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Christ of any doctrines which the subse quent growth of human knowledge—whether in natural science, ethics, political economy, or elsewhere—has had to discount. This negative argument is really almost as strong as is the positive one from what Christ did teach.” T he world is only a rehearsal for enter- nity. Some hearts are preparing for the wailing of the damned. Others attuned by the Holy Spirit, are rehearsing the ora torios of heaven. Into these celestial choirs shall come only those who by penitence and faith have learned the new “ song of Moses and the Lamb.”— T. L. Cuyler. M r . G ladstone once said in reference to his pamphlet on Vaticanism (papal policy) : “My object has been to produce a temper o f greater watchfulness, to disturb that lazjr way of thought that acknowledges no danger till it thunders at the doors: to warn my countrymen against the velvet paw and smooth exterior of a system (Romanism) which is dangerous to the foundation of the civil order.” T he offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satis faction for the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Where fore the sacrifices of masses, in the which it was commonly said that the priest did offer Christ for the quick and dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits.— Article cv; Creed of the Church of England. T he greatest miracle I know of is that of my own conversion. I was dead, and I live; I was blind, and I see; I was a slave, and am free; I was an enemy of God, and I love Him. Prayer, the Bible and the Society of Christians—these were to me a source of profound ennui; while now it is the pleasures of the world that are a weari ness to me, and piety is the source of all my joy. ■Behold the miracle! and if God has
lation and are altogether without verifica tion. Therefore believers are to be witnesses to this fact and to the reality of the powct of the Gospel in their own souls—experience —and works.— S. T he man is poor indeed who lives with out Jesus; and he alone is rich with whom Jesus lives.-—Rev. 3:21. A guest once said to one of the Roths childs, “You must be a happy man.” “Hap py?” said he, “I happy? Happy? Yes, happy! Let’s change the subject.” I t is an old and familiar saying, but worth repeating every once in a while because it means so much and is so tremendously true: “We are not what we think we are—but what we think, we are.” All the poised balance of God would swerve, Did men not get the blessings they deserve; And all the vigorous scales of Fate would turn, Did men not get the punishments they earn. — Markham. A famous preacher said, “We lay down two principles: No man is saved by merit, but only by faith. No man is saved except in Christ. ‘There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.’ ” “M r . G irard ,” said a young man to the early Philadelphian millionaire, “I would like to be rich as you are.” “You get your board and clothes, don’t you?” replied the rich man, “and a place to live in?” “Yes, sir.” “Veil,” said Girard, “Zat iss all I get.” T he late Professor Young, a renowned mathematician and astronorher, estimated the number of human beings from the cre ation to have been 50,000 millions. He said that they could be seated as comfortably as an ordinary congregation in a space no larger than the area of .New Jersey. “I t is the absence from the biography, of
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