will carry with him his God; but the sinner will not carry with him his world, and his ungratified desire will be a hell of itself. Desire, without its object, will, like remorse of conscience and the memory of what might have been, be a gnawing worm and an unquenchable fire!

HE IS NOT to be envied who taxes his ingenuity to explain away the natural meaning of the severe passages of God's word. A PUNISHMENT that ends in annihilation is certainly not eternal.

THE SACRIFICES of old showed that God had a terrible feeling against sin, and was jealous respecting its penalty; but also that he could hide it behind a propitiatory cover, could pardon it. Ah, what a difference there is between pardoning sin and ignoring it; between propitiating God's wrath and belittling it!

EVERY PARDONED sinner has endured his punishment in Christ. 2 Cor. 5: 15.

THE OLD TESTAMENT must be interpreted by the New, specially in regard to terms. describing the judgment of the wicked.

THE REWARD of unrepented sin shall be

a fixed character for sinning. Rev. 22:11. The sinner shall enter into sin, and have it sealed to him. He shall reap that which he sowed. His voluntary choosing is his Can he find fault?

penalty.

THE MOST ALARMING infidelity of the present day is the prevalent unbelief with regard to sin, its guilt and desert. It is affecting even some of our theological systems.

IT IS AS NATURAL for us to hide sin, as to commit it, said the author of the "Fourfold State."

ONE TROUBLE with those who are in error concerning the final punishment of sin, is that they think of God as altogether such an one as themselves. Ps. 50:21.

THOU COMPLAINEST, O sinner, that God's wrath against thee is too great; and yet it is too little to move thee!

UNBELIEF SHOws itself in not believing the bad about ourselves.

PUNISHMENT in the next world is no more unworthy of God than suffering in this world.

CAN THE SINNER have a right view of him

self without terror? Will Satan let go one of his own without a struggle? Then look for hard conversions.

THAT WHICH Christ suffered shows that the wrath of God must have vent in the actual punishment of sin.

MAY NOT he who is eternally sinning be eternally suffering?

DOES A PERSON argue himself into suicide. without having first rejected the doctrine of eternal punishment?

IF WE HATED sin as God hates it, should we so much question his great punishment of it?

IF SINNERS think they love a sin-forgiving God, while they hate a sin-punishing God, it is not likely they are yet converted.

PART IV.

ON THE NEW LIFE.

ONE CAUSE of so much feeble and languishing spiritual life is the neglect to breathe Bible air.

THE SWEETEST delight of the believer should come, not from dwelling on his own good estate, but from viewing the things of God.

THE CHRISTIAN is a sinner saved by grace. IF JESUS had his body broken for me, let my heart break for him.

THE CHOICEST things are wrung from experience.

TRIAL will tell you whether your hope will hold weight.

TERTULLIAN called those professors who relinquish their first love, the penitents of the devil.

WE FIND ease the instant we abandon our own wills.

THE CASE of the prodigal son forcibly

teaches sinners to come to Christ just as they are. If he had waited to have food and clothing before going to his Father, he never would have gone.

TO FEEL true contrition without love is an impossibility.

THE DEVIL, knowing well that prayer is the secret of our strength, aggravates difficulties to keep us from it.

LOVE to God, or enmity against him, is the root of each man's character.

THE CHRISTIAN will exercise the grace of faith in heaven itself.

DUTY ought to be inclination in the renewed heart.

EVANGELICAL religion will not flourish if its representatives do not keep the Sab

bath.

SOME dare not examine themselves, and some are too indolent to do it.

CAN you dance and enjoy religion?

SOME ONE has described faith as discovered weakness learning on omnipotence.

A MAN is unknown to himself till he has affliction.