 Come and welcome ; 
 Come this moment if thou wilt. 
 
 Empty sinner, haste to Jesus, 
 
 F'or in Him all fulness dwells, 
 And His inmost soul it pleases 
 When a longing soul He fills. 
 
 Be not backward ; 
 He invites whoever wills. 
 
 Hopeless sinner, look to Jesus, 
 In His death thy ransom see ; 
 
 From despair His word releases, 
 Trust in Him and fear shall flee. 
 High as Heaven 
 
 Are His thoughts of love to thee. 
 
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 Woist of sinners, come to Jesus, 
 He has said He'll cast out none ; 
 
 Come with all thy foul diseases, 
 He can cure them every one — 
 And with wonder. 
 
 Thou shalt sing what grace has done. 
 
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 Hebrp:ws ii., ii. 
 'OR both he that sanctifieth an ey who are 
 sanctified are all of one : for which cause he 
 is not ashamed to call them brethren," 
 
 12. " Saying, I will declare thy name unto my 
 brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise 
 unto thee." 
 
 13. "And again, I will put my trust in him. And 
 again, Behold I and the children which God hath 
 given me." 
 
 14. " Forasmuch then as the children are partakers 
 of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part 
 of the same ; that through death he might destroy 
 him that had the power of death, that is, the devil ; ' 
 
 15. " And deliver them who through fear of death 
 were all their lifetime subject to bondage." 
 
 16. " For verily he took not on him the nature of 
 angels ; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 
 
 17. "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be 
 made like unto his brethren, that he might be a 
 
 merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining 
 
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 to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the 
 people." 
 
 1 8. "For in that he himselfhath suffered being 
 tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." 
 Since God who sanctifies and we who are sanctified 
 are all of one spirit, through Christ, He is not ashamed 
 to call us brethren, and His grace — meaning favour — 
 is extended to us, not because we have chosen to fol- 
 low Him, but because His blood — through his grace- 
 has cleansed our heart, and His love has changed our 
 nature. Inasmuch as the children of God are " par- 
 takers of flesh and l::v."»d. He also likewise took part 
 of the same, that through death He might destroy 
 him that hath the power of death, that is the devil," 
 and save us from the power of the law that would send 
 us down to hell, where by law and by nature we be- 
 longed, and, inasmuch as God's free grace extends to 
 sinners a pardon from Calvary's cross, comes to make 
 us free. His favor also extends to guide the ransomed 
 home to be forever in His own sweet presence. How 
 does the Saviour lead His ransomed from the gates of 
 hell ? By the cross, and its fountain of cleansing ; by 
 the straight and narrow way. Straight and narrow in 
 regards to the sinful pleasures of this world ; but wider 
 far than earth arc the real pleasures of a Christian life, 
 though upwards every step, there is a light above — a 
 guiding star — and sweet forget-me-nots, perfumed 
 
 with love on every side, and living promises on which 
 
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 to feed, like honey in the comb above each craggy rock 
 over which you mount. It is the sweet manna of the 
 presence of the Lord, whose promises are ever sure. 
 Oh, pilgrim, feed thou on them both day and night 
 and they will fit thy soul for mansions fair and a crown 
 of life which thou mayest wear. But you must wear 
 the armour of the Lord and bear a cross, in order to 
 ascend the beautiful hills of Christian graces, not 
 merely as a form or a rule by which to ascend. Oh, 
 no ; but to change the pilgrim's nature, from darkness 
 and hate to love and righteousness, and to fit you to 
 inherit a place in the Heavens beyond the hills of 
 Christian duty ; to be changed from the nature de- 
 scribed in 
 
 Rom. i., 29. " Being filled with all unrighteousness, 
 fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousners ; 
 full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whis- 
 perers," 
 
 30. " Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, 
 
 boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to par- 
 ents," 
 
 31. "Without understanding, covenantbrcakers, 
 without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful :" 
 
 Let us look at the changed nature as presented in 
 Psalm XV., I. " Lord, who shall abide in thy taber- 
 nacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? " 
 
 2. " He that walketh uprightly, and worketh 
 righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." 
 
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 3- *' He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor 
 doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach 
 against his neighbour." 
 
 4. "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; 
 but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that 
 sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." 
 
 5. " He that putteth not out his money to usury, 
 nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that 
 doeth these things shall never be moved." 
 
 No ; for he has the spirit cf the Lord, who said on the 
 cross for His enemies; " Father forgive them for they 
 know not what they do." To be changed by the 
 grace of God from a nature of death to the glorious 
 image and nature of the blessed Son of God is a 
 glorious victory, a victory which none can gain in their 
 own strength or merit of themselves. With the new 
 birth, from death to life, the Christian is placed upon 
 the first groat standard of the platform of salvation, 
 and sees b'^ore him the beautiful hills of Christian 
 graces for him to ascend. He starts with loving con- 
 fidence and eager haste, and finds a cross to bear only 
 when the nature of the old man comes in contact with 
 that of the new, which constantly occurs before he 
 reaches the higher standrrds of grace— nearer to God. 
 Perhaps he expects to reach at once the highest 
 standard and be a perfect model Christian ; but is 
 trusting more in self than on the Lord. Soon he falls 
 beneath some cruel shaft ef satan's power, because, 
 
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 trusting in self, he laid aside some of the armour of 
 the cross, and has slidden down ; but again he rises 
 and marches onward. Every step now he trusts 
 more in the Lord and less in self. Every little stumb- 
 ling block he passes, increases his love and confidence 
 in God. As he rises higher in his spiritual life, his 
 feet are placed higher on the Rock of Ages ; until 
 from the mountains of the Lord, where by nature he 
 has been fitted to stand, he beholds the glorious 
 radiance from the City just beyond, as he crosses the 
 river from time into eternity. 
 
 Heb. ii., 17 : *' Wherefore in all things it behoved 
 him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might 
 be a merciful and faithful high priest in things per- 
 taining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of 
 people." 
 
 Jesus came to be made like His brethren ; not like 
 man in his fallen state, but like man in his highest, 
 noblest state of Christian manhood. It becomes His 
 folio ivers to strive to come up to that standard. Dear 
 brother or sister in Christ, Are you following afar off ; 
 walking in your own strength ? Then the way is hard. 
 Jesus, who called you out of satan's ranks of sin unto 
 righteousness, is calling yet tenderly ; calling you 
 higher and nearer. Oh, why not go for a greater 
 blessing ; blessing lor all eternity ? Since Christ has 
 descended from the glories of the Father's presence to 
 the standard of a saint on earth, surely you cannot 
 
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 afford to come short of that standard of character ? 
 for it will be required of you at the judgmen:, when 
 receiving your eternr.l rewards. A mansion will be 
 appointed that suits your character: prepared for you; 
 not you for it ; and so your eternal glory will be ac- 
 cording to your eternal nature. If you are saved, you 
 cannot afford to be a small vessel when you should be 
 among the large ones, for life's issues are eternal. 
 
 WALK WITH THEE. 
 
 Tune-" Not my own. " 
 
 Not alone, but with my Saviour 
 
 I will tread the narrow way ; 
 All nlng through life's rovigh journey 
 
 Saviou , I will nea thee stay. 
 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 I'll walk with T c ; yes, yes. 
 I'll walk with Thee ; yes, yes. 
 vSaviour, I will walk wiih Thee. 
 All along throug!) ' > rough journey. 
 Saviour, I will walk with Thee. 
 
 Saviour, now my all I give Thee. 
 
 I will share the cross with Thee, 
 
 And wherever You will lead me, 
 Saviour, I will follow Thee. 
 
 And when on earth my work is ended, 
 
 Saviour, this will be my song- 
 Bear me safely o'er the river. 
 
 There to join the blood-washed throng. 
 
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 declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellow- 
 ship with us- : and truly our fellowship is with the 
 F'ather, and with his Son Jesus Chrisi. ' 
 
 4. " And these things write we unto you, that your 
 joy may be full." 
 
 5. " This then is the message which we have 
 heard of him.and declare unto you, that God is light, 
 and in him is no darkness at all." 
 
 6. *' If we say that wc have fellowship with him, 
 and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth : " 
 
 7. " Bat if we walk in the light, as he is in the 
 light, we have fellowship one with another, and the 
 blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanscth us from all 
 sin." 
 
 8. "If we sny that wc have no sin, we deceive 
 ourselves, and the truth is n it in us." 
 
 9. " If we confess our si.i ;, he is faithful and just 
 to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un- 
 righteousness " 
 
 10. " If we say that we have not sinned, we make 
 him a liar, and his word is not in us." 
 
 Man need not wait until after death in order to be 
 a saint. Anyone who accepts Jesus Christ for his 
 Saviour and follows Him, is a saint of God just as 
 much, according to his Christian character, as were 
 those saints in the Lord whom Paul commended to 
 the Church (Rom. xvi., 15) to be received by them 
 
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 as saints. Every saint on earth has a fellowship with 
 the Lord, which always corresponds with his faitl , 
 obedience and love to God, and should have fellowr- 
 ship one with another. The Christian's fellowship 
 with God is nobler and sweeter far thin all the world 
 can offer. 
 
 If all were Christians, in fellowship with God, man 
 would be in his natural element of Para Use, and earth 
 would drink no more the murderer's victims' blood* 
 War's cruel strife, with its deadly weapDns and linger- 
 ing famines — the fruits of sin, though they represent 
 the powers of hell — would cease. Oar prison gates 
 would be closed to remain without a victim ; then mil- 
 lions, who are now employed for the purpose of main- 
 taining justice in the world, would be free to work and 
 thereby increase the necessaries of lif<^. Poverty would 
 be unknown, for the liquor demon would be banished 
 from the land. Then love and purity would reign 
 sublime, while earth would be an Eden as at first. 
 
 But, suppose that all were wick j J, having no fellow- 
 ship with God — a world of thieves, of falsehood, of 
 murderers and drunkards- .h^ii the present legal 
 forces would have to be enlarged. M )re soldiers and 
 police guards would be raised, more swords and guns 
 manufactured, more prisons built, more drunkards' 
 graves prepared to receive their victims, and mor^ 
 wives and children would die a lingering death through 
 cold and hunger. More famine and pestilence, would 
 
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 be added to the suffering mass of sinners, more hor- 
 rors to endure, and earth would wear the aspect of a 
 hell — a place of torment — instead of a glorious Eden. 
 Therefore, it is plain that for man to have fellowship 
 with God, who is our light and lift;, is to have all that 
 is good for us to have and a fulness of joy. But, to 
 have fellowship with satan, is to walk in darkness and 
 be filled with hate and the leprosy of sin ; to taste of 
 the fires of hell in this life and be filled with them in 
 the next. Yet, in the face of these facts, some people 
 act and speak as if they were satisfied with the wages 
 of sin and use their influence to make the world a hell 
 rather than a Paradise, preparing themselves while in 
 time for eternal suffering and woe. Then, let us be 
 careful what we do, for " if we say that we have not 
 sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in 
 us." But " if we confess our sins. He is faithful and 
 just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all 
 unrighteousness." Jesus is tenderly calling from sin 
 all who will go unto God for salvation — eternal salva- 
 tion — to be saved from a home down in hell. Saved 
 from satan, the prince of the powers of darkness — 
 man's real, eternal, and awful enemy — who^ constantly 
 seeks to draw us down to his own abode ; but, blessed 
 be God, who has paid the ransom price to set us free. 
 The price, which represents our ruined state. He paid. 
 If you reject that ransom and the Saviour's love, you 
 have no fellowship with God, and are by nature an 
 
 
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 heii- of eternal woe. You are filling for yourself the 
 cup whlrh satan offers, and choosing, instead of your 
 eternal Heaven an eternal hell. 
 
 ?<ow to the power of God supreme 
 Be everlasting honors given ; 
 
 He savea from hell,- -we bless His name- 
 He guidei our wandering feet to Heaven. 
 
 'Twas His own purpose that bega i 
 
 To rescue rebels doomed to die : 
 He gave us grace in Christ, His Son, 
 
 Before He spread the starry sky. 
 
 Jesus, the Lord, appears at last. 
 
 And makjs His Father's counsels known ; 
 
 Declares the great transaction, past. 
 And brings immortal blessings down. 
 
 He dies and in that dreadful night, 
 
 Doth all the powers of hell destroy ; 
 Rising, He brings our Heaven to light, 
 
 And takes possession of the joy. 
 
 I. Watts. 
 
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 IS MAN IN HIS NATURAL CONDITION, 
 ,BY NATURE, A DEMON? 
 
 'JT'HIS seemingly unnatural question, was given for 
 a heading in connection with the following 
 previously selected portions of scripture, in answer to 
 prayer for guidance of the Lord : 
 
 St. John iii., II. " VeriV, verily, I say unto thee. 
 We speak that we do know, and testify that we have 
 seen ; and ye receive not our witness." 
 
 12. " If I have told you earthly things, and ye 
 believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of 
 heavenly things." 
 
 13. " And no man hath ascended up to Heaven, 
 but he that came down from Heaven, even the Son 
 of man which is in Heaven." 
 
 14. " And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the 
 wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:" 
 
 15. "That whosoever believeth in him should not 
 perish, but have eternal life." 
 
 16. " For God so loved the v\orkl, that he gave his 
 only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
 should not perish, but have everlasting life." 
 
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 17. " For God sent not his Son into the world to 
 condemn the world ; but that the world through him 
 might be saved." 
 
 1 8. " He that believeth on him is not condemned : 
 but he that believeth not is condemned already, 
 because he hath not believed in the name of the only 
 begotten Son of God." 
 
 The subject was manifested by a vision, and the 
 command to use it, through the key of communi- 
 cation with God. Wc say vision, because we recog- 
 nize in it an object lesson placed before the soul by 
 the agency of another power, not its own, while the 
 body was at rest. / 
 
 If you desire to draw a beautiful object lesson to 
 suit a special purpose, and cannot do so without 
 being assisted, you then seek that assistance. If, 
 when the body sleeps and the mind is wandering in 
 dreams, a practical Ics/jon is given which you could 
 not conceive unaided, you may know as did the men 
 of olden times that it is a vision, given for a purpose. 
 
 In the vision, I saw a wide road running through a 
 wild uncultivated country, with some dwellings situat- 
 ed here and there. Just across the road I heard the 
 angry voice of a furious man, ringing out in fierce 
 oaths upon his victim's head. The victim was his 
 slave : a poor half-starved, overworked, neglected, 
 fellow-man, whose features showed the lack of edu- 
 cation, whose face was tanned red, and who seemed 
 
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 to know no claim for right or wrong. He was the 
 slave of a cruel master, whose words now turned to 
 actions, as I heard the whistling hum of his long cruel 
 whip, which seemed almost to burn the air in its 
 speed. He applied it hard and long upon the poor 
 suffering, silent, terror-stricken man — a brother, though 
 a slave. Others looking on did nothing in his behalf, 
 and seemed to regard the man as but a dog ; yet he 
 was a fellow-man. The master was looked upon as 
 a man, although he wore the nature of a demon. 
 
 I realized the fact that man in his unregcnerated 
 nature is but a demon in the sight of God's eternal 
 justice and nothing but God's love sprinkled in blood 
 upon the heart can change that nature, which is like a 
 wild, uncultivated country. The state in which many 
 dwell, though polished in their manner, their nature is 
 corrupt ; though planted on this earth to grow as 
 wheat, they ripen into tares, unless touched by the 
 soul-cleansing blood of atonement. Before the new 
 birth, we are children of satan : demon is the proper 
 name for the nature we then possess. Unless the Son 
 of Man, who was lifted up for us, not only draws us to 
 Himself, but shines upon and changes us by the beau- 
 tiful rays of His love, we must ripen into eternal 
 demons by nature. But, praise the Lord, millions 
 have proved that man can ripen into a saint meet for 
 the Master's use, and need not wear the nature that 
 devils wear ; nor walk with them — away from God and 
 
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 Heaven— towards the gates of hell. Man's fallen 
 guilty nature is like the new, uncultivated country ; 
 and they who choose to remain in it, rejecting the lov- 
 ing offers of salvation, have a living germ of sin wjth- 
 in their soul : a nature— in God's sight, before His eter- 
 nal justice— that is doomed to eternal hell, and wears 
 the name of demon. Nothing but the love of God, 
 flowing in blood upon the soul from off the cross to 
 pay his debt and set him free, can kill the demon 
 nature and take him out from his unregenerated state, 
 across the road of righteousness into the plains of 
 everlasting life and peace and pleasures, beside the 
 Tree of Life, where living waters flow. 
 
 St. John iii., 1 1. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We 
 speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen ; 
 and yc receive not our witness." 
 
 12. " If I have told you earthly things, and ye be- 
 lieve not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly 
 things ?" 
 
 13. " And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but 
 he that cam 3 down from heaven, even the Son of Man 
 
 which is in heaven." 
 
 V/ithout the new birth, you, like Nicodemus, cannot 
 understand what the new birth is ; and wi",l not fully 
 receive the witness of His children. If you do not be- 
 lieve that God is the Crieator of earthly things, you 
 can understand nothing of heavenly things. Before 
 Christ's death and ascension to the Father, no man 
 
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 had ascended up to Heaven, except the Son of Man 
 which is in Heaven, for Christ was ever in the Trinity 
 — the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost — the everlasting 
 God. Even when on earth a perfect man, Christ was 
 God and was ever with the Father, except, when on 
 the Cross He said ; " My God, my God, why hast thou 
 forsaken me." Oil, let us not forget, that " as Moses 
 lifted up the serpent in the wilderness ; even so the 
 Son of Man was lifted up, ttat whosoever believeth 
 in Him, should not perish, but have everlastin^, life." 
 " Whosoever," meaning you and I ; that you i^nd I 
 might escape the powers of hell. Jesus died for you ; 
 not to condemn you, but that, through faith, you might 
 escape from eternal condemnation. Won't you, for 
 your own sake, and for Jesus Christ's sake, accept sal- 
 vation ? escape from hell and gain a glorious Heaven ? 
 For " he that believeth on Him is not condemned, but 
 he that believeth not is condemned already ; " con- 
 demned by God's law, and his own dissatisfied nature. 
 When drawn towards the crobs, he looks with a disbe- 
 lieving, doubting mind, and rejects the Saviour's love 
 for the sake of selfish pleasure and is blind to the 
 awful result, receiving the dross with its poison, in- 
 stead of the glories of everlasting life. To believe — 
 to look and live — mecins to take God at His word and 
 believe that Christ's atonement is for you ; and to 
 accept it by a simple, trusting belief, and a perfectly 
 willing, loving obedience ; knowing that faith without 
 
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 works is just as dead as works without faith. 
 
 It is written : " And some believed the things which 
 were spoken, and some believed not." — Acts xxviii,, 24. 
 
 " Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that heareth my 
 word, and believeth on him th^t sent me, hath ever- 
 lasting life, and shall not come into condemnation ; 
 but is passed from death unto life." — John v., 24. 
 
 " Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is 
 b'jrn of God : " — I. John v., i, 
 
 " To him givj all the proph :ts witness, that through 
 his name whosoever b2licvcth in him shall receive 
 remission of sins." — Acts x., 43. 
 
 " Whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though 
 now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy 
 unspeakable and full of glory.'' — I. Peter i., 8. 
 
 " He that believeth not GoJ halh made him a liar ; 
 because he believeth not the record that God gave of 
 his Son." — I. John v., 10. 
 
 " If ye believe not that I am ho, yc shall die in your 
 sins." — John viii., 24. 
 
 " He that believeth not is condemned already, 
 because he hath not believed in the name of the only 
 begotten Son of God." — John'iii., 18. 
 
 " He that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; 
 but the wrath of God abidcih on him." — John iii., 36 
 
 Which portion is yours, life or death? 
 
 "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt 
 be saved." — Actsxvi., 31. 
 
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 II 
 
 ily 
 
 The day that remains of life, encircled by the 
 moving wheels of time, like a flickering torchlight 
 sending forth its rays of gooti or evil, may in an 
 instant cease, and you be ushered into the presence of 
 your God ; or it yet may last a week, a month, a year, 
 or a hundred years, or even more. But, when it has 
 gone and you stand, at your last fleeting moment, 
 upon the Rock of Ages, and behold the gates of 
 Paradise ; or, in horror, see the gates of hell ; the 
 past, though it were a hundred years, will be as noth- 
 ing in itself, but lost. All lost in you, condensed into 
 a character, and stamped upon your soul ; marking 
 your eternal destiny ; the destiny that you are form- 
 ing now. Grace is all of God. If you reject His 
 grace, the character of your nature will be only sin. 
 Sin, which you of yourself cannot change. You have 
 accepted or rejected the Lord, and are walking with 
 God, or with the devil. Building the nature of your 
 own eternal '^^ing, preparing for a home above, or a 
 home in the dark regions of v/oe. Which are you 
 doing ? You are nearing an endless home. Where 
 shall it be ? An eternal home of love and pleasure, or 
 sorrow and hate. Without the new birth, you can do 
 nothing good ; can lay no treasures up in Heaven. 
 The most important of all things in life is the new 
 birth ; the lov.^ of GoJ in the heart ; love, unto 
 obedience to Him ; being changed from a demon to 
 a saint. Why should a man be proud, though sur- 
 
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 rounded by worldly honors and clothed in fine gar- 
 ments, glittering with golden gems and diamonds rare, 
 if in his soul there is a ciemon — though small and 
 masked — that claims him for a child of hell ; lower 
 than the lowest beast on earth ? Why should he be 
 proud ? His pride is vain ; his folly the maddest 
 crime. Walking in pride to an eternal doom. Walk- 
 ing in Satan's alluring mists ; knowing not when God 
 shall call him and his doom be fixed ; forgetting the 
 price vvhich Jesus paid for his redemption. He sees 
 not the cross in his own. behalf, feels not the blood, 
 and will not hive it sprinkled on his heart. He is too 
 dead to be dissatisfied with self, and will not hear the 
 voice of the Son of God ; for ** they that hear shall 
 live." As the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He 
 given to the Son to have life in Himself, and hath 
 given Him authority to execute judgment also, because 
 He is the Son of Man, and God in him raised Him- 
 self up from death in our behalf, and broke the bands 
 of law that sealed the tomb, and became the first fruits 
 of the first resurrection. So now we who in Christ 
 fall asleep in death — death to the body, but sleep to 
 the soul which is raised, when the body is rcrdly dead 
 — are quickened into a spiritual body ; awakened ii 
 Paradise, to await the final judgment of revvarc\ 
 Having been raised in the first resurrection they have 
 passed the judgment of condemnation. Our blessed 
 Saviour told the people before His death and resur- 
 
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 rection, not to marvel that " all who are in their 
 graves should hear His voice and should come forth ; 
 they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, 
 and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of 
 damnation." The resurrection time is called an hour ; 
 but that hour extends from Christ, the first fruits of 
 the first resurrection, to the last resurrection, when 
 God shall judge the world and execute judgment upon 
 the wicked and reward the righteous. (II. Cor. v, 10.) 
 By searching the scriptures you will find that there 
 are two resurrections and one judgment. Blessed are 
 they who have part in the first resurrection. Since 
 Christ took our place as the sinner, He came under 
 the law that doomed man to the first death, of separ- 
 ation from God, therefore He said " I can myself do 
 nothing, as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just, 
 because I seek not mine own will but the will of the 
 Father who hath sent me." If Jesus Christ, in your 
 stead, could not obtain salvation for you without un- 
 dergoing the whole penalty of the demands of justice, 
 how shall you escape if you neglect to accept the 
 great salvation secured for you at so great a price ? 
 How deep the folly and black the ignorance of him 
 v/ho serves the devil and reaps the wages of sin, es- 
 pecially after seeing others, who have served the devil, 
 paid with the sufferings of hell, as they passed from 
 this world to another. Oh, how mad is his folly who 
 follows after sin with its separation (death) from God ? 
 
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 choosing misery and woe, instead of righteousness — 
 love and joy and peace, and everlasting life.' Then 
 seek, dear reader, to follow Jesus ; follow close where 
 He may lead. Know that every command — the 
 smallest is as the greatest — all just alike demand 
 obedience in love. Then follow in His way, for 
 " obedience is better than sacrifice " to God. 
 
 BE STILL. 
 By Horatius Bonar, D. D. 
 
 Be still, my soul ! Jehova loveth thee ; 
 
 Fret not, nor murmur at thy weary lot ; 
 Though dark and lone thy journey seems to be, 
 
 Be sure that thou art ne'er by Him forgot. 
 He ever loves thee ; then trust Him, trust Him still ; 
 Let all thy care be this, the doing of His will. 
 
 Thy hand in His, like fondest, happiest child, 
 Place thou, nor draw it for a moment thence ; 
 
 Walk thou with Him, a Father reconciled. 
 
 Till, in His own good time He call thee hence. 
 
 Walk with Him now, so shall thy way be bright 
 
 And all thy soul be filled with His most glorious light. 
 
 Fight the good fight of faiih, nor turn aside, 
 Through fear of peril from on earth or hell : 
 
 Take to thee now the armour proved and tried, 
 
 Take to thee spear and sword. Oh, wield them well ! 
 
 So shalt thou conquer here, so win the day, 
 
 So wear the crown, when this hard life has passed away. 
 
 Take courage, faint not, though the foe be strong. 
 Christ is thy strength ; He fightest on thy side ; 
 
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 Swift be thy race ; remember 'tis not long— 
 
 The goal is near ; the prize He will provide ; 
 And there from earthly toil thou resteth ever ; 
 Thy home on the fair banks of life's eternal river. 
 
 He comes with His reward ; 'tis just at hand ; 
 
 He comes in glory to His promised throne. 
 My soul rejoice ; ere long thy feet shall stand 
 
 Within the city of the blessed One. 
 Thy perils past, thy heritage secure, 
 Thy tears all wiped away, thy joy for ever sure. 
 
THE NEW LIFE. 
 
 Isaiah Iv., i. 
 
 44 *ff\0, every one that thirsteth, come yc to the 
 
 waters, and he that hath no money ; come 
 
 ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and mili< 
 
 without money and without price." 
 
 2. " Wherefore do ye spend money for that which 
 is not bread ? and your labour for that which satis- 
 fieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye 
 that which is good, and let your soul delight itself 
 in fatness." 
 
 3. " Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, 
 and your soul shall live ; and I will make an ever- 
 lasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of 
 David." 
 
 4. " Behold, I have given him for a witness to the 
 people, a leader and commander to the people." 
 
 5. " Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou 
 knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall 
 run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for 
 the Holy One of Israel ; for he hath glorified thee." 
 
 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call 
 ye upon him while he is near : " 
 

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 7. " Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- 
 ripfhteous man his thoughts : and let him return unto 
 the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him ; and to 
 our God, for he will abundantly pardon." 
 
 The new life — the life which is hid with Christ in 
 God — is a mysterious stumbling block to the infidel, 
 the sceptic, and the moralist, because they choose to 
 follow sin. They know nothing of its meaning as a 
 reality and judge only by sight or hearing, but never 
 by practical, personal experience. They have never 
 tasted of it, though they may have professed to do so. 
 They never knew the Bread of Life or drank of the 
 living water, the water which Jesus invited the woman 
 of Samaria to drink of (John iv., 14), which " if any 
 mar drink he shall never thirst again," because he 
 would have in him eternal life. Eternal life ! the very 
 name indicates its nature, for it would not be eternal 
 life if il were to cease to be. God, our Creator, knows 
 the seeds that will grow into fruits of eternal love and 
 beauty — the likeness of Himself who changes not. He 
 gave you intelligent, reasoning faculties, for which you 
 are responsible. He draws you to Himself by love's 
 strong cords of mercy, laden with eternal blessings — 
 life and peace and pleasure. If you reject God's lov- 
 ing mercy. His eternal laws of unerring justice must 
 sever the cords and cut you down as a cumbercr of the 
 ground. But you may be saved, if not already. Study 
 well the following verses, for they arc worthy. 
 
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 " For this is good and acceptable in the sight of 
 God our Saviour ; who will have all men to be saved, 
 and to come unto a knowledge of the truth." — I. Tim- 
 othy ii., 3-4. 
 
 *• Wherefore he is able also to save them to the ut- 
 termost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever 
 liveth to make intercession for them." — Hcb. vii., 25. 
 
 " For God sent not his Son into the world to con- 
 demn the world ; but that the world through him 
 might be saved."— John iii., 17. 
 
 " For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that 
 not of yourselves : it is the gift of God : " — Ephes. ii., 8 
 
 " For the Son of man is come to seek and to save 
 that which was lost." — Luke xix., 10. 
 
 " Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the 
 sin of the world." — John i., 29. 
 
 " Neither is there salvation in any other : for there 
 is none other name under heaven given among men, 
 whereby we must be saved." — Acts iv., 12. 
 
 " For with the heart man believeth unto righteous- 
 ness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto 
 salvation." — Romans x., 10. 
 
 " If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord 
 Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath 
 raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." — 
 Romans x., 9. 
 
 ** Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the 
 earth," — Isaiah xlv., 22. 
 
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 Beside the above precious passages of scripture, 
 there are many others calling you into the new life, of 
 which millions have testified ; not only by words, but 
 by actions ; not merely for a week or a month, but for 
 years ; glorifying God with their whole lives, rejoicing 
 continually in the service of God. 
 
 The writer also can add his testimony, which he 
 will endeavor to give in a plain, simple way, hoping 
 that it may in some way help to remove some of the 
 mists that cloud the mind of some earnest readers, 
 whose experience may, in some respects, be as his 
 own has sometimes been. 
 
 At my mother's side, in childhood days, the Saviour 
 on the cross was presented for the first time to my 
 view, and the first bright spark of living fire — the fire 
 of love which I have never lost — touched my soul 
 and left its image there. Then I looked upon Jesus 
 Christ as the Saviour of the world, and hoped that 
 He would soon be mine, -but failed to secure the 
 blessing. I spent my childhood days with that living 
 spark upon (not within) my soul, and that hope with- 
 in my heart, which helped to mould my nature and 
 keep me from the ways of sin. I had not the joys of 
 a Christian, though I believed that Christ was the 
 Son of God and the Saviour of the world, because I 
 did not seek salvation in earnest. I was disobedient 
 to God's will and sought for sinful pleasures in the 
 world, which did not satisfy the longings cf the soul. 
 
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 Years rolled on and stronger grew the cords that 
 drew me to the cross ; until at last", in early youth, 
 I approached the mercy seat. I got to the feet of the 
 Lord alone, in the closet. I simply asked in faith for 
 pardon and the blessing of a new heart; when a 
 loving obedience to God was added unto my faith. I 
 received the Holy Ghost the Comforter; and the 
 Lord took possession of my soul and filled me with 
 His presence. Then a deep, rich peace and pleasure 
 —a joy, not an excitement — a love to God and man, 
 growing stronger, broader and calmer, day by day, 
 was mine. But, alas, my obedience was not yet made 
 perfect unto God, whom I had not yet confessed 
 before men as my Saviour, although I knew that it 
 was my duty to do so. I put it off day after day, 
 through a bashful ignorance, thinking that others 
 would laugh, or that there would be a better chance 
 another time to tell of my conversion, of my love to 
 God, and of my great desire for the salvation of my 
 friends and neighbours. At last I resolved to obey at 
 once the voice of God and wait no longer. Just then 
 another stumbling block appeared and the way of 
 duty was made harder still. Satan was permitted to 
 spread another net ; and make me think that my 
 schoolmates and friends would not believe me, and I 
 fancied that if I said that I was born again, saved a 
 year ago, they would think me foolish ; and so I was 
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 mist, because my nature was not right and my will was 
 not fully subject to the will of God. It costs more than 
 you might think to cure a nature of such mad folly- 
 If you have a like experience, I ask you to step for- 
 ward like the Israelites who crossed the Red Sea ; 
 and your stumblin blocks will move like the waters ; 
 for God will clear the path when you press forward in 
 obedience to His will. Those trials would not have 
 troubled mc if the standard of my nature was abavo 
 them, but it was not. It had to be cultivated before I 
 was enabled to overcome or go any farther, and it cost 
 me much precious time and golden opportunities. 
 My youth was spent, not like the prodigal son, but 
 like the one who wasted all his time in slumbering 
 disobedience to his Father and laid up no treasure in 
 Heaven. But soon I reached to early manhood ; got 
 a higher sense of duty and sought a closer walk in the 
 presence of the Lord ; made a full surrender of 
 obedience to His will and then received again the 
 peace and joy of consecration, the fellowship which I 
 so long had lost. Disobedience took away my peace 
 but not the new born nature of eternal life, for the 
 Saviour ever lives to intercede for me. Because I 
 thirsted for a closer walk with God, He enabled me 
 to overcome and filled me with the wine and milk of 
 His own presence. I had been spending my time for 
 that which did not satisfy, and lost the wine and the 
 milk. He who made the everlasting covenant with 
 me gave the victory, and made me to be more than 
 
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 conqueror, feeding my soul upon that which was good 
 and making me to delight in the fatness of His 
 blessing. 
 
 " Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye 
 upon him while he is near : " — Isaiah Iv., 6. 
 
 ** Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unright- 
 eous man his thoughts : and let him return unto the 
 Lord, and he will have mercy upon him ; and to our 
 God, for he will abunr'antly pardon." — Isaiah Iv., 7. 
 
 Then Jesus drew me up and made me to ascend 
 tho beautiful hills ; to the higher standard of the 
 Christian life; to gain the precious pearls of character; 
 to lay up treasures which never can be lost ; to realize 
 that obedience unto God is better far than sacrifice ; 
 to be set aside by the sanctifying process of His love ; 
 to learn obedience to His blessed will and follow all 
 the way ; not pari, but all the way, wherever He may 
 lead. God's way of righteousness and love has always 
 proved to be the way of peace and pleasure. The 
 Christian's pathwaynever should be hard and rough, 
 for when it is the Christian is himself the cause ; his 
 nature is not right and conflicts with the perfect way 
 of peace. Every time that he is chastened he receives 
 a blessing, though he may think it but a curse. It 
 moulds his nature in accordance with the Perfect 
 Artist's will, and helps to fit him for his eternal home 
 above, giving him who has the new life here the 
 nature demanded of the child of God, as found in 
 
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 Matthew V , 44. " But I say unto you, Love your 
 enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them 
 that hate you, and pray for them which despitcfully 
 use you, and persecute you ; " 
 
 45. " That ye may be the children of your Father 
 which is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on 
 the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just 
 and on the unjust." 
 
 46. " For if ye love them which love you, what 
 reward have ye ? do not even the publicans the same?' 
 
 47. " And if ye salute your brethren only, what do 
 ye more than others ? do not even the publicans so ? " 
 
 48. *' Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 
 which is in heaven is perfect." 
 
 Although you cannot grow to perfection in every 
 respect, yet you may grow to perfection in love and 
 obedience to God, having perfection in this one most 
 important virtue : wearing a£ a child of God the pearl 
 of love, the image and likeness of (»od ; so being 
 perfect in yourself, even as God is perfect in Himself 
 To attain this highest of human virtue, you must 
 always walk with God, wearing the attitude of praise 
 to Him all the time, feasting upon the fatness of His 
 presence. 
 
 Psalm cxxi., i. "I will lift up mine eyes unto the 
 hills, from whence cometh my help." 
 
 2. •' My help cometh from the Lord, which made 
 heaven and earth," 
 
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 3- " He will not sufifer thy foot to be moved : he 
 that keepcth thee will not slumber." 
 
 4. " Behold he that keepcth Israel shall neither 
 slumber nor sleep." 
 
 5. " The Lord is thy keeper : the Lord is thy 
 shade upon thy right hand." 
 
 6. " The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the 
 moon by night." 
 
 7. " The Lord shall preserve thoe from all evil : 
 he shall preserve thy soul." 
 
 8. " The Lord shall preserve thy goinf; out and 
 thy coming in from this time forth, and even for ever- 
 more." 
 
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 OBEDIENCE UNTO SALVATION. 
 
 i^T is reasonable and just, so far as man can judge 
 v/ or know of law and justice, that the first great 
 cord in God's great plan of redemption that should 
 touch the soul, is the cord of obedience. The rod of 
 disobedience first smote and drove him from his earth- 
 ly Paradise and broke the cords of love, which linked 
 his heart to God, his living head. It sowed the seeds 
 of death within his soul, fcr which the Saviour's death 
 atones ; for now the soul, though dead by nature 
 through guilt and sin, may live again the moment 
 that obedience and faivh is rendered uiiLo God. As 
 the invitation was given to the smitten Israelites to 
 look upon the brazen Serpent and b2 healed, so the 
 command is given unto man to look to Jesus Christ 
 anc 'ive ; and he who will not look, must stay beneath 
 the endless death that seals his doom. 
 
 Faith and works are dead, when one is without 
 the other. Neither can live unless supported by an 
 obedience that is prompted by love ; love that is 
 perfect in itself, even as God is perfect in himself 
 How precious then is that loving obedience, which is 
 the ground work of every Christian's nature? The 
 faith which is cncircUd b\' it is a livintr faith and is 
 always united with works ; al^'ays looking for bless- 
 ings ; always taking Gorl at His word and having the 
 
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 assurance of His presence. " I am the vine, and ye 
 are the branches : he that abideth in me and I in him, 
 the sa:Tie bringeth forth muCii fruit : for without me 
 ye can do nothing." You do not abide in Christ un- 
 less your nature is conformed to His will, drawing 
 you out in search after God's commands to do them 
 for His glory. It is not only your privilege to have 
 that nature, but it is your bounden duty. You are 
 blessed with faculties of reason, for which you are 
 held responsible, and must , suffer the eternal conse- 
 quences if you do not honor and serve God with a 
 service of love. No matter how bad your nature is, 
 you are commanded to partake of the nature of love, 
 without which you cannot be fitted for Heaven ; and 
 it all depends on your own will ; whether you obey 
 God or not (I. Cor. x., 31.) If you would be engraft- 
 ed into Christ you must seek to obey His will. 
 
 John XV., 7, 8. " If ye abide in me, and my words 
 abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be 
 done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye 
 bear much fruit ; ro shall ye be my disciples." 
 
 And again in John xiv., 12, 13, 14. "Verily, verily, I 
 say unto you. He that believeth on me, the works that I 
 do shall he do also ; and greater works than these shall 
 he do ; because I go luito my Father. Ar.d whatsoever 
 ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father 
 may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing 
 in my name, I will do it." 
 
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 15. " If ye love m3, keep my commandments." 
 And in John xvi., 23. " And in that day ye shall 
 ask m3 nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
 Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he 
 will give it you." 
 
 24. " Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name : 
 ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.' 
 
 25. These things have I spoken unto you in 
 proverbs : but the time cometh, when I shall to o ore 
 speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew 'you 
 plainly of the Father." 
 
 26. " At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I 
 say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : " 
 
 27. " For the Father himself loveth you, because 
 ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out 
 from God." 
 
 You find that a Christian's life is full of duties, 
 which can only be performed by a loving obedience 
 to God, and a continual abiding in Christ. If you 
 abide in Christ, it is placed within your reach to do 
 mighty works, through Christ in God ; but you must 
 have the natural, living, loving, abiding faith of perfect 
 obedience through Christ in God, or you can do 
 nothing. The Lord has given the promise that if you 
 ask anything of the P'athcr — not of Himself — but of 
 the Father, it shall be done unto you, "If ye ask 
 anything in my name I will do it." " Hitherto ye 
 have asked nothing in my name : ask and ye shall 
 
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 receive," but you must have an expecting faith. If 
 you have never asked the Father, in Christ's name, 
 for a. clean heart, a new nature, why not ask Him 
 now? not to-morrow, but now ! He will give you the 
 everlasting blessing ; then will be performed in you 
 the greater work — the work of having a dead soul 
 raised to life, and fitted, through the risen Saviour, for 
 the indwelling of the Holy Ghost ; brought into 
 the kingdom of Heaven, which is established here. 
 
 John xvi., 26. " At that day ye shall ask in my 
 name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the 
 Father for you : " 
 
 27. " For the Father himself lovcth you, because 
 ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out 
 from God." 
 
 Yon have been redeemed and are serving the Lord ; 
 then serve Him with an obedient heart ; obeying what 
 seems to be the smallest commands, for they are the 
 large ones in disguise, and on them you are building 
 your nature. How inspiring to His beloved children, 
 are those precious words of Jesus : " I say not that I 
 will praj- the Father for you, for the Father loveth 
 you, because ye have loved me and believed that 1 
 have come out from God." The Father is waiting to 
 bestow each needed blessing, but you must ask in 
 Jesu's name ; and in faith, not doubting, and rend?r 
 to Him the obedience whi( h love should constrain the 
 
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 the possibilities which God has placed within your 
 reach through those promises. Not only the writer, 
 but many others as well, have realized that these 
 precious promises have been fLjinllcd in their behalf 
 when they have complied with the conditions of the 
 promise. In order to make it more plain to the 
 reader, I will give the following case ot my own ex- 
 perience, which to some will only appear as a dream 
 yet it was an answer in full to my petition. 
 
 The promise is " whatsoever ye shall ask in my 
 name, I will do it unto you." Believing that promise 
 I asked God, in Christ's nanie, to show me a vision 
 that would guide my thoughts and give character to 
 what I was about to write. The faith was merely a 
 trusting faith, the fruits of past experience, and so, ac- 
 cording to my faith, because that I really expected it 
 the Lord granted my petition within a few hours, by 
 placing before the eyes of my ^oui, while the body was 
 unconscious in sleep, a road running east and west, 
 which appeared to have been much travelled, and was 
 fenced on the south side with a ijood, strong, high 
 fence, and on the north \n\\^ one that was partly 
 broken down. A number of persons, including myself, 
 were on the north side, some distance from the road. 
 The country was wild and flat, with here and there a 
 few bushes and shrubs. Near us there was a fero- 
 cious beast with Ici^^s and head like a bull, which 
 could stand like a bear on its hind feet. We seemed 
 
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 to know that we had no business there and as wc at- 
 tempted to leave the beast showed fight and chased 
 us. I, with one of my companions, ran quickly and 
 kept going until we reached the fence. As I was 
 ahead, the br Jte fo' lowed more especially after me, 
 but I reached the fence and bounded to the other side. 
 As I did so, the brute ran to where the fence was low, 
 to jump over, and suddenly a club was placed in my 
 hands. I knew not how, but knew my duty was to 
 fight for life and freedom, and obeyed ; and kept the 
 monster back from crossing the fence. My compan- 
 ion had reached and caught hold of the fence, but 
 would not climb over, although I kept telling him to 
 do so. He thought diat the brute was going to get 
 over also, and lingered in disobedience to the call of 
 duty instead of climbing over, and helping to beat the 
 enemy back. Therefore he, as a disobedient coward, 
 failed to escape. As I crossed over the road, and 
 climbed the higher fence over into the country on the 
 south, which God had blessed with afety and freedom, 
 I saw my poor companion sei/od by the mon.ster. 
 Then the vision was over, but not to be forgotten or 
 misunderstood. 
 
 The wild north country is the nature of sin. The 
 beast represented satan, seeking whom he may devour, 
 and we the sinners who wander off from God. The 
 middle road was but to show man's earthly paradise ; 
 h'is state of innocence, where before the northern fence 
 
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 was broken down by disobedience, at the first, man 
 knew no danger and felt no guilt, for (iod was there to 
 bless him all the time. When, through disobedience, 
 he broke down the northern fence, satan came in, and 
 he was driven out a captive into the cold, dark nature 
 of the world of sin. Since that fall, the road of inno- 
 cence is travelled only by infants who have no under, 
 standing, idiots who know not good from evil, and 
 heathen in their gross and awful darkness. He who 
 knows God's will and dares to remain upon the road 
 of danger, must fight in his own strength against the 
 powers of sin that drag him down, because he lives in 
 disobedience to t'le Lord's commands, and fails to 
 climb the higher fence into the sunny land of spiritual 
 blessing, protection and safety. The higher fence 
 along the south to be mounted, is the standard of the 
 cross ; to accept the blessed Saviour of the world as 
 your Saviour ; and the southern country is the stand- 
 ard of the life that is hid v/ith Christ in God, basking 
 in the pavilion of His presence, beneath the sunshine 
 ol His love. 
 
 You may find God's offered mercy for the obedient 
 in Jeremiah iii., 12-18, The awfi.i fruits of disobe- 
 dience is not only found in the Bible, and seen in the 
 vision, but reaped by millions of victims daily, because 
 they wander into sin. 
 
 God commanded His servant (Jeremiah iii., 12.) 
 saying : " Go and proclaim these words toward the 
 
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 north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith 
 the Lord ; and I will not cause mine anger to fall 
 upon you : for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I 
 will not keep anger forever." 
 
 They were driven away because they would not 
 obey the voice of the Lord. 
 
 14 " Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord ; 
 for I am married unto you : and I will take you one 
 of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to 
 
 Zion." 
 
 Israel had wandered in disobedience from God and 
 war cast off as a corrupt and heathen nation. The 
 whole world, both Jew and Gentile, were one in the 
 sight of God ; one body of sin unto death, excepting 
 a few, " two of a family and one of a nation," who were 
 united by love unto God, »vho would hear and obey 
 His commands and live. It was so when Jesus came 
 and called His poople from the cold north world of 
 sin, for they followed Him against the foe, and cross- 
 ed the line over the walls of difficulties into the new 
 kingdom of love, light and blessing which He has 
 set up ; but chc majority did not enter in; they went 
 only as " two of a family and one of a nation," and 
 the Lord gave them Pastors according to His own 
 heart, and fed them with knowledge and understand- 
 ing. 
 
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 the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the cov- 
 enant of the Lord : neither shall it come to mind : 
 neither shall they remember it ; neither shall they 
 visit it ; neither shall that be done any more." 
 
 And it has come to pass ; for the kingdom has 
 multiplied aud we see no more the ark of the coven- 
 enant ot the Lord. Those things are forgotten and 
 arc done no more. 
 
 17. *' At that time they shall call Jerusalem the 
 throne of the Lord ; and all the nations shall be gath- 
 ered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem : 
 neither shall they walk any more after the imagin- 
 ation of their evil heart." 
 
 And we call Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord, and 
 all nations are gathering unto it, to the name of the 
 Lord, serving and praising God, Israel is no longer 
 merely the name of a people mixed with saints and 
 sinners, for none but they who love and serve the Lord 
 can enter into His most perfect rest. 
 
 18. " In those days the house of Judah shall walk 
 with the House of Israel, and they shall come together 
 out of the land of the north to the land that I have 
 given for an inheritance unto your fathers." 
 
 And now the time has come when all nations are 
 uniting, and coming together out of the land of the 
 north, in every part of the world, unto the New 
 Jerusalem, the City of our God. 
 
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 34. "Who is he that condcmncth ? It is Christ 
 that died, yea rather, that is risen ac^ain, who is even 
 at the right hand of God, who also maketh interces- 
 sion for us." 
 
 35. " Who shall separate us from the love of 
 Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, 
 c - famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword ? " 
 
 36. " As it is written, For thy sake we are killed 
 all the day long ; we are accounted as sheep for the 
 slaughter." 
 
 37. " Nay, in all thcs2 things we are more than 
 conquerors through him that loved us." 
 
 38. " For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor 
 life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor 
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 shall be able to separate us from the love of God, 
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 " And the Lord said unto satan behold all that he 
 hath is in thy power only upon himself put not forth 
 thine hand." — Job i., I2. 
 
 " Behold he is in thine hand ; but save his life." — 
 Job ii., 6. 
 
 Although satan is limited in his power over you, you 
 arc not limited, but are permitted to follow ^.nd serve 
 him to the extent of your own will. If you willingly 
 place your hand within satan's grasp, he, your arched 
 enemy, is permitted to lead you through the very 
 gates of hell, because you close your ears to mercy's 
 warning voice. 
 
 This subject was selected through the key of com- 
 munication with the Lord. I expected to explain 
 some important point of doctrine ; or to write on wars, 
 floods, and pestilence. I asked the Father, in the 
 Saviour's name, to show me by a vision — if it was His 
 
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 will — the nature of that which I should write. I was 
 shown that same night, five different stages of a sin- 
 ner's life under satanic power. First, the moral man 
 and the beginner in early youth seeking after the vain 
 pleasures of sin. Second, th2 established deep-dyed 
 sinner. Third, the sinner guilty and ashamcJ before 
 God. Fourth, the sinner seeking for light. Fifth, the 
 sinner seeing himself lost, helpless, and in .satan's 
 power, but lying at the mercy seat for the great phy- 
 sician's cure. 
 
 The first seemed to represent the prodigal spending 
 his substance in riotous living. We had met for a 
 season of mirth at a gayly spread banquet. There 
 were guests both old and young. Sometimes all were 
 full of pleasure ; sometimes dull and sad. There was 
 a change. Some began to want for the richness of the 
 past scene. I, with others, went after something else. 
 I knew not what. Soon we reached the second stage, 
 which represented the established sinner. We wan- 
 dered among rocks and hills, surrounded by walls so 
 high that they seemed to shut out the very light of 
 Heaven. All seemed dark and dead. No living thing 
 existed there, except beings like ourselves. We heard 
 the rumbling of distant thunder drawing near — peal 
 after peal, the lightning flashed and the place trem- 
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 anxious to get out, but saw no way. Someone led a 
 few of us to where we, by ascending a platform, were 
 enabled to escape. One at first refused to step on it, 
 but at last we all ventured ; then we travelled on a 
 long platform, but the way was easier than before. 
 So it is in serving God. Every step towards the right 
 makes the next one easier. The way was changed. 
 We were no longer seeking the pleasures of what we 
 could see, but wera eagerly marching on to the third 
 stage of the vision. Following some guide, we reach- 
 ed a path leading through a garden to a large house 
 surrounded by a plantation of fruit trees. We halted 
 at the gate and did not like to enter, but were finally 
 persuaded to do so. As we approached the house, 
 some of the inmates, who were quite superior to us, 
 came out to receive us. We were ashamed and guilty* 
 I kept looking at myself and found that I wore the 
 garments of a wild Indian : — a dirty grey blanket and 
 other things to correspond. The vision changed just 
 here and I experienced another stage I was sitting 
 by the fire upon the hearth in a large empty room ad- 
 joining the main building. A lady came to me, who 
 told me of a physician who was in the next room that 
 had promised her some money on account of some 
 cases of small pox with which she had in some way 
 been connected. I could not understand just what 
 she meant. She said that she was waiting and kept 
 pointing to the door opening into the apartment where 
 
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 he was. Not understanding just what she meant, I 
 at last requested her to Oi^en t'v:j door, which she did, 
 and went in as I thought on my behalf— like 
 Moses who interceded for the Israelites before 
 God. Soon I experienced the last stage of tiic vision. 
 I was lying helpless upon the hearth in charge of a 
 doctor, who was cleansing my mouth with a long iron 
 instrument. My throat was like an open sepulchre. 
 My garments were foul. I was diseased and putrified 
 all through and yet did not know it until the very 
 last. 
 
 The vision I am certain was in answer to my 
 prayer. It showed the devil's power to draw a sinner 
 down to hell, and then stop him from returning back 
 to God. It showed the empty folly of a lifo of sin 
 and the bitter fruit it yields. It showed the blindness 
 of the dead in sin and the great responsibility of those 
 who should lead them from a lingering endless death. 
 It showed the awakening influence of the fire of love, 
 and that the heart's door must be opened only at the 
 sinner's own request. It also showed the dreadful 
 vileness of the nature of the sin disease, which blights 
 the soul and renders man helpless, completely undone, ^ 
 and unable to save himself from the devil's grasp. 
 
 The m'ghtiest influence of satanic power, which 
 God permits the devil to exert. Is not sufficient to force 
 the weakest sinner to remain in sin against his own 
 will. The deadliest seeds which satan plants, are dc- 
 
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 posited in the garden of innocence, the soil of early 
 youth. Go into the home, the school, or wherever 
 the young are forming their characters for life, and 
 you will see, if you look with the eyes of understand- 
 ing, that seeds of both good and evil are being sown 
 among them ; that some receive the good seed while 
 others receive the bad. The seeds of faith and charity 
 are from God and reflects His nature in His children. 
 The seeds of deceit, selfishness and hate are from 
 satan and reflect his nature in his victims. Each seed 
 represents a tree of living character, the fruit of which 
 is good or evil, and muat render the soil a living para- 
 dise, or a dark and dismal home where devils rule. 
 Woe unto the parents who allow satafiic power to 
 mould the nature and stamp the character of children 
 in their care. Woe unto the parents who fail to do 
 their part, by not saving their children from their dead- 
 ly foe. Each little soul has communication with the 
 powers of Heaven or the powers of hell. The 
 guardians are responsible for the connection of the 
 wires over which the child holds communication. If 
 you give a child the glittering wires which convey the 
 elements of hell, the nature of the child will corres- 
 pond with the things of hell, because the petrifiying 
 influence of Satanic power will be conveyed to bind 
 the soul in living cords of sin. The victim will be 
 renilnred low and grovelling in his aims, wi^h a selfish 
 pride, ashamed to do the right ; a guilty tiaturc — • 
 
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 the nature which rejects the Saviour's love. Protect 
 the child from evil, by placing In his hands those 
 wires which convey the love of God from Calvary's 
 cross into the soul, and it will form the nature which 
 accepts the Saviour's mercy and receives His pardon 
 and eternal life : the nature and life of God ; a love 
 that elevates ; a peace that ennobles ; a knowledge of 
 innocence, which does away with pride and guilt ; a 
 faith, a hope and a charity, which will reflect the 
 image and character of God. The man or woman 
 who does not seek to know and do the will of God, 
 as written in His word and in his works, is not fit to 
 be a guardian over children. You may prove this by 
 following out the life and character of the child who 
 is raised under the influence of parents who are de- 
 graded and low in character ; who rob, drink and 
 gamble ; who fight and curse, and whose child like the 
 guardians grows under satanic power into the nature 
 of a demon. You may prove it a.'so by the child of 
 luxury, whose parents, seek the wealth and pleasures 
 of the w odd ; whose life is moral, but whose religion 
 is a form ; who do not follow after righteousness 
 and are not particular to act the truth before their boy ; 
 who use deception, which he knows to be a lie in 
 form, if not in word ; who promise punishment for 
 wrong, but seldom fulfil their promise ; who give him 
 his own way and indulge his every wish. The child 
 acts mean to a companion, and his parents think him 
 
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 smart So parents often give these glittering wires 
 uf death and do not see the influence of satanic power 
 which they convey until the very soul of their off- 
 spring is bound with the cords of hell. They feed 
 his mind with novels, light and trifling, exciting and 
 profane. In early youth, the actions of hi:> nature 
 fill their hearts with sorrow and dim their eyes with 
 tears. Once the parents were anxious that he might 
 become a polished gentleman of worldly fame, but 
 were ashamed to tell him of the love of God. They 
 did not " seek first the kingdom of Heaven," but of 
 earth ; they did not strive to cultivate his nature in 
 righteousness. Now their only hope is that he may 
 be simply worthy to be called a man. They spared 
 the rod in childhood and failed to obtain obedience ; 
 he is not ashamed of evil conduct, and does not fail 
 to blight the lives of father and mother and rend their 
 hearts by his low, selfish tyranny. This is not the case 
 merely with one or two families, but it is the bitter 
 experience of tens of thousands. Satan plants the 
 bitter seeds of death early in the heart, which grow 
 into the most deadly vines of his own nature, which 
 can be destroyed only by thj sprinkling blood from 
 off the altar of atonement, through the grace and love 
 of God. Give your child freedom in all things, to 
 satisfy the lusts of his own nature — all that his heart 
 desires — and you place in his hands the glittering 
 wires that connect his soul with hell and guides the 
 
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 helm that runs the vessel into the harbour of des- 
 truction. Through this influence the thrones of earth, 
 in ages past, have been occupied by living monsters 
 who held the sceptres of tyrants ; despotic monarchs, 
 whose hands were red with the blood of their fellow- 
 men, whom they burned at the stake, thrust through 
 with daggers, or mangled to death in some brutal 
 form ; just to rob them of their possessions. Here we 
 find the fruits of satanic influence ripened from child- 
 hood into the devil's own nature — men changed into 
 demons. The influence of love — conveyed on the 
 wires of righteousness through the cross, which unites 
 the soul with God — ripens into a heavenly nature of 
 love, like Christ, the ever living pattern to draw man- 
 kind to the Father. John vi., 45, " It is written in the 
 prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every 
 man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of 
 the Father, cometh unto me." 
 
 There are but few persons who know how to culti- 
 tivate the nature of a child, to make its character 
 noble, who do their duty in accordance with the re- 
 sponsibility which that knowledge brings. Many 
 Christians, and even ministers— trusting too much to 
 their own everyday conversations and sermons from 
 the pulpit — miss the mark, lose their influence and 
 fail to improve the nature of their children. They do 
 not take time for a daily, confidential, friendly talk, to 
 teach them the way of righteousness ; to point them 
 
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 io the Saviour and the love of God ; to teach them of 
 the works of God and God's eternal justice ; and so 
 win their affections and cultivate their character. 
 The youth must sometimes mingle with those whose 
 influence is degrading ; and, unless his guardians have 
 hold upon his affections and the principles of upright- 
 ness have been instilled into his nature and he is daily 
 kept by the influence of their counsel, he will go astray. 
 The Saviour commanded His disciples to feed His 
 sheep and His lambs. If you feed a child with wis- 
 dom and a proper training he will dwell in the courts 
 of the Lord. 
 
 I was shown in avision in connection withthfs lesson 
 of progressive sin under satanic power, a wanderer, 
 whose soul was death through sin, his body poison 2d by 
 liquor and weakened with debauchery. His friends 
 had deserted him, his wealth was gone, his body 
 bloated and weak. He wandered from place to place 
 a beggar and sought for a home of shelter and rest 
 but found none. Since childhood he had wandered 
 from God, primarily through the sins of his parents 
 who had failed to use the influence necessary to keep 
 him in the path of righteousness. He represents the 
 child who was permitted to rest beneath the influence 
 of Satanic power until he arrived at manhood, to drink 
 the bitter dregs of death as countless thousands have 
 already done. I saw, also, a woman and some well- 
 dresbed, noble-looking children — travellers — who came 
 
 
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 to a place that was guarded on the north side by high 
 hills that were almost perpendicular. Steps lead up 
 toward the top in many places. At the end of each 
 there was a place decorated and made to look as if 
 people were living there. Just here the woman 
 went on ahead, and left the children to amuse 
 themselves as they chose. Soon some of them com- 
 menced to climb the steps. As many as attempted 
 were lost, or fell before they reached the top, and were 
 nearly killed. The woman came back too late to en- 
 deavor to rescue them from their perilous condition : 
 some were lost and others nearly dead. Then the 
 vision was ended. Its meaning still remains and 
 points every reader to the great necessity of guarding 
 well the life of every child against satanic power. 
 
 Thousands in the journey of life have been care- 
 fully watched and guarded against all danger until 
 th^y reached the cold chilly mountains of sin, where 
 they were confronted with the great problems of the 
 issues of life. Then they were left withou the in- 
 fluence of the guardian to teach them the way of 
 righteousness and point them to the Saviour. They 
 were left to climb the hills of sin to the yawning 
 precipice above the gates of hell, or walk along the 
 narrow path that leads to God. Left without the 
 blessing of a loving guide. The child who enjoys the 
 privilege of a friendly confiding talk with his parents, 
 
 or guardians, every day ; to whom he can tell all his 
 
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 cares and troubles, hopes and pleasures, and receives 
 in return the advice of loving friends, becomes attach- 
 ed to them with ties of strong affection, and his 
 obedience is prompt, because prompted by love. His 
 comrades tempt him to play the truant, but he never 
 plays it ; he is asked to smoke, and coaxed to take 
 his first glass of liquor, but never yields ; for he has 
 learned the ways of wisdom, and escapes the tempter's 
 snare. He is invited to the ball and theatre, by (in his 
 estimation) the fairest of all girls — the one he loves — 
 and before he answers " No," he seeks advice. Per- 
 haps he is shown the effects of attending those places 
 through Lome young man of his acquaintance, who 
 neglects his duty, spends his money and looses his 
 sleep night after night, who thus robs his system of 
 health and his mind of a desire to study. That young 
 man is poor, sickly and miserable, because he yielded 
 to the tempter's snare at first and took the poisoned 
 bait, which holds him at so great a cost. After look- 
 ing such a case squarely in the face, the youth is ready 
 to answer " No," even to the girl he loves the best. la 
 early youth, he accepts Jesus Christ for his personal 
 Saviour and not only obeys his parents, biit renders 
 an obedient trust to God, because his nature is pre- 
 pared to receive the love of God and his mind to un- 
 derstand the things of God. He realizes himself a 
 sinner and asks for pardon, because he wants to be a 
 Christian and have the peace of God. He takes God 
 
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 at His word and knows that he is pardoned, regard- 
 less of his feelings, because God says it is so. Soon 
 he has the full assurance of the Saviour's love, and 
 labours in th? vineyard for the glory of the Lord and 
 the good of his fellow- man. He meets with many 
 kinds of wanderers from God, among the rest is the 
 educated infidel, by whose arguments he is baffled, 
 not because of the truth, but the shrewdness by 
 which it covers the truth. Although he knows what 
 God has done for him, of the glorious change which 
 God has wrought in him, he cannot express that 
 knowledge in words sufficient to convince the sceptic, 
 nor meet his studied theories. Therefore he is dis- 
 couraged, but never falls, for he goes to the Lord and 
 finds new strength. Perhaps the infidel has said that 
 there is no God, and that all things came to exist by 
 chance and were not created ; that evolution was a 
 factor, but could not tell how, or show any foundation 
 for his theory. He says that we must judge the past 
 by the present evidences. With these statements by 
 himself unanswered, the youth stands but a moment, 
 then seeks the guiding hand of those who can lead 
 him through the satanic mists of infidelity ; he finds 
 some one who is better able to explain the works of 
 God, called nature, and to expose the groundless 
 theory of evolution. That friend begins, perhaps, to 
 explain that we and our surroundings are the works 
 of God and therefore God exists ; and that if we, as 
 
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 the infidel says we must, judge the past by present 
 evidences — 
 
 On Saturday night I left off writing just here, won- 
 dering what I could write that would represent facts 
 such as a father ought to teach his sons, in order to 
 save thcni from the blighting influence of those 
 learned, shrewd, sceptical infidels, who do not really 
 believe their own statements. I asked the Lord to 
 give me words to write and beforp the morning had 
 dawned I saw a vision from which I awoke with these 
 words fixed on my mind. " It is easier to have the 
 false than the true theory. The false is connected 
 with the imagination of the heart, which is continually 
 wrong. Truth is built on facts. Buy the truth and 
 sell it not." Those words were stamped upon the 
 mind just I was waking. I cannot tell by what means, 
 but I know that it was the influence of a power beyond 
 my own — words revealed instantly — bearing on the 
 subject, for which I had asked for guidance to write. 
 
 As the substance of a vision is of less importance 
 than the lesson to be taken from it, I will leave the 
 vision in the background and show more especially 
 the fulness of its meaning as revealed to me. A tree 
 with an apple, which came up through it and hung on 
 a little stem through which it also came was shown 
 through the vision as a miracle. Small birds, hens, 
 and an ostrich, a sandy desert and eggs, were also 
 brought before me. The words before mentioned 
 

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 kept sounding in my mind and the fact came to me 
 that if an egg comes from an ostrich, and an ostrich 
 comes from an egg, o;.. nust have been created first in 
 some other way, — and the questions came. Which was 
 first ? and Who ma m : it ? By studying these impor- 
 tant questions according, to an infidel's own rule of 
 judging the past by the present, we find that an os- 
 trich comes from an egg — then the egg existed first ; 
 and if we judge the past by the present, we decide for 
 a positive fact that no ostrich's egg could form ot it- 
 self in the shifting sands in a short time, ready for 
 hatching; and thitiftheegg existed first, it was 
 created in a different way to the present form of 
 being layed there ; and so there must h&ve been a 
 great breach in the theory of evolution, when the first 
 eggs were made to hatch hens ^and rooster chicken. 
 All would have to be accomplished in a few weeks, 
 or the eggs would have been spoiled ; therefore, it is 
 a fixed certainty that evolution had nothing to do 
 with forming the first chicken. Not only is this fact 
 established by the very nature of things ; but by the 
 evolutionist's o.vn st.itemsnt. But, suppose he goes 
 back on his own theory, and says that the first ostrich, 
 or hen, did not come from an egg, but was evolved 
 from something he does not know what ; then I 
 would like to know how a hen happened to be evolv- 
 ed the same time as the rooster, which are two distinct 
 birds ? When and how did the great breach in the 
 
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 system of the theory of evolution occur in changing 
 the plan of the formation and birth of hens, roosters, 
 and of all the other birds ? Is it reasonable to think 
 that at one time they were brought into the world born 
 like animals, and, by changing from one generation 
 to another, each century they grew larger, until at 
 last there was a full-sized hen ; that they then stop- 
 ped suddenly and changed their natural process of life 
 and commenced to be hatched from eggs ? The thing 
 is ridiculous, and not worthy of a second thought from 
 one whom God has blessed with common sense. 
 Then it is very clear that the theory of evolution had 
 nothing to do with the creation. Further there must 
 have been two formed at the same time : one to hatch 
 a male bird and one a female bird. Ifyousaythe 
 first generation of ostriches were born and not hatch- 
 ed, then there must have been a great breach in the 
 theory of evolution when they commenced to be 
 hatched. The thing is contrary to nature, and alto- 
 gether ridiculous to those who know God as their 
 Creator. The same is true of hens and roosters, 
 which come from eggs, and according to the theory of 
 evolution have always come from eggs. I want to 
 ask. Who made the first two eggs which must have 
 been formed in a few hours and kept at a certain heat 
 for days ; one made to hatch a rooster, the other a 
 hen ? or. Who made the first hen and rooster, or any 
 other bird ? 
 
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 We find that the apple, in the vision, which came 
 through the tree and formed into that fruit — like the 
 egg of the ostrich — bears that particular seed or life 
 germ ; therefore the tree grows from its own kind of 
 seed ; and, if we judge the past by the present works 
 of nature, which God has made, the first tree had no 
 seed to grow from and was created by other means 
 than that which man knows or has any trace of, unless 
 he finds it in the boundless wisdom and power of 
 Almighty God, who touches the dead clods of the 
 elements and moulds them at His will into living 
 monuments for His glory. While man has no evi- 
 dence to prove that evolution has ever created a single 
 thing at the beginning, wc have proof by man's own 
 testimony, not only that of the twelve Apostles, but 
 hundreds who also ate of the elements which God 
 touched by the power of His wisdom and formed into 
 bread, by which the five thousand were fed. Jesus, in 
 that miracle, not only created bread, but gave it to the 
 people, that a part of it might b2come a part of their 
 own bodies ; and many other mighty works also were 
 performed by the Lord before the people. He who 
 believes in evolution, as the creator of the works of 
 God, does not believe in God, nor in the united testi- 
 mony of his fellow-man, but trusts in the imaginations 
 of his own heart, which is at enmity with God. God'3 
 ways, though mysterious to us, are always perfect ; 
 fhercfore they who arc at enmity with Him are wrong 
 
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 continually. " A man's heart deviseth his way : but 
 the Lord directeth his steps." Prov. xvi., 9. 
 
 If all the children of this generation had facts rela- 
 tive to God's works — similar to those given in connec- 
 tion with the vision -r thoroughly stamped upon their 
 minds, the world would soon be free from the blight- 
 ing curse of sceptical infidelity. If I could give to the 
 millions of this generation, who claim not Christ for 
 their Saviour, my own experience, that they might 
 know for themselves the fulness of the love and peace, 
 which the presence of God brings into the soul ; the * 
 wonderful things! have received through faith in com- 
 munication with God ; and the marvellous change the 
 new birth — not a fancied new birth, but the new birth 
 — makes in a sinner's nature ; not the nature of the 
 flesh but of the heart ; then the world would serve 
 the Lord. Then Paradise would practically be 
 restored to earth, as it will be when the millenial 
 dawn is fully ushered in, and the lion and the lamb 
 shall lie down at peace together ; for satanic power 
 will be bound by laws of righteousness. 
 
 In order to save the nations most successfully from 
 the deadly influence of satan, its children must be 
 taught the ways of righteousness, the love and justice 
 of God ; and the vile cruelty of sin ; then will they 
 buy wisdom and sell it not. 
 
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 The brighter dawning of that glorious da/. 
 
 Blest Saviour, make our spirits' vision clearer, 
 And guide, O guide us in the shining way. 
 
 A little while, O blessed expectation ! 
 
 For strength to run with patience, Lord we cry ; 
 O hearts up leap in fond anticipation ; 
 
 Our union with the Bridegroom draweth nigh. 
 
 Select. 
 
 Jude 19. " These be they who separate them- 
 selves, sensual, having not the Spirit." 
 
 20. " But yc, beloved, building up yourselves on 
 your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost," 
 
 21. " Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking 
 for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal 
 life." 
 
 22. " And of some have compassion, making a 
 difference : 
 
 23. '* And others save with fear, pulling them out 
 of the fire ; hating even the garment spotted by the 
 flesh." 
 
 24. " Now unto him that is able to keep you from 
 
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 falling, and to present you faultless before the 
 presence of his glory with exceeding joy." 
 
 25. " To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory 
 and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. 
 Amen." 
 
 In the twenty-five verses of this epistle of Jude, 
 there exists a great chasm fixed between the nature 
 of those who live under satanic influences and those 
 who hold the wires which convey the influences of 
 the life of God into their lives. " But ye, beloved 
 building up yourselves on your most holy faith, pray- 
 in the Holy Ghost." Prayer is the great cable of 
 communication with Heaven, upon which to cling 
 with the arms of faith and through which to eat of 
 the hidden manna and imbibe the nature of Christ. 
 The precious promise of our Heavenly Father is " ask 
 and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened 
 unto you, seek and ye shall find." And multitudes 
 have asked in faith, and, according to their faith, 
 have received a fulness of the precious hidden man- 
 na, of a life hidden with Christ in God. But, alas, 
 there is the other side of humanity : those who handle 
 the wires of communication with the powers of satan 
 and receive from him the very brimstone of his nature 
 that will help to light the fires of death, which dieth 
 not, whose nature, is described in this epistle. 
 
 16. " These are murmurers, complainers, walking 
 after their own lusts ; and their mouth speaketh great 
 
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 swelling words, having men's persons in admiration 
 because of advantage." 
 
 17. " But, beloved, remember ye the words which 
 
 wjre spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ ; " 
 
 18. " How that they told you there should be 
 mockers in the last time, who should walk after their 
 own ungodly lusts." 
 
 There are two classes in this world, the living and 
 the dead, having eternal life or having eternal death. 
 Jesus said to His hearers — " the time is coming and 
 now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son 
 of God, and they that hear shall live," — (John v., 25.) 
 During the eighteen hundred and sixty-two years 
 which have passed since those words were spoken, 
 millions have heard that glorious call and have been 
 raised to a newness of life, living members of the 
 body of Christ on earth, whose souls were cleansed in 
 the atoning blood, and robed in the beautiful garments 
 of Christ's own nature. The great majority of those 
 have left this earthly tabernacle, and, having passed 
 from death unto life before the body died, were made 
 through Christ to be partakers of the first resurrection ; 
 and are therefore this day with Him in Paradise. 
 
 Just here, you meet the most solemn of all impor- 
 tant questions. You must face it ; or soon it will face 
 you, when it is too late. Have you that life that is 
 hid with Christ in God ; or the death with satan, that 
 
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 never dies? There -are only two conditions — life or 
 death. Which is yours? If you have not decided 
 for yourself, then satan is deciding the question for 
 you, deciding that you shall be his victim of horrible 
 torments, through all eternity. Do not be deceived, 
 God is not mocked ; whosoever you choose to serve in 
 this life, you must serve in the life beyond, because 
 your nature will correspond to those by whom your 
 soul is fed. Do not be deceiv^ed, but rest assured that 
 if the nature of sin is not killed by the cleansing blood, 
 you can never enter into the kingdom of Heaven. 
 God has so loved you, that He has taken your nature 
 of sin unto death, and died your death for you and 
 for me. Whosoever will may receive His wonderful 
 gift of freedom and life with God, because He was 
 able to fulfil the law for* you, and then raise Himself 
 up. • He has created a first resurrection, by which 
 through the law, millions have received that gift. 
 Have you received it ? It means to you everlasting 
 riches and pleasure, and glory and honor and Para- 
 dise — an endless union with the family of God. It 
 means the glorious privilege to grow in grace, in 
 wisdom and in beauty for ever, in the presence of the 
 Lord our God. It means all that is valuable to you. 
 Is it true that yow are slumbering away your life 
 which might end to-morrow ? Are you missing the 
 only Perfect Gift that life is worth living for? If you 
 are rejecting Chr'at, then you are missing; positive- 
 
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 \y the only riches for which life .is truly worth living. 
 If you reject the gift of life, you had better not have 
 been born. But, if you have accepted Christ's atone- 
 ment and received the presence of the Holy Ghost, 
 the love and fellowship of God, then you have a liuie 
 foretaste of the joys of Paradise, and know that you 
 are born of God. Your nature is changed, for now 
 you love the brethren, and long to bring sinners to 
 the Saviour. Your nature, once so cold and dead, 
 now seeks to awaken others, that they too might find 
 your precious Saviour. Through that longing in your 
 nature, you know that you have a new nature^ quick- 
 ened by a living spark of the Spirit of the Lord, and 
 you know that this living fire of love is from Him, for 
 God is love. His very presence fills your soul with 
 love. Having this fact— a living reality in your, soul 
 —that God who created you by the word of His 
 power to live in this world as a mortal, has also re- 
 created you, by the travail of His own soul unto death 
 to be a saint— a member of His kingdom, a child of 
 God, having the glorious promise of a home in 
 Heaven. How carefal should you be to live near ihc 
 Saviour that He might use you m His vineyard in 
 bringing others to the light, the cleansing fountain^ 
 that they may be awakened also to ^eternal life and 
 with you enjoy the glorious blessings of the love of 
 God. Saved from the diseases of the soul, the leprosy 
 that unfits the soul for Heaven. Saved from sin's 
 
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 degrading, hating nature and the darkness it brings 
 upon the victims of its powers, and the horrors of an 
 endless home with devils. It is worthy of all your 
 keenest efforts, and of all the services of all your life 
 — though you live a million centuries — to be the 
 means of bringing one to Jesus Christ. To dwell with 
 Him in His glorious pavilion for endless ages, for the 
 end of the million centuries would certainly come. 
 You will certainly be rewarded by the nature of your 
 work of love ; built up in your own character and fit- 
 ted for a higher mansion in His presence. " He doeth 
 all things well." You will be rewarded by the uniting 
 cords of love — the everlasting bands which unite his 
 soul with yours — the soul of him ^whom you, through 
 Christ, have brought to (lod. You will be rewarded 
 by a victory over sin and hell, and satan's power — an 
 endless victory. A crown of life will be received 
 through Christ by the one whom you have led to the 
 precious, cleansing fountain. You will be rewarded 
 in the presence of God and of the holy angels. 
 
 " He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; and I 
 will be his God and he shall be my son." — Rev. xxi., 7. 
 
 " And others save with fear, pulling them out of the 
 
 fire : hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." 
 Jude 23. 
 
 The meaning of the facts, in connection with this 
 last verse cannot any more easily be understood by 
 man thin can th3 endie.ss.iess of an endless eternity. 
 The fire referred to is as endless as eternity in its du- 
 
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 ration. The, spots of the flesh are as endless as the 
 fires which they create within the soul, whose garments 
 are spotted with them ; and — because they are a 
 living, growing nature, a part of the soul — they must 
 exist with the soul. There is no way to change the 
 nature of that disease excepting God's way. There 
 is no physician who can cure the disease of the 
 soul, excepting the Great Physician, who has satisfied 
 the 'law's demands, and who can drive out the old 
 nature by placing a new life within, and so create a 
 saint for a mansion in the heavenly world. 
 
 " And now unto Him that is able to keep you from 
 falling, and to present you faultless before the presence 
 of His glory with exceeding joy."— J ude 24. 
 
 To Him, dear reader, let all the services of your 
 life be given ; that at last you may have the glorious 
 mansion prepared for you, made to suit the character 
 of your being, where — knowing as you are known — 
 you can better sing the praises of the King of Kingr. 
 Do you not know some wanderer from God, rejecting 
 the Saviour's love ; some model sinner whose gar- 
 ments are spotted by the flesh, who believes that all 
 the blessings he receives are gifts from his Creator, 
 bat never renders thanks to God, even for one single 
 blessing, because he knows that the only kind of 
 thanks which can reach God must come from a sin- 
 cere, obedient heart. Someone who thinks that he is 
 good enough, because his hands are nut red with his 
 
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 brother's blood, or his nature stained with guilt through 
 the coveted goods of his neighbour, which he has 
 stolen ; good enough because his nature is yet con- 
 cealed — like the flower within the bud — in its satanic 
 garments, and is not yet bloomed out into its real 
 nature before the world. Someone to whom satan 
 says " You are as good as lots who profess religion." 
 One who docs not know the difference between a pro- 
 fession of religion and sanctification unto God. 
 
 If you do know such an one, dear fellow Christian 
 it is your bounden duty before God to work and watch 
 and fight and pray for his salvation ; striving with all 
 your might to save with fear, pulling him out of the 
 fire ; for if he is' allowed to slumber beneath that dead- 
 ly influence of satanic nature, until he is suddenly cut 
 off from the earth, or even before, satan will unfold 
 the garments and reveal his own image — the likeness 
 * of satan — in the nature of his suffering victim. Think 
 of a loved on e being cradled in the arms of death by 
 Satan's power and prepared for eternal torments, being 
 made a demon — to be tormented by the fiends whose 
 hatred and vengeance is poured out upon each other 
 through endless ages — and you not trying to save him ; 
 to awaken him that he might see the true nature of 
 his mad folly, and escape from hell. 
 
 Daniel xii., i. '* And at that time shall Michael 
 stand up, ^the great prince which standeth for the 
 children of thy people : and there shall be a time of 
 
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 trouble, such as never was since there was a nation 
 even to that same time : and at that time thy people 
 shall be delivered, every one that shall be found 
 written in the book." 
 
 2. " And many of them that sleep in the dust of 
 the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and 
 some to shame and everlasting contempt." 
 
 3. " And they that be wise shall shine as the 
 brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn 
 many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." 
 
 4. " But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and 
 seal the book, even to the time of the end : many 
 shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be 
 increased." 
 
 5. " Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there 
 stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of 
 the river, and the other on that side of the bank of 
 the river." 
 
 6. " And one said to the man clothed in linen, 
 which was upon the waters of the river, How long 
 shall it be to the end of these wonders ? " 
 
 7. " And I heard the man clothed in linen, which 
 was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his 
 right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware 
 by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, 
 times and an half; and when he shall have accom- 
 plished to .scatter the power of the holy people, all 
 these things shall be finished." 
 
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 8. " And I heard, but I understood not : then said 
 I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?" 
 
 9. " And he said. Go thy way, Daniel : for the 
 words are closed up and sealed till the time of the 
 end." 
 
 10. " Many shall be purified, and made white, and 
 tried ; but the wicked shall do wickedly : and none of 
 the wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall 
 understand." 
 
 1 1. " And from the time that the daily sacrifice 
 shall be taken away, and the abomination that 
 maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand 
 two hundred and ninety days." 
 
 12. " Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to 
 the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days." 
 
 1 3. " But go thou thy way till the end be : for 
 thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the 
 days." 
 
 Five hundred and thirty-four years before Christ, 
 the Lord spoke unto His servant Daniel and told 
 him of the coming Saviour, and the mighty events to 
 be accomplished for man and for the glory of God. 
 The revelations as given to Daniel — so long before 
 they were fulfilled, in reference to the things in con- 
 nection with the above verses — are most wonderful, 
 when compared with the fulness with which they have 
 been fulfilled. J 
 
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 the 
 
 to us through Daniel, and to catch the nature of their 
 nieaning in connection with their fulfilment, is to be 
 able to read the words which were closed up and 
 sealed till the time of the end. Scaled to every one, 
 even to Daniel himself, who heard but understood not, 
 and was told, in reply to his question, to go his way, 
 for the words were closed up and sealed till the time 
 of the end." 
 
 I. " And at that time shall Michael stand up, the 
 great prince which standeth for the children of thy 
 people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as 
 never was since there was a nation even to that same 
 time : and at that time thy people shall be delivered, 
 every one that shall be found written in the book." 
 
 " And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great 
 prince which standeth for the children of thy people." 
 Even at that very time, Jesus Christ, the Prince of 
 Peace, was standing in behalf of the people whose 
 sacrifices were accepted through the great sacrifice of 
 atonement to be made once for all. " And there shall 
 be a time of trouble, such as there has not been since 
 ther " was a nation." During the one thousand two 
 hunr'/ed and ninety days of Christ's labor, the fiercest 
 difficulties had to be faced and overcome in order 
 that God's kingdom might be established. The 
 religion of many of the people was but a form, void 
 of the light and love of God, and gave them the cruel 
 nature of demons. The great battle of sin and right- 
 
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 eousness was fought, and the glorious victory of man's 
 redemption was won through Christ, who sets us free. 
 There is deliverance from satan for every one who will 
 accept, and receive the image of God stamped upon 
 their nature. 
 
 2. " And many of them that sleep in the dust of 
 the earth shall awake some to everlasting life, and 
 some to shame and everlasting contempt." 
 
 Many who slept in the dust of the earth should 
 awake, and through Christ many have been raised 
 and made partakers of the resurrection, some unto 
 life everlasting and some unto shame and everlasting 
 contempt. Which shall it be for me ? is a question 
 which none should fail to ask their soul while search- 
 ing their own heart. Which shall it be ? Heaven 
 and life and joy ; or hell and shame and death ? Will 
 you be counted among the number, when Christ shall 
 make up His jewels. Will you shine as the stars for 
 ever and ever ? If you are serving the Lord, through 
 love, and striving to turn many to righteousness, you 
 may know that it is well with your soul ; but, if you 
 are serving satan, be assured that you will have shame 
 and everlasting contempt. 
 
 3. " And they that be wise shall shine as the 
 brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn 
 many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." 
 
 Oh, how awful is his condition, who lives uncon- 
 sciously the life of a hypocrite before the world ! Who 
 
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 is saved like the thief on the cross, but has very little 
 of the love of God in his soul, because he allows the 
 world, the fl^sh, and the devil to trample upon the 
 seed sown there. His life does not correspond with 
 his profession, therefore he becomes the shame of the 
 church, and a contemptible hypocrite to the world, 
 because he is not careful to walk in close communion 
 with the Lord. His spiritual influence is dead ; 
 strangled to death by his actions. He may be saved, 
 like the thief on the cross, but his life on earth is 
 lost, and he may be saved, though as by fire. *' As 
 the tree falls, so it shall lie." He that teaches, by 
 words or by actions, contrary to the word of God shall 
 be the least in the kingdom of Heaven ; while they 
 that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the 
 stars for ever and ever. A^e you a stumbling block 
 to the sinner or a hindrance to the seeking soul ? If 
 you are, then awful is your condition, for your heart 
 is divided and tainted by sin. Have you professed to 
 love Jesus Christ, just because you wanted to, although 
 you were not willing to give up all your sins, which 
 you really love more than righteousness ? If so, then 
 your religion is but a form, a cloak, a counterfeit, and 
 you have nothing but its forms, and the example of 
 your fellow Christians to guide you ; and, therefore, 
 you cannot stand, for you have not given up all to 
 follow Christ. You must turn from sin and, trusting 
 Jesus, follow wherever He may lead. Your life will 
 
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 then be grand and glorious, through time, and all 
 eternity. 
 
 4. " But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words and 
 seal the book, even to the time of the end, many 
 shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be 
 increased." 
 
 The book was sealed until the time of the end, and 
 no man could understand it until Christ, the Mighty 
 Prince, the Son of God, broke the seal and did away 
 with the daily sacrifices of th old dispensation. 
 
 5. " Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there 
 stood other two, the one on" this side of the bank of 
 the river, and the other on that side of the bank of 
 the river." V 
 
 Tha -iver which Daniel saw, represents the river of 
 life, which flows from the throne of God. The man 
 on this side of the river, meant the people before 
 Christ ; and the man on that side, meant the people 
 after Christ. 
 
 7. "And I heard the man clothed in linen, which 
 was upon the waters of the river, when he held up 
 his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and 
 svvare by him that liveth forever that it shall be for a 
 time, times, and an half ; and when he shall have ac- 
 complished to scatter the power of the holy people, 
 all these things shall be finished." 
 
 We need not doubt the fact, that the man clothed 
 in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, who 
 
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 held up both his hands unto Heaven, represented 
 Christ, and that the " time, times, and a half time," 
 was the last three and a halfycars of Christ's ministry, 
 and when the forty days were accomplished after the 
 resurrection — during which time the Lord visited and 
 strengthened His people, and scattered them nbroad 
 filled with the power of the Holy Ghost — then all of 
 these things were finished. 
 
 10. " Many shall be purified, and made white,, and 
 tried ; but the wicked shall do wickedly : and none of 
 the wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall 
 understand." 
 
 Millions have been purified and made white, and 
 tried since the Day of Pentecost. To-day the wicked 
 do wickedly, and do not understand the Spirit, the 
 love of God, or the plan of salvation ; because they 
 are under the mists of satanic power. 
 
 11. '' And from the time thaf the daily sacrifice 
 shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh 
 desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred 
 and ninety days." 
 
 12. "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to 
 the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days " 
 
 Just as soon as Christ commenced to teach the 
 people, then there was no more need of the daily 
 sacrifice, for Christ was " the light of the world." So 
 that Jesus must have laboured for His Kingdom one 
 thousand two hundred and ninety days against the 
 
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 abcminations of satanic powers that were raised against 
 Him, before He said on the cross " it is finished." 
 " Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh, to the 
 thousand three hundred and five and thirty days," 
 which would be forty-five days after the resurrection 
 and five days after the ascension, and must have been 
 the Day of Pentecost for which the disciples were 
 waiting, and in which they receiv3d the blessing of 
 the presence and the power of the Holy Ghost. 
 Then was the great mission of Christ, the kingdom of 
 the Son of God, established in our behalf, and then 
 was the end of the days when Daniel would stand in 
 his lot. 
 
 13. " But go thou thy way till the end be: for 
 thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the 
 days." 
 
 In this chapter we have clear evidence of the fact, 
 that God sees the future as you see the past, and the 
 things that shall come to pass are known to Him 
 thousands of years before. Therefore, in God's sight, 
 they exist as realities, in the same way as that which 
 you saw yesterday exist as a reality in your sight. If 
 it were not so, then God could not have given to 
 Daniel this wonderful history of the coming Saviour. 
 
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IN CONCLUSION. 
 
 ♦If^AVE you carefully read each page of this book» 
 •^ and read it as a study, without a prejudice? 
 If you have, it must have left its footprints upon your 
 soul, never to be erased ; which, if cherished, will help 
 to form in you the nature of God's own glorious 
 character, when you are born again. For that which 
 has been, can never be as though it had not been, in 
 forming character. 
 
 Are you a sceptic ? Then Jesus has invited you to 
 the marriage supper of the Lamb. Oh, will you not 
 come and enter His great pavilion of love and peace, 
 and everlasting glory ? Jesus is waiting yet. Will 
 you not come ? Must you forever argue and live for 
 the world and for satan, your deadliest enemy? 
 Against your Saviour and friend, Creator and God ? 
 Can you rest without this question being settled ? 
 Awful is your case, if you sleep beneath the venom 
 of your foe. 
 
 Are you a Christian— born of God— who has care- 
 fully read without a prejudice? Has not some living 
 spark irom off the altar, lit up your soul ? not 
 merely to help you walk the narrow way, but to help 
 
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 you shine more brightly the reflected light from the 
 Cross, that others may look and live. 
 
 Are you a worldling ? One whose soul is wrapped 
 in garments spotted by the flesh, who loves the way 
 of evil better than that of righteousness ? You have 
 not read carefully without a prejudice, because your 
 heart is at enmity with God. You read the blessed 
 Bible as a book for others and not exactly meant for 
 you. You are therefore prejudiced in your own favor, 
 and, though you wear the brightest character, you 
 must walk in darkness, unless your soul is kindled 
 with the life, and light and love of God. Although 
 you have read beneath the shadow of this veil of 
 prejudice, yet some living seeds of fire — ih*^ fire of 
 Heaven — may linger in your soul and may it never 
 cease to burn until the old nature is all consumed and 
 you are born of God — a living burning flame of the 
 fire of the love of God. — Amen. 
 
 Trythall, City Printing Works, Vancouver, B,C,