ble God. But may not heaven afford a direct perception of God the Father through the light of the Son?

THE LAW of the fourth commandment by no means requires the keeping of the seventh day of our week, but a seventh day that follows six days of labor, and this law we are heeding when we keep the Lord's day. Here is the matter in a nutshell, which may relieve some of the perplexed.

THE DOCTRINE of the final perseverance of the saints does not make the genuine believer careless; rather it strengthens and stimulates him.

HERDER, writer of the "Spirit of the Psalms," says it is the most beautiful mark of the excellency of a doctrine when it instructs a child; a statement that needs to be taken with allowance.

IN EVERY AGE since Christ, there have been men who believed the current events to be the most tremendous that can ever occur, and hence their own the very last period of history.

WE HAVE NO REASON to suppose that the appearance of Satan is much different from

what it was at first, that of an angel of light. His fall need not change his appearance, any more than the form of man has been changed by his fall.

DR. SKINNER maintained that neither the humanity nor the divinity in Christ's nature, properly speaking, suffered, but the Ego Christ. In all cases the person, not the nature, is the conscious subject, and the God-man is but a single person.

THE PATTERN Of Solomon's temple is sufficient of itself to prove the fact of divine inspiration.

A WRITER in the old "Christian Review," vol. X, discussing the resurrection of the body, suggests that a very minute portion of the body, so subtle as to elude. human cognizance, may be all that is necessary to what we call the original ele

ments.

BOTH Dr. Hovey in his work on the "State of the Impenitent Dead," and the Duke of Argyll in his "Reign of Law," suggest that the disembodied soul of man may not be destitute of form.

SAID MASON: "The notion of free grace

may make a person dissolute, but the sense of it restrains from sin." A mere theory of God's electing love may leave a man careless and presumptuous; but a feeling of it animates the soul to holiness.

JAMES RUSSEL LOWELLL, the Harvard professor, seems unconsciously to state the necessity of an objective revelation in the following words: All men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self, will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

I AM SUSPICIOUS of a theological system which is too complete and compact, says Dr. A. N. Arnold. Our earthly logic, he says, may be inconsistent with God's larger truth. 1 Cor. 13: 12.

CHRIST is paraclete with God (1 John 2:1); the Holy Spirit is paraclete with men (John 14:16).

EVEN A PERFECT humanity cannot call forth from us a true worship such as we pay to God; although Spofford Brooke has asserted a very different view in a late work of his.

THE SINLESSNESS of Jesus was declared from the first. Luke 1:35.

ALL THINGS were created for Christ, in one way by serving as figures of his spiritual truth.

DR. HOVEY says truly that an impartial history of the Christian religion would show, beyond question, that the doctrine of a vicarious atonement, ratifying the claims of justice, has been more effectual than any other view of the Saviour's death in convincing men of sin and leading them to him.

SAYS DR. W. R. WILLIAMS: The Bible defies logic, in our narrow western sense of that word. Of a perfect logic, where the relations of all truths are seen fully and stated harmoniously, a finite race is probably incapable.

AS FOR PERFECTION or completeness in divinity, said Lord Bacon, it is not to be sought. In divinity many things must be left abrupt. O the depth of the wisdom. and the knowledge of God!

PART III.

IN THEOLOGY-SIN AND ITS PUN

ISHMENT.

NOTHING is really terrible but the wrath of God.

THE MORE We understand the sinfulness of sin, the higher will be our estimate of the work of the cross.

THE CULMINATING sin of the Jews was the rejection of the Son of God. Matt. 21:37-41. The great sin of men this day is the same.

A GREAT want of the age is a real persuasion of the punitive judgment of God, said John Milne.

CANNOT the adventist see that his doctrine of the extinction of the wicked makes the atonement comparatively little?

INCORRIGIBLE sinners are left to the freedom of their own wills.

THE PUNISHMENT of sin is the vindication of law and a necessity of God's nature.

CIRCUMSTANCES sometimes bring out an