be just what my poor, empty, sinful heart needed. He meets my want. The water of life is good. As cold water to a thirsty soul, as the clear morning air to the weary invalid, so is Jesus to me.

GOD PARTS that and us, which would part us and him.

TRUE HUMILITY consists more in believing, than in being sensible of sin, said John Owen. Remember this, you who say you cannot feel your sins enough.

WE RECEIVE the Holy Spirit in our obedience, not in disobedience.

"ELIJAH OFFERED his prayer and then faced the dangers of Carmel. Luther arose from his knees and entered the diet of Worms."

THERE MUST, says Howson, be enthusiasm. where Christ has been received fully into the heart.

SOME MAY be sanctified from birth. Luke 1:15.

THE TEMPTATION of many "higher life" persons is to think and talk more of their experience than of Christ. It will not do to make idols even of our holiest things.

GENERALLY neither great usefulness nor great joy in the gospel is reached except through a long and almost despairing period of soul travail and humiliation. Bunyan, Owen, Whitefield, and the Wesleys, are striking examples.

CHRISTIANS, said Bunyan, should be often affirming the doctrine of grace, and justification by it, one to another.

FAITH RECEIVES its object. It is one kind of possession. John 1:12.

FAITH PARTAKES of the nature of its object. Isa. 28:16.

FAITH IS the soul's going out of itself for all, said Boston.

THE LEGALIST Works for life; the believer works from life.

THE TRUE PENITENT never seeks to extenuate his own sinful acts, as Saul did in 1 Samuel 15:24, but takes all the blame to himself.

YOU STRENGTHEN your convictions by expressing them. It is important to say, I believe.

THE BONDS of our union with the Lord are the Spirit on his part and faith on our part.

PART V.

RELATING TO THE CHURCH.

THE ROOT of church troubles is pride. FAITH makes neither too much nor too little of a gospel ordinance.

SOME are averse to pruning off perverse members of the church, having more tenderness for them than for the church that is wronged. But dead branches must come off, else the vine is hindered.

THE CHURCH is a fountain of waters. Cant. 4:15.

THE ELDER'S office was pre-eminently a teaching office.

IN EXAMINING persons for the church, learn their views of God's character. There is nothing better to reveal their view of salvation, or the type of their experience.

SOMETIMES mighty influences proceed from the quiet ones in Christ's church.

AFTER RECEIVING infant baptism, there is hardly an extreme of high-churchism, or

ritualism, to which I could not go. The kind of arguments that could induce me to accept infant baptism, would easily take me on much further.

THE FAITH of the primitive church in Rome was spoken of throughout the whole world. Rom. 1:8. Has the amount of faith in my church, or yours, awakened any remark abroad.

HAS A PERSON a right to belong to a church without doing something, according to his ability, to support it?

A CHURCH has the right of declaring vacant any of its offices.

RIGHT DOCTRINE is as essential to church prosperity, as is a converted membership.

THE DENOMINATIONALISM of a true religious man is in fact his purest ideal of Christianity; therefore he cannot be indifferent to it.

SERVE your church as God's best instrumentality for doing good.

DIVISIONS among Christians are the joy of the devil.

NOTICE the joining of prayer with one's baptism in Luke 3:21 and Acts 22:16.

A BETTER name for the Sunday school would be Bible school.

A PASTOR may call too much on his people, as well as too little.

PASTORS ought to visit their people with love, authority, and singleness, as doing God's business.

THE CHURCH is a vessel, tossed on the stormy waves, but well anchored, and never to sink.

DO THOSE in a religious society, who complain that few ever call on them, return what calls they do receive; or take that notice of strangers which they exact for themselves?

SOMEBODY says that the great idea of some churches now-a-days is some titled man and him glorified, rather than Jesus Christ and him crucified.

"REPENT and be baptized." Even President Edwards said of these words: They teach that repentance is a qualification that must be visible in order to baptism.

BAPTISM symbolizes a change from death. to life, and they who have experienced the change should have the baptism.