from God. We do not "draw nigh with a full assurance of faith." We want more of that "spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father."

3rdly. We learn another thing by this expression; namely, that there was in his case a decided Separation from the world. He did not join the multitude to do evil. He walked not in the way of sinners. He did not live as those around him lived. No, he stood boldly forward on the Lord's side. Oh, how many hard struggles he must have had. It was no easy matter to serve God in his day. The stream ran strong against him. Mountains of difficulty were in his path. He must have found the gate of truth very strait-the path of life very narrow. In walking with God Enoch must have found it necessary to part company with many of his friends. of his friends. He lived for

heaven: they lived for earth. was here: his was above.

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Have you not sometimes seen a person moving through a crowd, almost as if he saw them not. His mind is wrapped in thought; and he is making his way towards

some place about which he is deeply interested, and meanwhile hardly takes any notice of what is passing before his very eyes. So it was with Enoch. He was but little taken up with things around him. He was pressing on towards his home above.

4thly. When it is said that he "walked with God," this shows us there was a steady Progress in his course; for a man cannot walk, and yet be standing still at the same time. Year after year found Enoch more holy, more weaned from the world, more ripe for heaven, stronger in the Lord, and taking more delight in His service.

My dear brother, may you be a growing Christian! Your advance may be slow; but if there is real progress, all is well. The hour-hand of a watch moves very slowly, so that you hardly see it; but we know it does move, by comparing it with where it was an hour ago. And so, I trust, when look back and see what you were a year ago, you can feel that you are getting forward, and are advancing on your heavenward road.

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5thly. There was a simple Dependence on

God in Enoch's case. He did not attempt to walk alone to heaven: he walked with God. As he took step by step, his eye was fixed on that heavenly Guide who had promised to support and direct him. Amidst all the storms of life, he sheltered himself under His almighty care.

Such was Enoch's happy consistent course for no less than three hundred years. And now observe HIS UNUSUALLY GLORIOUS END. It is said, that "he was not, for God took him; " and again it is said that he "was translated (which means removed), that he should not see death."

But Enoch

Adam, and those who followed him, after living a certain number of years, died. Their bodies returned to the dust, and their souls into the presence of God. was an exception to all the rest. He passed out of this world to his heavenly home without enduring the pangs of death. This was a special honour which God vouchsafed to His beloved servant. And such too is the honour, which God will bestow on those among His people, who shall be living on

earth at that glorious day when Christ shall come again. They shall be caught up without tasting of death, to be for ever with the Lord.

But so blessed a portion as this may not be ours. Even death, however, is sweet to the true Believer. There is such a thing as sleeping in Jesus.'

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There is such a thing

as a peaceful end. Our day may close in sunshine! And if you would have this, learn to live well. Walk closely with God, as Enoch walked; and He will not forsake you in a dying hour.

Yes, we shall die. But Christ has robbed death of its sting. It is but the narrow stream, through which we pass to our promised Canaan-the valley which we cross, before we reach the mount of God-a moment's sleep, from which we shall wake up, and find ourselves in heaven.

Happy for us, if we are living as Enoch lived; and if, when we are gone from this world, it can be written upon our tombs, "He walked with God; and he was not, for God took him."

METHUSELAH;

OR, LIFE'S PILGRIMAGE.

WHAT is our life? It is a vapour that soon passes away-a tale that is quickly told a space so short that we can span it— a journey which soon ends.

Those however who lived before the Flood lived far longer than any have lived since. Adam, for instance, lived nine hundred and thirty years; Seth, nine hundred and twelve years; Jared, nine hundred and sixty-two years. Enoch's life was by far the shortest of those who are mentioned by name, and yet his life was upwards of three hundred years!

And how is it that the sojourn of man upon earth was so much longer in those days than it is now? One reason probably was, that the earth might be the more speedily peopled. Another reason may have been, that God's truth might be handed