preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even He that shall keep thy soul' (Ps. cxxi., I, 2, 3, 7).

'Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.'

'O Lord, how happy should we be
If we could cast our care on Thee,
If we from self could rest;
And feel at heart that One above,
In perfect wisdom, perfect love,
Is working for the best.

'How far from this our daily life,
How oft disturbed by anxious strife,
By sudden wild alarms;
Oh, could we but relinquish all
Our earthly props, and simply fall
On Thine Almighty Arms!

'Could we but kneel and cast our load
E'en while we pray, upon our God,
Then rise with lightened cheer;
Sure that the Father, Who is nigh
To still the famished raven's cry,
Will hear in that we fear!'

Keble.

THE CHURCH OF GOD.

'Lo! God is here! let us adore,

And own how dreadful is this place! Let all within us feel His power,

And silent bow before His Face;
Who know His power, His grace who prove,
Serve Him with awe, with reverence, love.

'Lo! God is here! Him day and night
The united choirs of angels sing;
To Him, enthroned above all height,
The hosts of Heav'n their praises bring;
Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song,
Who praise Thee with a falt'ring tongue.

'Being of beings! may our praise

Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill;
Still may we stand before Thy Face,
Still hear and do Thy sovereign will.
To Thee may all our thoughts arise
A true and ceaseless sacrifice.'

TERSTEEGEN.

'I see Thy light, I feel Thy wind;
Earth is Thy uttered word;
Whatever wakes my heart and mind,
Thy Presence is, my Lord.'

'Cease from man, and look above thee:
Trust in God and do the right.
Heed no custom, school or fashion,
Trust in God and do the right.'

NORMAN Macleod.

It has been quaintly said: 'We see in a jeweller's shop that, as there are pearls, and diamonds, and other precious stones, there are files, cutting instruments, and many sharp tools for their polishing; and while they are in the workshop they are continual neighbours to them and come often under them. The Church is God's jewel-His workshop where His jewels are polishing for His Palace and House; and those He especially esteems, and means to make most resplendent, He has oftenest His tools upon.' We know that nothing which is of God could be other or better than it is at present-until God shall have changed it—since God has willed it so to be. But Christ has said, 'If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.'

There should be no possibility of division in the Church of God, since God alone maketh men to be of one mind. When the Church of God is perfected there will be no division, but one Universal Church, consoling, comforting, instructing, edifying, and uplifting all mankind. The Church should be our rest, our home, as I believe the early Church was, until it fell from the simple Faith of Christ as given in Mark xii. 29-34: 'And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength; this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto Him, Well, Master, Thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but He: and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom "God.'

The faith and teaching of Christ is great enough to be preached and followed in its own simple grandeur without the added mystery and garnishing of the traditions of the Church of Rome. Christ ever prophesied that offences must come, but He added, 'woe unto him by whom they came.' If God has chosen this time to thoroughly purge His garner-the Church-to sift the wheat from the chaff, who shall question or order or direct or control the Will of God? It does but prove the infinite patience of God that He has tarried so long. If it be the Will of Almighty God that the mighty should be brought low, it would only be the fulfilment of Christ's teaching, 'He that exalteth himself shall be abased.' All flesh is as grass in the sight of God. The power and might and grandeur of Church or State does not hide from God the suffering of one little child. The patient abiding of the meek is not forgotten. It has been said of late that one of the effects of the Disestablishment of the Church of England would be to create a scarcity of Churchmen-people would not have their sons educated for the Church. Surely we forget that St. Peter was an unlettered fisherman when Christ called him. Have we departed so far even from the faith of John the Baptist ?— God can raise up of