hold and rejoice in the goodness and the glory of the LORD, for ever! Christ is the “ resurrection and the life;" SEVENTH DAY: AND OTHERS SAID, "HE SEEMETH TO BE A SETTER FORTH OF STRANGE GODS, BECAUSE HE PREACHED UNTO THEM JESUS AND THE RESURRECTION."-Acts xvii. 18. "Jesus and the resurrection" are the substance and the sum of that Gospel, which brings "life and immortality to light." And this will ever be the setting forth of strange gods to the world, whether that world be called Pagan, or baptized into the name of Christian. The world and Jesus are strangers; and His people are strangers and pilgrims in it. With the world the children of God have no communion; and the world and its children know not the Father, nor the Son, nor the Spirit. "The world by wisdom," its highest attainment, "knows not God." 1 Cor. i. 21. "And me it hateth," says our blessed Lord, "because I testify of it that the works thereof are evil;" and His was the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive. The fool says in his heart, "No God :" so the world says, "No Christ;""No Lord;" "No one to reign over me-no one so pure and so spiritual, so opposed to all that is worldly :" "No Holy Ghost-no Spirit of truth." The world walketh in a vain show; an image; a pageant; whose fashion is passing away. "He that doeth the will of God," and he only, "abideth ever." The truth abideth ever; and JESUS is the TRUTH; and by every man's conscience will the power of that truth, sooner or later, be felt. Happy they who know it now, in all its justifying, sanctifying power! Happy they who know Jesus now, as their Saviour from sin, its guilt, and its dominion. They are the children of the resurrection; they experimentally know Jesus Christ to be the resurrection, and the life for with Him, in desire and in affection, they are risen; and in Him they live a life, which is to the glory of God here, and with Him shall they live in glory with God hereafter for when He, who is their life, shall appear "the second time without sin unto salvation," then shall they also "appear with him in glory." There is, however, a resurrection not only of the just, but also of the unjust; and they who know not, and who acknowledge not Jesus now, as their Saviour and their God, shall surely in that day behold Him as their Judge; as it is written, "I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess:" for 66 we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in the body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." O! to know Him now, and the power of His resurrection! to say now, with humble, and thankful, and devoted hearts, "None of us liveth to himself, and no one dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die in the Lord;: -so that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's !" JESUS! high in glory reigning, Heaven and earth's exalted Lord! All that live in life sustaining, Every knee shall bow before Thee, " GOD ALMIGHTY! GREAT CREATOR! 1 Let Thy church her tribute raise. "I HAVE SET WATCHMEN UPON THY WALLS, O JERUSA LEM, WHICH SHALL NOT HOLD THEIR PEACE, DAY OR NIGHT: YE, WHO ARE THE LORD'S REMEMBRANCERS, KEEP NOT SILENCE, AND GIVE HIM NO REST; TILL HE ESTABLISH, AND TILL HE MAKE JERUSALEM A PRAISE IN THE EARTH."-Is. lxii. 6, 7. How long, O Lord of Hosts! wilt thou behold Speak! Lord of life and glory! give command ; Send forth thine angels; call thine exiles home; Lift up the sacred sign in every land; HEROIT Speak" Peace to earth," and let " Thy kingdom |