...decent, or else we must be unworthy communicants. It is not at the time of receiving only that we arc obliged to live and act like Christians, but at all...our author will say, why did not St. Paul tell us so 1 How can we conclude all this from the passage now under consideration ? I answer, that St. Paul,...

..." Paul, the prisoner of the Lord." But we equally know which would seem greatest, wisest, happiest, in the sight of God : to whom " a thousand years are as one day :" and who, therefore, together with the day of anxiety and humiliation which Paul was at that moment...

...days, or sixty years, or Time itself may pass before we see it ; but it is not lost to the eternal sight of God, to whom a thousand years are as one day. It is ever as truly present to Him as His purpose for the whole universe. That is the very meaning...