and for me to-night, for when Jesus saves a man from his sins He saves him from himself; and if I was to tell you the truth, ourselves are our-greatest enemies. To be saved from sin means to be saved from ourselves. "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins."

My dear Brethren, do you desire, does anyone within these walls to-night desire to be saved from their sins? Do you say in your heart, What you have said about sin is true. It is all true. I have felt the bitterness, the loneliness, and wretchedness of sin, and I want to be free from it. Well thank God for the desire. What do we say in the Prayer Book? "O God from Whom all holy desires." What a beautiful thought. If you have a good desire, it comes from God. How thankful you ought to be for that desire. It is a good thing if you have a desire to be saved from your sins; but are you willing to part with all your sins? Are you willing to crucify even your most darling sin? Are you willing to give it up? The same voice comes to you to-night as it did to John Bunyan when he was playing tip-cat on the village green at Bedford, "Wilt thou have thy sins and go to hell, or wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven?" God asks you the same question to-night. Oh! if you want to be free from your sins, there is a power which can make you free. It is not in yourself; you have no power in yourself to help yourself; but the power is in Jesus. There is virtue in His blood, there is a power in His grace to make you pure, to make you holy, to make you happy; in one word, to save you. Come to Him then. May God Almighty draw you; for no one ever came unless they were drawn. There are millions in heaven to-night, yet I am sure not one of those who are in heaven ever came to Jesus without being drawn. Oh! may God's Holy Spirit draw you to come to Jesus this very night, so that the past may be all forgotten, the long black scroll of your sins all blotted out, and what about the future? You shall be what St. Paul so beautifully, I think most beautifully calls himself, my brother, you shall no more be the slave of sin, you shall be the slave of Jesus. Is it not right that that dear Saviour who has set you free should have you altogether, body and soul? Is it not right you should be the slave of Jesus? In Philippians i. 1, he speaks of himself as the servant of Jesus Christ. Now that word servant is not exactly right, it is not servant, but it is slave. And so again in Romans i. 1, Paul a servant, or as we ought to read a slave. I think there is a wonderful power in reading that word slave. It is quite evident that servant is wrong, for there were no servants in those days, they were all slaves. And so we might read it slave. You

see my meaning, you have been a slave of sin, you have been a slave of Satan's. Satan has said, Come, and you have come. Satan has said, Go, and you have gone. Satan has said, Do this, and you have done it, fool as you have been. But now, and may it please God that it may be so, you shall no more be a slave of sin, and a slave of Satan, but you shall write down your own name whatever your name may be, and afterwards put these words, "A SLAVE OF JESUS CHRIST, BY THE GRACE OF GOD." And then you will learn the exceeding preciousness of the word, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins."

"THE KING HATH BROUGHT ME INTO HIS CHAMBERS."

SONG OF SOLOMON I. 4.

And may I really tread

The palace of my King,

Gaze on the glory of His face,
And of His beauty sing?

I am not worthy, Lord,
Not worthy to draw near;
My feet are dusty with the way,
I hesitate-I fear !

"But wherefore tremble thus ?

I washed thee clean and white;

I decked thee with salvation's robe,
Fairer than morning light.

"I hold thine hand in Mine,

And as I walk beside,

The pearly gates lift up their heads,
And for us open wide.

"They opened long ago,

Opened to let Me in,

When I returning from the fight,

Had conquered death and sin!

“And they stand open still,

Open, my child, for thee,
Then enter in with joyfulness,
And use thy liberty."

Jesus, I will draw nigh,

And in the "secret place

Behold the beauty of my Lord,

And banquet on His grace!

W. Pennefather. Reprinted by permission.

We indeed all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.-2 Cor. iii. 18.

HE glory of the Lord," the love of Jesus. This is the 'glory' that filled the tabernacle of old, Exod. xl. 34; and this love is infinite, but the believer by the Spirit of Jesus advances in a knowledge of it by degrees, step by step, from 'glory to glory;" but whatever progress he makes there is more than he can attain unto in this life for it ever "passeth," is ever beyond his apprehension of it, Eph. iii. 19.

Every time we are permitted to receive the Lord's Supper it may be a step in our way or course from glory to glory.

For consider the sacrament as a glass wherein we see the glory of the love and mercy of God in Christ. For take the bread alone, as it doth not represent and figure better things, and what is it? and take the wine alone, as it doth not represent better things, and what is it but an ordinary poor creature? Oh but take them as they are glasses, as things that convey to the soul and represent things more excellent than themselves, they are glorious ordinances! Take a glass, as a glass it is a poor thing, but take the glass as it represents a more excellent thing than itself, it is of excellent use, so the bread and wine of the sacrament must not be taken as naked elements, but as they represent and convey a more excellent thing than themselves, that is, Christ and all His benefits, the love and mercy of God in Christ; and so they are excellent glasses. Therefore I beseech you now when you are to receive the Sacrament, let your mind be more occupied than your senses; when you take the bread think of the body of Christ broken, and when you think of the bread united into one substance, think of Christ and you made one; when the wine is poured out, think of the blood of Christ poured out for sin; when you think of the refreshing by the wine, think of the refreshing of your spirits and souls by the love of God in Christ, and of the love of Christ, that did not spare His blood for your soul's good; how doth Christ crucified and shedding His blood refresh the guilty soul, as wine refresheth the weak spirit. Thus consider the bread and wine as glasses where better things are presented, and let your minds be occupied as well as your senses, and then you shall be fit receivers of the Lord's Supper.

From a treatise on the excellence of the Gospel above the Law, by R. Sibbs, D.D., Master of Katherine Hall, Cambridge, and Preacher of Grays Inn, London.

"IN THEE DO I PUT MY TRUST."

"Preserve me, O God: for in Thee do I put my trust." Psalm xvi. 1.

Jesus, I will trust Thee; Lord, preserve Thou me;

In my utter weakness leaning upon Thee;

Learning sweet dependence on Thy power and grace,
Gazing ever upward on Thy glorious face.

Jesus, I will trust Thee, in Thee must abide;
Like the feeble cony, in my Rock I hide;
Weakest little tendril growing in the Vine;
Living in Another-thus Thy fulness mine!

Jesus, I will trust Thee; may I fruitful be,
Nought of Nature suffered-all must come from Thee;
What the Vine produces, that will God approve,
CHRIST-His faith and patience, gentleness and love.

Jesus, I will trust Thee-should the purging come,-
Through "much tribulation" must I reach my home,—
Give me Thy, submission to Thy Father's Will,
In the heated furnace, whisper, "Peace, be still"!

Jesus, I will trust Thee, in Thy Word confide;
For the saint or sinner there is nought beside:
Till the day-dawn breaketh and the shadows flee
Keep me simply trusting :-fix mine eye on Thee!

M. J. W.

ON VISITING INVALIDS.

'ETTY BOWMAN gives five rules for visiting invalids, and we feel sure our readers will profit by remembering them

Do not stay too long.

Do not hurry.

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3.

Do not speak on too many topics.

4.

Avoid argument.

5. Always leave if another visitor is announced.

We should like to add one more rule: Always pray for God to give you the right word before you go: and what better prayer can you have than this

What do Job's words in xvi. 2, 1.c. teach us? Mic. vii. 5; Jer. xvii. 5.

2.-Who appeared as Job's advocate? xxxii. 2, 3. Who is the sinner's ? 1 John ii. 1. To what does Elihu point Job as the only remedy for sin? xxxiii. 23-30; Matt. xx. 28.

3. What was Job's creed ? xix. 25-27.

4.-Who convinced Job of his ignorance and sin? xxxviii. 1. What was the result of seeing God by faith? xlii. 2-6; Is. vi. 5.

5.-When was Job's captivity turned ? xlii. 10. What was Job's end? xlii. 10-13.

6. What may we learn from Job's history? The duty of patience under suffering, Jam. v. 11; Rom. xii. 12. The happy issue of affliction to His people, Jam. i. 12; Rom. viii. 18; Heb. x. 36.

March 14th.

Read Gen. xxiii.

SARAH.

Learn I Pet. iii. 4.

1.-Who is the only woman recorded in Scripture whose complete_age, death, and burial are mentioned? Wife of? What promise was made to Sarah?

Rom. ix. 9.