be born again. How long O! Lord-how long?—we praise
and magnify thy name that the time has come for thy
people to understand the words spoken in the beginning-
spoken by thee through the mouth of Adam: "This is now
bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh"-We praise thy name
O! Lord that we have been permitted to live in these days—
when the vail shall be removed from thy people Israel, and see
and know thy deep, grand and glorious mystery—and receive
their helpmate the female immortal spirit-Jerusalem above.
"O Life! thou germ of happiness,
Israel its sweetness shall possess,
When clothed by the God of heaven,
And quickened by thy Spirit's leaven.
For now behold the well is here,
With all its crystal waters clear;
An impure fount it ne'er could be,
That nourish would life's budding tree.
Their growth is as the willows fair,
Nourish'd by spirits, waters clear ;
Till they possess that heavenly well,
Then be God's chosen Israel.
Who hid among grass of the field,
Appear no fruit to them to yield,

But praised be God, they e'er will be
From all their imperfections free."

Did the Lord God in His great wisdom cast thy spirit down from heaven into the pit of this earth,-into the miry clay and stony quarry,―sold as a slave to Satan-placed under the sledge of the law to bring thee to shape,-placed under the Gospel to be chiselled into perfect symmetry—to be no longer a soulless spirit-to give thee a habitation to dwell in, with Zion and Jerusalem ;-and wilt thou continue to murmur at God's dealings with thee ?-crying, and wrestling as a child in its mother's arms against the washing and saying: "Why hast thou made me thus ?"-Were you stript of your coat of many colours before the foundations of the earth were laid? So was Joseph of his coat.-Were you cast into the pit ?-So was Joseph cast into the pit by his own brethren, and they sat down to eat bread after doing it.-Were you sold

to Satan? So was Joseph, sold to the Midianites by those of his own flesh for pieces of silver, and carried into Egypt as Jesus was. Did no eye pity thee, none have compassion on thee "Wast thou cast into the open field (under sentence of death) to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born?". Neither did Joseph have any pity or compassion shewn to him from his own brethren-and his coat was dipped in blood. Hast thou been tried, tempted and buffeted?— So was Joseph, and was cast into prison. But the Spirit of God rested upon him in the prison, and wisdom was given him. From the loathsome prison he was raised next to the king on the throne and the people were ruled by his word— the ring (of the everlasting covenant) was placed on his finger; he was arrayed in vesture of fine linen, with a chain of gold around his neck. He was thirty years He was thirty years of age at this time-the same age that Christ descended upon the body of Jesus at the river Jordan.-Will not the Lord God Almighty do the same with thee, though thou be sold to-day and in bondage to the Gentiles,-if thou seek Him diligently with a contrite heart O! thou of little faith ?-And in the end wilt thou not hear the same words pronounced against Satan : "Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."If the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven opened, and it rained upon the earth until the high hills were covered, so that all flesh died-was not the ark of Noah at the same time borne upwards and lifted up and separated from the old world, floating upon the face of the waters upwards, higher, higher to the new earth? Neither was Noah commanded to bring any tools with him for repairs in the event of disaster.—It was safe and complete, a figure of the immortal Spirit.-Noah and his family, eight persons (figurative of the eight thousand years) dwelt within the ark, —as the people of God will at that day. When the sons of God presented themselves before the Lord and Satan with them from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.-Did God permit Satan to slay the sons and daughters of Job and deprive him of all his substance

(figurative of the fall from heaven to the ground). And the second time, did God permit Satan to smite Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown (figurative of the second fall or the body placed under sentence of death). Did God permit Satan to afflict a righteous man thus-and did He not bless the latter end of Job more than his beginning? -Did not Job receive the two-pence, or rather double what he had taken from him?-Was not the messenger sent to him, the interpreter, one among a thousand and the immortality of the mortal body shewn to him; the end of days-as he said: “Deliver me from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth. He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light."-As God dealt with Job, so does God deal with all His people.This earth is the nursery-the hot bed, so to speak,—the garden and vineyard whither the spirits are sent, and this was shewn to Jacob in a dream, or in vision. Jacob saw a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven, and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. "And behold, the Lord stood above it, and said: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest (i.e., the body which thy spirit now covereth or overshadoweth) to thee will I give it (in immortality) and to thy seed" (Israel).-The spirit of Jacob had descended this ladder which he now saw in vision and His Spirit covered (Jacob) the dead earth,-but the promise was, that His Spirit should enter the living earth. That is to say: his seed in the third dispensation and the seed of Jacob are all alive upon the earth this day-and the spirits are waiting for the fulfilment of this promise, to enter the living earth.Let it not be entertained for a moment that the spirit of man is now in the body;-it is no more in the body of man than a furnace or fire is in a boiler;-albeit the strength of the fire is in the boiler,-the fire causes the water to boil in the boiler,-producing steam, which sets the whole machinery in working order-so it is with man. The spirit of man overshadows and is on the outside of the body-which

acts on the body as fire under the boiler-and the members are set in motion;-withdraw the fire from the boiler and the whole of the machinery stops. Withdraw the spirit from man and man dies. But when the spirit is placed in the body of man-that man is immortal and ascends upwards as Enoch, Elijah, and Jesus did.-True, the spirit is often spoken of as being in the body, in the Scriptures, but we must at all times remember in reading Scripture that it is written: "God calleth those things which be not as though they were.”—The greater portions of Scripture are as yet unfulfilled-their fulfilment being reserved till the "third" day-and the third watch of the eleventh hour-yet they are spoken of as being actually fulfilled now. They are said to be so, in view of their certain fulfilment in the end, and not that which is at present.-The spirits were sent into this vineyard to be grafted into terrestrial bodies, unto whom it was said: "Occupy till I come"-the householder planted this vineyard, and hedged it round about and digged a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to the spirits with a command to subdue it, but behold, it subdued them-for when the time of fruit drew near it was found that it had only borne corruption and death, save Enoch and Elijah—and when the son was sent they said: This is the heir-come, let us kill Him and seize the inheritance (having made a covenant with death), and the son (who came to disannul their covenant) was cast out and slain, for they preferred death with their herds of swine, so they besought Jesus to depart from their coast.-The vineyard was then given to the spirits of the just-the true seed and heirs of the inheritance, who shall render the fruits in their seasons (from the tree of life).—The stone which the builders rejected, became then the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing-His plan-His wisdom, marvel at it as ye will. The spirits were planted in this vineyard, yet Jesus said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up "-so, every plant that is rooted up, proves to have been planted in corruptible or dead earth, and returns to the same. That plant is destroyed, that the life or spirit of that plant may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus;

and the soul or germ of that plant is buried until the resurrection, when it will bud again by the return of the spirit, budding to incorruptibility, not an immortal plant, having been rooted up. The seed or old body being destroyed by the new shoot. But those "who are planted in the house of the Lord (or living earth) shall flourish in the courts of our God, they shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. He shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree (natural, not wild by nature) and his smell as Lebanon,"—and the prayer of Jesus will then be fulfilled in them: "I pray not that thou shouldest (root them up or) take them out of the world (out of the vineyard wherein their spirits were grafted), but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil" (who seeks to root up) that they may be weeded from evil and flourish and grow and become a large spreading tree that the birds of the air may come and lodge in the branches thereof; and that their fruit may grow upwards. Despise ye not therefore one of these little ones unto which the spirits of the just have been grafted -for they are tender, and in a foreign latitude-though insignificantly small and in a worldly sense apparently worthlessyet despise them not, for they are the Lord's planting, and their angels (or spirits) "do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." Their spirits-the spirits of the whole house of Israel were with Christ before the body of Jesus was prepared. "Before Abraham was, I am."-Whatever is grafted into a tree, it bears according to the graft and not the stock. If a man be grafted into Jesus it fulfils that Scripture "Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression?"-Now, those who are only grafted to Jesus go down to the grave, for behold when He arose He bore fruit upwards, Jesus is called the tree of life. Those into whom Christ is grafted bear fruit upwards: - we look for life and life is for us; but if a man is only grafted into Him,it is death. A branch shall grow up out of His roots, and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be: He began with the woman and He will end with the woman. Remember