is health without sickness-day without night-worship without weariness-love without hate-purity without alloy -and happiness without imperfection, interruption, or end! Where mortality is swallowed up of life.

If these consolations are peculiar to the people of God, then how pitiable, how deplorable, is the situation of those who do not love God! The storm in all its violence beats upon them, but they have no place of refuge to which they can fly. The bitterest ingredient in their cup is, their being "without God," and consequently "without hope." What avails it to have their good things here, and evil things in reserve? to be comforted here, and tormented hereafter? The graceless master of a world is poor. They may scoff at religion, and deride those who profess it, but this rather aggravates their case, than brings them relief. "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked; they are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." "God is angry with the wicked every day”— his wrath abides upon them. "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maran-atha; let him be accursed when the Lord cometh.

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If such are the prospects of real christians-then let them sorrow as men without hope," nor "charge God foolishly. In your patience possess ye your souls." Praying is better than reasoning. Keep close to God and you are safe. "No weapon formed against you shall prosper." prosper." God cannot be unfaithful, his promise cannot fail-" When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour." Let pious communities, as well as individuals, take encouragement" If God be for us, who can be against us? He can make the

wrath of man to praise him." He that diggeth a pit for another shall fall into it himself—he that plotteth the destruction of another shall accomplish his own. See the wretched Haman hanged upon the same gallows, fifty cubits high, which his mortified pride had prepared for the unoffending, and unbending Mordecai!

If all the events of providence are promoting our good, let us labour to advance the divine glory. Having much forgiven, we should love much. The way to retain and illustrate christianity is to diffuse it. The good man is to love his neighbour as himself; and every man stands in that relation to us who needs our help. Let us be righteous before God, and we shall be blameless before men. If we cannot do all that we desire, let us, at least, do what we can. Unprofitable disputes, and vain janglings-strife and debate, we should leave to those who delight in them. Time is on the wing! Eternity is at hand! Millions are saying, "Come over and help us." The light is spreading-the leaven is operating-the fields are white to the harvest-there is a shaking among the dry bones-and soon will it be said, "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our God, and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever.

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ACTS xviii. 17.

And Gallio cared for none of those things.

THE character of Gallio is handed down to us as that of a magistrate, who cared not for the things of God. And yet, by Seneca, the celebrated philosopher, whose elder brother he was, there is a character recorded of him of more than usual excellence and amiability for a heathen. He describes him as a man of the most pleasing manners; the delight of every body; free from every kind of vice, and as one who, notwithstanding that his good qualities so often made him the subject of it, yet detested flattery. And such is the character, that, not only by the heathen, but too often by the Christian world, is the only one usually held in admiration: gentle manners; good temper; an obliging disposition,