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ONE LORD. OIE^FAITI, OIE BAPTI8M"—EPHESIANS IT: & COLUMBIA, s ( . FBIBA1. DECEMBER it 1871. * YHdlor touched with the feeling of our in HrtnitieH, hot »« tempted hi all points like as we are, yet without sin.” If the trees seem henry, he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are bat dust. Re known just how much we can bear; and he known how heavy* ia the burden; for 44 He has borne oar griefs and carried PAY sheer felly, bteaaas *m Ariight hi glring—aad glrfef according to our arenas—the peer glrlag of their **m and the rich of their aben spirit of lore aid HW-rntm -Triftri Mly bear the croee his gentle haada lay oa yoat Janas, "tor the joy which was set before him, endured the eroaa.” Go than, child of God, “consider him, lest ye be weery sod payment faint in yoar minds.” Ye waso—td of the Lard, ye are returning from | the regions of the shadow of death: SKaTT >*» are coming home. Ootae with fjhhther snugs and everlasting joy upon yoar Ministers, From John,, the ttnela friend of the 3avtear, the among the twelve, sad the patriarch of the ipostedr ccttld look bach to the mar v^Fmsi^wa swspw srar wem* spspsi traction of Jerusalem, and Ieoh fee ward to the certain triumph at ohrio i utility over the tottering ideie of Paganism, we uioet naturally expect the ripest, ee it was the last, eempo- position of the gospel hsfecry, fer the edittontioo of the CkntHm CkurcA m mU epos. The Gospel of John Is the Oe*iei of Gospels, an the Kpialto to the Kihmniie is the £pietle of Spietlee. it in the most remarkable an well an the most important literary predas liou ever composed by mss. It Is a marvel even in the marvellous Book .of books. All the fllerature of the world could net repines Ik it In the most spiritual sad ideal of Gospela It iuProduce* us into the Holy of Holies in the history of ear Lend; it brings us, as it were, late Hie im Christian’! Life. remarked, in the rile to the Phil should also be i life. But there 4 diseiples, who, 4k are willing to fbnt are always By bear, rather ■Knotting from Saviour. They ort flowing from df tbe glory due rib praise gtorifi thoughtful tone, “do yon take saris aerioas views of life ns that, sash face to Awe the trae Sbekiaah. “the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, fell of grace ahd truth, ft presents, in faucet harmony, the highest knowledge, nad the dee|nri love, of Christ. It gives ue the clearest view of hie Incarnate Divia ity and bis proper bamauity. It eats hint forth as the Kterual Word, whs was the sou roe of life from the be ginning, and the organ of all the revelation* of God to man; as the Fountain of living water that quenches the thhrri of the soaf; as the Light of the world that iUumi if, like the boy her sail are Im-' destroys the terror of death. It ru fleets the lustre of TrauaflgaraUee on the Mount, yet nabdwsd by the holy sadness of Gethesmnee. It abounds in festive joy and glmftaesa iloft. Jeeas is * he giveth all id for the con tbs crown, fie his eye.” He ▲mid the de ft Christian may mixed with grief ever the 1 tude and obtoseaess of eabe men. It brent has the air of and yet sew ads at times like of thunder from the ether we soars boldly and mqjastIraM the eagle towards the am source of light, and yet has gently aw a darn over the eai is sabJime as a seraph* «impl deep and oris|hramble se tl It u tW> ulnifmat in mmvI a to their not /know the i wiU lead Are yog of Nth upon Hi I who paceed ^■•NfeAha oue nud here the other, “fe,feem.no balm hi Gilead! is •etri «»e physici m there r Yes, ‘•whhdlfe *trif#a4,htt healed.'* Christ, oa which the beloved I ye that labor | fad I will give 3re hi rest for the fee, and rest hi ia Jesus fllleth minds, and furnishes ine food for meditation and It i* the Gospel of peace rid and thy ex- “I sot dowu 4k great delight, dWt to my taste.* to He down in wjrib lead you rtt* ! Hence the u ia hia exalted Ifeough the fig. % neither shall MG the labor oi pud the Helds ; the Hock shall L „fyid, aud there S#® heiU ih^^tair—though comforts seem goue—“yet Wee in t^e ( .Lprd, i wUl joy bleeeed future when all the discords of the Church militant on earth shall he solved in the harmony of the Church triumphant In hear 4(6 Aa# \ I the still i t could exc Jehovah, Aad God audtes nee of the troubles t scads ca hia people la this world The Holy ScBLPTuaKe.—The veneration we should feel for the Bible, as the depeririry wf savitig “Well, well! What’s all that gat to do with yamf saying ia answer to my offer, *1 can’t afford iftf" “Why, as off west to yon, hat it’s got all to do srith It. I coat afford uot only from what we attach to my other book, but from that admiration its other proi»erties inspire ; and the variety and sntiqntty of its history, the’light it afford* ia varieae re wonshes, Us inimitable touch os of nature, together with the sublimity and beauty 90 copiously poured over its puges, will be deemed subsidiary