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supreme royalty and dominion of the Lord Jesus over all kingdoms and rulers, and his being Head over all things to his Church, has been full of serious injury to our national prosperity. It is the deepest spring of all true loyalty to all earthly sovereigns, for their subjects to view them, as the Bible does, as his ministers for good. It raises us above all fluctuating, selfish, temporary motives and worldly ends, by the high and holy principles of devotedness to Christ and the interests of his kingdom and glory in the salvation of our fellowmen, to a steady, self-sacrificing patriotism which nothing else can give, and nothing can shake. In the national acknowledgment of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Supreme Head of all, is the true national safety, greatness, and prosperity of our beloved country. God give us and our rulers wisdom and grace to discern, and faith to realize this truth! Thanks be to God that he has disposed our rulers to appoint a National Fast Day for humiliation before God, on account of the famine now prevailing in Ireland. I value it exceedingly, not only because it is the scriptural method for removing the judgment, but also because it is a step in the right direction of national acknowledgment of our entire dependence on the Lord Jesus Christ, a step that I trust may be followed by many national blessings.

And yet more as our salvation personally is connected with our lively faith in this blessed Lord, it is specially our duty personally to receive Jesus as our Lord. "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. But how shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?" We each need for ourselves a personal faith in the Lordship and dominion of Christ. We need to believe that there is no being so near to us, so great to us, and yet so loving and so gracious, on whom we so entirely depend for everything we have, enjoy, or hope for, as the Lord Jesus Christ. That there is no one whose favour is so desirable, whose displeasure is so dreadful; no one who is so all in all to us as the Lord Jesus Christ. That he not only

exists, but also that he governs everything; that not an act of disobedience is unnoticed or unpunished, nor an act of obedience unrewarded; not a sparrow can fall to the ground without him. That all our daily comfort and usefulness, all our health and wealth, all our friends and relatives, everything, in short, that is dear to us for time and eternity, is at his disposal. That if we trust him, love him, obey him, nothing can injure us, all must work for our good; that if we neglect him, disbelieve him, disregard him, and disobey him, nothing can do us good, or make us safe or happy. O, my brethren, realize this. Have this living

faith in the Lord Jesus as a personal Being, governing heaven and earth and all that is therein, and you will find it as a strong tower, a sure refuge, a full salvation; you will find yourself mighty to resist your enemies, mighty to go through your trials, mighty to be firm as a rock amidst the raging floods of error, and mighty to fulfil your duties. "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."

LECTURE VI.

JERUSALEM'S GLORY.

BY THE REV. W. W. PYM, M. A.,

VICAR OF WILLIAN, HERTS.

ISAIAH LX. 1-4.

"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side."

IT may be in the remembrance of some whom I now address, that the subject of Jerusalem's Glory, to which our attention is to be directed this evening, is connected with that upon which it was my privilege to address you on a former occasion. In fact, it is the carrying out of one part of that subject to its ultimate end. If we turn to the book of God, we shall find that there has been a mysterious connexion subsisting between the seed of Abraham and the highest destinies of the family of man, whether we look back to the earliest periods in our eventful story, or forward to the yet unfulfilled portions of the word of God which concern us. Thus, when we view the transactions in Paradise, and hearken to the judgment pronounced upon the transgressors in that place, we meet with the fact which I have advanced. There it was said, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her SEED; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Gen. iii. 15.) Now it is written, that "to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy SEED, which is Christ." (Gal. iii. 16.) The same thing is true as we advance with the sacred history. When the Spirit of the Lord spake by the mouth of Noah, and revealed to him the

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