fort to others, and that it has never ceased to cheer the Church of Christ, is certainly one which is worthy of everlasting remembrance."* Then comes the Benediction: "Grace be with you"- -an appropriate conclusion, a fitting crown to his letter. It was a devout and hearty prayer for all needful blessings in one brief and earnest wish. What more was desirable than grace? It is a fulness of blessing, not only for this life, but also for that which is to come. God is willing and "able to make all grace abound" to His people-grace to enlighten and guide, to strengthen and succour, to comfort and support, to defend and save them. Grace, favour free and unmerited, we need in health, when actively engaged in the pursuits of life, and in sickness and sorrow, when trial comes upon us, and God visits us with chastisement in His fatherly wisdom and love grace we need in the quietude of retirement as well as in the intercourse which connects us with our fellowmen: grace we shall need at the last hour, when all human help and affection fail us; grace to give us victory over death, and lift us to the inheritance of glory. And this grace, allsufficient and free, is with God in Christ for all our need. "Grace be with you," says the Apostle, and so commends the Colossians to Him who is the " God of all grace," and who alone could keep them unto the day of eternal salvation. He ends the epistle as he had begun it, wishing for them the abiding and abundant blessing of that Divine favour in which life in all its brightness, purity, progress, and ultimate triumph most surely and signally stands. What a history of grace will have to be recorded and celebrated when we are privileged to sing the "new song" in the inheritance of the saints in light! Now we are permitted to realize its influence and feel its preciousness in *Bp. Wordsworth's Gk. New Test. in loc. every step of our earthly pilgrimage, so that we may sing, each one for himself "O! to grace how great a debtor Bind my wandering heart to Thee." But how much purer a note, and how much more elevated a song will ours be when the journey shall be ended, and grace shall have landed us in glory! Then most clearly shall we see and not "through a glass darkly"-that, like the mercy-seat in the ancient tabernacle, which was all gold. and pure gold throughout, our salvation and position in "the general assembly and church of the first-born" have been of grace, all grace, and pure grace throughout. Printed by Watson and Hazell, London and Aylesbury. Just published, large crown 8vo, price 8s. 6d. cloth. 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