highest among ye.-Think, how very sad it must have been to the disciples after the death of Jesus; had they not given up all hope-but at a moment when they least expected behold, He was with them and their sadness was turned into joy-the dark hour of their trial was dispelled by the light of His countenance-the bitter trial was made sweet.-They had not the light then which ye possess now, for the Spirit had not yet come to interpret these truths to them. All Scripture is recorded for your instruction and edification, wherefore let us profit by it.

Satan walks in the stones of fire, and Israel has to pass through the fire, to cause them to discern what spirit they abide in,-whether in the spirit of Satan or the Spirit of Christ and Jerusalem above; that is the state, man has to be brought into. Then if man be in Christ and Jerusalem, they are as one, and his conduct proves it. This world is a heaven to the wicked, but Israel will receive their punishment in this world. Let sin be your terror, not man. Yield not to sin, but subdue it, and it serves you. If we serve God, the evil must serve us. Apply to Christ and thou art the strongest.-Set thine hand to go to Jerusalem above, and turn not back to prove yourselves unfit, but follow on and believe in the Spirit of the living God, which is Christ. Follow Him, not man, follow Him and Him only whithersoever He leadeth thee.-Abide in Him, and He will abide in thee.-O! house of Israel, remember that in this great race for immortality thou art seeking the highest prize and as a sequence the highest sufferings that man can bear on earth, exceeding the sufferings of Jesus; wherefore, be always prepared for trials; they will surely overtake thee, and will invariably come from unlooked for and unexpected directions; for if thou knewest the trial beforehand, it would be no trial. Would it have been a trial to Abraham if he had known that a ram would have been caught in the thicket and offered as a sacrifice in lieu of his firstborn son of promise? Did he know the knife would have been stayed when uplifted, nay, he saw nought but a dead son, slain by his own hand-and how were the promises in his son Isaac to be fulfilled? This was his great trial, but

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he conferred not with flesh and blood-obedience to God's word was all he knew, all he wanted to know, the remainder he left with God.-Let us sit down and count the cost, and see if there be sufficient to finish the tower, lest haply after thou hast laid the foundation and art not able to build and finish it, the world mock thee;-weigh well the consequences of running in this great race for the highest prize-immortality-thou must forsake " ALL"; thou canst not bring a little of the world with thee. The two-leaved gate leading to immortality is a strait gate and very narrow; high-backed camels cannot pass through but the cattle of Israel can, and few is the number. The barque is very frail and in the midst of a tempestuous sea, for the winds are always contrary. It is a perpetual rowing against wind and tide, always in danger of unseen rocks and breakers a-head. It is a submissive patience and waiting; perhaps for thirty and eight long weary years by the pool of a Bethesda; patiently waiting for the moving of the waters and in company with the impotent, the blind, and halt and the infirm like thyself—until thou hear the glad tidings "wilt thou be made whole?" It is a It is a putting on of the whole armour of God, to stand against the wiles of the devil, it is not a wrestling against flesh and blood only, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places, to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand, with your loins girt about with truth, with the sword of the Spirit in the right hand and the shield of faith in the left, to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. It is a taking of all your worldly possessions: your idols of gold and silver, a tearing and a severing from the heart of all that we may love most on earth, though it be a firstborn and only child; a binding of the whole together in one bundle,-leaving our household, father, mother sister and brother in the valley, while we climb the rugged and thorny mount to worship and offer the sacrifice, laying the wood on the altar, binding the firstborn down upon the pile-one farewell kiss; raising the knife we sever once and for ever all connection with evil.-We have nothing to offer but sin, hence the sacrifice

of Isaac could not be accepted, because of the evil in his blood, and a ram caught in the thicket was offered and accepted, being free. It is an offering of ourselves, body, soul and spirit, a living sacrifice upon the altar of faith. -If there had never been sin in the world, there would never have been a law given, then the sufferings must be greater, "For where no law is, there is no transgression; "— transgression is accompanied with deep misery until it be acknowledged, but sin is no punishment to a man till his eyes are opened to see his true condition by nature.-Jesus saw His sufferings before He came to die for all; but He had no sin; and thus He had the pre-eminence above His brothers, who are of the same lineage as Himself.-A man does not feel misery till he has done the deed, which is the cause of his misery afterwards, by his knowledge;-yet he feels no pain, no punishment until he see it. It is no hell to a man who has murdered another, until he comes to see that he must be destroyed; then he is in misery, for his deed is then brought home to light, and that brings light to him-light to light.— Jesus saw all things before it came to light, because there was no evil in Him, no pain of sin, though He suffered death upon the cross, and it was thought accursed for any one to be hanged upon a tree because of sin.-His disciples desired to be baptized with the baptism with which He was baptized, and He said ye shall be baptized with it. And were they not all put to death save John ?-were not those whom the woman asked to sit at His right hand and on His left among those who were put to death.-We are all brought blind into this world, even all mankind, and the world is blind to this work, because they are of the fallen spirits.-Paul tells the Jews that they kept not the law, then a way was thrown open unto the Gentiles. The veil of the temple was rent in the midst to admit the Gentiles. The handwriting of ordinances was blotted out, being contrary to the Gentiles, and for their sakes" alone" it was nailed to the cross, until the fulness of the Gentiles "only; but the Gentiles know not that: the nail that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed, and be cut down and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall

be cut off "for the ingathering of the 144,000. The restora tion of Israel. It was never intended that the Gentiles should enter by the two-leaved gate of law and Gospel, but through the rent veil into the heavenlies in Christ. They are not required to do the work for the life of the body, because the law was sealed from them, as it is written "Seal the law among my disciples" and again: "A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed;" this was sealed to the Gentiles till their fullness, when it would be unsealed again to the New house of Israel, for the glory of the latter house shall far exceed in glory that of the former house. The Gentiles are saved by grace-it is a gift they have nothing to pay: "Simon I have somewhat to say unto

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thee a certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they (Jew and Gentile) had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both."If the Jews had not believed in the law, they would have had no sin; they gave Jesus unto the Gentiles, who took away His blood, but He took His body again, without blood. It is as Esdras says: All go to the grave, it is permitted to those who are born blind. Jesus said that Israel would have a greater work to do, and said: "Greater works than these shall ye do."Yes, for Jesus overcame others, and was free Himself from sin. But, do not those who overcome their evil, and the evil of others do a greater work ?—if they smite not, if they take not eye for eye. Jesus overcame all evil, He conquered every evil, putting it under His feet. All denominations in Christendom who confess Him, get their debts forgiven and receive the salvation of the soul, through believing, but they do not receive soul and body, because the body goes to corruption and the soul is saved, so as by fire at the first resurrection. If it were otherwise, the spirit is charged with it, but if I believe for soul and body, then I am charged with that.-All the miracles which Jesus did on earth were figurative of His second coming, for His first coming was, to be offered as a sacrifice for sin"But unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation." He taketh away the first,

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that He may establish the second" and when Jesus stood up in the synagogue of Nazareth to read, He found the place in Isaiah which had reference to the time of the end and read: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor, He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And He closed the book." He did not refer so much to that time, but to the end of days, these days of Daniel in which we are now living, the third and last watch of the eleventh hour of the third day of the six thousand years, which commenced in 1875, the end of the third quarter of the nineteenth and last century. He was not speaking to the Gentiles but to a tribe then in Israel for He said: "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel;" He told His disciples (the twelve, figurative of the twelve tribes) "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." The time for the ingathering of the Gentiles had not arrived, until His blood was poured upon the ground for them, and upon the heads of the Jews and their children; the time of the Gentiles opened, when the two keys were given to Peter, the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, or dispensation for Jew and Gentile through the blood of Jesus,-opened on the day of Pentecost.-Jesus proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord, but closed the book to the day of vengeance which immediately follows it, because the time was then, yet afar off-We say that the passage in Isaiah read by Jesus to Israel, had reference to Israel and to the end of days, when the miracles which Jesus did as signs then, would have their fulfilment.-The poor of Israel have not had the everlasting Gospel preached to them,the brokenhearted have not yet been healed; how could they when they have been daily surrounded by death; the captives are still imprisoned and in bondage to the Gentiles;-the blind have not yet received their sight;-the bruised are not set at liberty. So far as Israel is concerned, all has been the reverse of this, but the time is at hand now, the fulness of the Gentiles