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His word recog t two classes—saints and righteous and the wick- boooever is not lor me. is ne* There is no middle Whatever positiou a man he must either be the fr^ud ,v of Christ according to the of his word. He may a fair character in the rati of the world, and approach the gate of heaves, bat want of one single decisive may make an eternal ship- of his salvation, that yotug inau walking along in all the vigor and cheer- of yooth. He knows no care; be is in the midst of r and plenty. The world is all around bin. He has no ts of to-morrow, much less world to oome. l oexpected- meets a fhuerul procession, the badges of mourning; and silent walk of moorn- torns and follows them to yard. There hears the and sees the tears of weeping He looks into the gaping and sees the coffin let down, the rattling clods rum- npon it After the fanenU are over he returns to his a sad and heavy heart, reflects that he may soon pass a similar scene. He repairs and tries to pray. He poors heart and weepe bitter tears ; be is almost a Christian, step might bring him to vionr. At that moment there at his door. A friend calls him. He wipes away his drives away his serious 1 ; smothers bis feelings, anil them from bis unconscious They walk out together, a short time lie is in the ball or at tbe card table, or at the shop! Now must this young be lost! Must he go to ruin wtyi heaven is almost in sight— vhli be had almost a glimpse of Paulwe, and was just ready to step inti t! '0P case of Lord Littletou, the , is to tbe point here. It is **4 i that on one occasion be was erwbeltned by a sense of his that be resolved to kneel down room aud implore God’s par mercy. He arose from his let down his window curtain, t moment a band of music along the street. His atten- was diverted; his serious im- P**M»on8 left him, aid on his dying acknowledged that he never near the kingdom of heaven that occasion, j t »|to be lost under such circum- when the band was just to grasp the crown df fadeless ; when the lip was just ready of the banquet of the Iamb! it be ! Yes, there is only oue of salvation. That way is marked out, and the eom- (Whl is, “Walk ye in it." “Except Man be born again! be can not see tb«kingdom of Heaven.* Franke. m +< .4-. ■ Workers we Need.—What Thi OsasUat la Christianity Some time since 1 read an article m the iViacwton hrr teu - y entitled “The Variable and the Constant iu Christiau Apology.* It set me to tbiuking about the “constant* things of Christianity; aud A found a good muuy things to comfort aud stay me iu the uiidai of the si^ieuiug uncer tainty of theoe disjointed times. H may be tbe same things wltiuh com forted roe way eomfort others, la hope that ll may be so, 1 will write dowu a lew of the things that 1 thought about. m. with all its guilt, aud .«Pl ain! ill heaven and with peace—bis active the mi) men tenons cones of eternal lift; his sympathy and love stronger than death j his inlrrerntou, the chief canoe of stability ta grace, are all constant things in Christianity — things that no power in the universe can make other than what they era, or less constantly potent to save. V. All tbe I Tuna rswisimv, caaaiMi iTT *si» 41. lUXWli III Their are timer who dewy Uac pus •ibitity of miracle*, derlariag God la nature, nature »• God. Others twfer tbrm to a higher law, and think there are brings of Mifretsul intelligence who can look spun this world and other worlds, sad from a wkler range than wo command da agreement suggest* ooUmUon. AH these records show the authenticity of Christ’* miracles. If we conkl mm moa Mart or Lake they nook! clear up every discrepancy in • moment. Was it ever known that awn prae tired fraud sad falsehood for the sake of piety and benevolence T If a man cea believe that, hr can swal low all the miracle* Tbs Preaching that flees Good What the Apostle calls the “tool- ishnee* of preaching* is a menus appuiutod of God to save souls, aud ministers of the Gospel have iVir <ommission directly from Him. To deliver his message so as to attract aud save souk should be the preach er's great aim. The turn}dost, and •luce a law of mil the work! other*, that Rome who dewy the truth of mini most straight for ward presents turn of dee inform ne that the raising of it must be the most effective, for the our more soil IB ! At tior arches need most is a class of ve toilers who work for from the sheer love they bear Spasmodic piety—that bents revival seasons, and blaze for •eeks like a bontire—is coui- ® 0B ^ottgh. It is as cheap, too, as * mavingg^ which boys burn in te- We pastors grow weary y 1 There is a type of godliness of Caleb, who “followed e Iord fully,” which •every pastor in as a w i»er))etual least.* ^lfcSf 8taiD8 1 ,at are he akfctiL t * 1< * l>ra ^ er n,et ‘ tiu K H on raii^v aud even when the spiritual J^ere is cold as tjie wintry Itr m ^kokt. T^iy cau swiiii “up ai,d against strong currents *j^hLes8. They do; not make ucb noi8e during their meek, uu lives, but when they are iow we miss them ! his Bible as impaired by with falleu humanity—was, as a whole, a coosuul thing. U comes to us as a remedial scheme, pro pus iug to be a perfect remedy for all the terrible disorders of fallon hu mauity, claiming our aoco|>tsAM.v and confidence for that purpose, it it be not evidently couetaat, bow can we accept it! how can we ooalide in it! The. laws which govern our intellectual nature demand n convic tion of constancy and competency both, as a ground of coohlfwe. That couvictiou must be the result of evklonce or exparteam*. If ehria* tianity has not obviows, evident con stancy—if it be not evidently divine and immutable—it can not command oar confidence. * II. Bnt I asked myself tbe quea tion, what do yea include in the comprehensive idea of Christianity to which you affix the attribute of constancy T I include in it, as the first great thing, the purpose of God to save sinners bye Jeoas Christ. This is the thing the Apostle con templates as tbe foundation of all Christian blessing*. Eph. 1: 3, 4.— “Blessed be tbe God sod Esther of Lord Jeans Christ, who hath with all spirito*l btesniugs in Christ Jeans: According ss be bath chosen os in him, before tbe foundation «jf the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.* That “cbuoaiug us in him* is tbs first great thing of Christianity. . It is the beginning. There is where ctorintiauitv begin*. It is a poo that tkimg God batkls the whole supenirariore of salvation by gnu*'. All the blew*lags of grace, with which he ever blesses anybody, are according to that thing—“ac cording as he hath chosen us is" Christ Jesus. This is a constant thing. The foondatiou of God stand* etli sore, having this fouadsliau, tbe Lord knoweth them that are bis.* The constancy of that thing is guaranteed by the whole moral character of God, and by his physi cal power. III. 1 include iu the gvotvsi idea of ebristinuity tbe plan of salvation. By the plan of salvation 1 mean the way or method by which God has ordained to effect salvation. That way is. heaven or eternal life is to be merited by good works. Hell in to be escaped by a sufficient atonement. But an msu cau neither do good works whereby to “enter into life," uor make aq atonement for bis sin*, that would have it possible for him todiv* alter it, the plan is Jesus Christ, lising legally identified with mau by the choosing referred to above, and fitted out with a human nature for that purpose* did the good works, aud made the atonement necessary; aud uow mau hi to gain heaven—uot merit it—by “believiug on Jesus Christ,” which is sobotau ttally bis electiug or voting for Jesus ty ore constant things. This indeed PI I i iwn not b» Mbw.ur TV *“* <*« » petal loss of Im- 1 s m ratal urns that »rr "* " ^ * * 1> ®***thiug moostesos • Mir- ! I Itawb W fSM), « ^ — God mole it ,.ud iwm.jtr.1 U | ^ wiral n( T«.«l uU ^ make them iu»t whal thee are It l *° U,, “ 1 rhwnl ”»> “> *J- ta, » *“■« -T ty. "The* eh*U hwe IV lewd thy 1 , tied* V TV rrtMh... riMla, 1. r«,wrl to IV etrdlUht v A bM.ne. God IV (V <““■*> »>••• *«U of .11 tk» K s himI ... IV ,k * <* «(Vr. w fro* In. tV dr|.'.iV>l of 4iotl 10, "* “ • rl “ r *> »“'• *“■» **“ ,,, n,, n.whrm of <kv °* ut * tn 111 > T *»*d M w VI) rail doctrine. * Krwy existing n jmrf he played him self; that hr pot oo grave clothes and was pot olive in the grave or tomb, to which Christ coming, sup posing him dcad, expresses his grief Lazarus, hearing steps, comes forth alive, and lo! they publish it abroad Go»| ad docs not need any overlaying of argument or rhetoric to make it attractive. Naturally religion has the strongest hold upon humanity. U is the subject. like death, it line s common interest for all of Adam’s race, hot unlike death it roaches be makes a doctrine a revelation of doty | and that durtrini eon not be changed whilst the re)allow remains I unchanged It is held that every thing moral is a urban gen Me. The moral law Is brkl to he ImmataMe because it la moral. Kcerv Latrine w I is moral—to moral law, intended to rale tbe frith and practice of man. and therefore con not‘bnt be con stout. One of the meet perrtcos revels t ions of the Hi Me K “Fbr? ever, O Lonl, thy word ta wrfthd in heaven." This tdr* of the stam y or iuimotoMHty of alt 4 red** J doctrines is the rromrn of tbe warning in the Iftth and Itrii v of the last chapter of Kevetatmn VI. The oiler of eternal lifr frllen man Is s constant thing, the end which it proposes—sail atioii; In the menus b> nhkh that end is to be gained—tfo righteonsncwi «»f Jeans Christ; ini in the cundiUuns that Christ performed a miracle sad >ond the bound of lifo and links us raised Laasrss from the dead, tf vitii the llirane of God. The modest, the alternative in regard to those «»«•* unlettered wretch that breathes miracles is so !m|*iasiMr, then Jeans has an instinct of his immortality is God and the disciples are true 1 aud craves some light on the path men. The Christ that Kenan pic beyood the grave, tores no artist woold take for a Bo much of the proacbsrk work model. TV qocstion is naked, How thru is already done for him did thusr magicians withstand Mo iu the fact that the transcendent sea f They withstood turn for a importance of his subject is umver- time. TV Lord made the land leap uaUy felt and acknowledged as ap- with animal lift* and the dust moved pealing to uiau’a deepest wants and alive. A miracle! nr lured the exciting bis highest hopes—the woo- water to blood and the magicians der is that more is not effected, that dkl oo with their cochantmenU, bat ] «wo ***' women in Christian lauds it was by sow* limited and delegated ' *it so moved and the Gospel remains power. Each of these times Moses ‘hid* to them. tokl what he was going lo do.' w hst ws need is more simpliciry , Coo Id they not have got a pailful or •« the polpit. and more sympathy with the relation Iwtseeu {m6 t It was an easy amt ‘ the msKsea. Ottr Riun ws an- able to get such aa in sftelK-nblr ooluctai that wo aio aiUiag to nsk oar lixsa fur it. la the rxiatrocr of miradea then need r # ' aot be any infringement of cause and effect; three need not br an in I vr mission of the uidmary methods when there i* a new cansr and effect. When a new |*er«oo u burn into the world hr doss not interfore with those alrwodj them- As abmdntoly new rreatioa in the world interfere things already created. We ssarrt that miracles sir s Csllhlui reount of fret* that actually of the clearest aOthroUciti validity, lien a a sonrty bound togrthei by oar mnowi Urltef that aflket* the views uni Suaduct of all tu | l*rlonging to it' t they abandon lO *!*■* .L.lui. — -—* ilk. Op I lee; they had of of prearben bat, ol did srrpt-nts h»ve their aadieoce not merely to per* ■■ “dying sinoers" whom they yearn aud craft; 10 save from God's wrath, bat as tell what fellow men. a* brethren. What a fur ho waa ts psrform in the idagor of' |*ower went with the Roman's words, u. They i when be cried oat In the forum: “1 * too am a man." -There is something the her, they mold mil do ware at their wits end “TV finger of God M in this." I j »■ G»ts broad and believe the of leperdei They were aot mtrack- worker*. Mir performed to prove the cisul wrought tricks > of haUts and their telirt is aartive to holier U«e* *ud self dialing and it raise* them above lie drath itself. It »s the puwet of (*ud of salvation—receiving amt testing u||tu Ovation « htmt-Jesus t* the on ( hrvst alone (»t xal\‘t is cow Head of the Church, apd the Utw ol' ^^ «ho did U ^Ml mit * fnhR*hflnw*Hy ffM, IfH ll^ throbs and lmats tbrowgh ^ ^ put to death God wold eork^ We all her Bx uiU-tx This belief is the 1 ikm of a roeogni humanity that tV circle of a man's audience ^Hke the electric current. It need not he outspoken in words; constant. “Ho every one that thirst etli. come ye to the waters, am! he that hath no money, conn, yea, couie. boy wine and milk without nonr) ami without prio-," Is the ever not standing proclamation of Grace. This is **th«* everlaatlng Go* pel. Some by Ibr angel of th*- one uant athwkrt the heavens, to be •ii sri ■H-Miirrx ibw uriin I* mightiest power ta the world, how ever weak U may br compared with «hs| it might be. There is a | dertnl uaaaimity m the brlief i life and death of Jrw» < 'hrist. Thm wbu bcileve it are called Christian*. Men have held thi* frith with great i-insstans in ages past ; they have died for it; and preached to them that dwell upon {Ur> ^.4^ fre it; and men lira the earth, and to even nation, and ; 0 day prepared to die lor it, if seed kingdom, ami tongue, and people "~ ^ Ws ask, Whme is tV origin of 8rw. xiv: ff. It U the wsc l« the ^ mighty frith? The owe big, inhabitant* of Europe, A«.i*. Africa, j^dpabk, treamndmis fart ia, the and tV inlands of tV sea. that it In Hon of trial dal U;tfmH,sVdidr to u*. It is the sunn now—oflhnug Bridge the centuries. Your fathers the same salvation—tbe same plan ^ suKher^ behaved it, aad their of salvation the same condition* of alH ] .^bers Vlirveff it; and sahstioii, and with all the •inccitlv m ,gg ean tu back to the first .no troth ,h.t It Aid right, ^ „ (to.l th. tion* ago. records telling the same story. We VII. The peace of Jeans l hnst, find them breaking bread and drink oue of tV glorious things at chns mg wine at the Lord** Supper as we tianity, ia a constant thing. “My do today. In the firm century they peace I give unto you." Tbe |teaee bad no doubt about it, and it has of Jesus Christ is a *tal« ol reruu gnor on from criitnry to century ciliatioo between Go*l and all be 1 lie vers. Between Gml and all be lievers t lie re is friendship—oonuuu on with no break in tV link. At that 1 time DM) were obedient to the faith, and they were men of Irani All our employments are to be ited to God. Bueiness may «» holy as prayer/ The ***** should never de it from devoti >n can not be ca p'ment, there must be some- [wrong iu tnc character of the pi »,}ci. 1 ur >r attempt to otipn. If our irried iuto onr l 1 nion—free ('ominuoion—fellowship., iog, geuius ami power. God is tbe believers friend, aud the believer ia God’s friend. They have friendly ami endearing intercourse with oue another. “Being justified by faith we have |**a«r with God through our land Jean- I’hrist." This |»eaue is a constant thing of Christianity. Wherever true ebris tianity is, and pusssaae* tbe mind and heart of mau. there will be n Christ as bis federal uiau and repre- s**n*w* ol peace. I nder its offiemting sedative. Further, it is a port of tbe plau that those whom Christ is to save, being “dead iu trespaases aud sins," must be quickened or re generated; aud this must be done by tbe word and spirit of God; and as the regenerate man has not bis way in himself, and cau neither of himself grow iu grace, nor even cou tiuue in it at all, he is “to* be kept by tbe power of God through faith unto salvation." This is God's plau of salvation. It is coustant. It has never bceu changed. Every body that has ever been saved has been saved by this plan. Adaui was saved by it, if saved at all. By it, every son aud daughter of Adam that is now iu heaven, has been saved. By it will 8e saved every one that ever will be saved, “There is no other name under heaven giveu among men, whereby we must be saved." t . IV. The provisions of grace are things included in tbe general idea beantiffclly exproffiflff his faith: of Christianity that are constant, sus has promised to carry tbe lamia Christ aud bis mediatorship are cou- in his anus, and us I am only a little stant tbiugs. That part of his tnedi- boy it will be easier tor Jeans to atonal work which is done—bis coitv me." 4, gi vmtatui v t. ^ *k.,'* •**•* * c power tbe man looks up and says, “my Father, thou art tbe guide of my yooth.** If we sometime* lose our sense of peace with God, It is uot because Christianity has not al ways pence with it, lot because we bave not always living Christianity with us. “My (icoee I give nnto yon : not as tbe world giveth give 1 onto you." The gift* and favor of the world are fickle and inconstant; fhrial’s gifts are all constant. Do not all these glorious troths re commend Christianity as a constant fountain of comfort and strength f Onglit not tbe inconstancy of all earthly tbiugs to urge us to accept and fondly cherish Christianity! The God of Christianity is constant. The man Christ Jesus of Christianity is constant. Christianity is constant. Why has it so little favor with mail! K. A. K. A CffTLDto Faith.—A child thus t'knst died and rose agatu. and upou those who crucified him the disciple* charged home the foul crime of murder, declaring them worse than rvgtrtdcs—deienk*—and tho*e fact* have been woveu into so rial life and into all things. When God weaves lie a eaves woll. These things cau sever be destroyed from tbe woof ot Iile till yon horn the globe. That tbcau miracle*—fecdiug the multitude of hungry men, rais ing the dead, Christ himself rising from the dead should have been received and believed, can only be explained on the ground of undents bte troth aud irrefragable testimony. If the miracle* were collaaioa, craft aud imposture, would they have been approved by ('hrist himselft Conkl He, a good man and true, go so low as that f Is Jeans of Naza reth merely man or God, to be be lieved! Tbe question ia reduced to that. The character of Jeaus and the truth of miracles rise or fall together. If wrought by him and his diaeipks as proof of his divinity, they are to be believed; if not, they are on imposture and mankind the dupes t If true, Jeans is the Havioor of tbe world! There is no being in bistory ot whom there ooukl be maintained tbe perfection of charac ter that we find in Jeans Christ in all parity, holiness and troth I Is la* to be aligmatised with false hood ami the Apostle* to he held divinity of tk KeieUuon. If a j H* speakers eye, and tbe tones of «u wrought oootrary to the \ hi* voice will pot him in sympathy with bis hearer*, i too mm * whin. hare a common orgin, a common He i* the name | Mood, common passions, common God. Nature aad mau are the same, want* and a common destiny. Lri Hot w« have Jeaus Chnd aud hi* os love one another. listen to me, iu*Ltuuuu*s and wc do not need the • "inner saved by grace and longing (•roof uf mirarisw. for your salvation. Hear the old Let each one iff you seek to be utMkd of the validity of your on aptnUud Ufr. Be sure that the mir adr of spiritual iuterveoUou has taken place ia yon and that yon have here renewed by the Holy Ghost. Ik sore yon are no whited sepulchre, frit without, bat fool within. Got youi own torch lighted before yon think of kindling a light la other people. If yon have bat a farthing rash and it ia lit, you may art somebody on fire with ik Yon must bs clear in yonr own heart 000 vhhkmu tf yon would lead others to ('hrist. Doubt of our own salvation and of onr Honour is like a dry rot. Go forth, firm aa a rock and firm aa a man whom (ml as stain*, sod you bare a power that shall move the world. Tin* religion once turned the world tqaude down and it will again. Much depends on the sac of this undertaking. Ask your- atory over aad over again—ye must lie born again. There most be two birth* fur oar rone and one death, or if only one birth, there will be two deaths. A ministry te the nmnare will al ways reach and control the masses. Fine charrbea and impressive forms and magnificent ceremonies will at tract and amuse, bat it will be only for awhile. There most be a living power in the pulpit. An earnest sympathetic preacher who feels that the whole work! is kin, will have tkouMada oUodiDK round bin. in the open air banging on hi* words, while the finished pulpit orator is jireacbiug to empty benches. The “magnetic power" which has been attributed to each men ss Spurgeon, ( Vdlyer, Beeeher. find in some degree to tbe Alexanders, father and to many other great living and dead, was the Scripture “lie shall iii as a refiner and pun fter of silver." Why sit ? The pro ooss of purifying silver is one of great delicacy, There is a critical moment, in which the silver reaches a certain state, when it moat instant ly be removed from the fire. The refiner must sit, must watch, must give all bis powers of attention. Tims does Jesns sit. There is not a single believer over whom he does nut watch lovingly, earnestly, nu oensiiigly. Each trial, each teiapta tion, he suffer* to continue loop enough to accomplish its object, and uo longer. We are indeed east into the furnace; but even there we are safe. Never does our refiner fail to seize upon tbe right moment to re move ns, purified, better prepared for tbe Master's service. u lArim§ than.* Christ, the fouu datiou of a spiritual temple eternal in tbe heavens, a living stone: we who come to him likewise living Stones, fitted, built iuto this gioriou * temple. Yet. oft-times, how severe the process. The rough stone is not fit for a place in a grand building. It must be squared, smoothed, polished, nice ly . adapted to its position. The builder brings down his hammer without mercy. It woold seetn as if be was going to break it to atoms. But be knows the strength of the material. He kows the nature of his work. These rough corners, this useless mass must be removed. He spares no vkdeoce necessary. The end is never lost sight of, aud the means are adapted to that Hid. .is the stone assumes shape, he jim ceeds more gently; he applies the chisel with more and more esse. The finishing touches are put on with the greatest caution. The rough mass, thus transformed aad prepared, be comes fit for a place in a magnifi cent temple. 80 God deals with us. He takes os from the quarry. His blows fell hard and in quick snocesskHi. We tremble, we shrink, we pour forth onr com plaints, we otter our cries of distress f*All thy billows pass over me." But be knows our frame. He knows whst will destroy us, and whst is necessary to awaken ns to a sense 0€ our real condition. We are carnal; we most become spiritual. We are sinful; we must become holy. We are dead; but He knows how to make us live to grow to his own likeness. Under the severest discipline, when our prospects are blighted, when riches take to them selves wings, when pain, and sorrow, and trouble oome upon us, realizing in whose hands we are, we may comfort ourselvef with tbe thought, that he is preparing us for a place in tbe temple above.—America* .Ve* sender. mrlves whether it shall be a stugie 1 <*fiuct of a certain heartiness and light on a solitary peak, or kindle a cordiality toward* men which they fire on other mountain tops sod light uH the valley* bet sera. Be honest. rarm**t and tharuugb in you pre|>a ration and in vonr work.—.V. 1*. ffi •rrrer. . t Christ Unvaried A Spanish srtiRt was o ot* etn ployed to paint “The Last ^tapper." It was his object to throw all the sublimity of khz art iuto tbe figure and couoteuanch of the Lord Jesus; but he pot on the table in the fore ground some chased cups, the work mau ship of which was exceedingly beautiful. When his friends came to see the picture on tbe easel, every one said, “What beautifol caps! “Ah r said he, “I have made a mis take; these cups divert tbe eyes of the spectator from the Lord, to whom I wished to direct the atten tion of the observer." Aud he forth with took up his brush and blotted them from tbe canvas, that the strength and vigor of tbe chief ob ject might he prominently seen and observed. Thus all Christians should feel their great stody to be Cfirst's exaltation; and whatever is calcula ted to hinder man from beholding him in the glory of bis person and works should be removed out of the way! “God forbid that 1 should glory, save in the cross of our Lord .Jesus Christ."— British Worlcmut*. . J had the gift as it were of rmitting a* they spoke. The greater the in tellect in most cases the more mark- <<d and spontaneous tbetr genial hu iqanity. and the greater the fascina tion they exert. V* Macaulay has somewhere sdtd that I mi re abst ractions fail to win tbe multitude. The pore Theism of the Jewish religion failed for ages to make proselyte*. It was God mani fest in the fiesh, walking and eating with men, sharing their privations and their joys; it w-as an Incarnate Haviour. made like nnto us, to whom men turn as to a brother. What the church ueeds is a ministry not only educated, qualified to teach aud burning with seal to save souls, but animated also with tbe spirit of our Elder Brother, and loving men as brothers and writh hearts big euough to embrace tbe whole world. —,V. C. JVrahyfcrm*. “At the Start."—A good broth er minister, who had one of the best trained churches, and was one of the most successful ministers in the country, said that, whenever tbe male head of a family entered the church of which he was pastor, he made it a point to secure the eatab- lishment of family worship at the very start—visiting the family for the purpose, if necessary ; and so in other matters of the same sort that l have indicated. He pursued the Anne and Br. South It is related of Dr. Soutii, who was chaplain in ordinary aad court preacher to Queen Anue of England, that after service on one occasion, the Queeu was graciously pleased to say to him: “Doctor, you have preached an excellent seraou today. 1 wish you had taken time to make it louger." “May it please your Majesty," he replied, “I wish I bad tokeu time to make it shorter." The remark of the Queeu and the' reply of the preaoher were indicative of the respective mental power aud cultivation of each; hers, of the immature judgment of an uuniformed mind; his, the proof of the accom plisbed scholar and skilful writer. Boosts no great effort comparatively, to write a long sermon, or a discur si ve, rambling essay. Such a pro due tion of the brain may be thrown off at &8ingie heat; but to sift and analyze the thought, aud to simplify and condense the language so as to bring it within the limits of twenty or thirty minutes of time, or of two columns of a public journal, require much longer study. And It is study that pays. It pays iu the pulpit, and it pays in the press. Hie lights in tbe oaaotuory of God should be supplied with beaten oil, and Hie busy public bave no time to throw away on erode compositions in reli gious journals. “Brevity is the soul of wit* as iniquitous knaves! ia the nar we ^ w ith God waj rati.* of tb# g«^l. tb» diffwmw uuU go aowbtrt tlut ChciU wiU.rijht policy, and reaped the good etimgtbrii thi- tcetiopw;. Perfect' oat go- 'biw. The carpenters gimlet makes but u small hole, but it enables him to drive a great nail. May we not here see a representation of those minor depai tores from troth which prepare the minds of meu for grievous errors, and of those thoughts of sin which open a way for tbe worst of crigtob ? RjiyarfL iJuG \ q£ guaht T