less grieving and mourning, look unto Jesus-a right view of Christ's precious love-his feeling heart, his tenderness, his amazing mercy, will, by the Spirit's love, raise in your heart that holy flame, that it will be seen by all who come near unto you-and instead of wearing that gloomy look, as if you were a prisoner going to be hung, or a starving creature dying for want, look up as a free-made son or daughter of Royal blood, fed, not with the crumbs of your Master's table only, but with the dainties of everlasting mercy. Talk of sin! indeed I know of none greater, if there be one sin greater than another, than not to believe the Eternal Jehovah's gracious word, or to hide the bliss God has given you. Thirdly. The blessed encouragement to draw nigh to the throne. else He could never feel compassion on the ignorant, nor on them that are out of the way had He not in all points been tempted, He could not feel for his dear people in all their trials. It is true Christ was without sin, that is, actual sin: but if Christ did not bear actual sin, He knew the temptations to sin, and the misery of it in various ways. He also bore our sins, yea, the whole load of our sin, the whole weight of all, of every iniquity of every one of God's chosen-He bore upon the cross-and virtually did "the Lord lay upon Him the iniquity of us all "-not only the effects, or consequences, or punishment of our iniquities, but the iniquities, the sins of his people themselves. Now Christ having thus felt, bodily and mentally experienced sin and its bitterness, thus knowing it, will He not? nay, Therefore, says the Holy Spirit, the more-must He not feel for his beloved, very sympathetic feeling of your beloved of whom He said, "He that toucheth Saviour is the plea, therefore let us come you, toucheth the apple of mine eye?" boldly. No longer-as one who has to "In all their afflictions He was afflicted" say, no man careth for my soul-for (Isaiah lxiii. 9). "He carries the lambs Christ feeleth for you. Not as one unin his bosom, protects them, comforts certain of the reception he will receive them." Poor, weak believer, weakling of the Lord-for the Lord has told us, of the flock of Christ, you are not for- "Whatsoever ye ask, believing, it shall gotten-far from it-He careth for you be given unto you." But, boldly !_prethat you, strengthened by Him, shel- cious thought! encouraged by the Lord tered under his wings, you might grow Himself. Not sneeking, fearing, doubtup to a man in Christ, that you should ing. No; the Word of the Lord Himno more be children tossed to and fro" self inspires-nor encourages doubts or (Eph. iv. 14). He, the Blessed Spirit, fears-leads no man to think he may be will uphold you, taking of the things of child of God to-day, and of the devil Christ, and showing them unto you, for to-morrow. No, no-" They whom I the Lord knoweth, and feeleth your love once, said the blessed Redeemer, I love to the end." We should approach Now observe:-He is feeling for our boldly, not because you believe, for this infirmities, sustaining and supplying us would be making a saviour of your faith, under every trouble. In spite of all this, but because you know that have you some will say,-Ah! but my grief is for High-Priest above, feeling, tenderly feeldaily sins-for daily transgressions. But, ing for you, entering into all your feelpoor fellow-believer, I would ask you, ings; therefore come boldly to the throne Are these things your delight, as they -a throne of terror to the ungodly, and once were? Your answer assuredly is, well they may tremble-but to God's "No, they are not, they are my grief." dear people a throne of mercy, a throne Well, then, once they were your delight of grace-the rainbow surrounding it, now they are against your spiritual spoken of, Rev. iv. 3, is the token of desires and wishes-they are the infirmi- God's covenant-his justice is satisfied ties of your flesh-of which Paul com--wrath is removed, and the love of God plained, as of a body of death! the now surrounding it. Yes, in all this, things of which that same apostle said there is a sweet ground of boldness he would not do, and yet he did! Remember, for your comfort, under all your grief, for sin, that "Christ has, with one offering, for ever perfected them that are sanctified" (Heb. x. 14). The Lord Jehovah, in his omniscience, foresaw all these, and provided the ransom. Instead, then, of wearing out your spirit in use every need. a a Christ being united with his people, to his people. He well recollects his own sufferings and trials; He still wears the body above: He knows our nature, compassed with infirmities; knows all that we have to bear, for He is One with us, inseparably One (see John xvii.)! therefore" go boldly to the throne of grace." 66 Now the last clause, " That we may ob- you, is, to me, a proof of your being tain mercy, and find grace to help in one of God's dear people, and that Christ time of need." This, certainly, does not looks in mercy upon you, and that the intimate as if you had no grace nor mercy | Spirit is striving with you. Instead of yet; keep in view the foregoing verse, encouraging your doubts, I would ask the 13th, the Spirit there sets forth how you, Do you not believe the Lord would every creature is open before God, his be just were He to leave you in this very heart, the innermost parts thereof, state? Do not your past and present "all naked to the eyes of Him with infirmities, and sins, deserve a thousandwhom we have to do." Surely this is fold damnation? If your soul should be enough to make any man tremble! "Do thus enlightened by the Holy Spirit, as not," says the Spirit by the Apostle, to be enabled to say, Yes, indeed, I do "but go boldly to the throne, that, under know it and feel it too; then, my be-. all your sins and sinful feelings, seeing loved, I would further add, try not to that you have so blessed, so sympathiz- save yourself, but hear Jesu's own words, ing a High-Priest, you may obtain mercy Believe, and thou shalt be saved." to soothe all your sorrows, and allay all Simply pray that you may rest upon his your grief, for your, indeed, manifold in- word, and everlasting glory shall indeed firmities, and in whatsoever need you be yours. Everlasting glory! Ah, my may be, or may, come boldly, believingly beloved, what a word! Yes, our preAsk, and ye shall receive." And as cious High-Priest, "This same Jesus the Lord said to Paul when He wanted (Acts i. 11), which is taken up from you to have the thorn to be removed, My into heaven, shall so come in like manner grace is sufficient for thee." So the as ye have seen Him go into heaven." Lord will uphold the weakest, feeblest, He shall come a second time without the most timid child of God; He will sin unto salvation (Heb. ix. 28), to them help in the midst of earthly trials, of re- that look for Him." Ye shall have a lative afflictions, of personal troubles," I part in the first resurrection, on such bodily pains, soul distresses, devil's the second death shall have no power temptations, man's persecutions, unbe- (Rev. xx. 6). And, whilst all God's lieving fears, terrors of death. Come enemies shall be destroyed, and with boldly, come believingly, and He who is their head, Satan, be cast into everlastfaithful, "will neither leave you, nor for- ing damnation, you, with all God's elect, sake you." redeemed, adopted children, will unite in one burst of praise, ascribing honour, glory, and dominion for ever and ever to Him, that is, which was, and which is to come, the Almighty, worlds without end. Amen. Some of you who are yet in many doubts, may perhaps say, Ah, Christ feels not for me, else He would not thus leave me! No doubt the great enemy of your soul will tell you so, but this very fear that Christ should not feel for (To be Continued). Birmingham. G. C. MORNING CALLS. I LOVE Morning Calls! Not the cold | potency. What, then, in reality, is this and heartless visits of the worldly, and burden-this care- -this barrennessthe gay, and the frivolous, which too this thorough consciousness of want; often begin and end in mere gossip, back-what, indeed! but a call-a "Morning biting, or idle chit-chat-so congenial to Call"-from Jesus? It is the Lord, our poor fallen nature; but the "calls" having begotten in us a knowledge of -the upward, heaven-ward calls-of our helplessness, and the danger and unJehovah-Jesus! these I love! And, as satisfactory nature of the world through far as my experience goes, I usually find which one is passing, saying afresh, these "calls are connected with a deep-"Look_unto me!" Come unto me, felt sense of weakness and want! Scarcely all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, does the dawn of day arouse one from one's and I will give you rest." Čast thy slumbers, and remind one that a fresh burden on the Lord, and He shall susday calls for renewed energy, ere a weight tain thee." "Commit thy way unto the and a burden press down the spirit; anew Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall the sentence of death" takes firm bring it to pass." So that in the issue, hold upon the heart. Afflictions, trials, I find that, through grace and love ditroubles in mind, body, or estate, whis- vine, I am a gainer by the burden, the per at first return of consciousness, care, the repugnance to enter upon the This is not your rest; it is polluted." opening day; for, where the Holy Ghost And the almost instantaneous response is pleased to interpret the feeling, and is, "Lord, help! Be Thou with-bear open the mystery, I find that it is in me up-and bring me through again this reality blessedly connected with one of day. The day opens emphatically with Jesu's sweet, soul-animating a "Looking unto Jesus!" and that from a heart-felt sense of sinfulness and im "MORNING CALLS." MORNING WORDS. Ah, how has one's soul realized these covenant mercies of late, and yet one's treacherous memory and deceitful heart, suffers that which ought to be recorded Moreover, under the wise and gracious | sober, and watching unto prayer." The leading of my indulgent Lord and Mas- petition so tremblingly and silently ter, I find another sweet mercy in con- presented has been filed in the Court of nexion with the afore-mentioned. MORN- heaven, and presently how sweet, how ING VISITS lead to MORNING WORDS; savoury, how suitable the answer of and what words are so sweet as those peace Just the very word that was which fall from the lips of Jehovah wanted. So appropriate! so timely! Jesus? Oh, how unspeakably precious so precious! So soul-humbling! so they are. I find experimentally that Christ-endearing! there is such a blessed correspondence with the want within and the word without. The Spirit, the Holy Comforter, the Divine Illuminator, is pleased-vile, and base, and hell-deserving as one is to the praise of Jehovah-Jesus to to take up his residence in one's heart; and, according to covenant testimony, "maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." There is Alas! alas! what thankless, ungrateful, the "speaking in one's heart," the plea, hell-deserving wretches we are. and the cry, and the ardent importuning, feels it more and more. Would to God when the soul is too much burdened, that one could recal to mind more of and the subject-matter too sacred and these Morning Words of Jesus. It too undefinable to be expressed by human seemed to one as though, having given language or mere word of mouth; there heed to one's broken evening cries for a is the hidden, heart-cry to the Lord for renewed realization of his covenant wisdom-courage-confidence- -compo- promise, "I, the Lord, do keep it; I sure. And then follows the " being will water it every moment; lest any -- Lie buried in forgetfulness, One hurt it, I will keep it night and day," | the Lord, from henceforth and for ever." the Lord, like a gracious, tender, loving Oh, it was a sweet Morning Word! Parent, has been watching beside one's Again, when one had been mourning bed, and having at the fitting moment over such heartlessness in prayer-such roused one from one's slumbers, and, as wandering thoughts-such utter callousbefore said, infused the felt want, the nesss-such an evident failure and mere hunger, the appetite, the desire, has formality in the effort to bow the knee withdrawn for a moment as to manifes- before the Lord; and yet wondering tation, on purpose to come again with that perhaps immediately afterwards when some fresh Gospel provision, pouring seated or walking there was such an outinto the soul of the oil and wine of the going of heart-uprising of soul-real, kingdom. What a word, for example, earnest, Christ-seeking, the word came, was that, the other morning, an hour or "Then went King David in, and sat beso after one had been pleading for one's fore the Lord." Oh, it was a sweet children; begging that their evil tem-"Morning Word." One saw at once pers might be subdued-that they might that it was not the mere attitude-not be kept in the slippery paths of youth-mere times and seasons-however well that not one might be found wanting these may be in their place; but it was in the day when He cometh to make up his jewels"-that "not a hoof might be left behind;" the word came so unexpectedly so sweetly-so appropriately, "My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith when and where the Lord the Spirit was pleased to move upon the soul; that "while men looketh upon the outward appearance, God looketh upon the heart.” How does Jesus thus endear Himself to the soul by his appropriate and precious MORNING WORDS. Bonmahon. ALFRED. A RECORD OF PROVIDENCE, ADDRESSED TO MY DEAR CHILDREN. (Continued from page 183.) IN 1838 (I believe), we were all staying with my father at Rath Gad; a large willow tree had been torn up by the roots, and was lying on the ground, of course there was a very deep hole where it had come out all the children were amusing themselves in this hollow, while some labourers were lopping the head off the tree, as it lay on the ground. When I went into the garden some hours afterwards, I was astonished to find the trunk of the tree standing upright in its place; relieved from the weight of its boughs, its roots had again sunk into the hole, whilst the men were at dinner the bulk of the stones, earth, and roots could not have been less than a ton, and must have crushed the children, and a man who was also underneath, had not God providentially ordered that it should happen at the time it did. May my beloved children ever adore His preserving mercy, and may they seek Him, and become His children, that they may not desire the rocks : and mountains to fall on them, and cover them when He appears; but, planting their feet on the Rock of Ages, be safe when the world itself dissolves! One day I perceived a little cup in a spout which ran under the nursery window, and on enquiring who had placed it there? I found it was my Sarali, then a very little child; she must have leant out of the window a very great distance to have reached the spout, and had she over-balanced herself, she would have fallen on the stone step of the back door. It was altogether almost miraculous that she could have escaped; my heart beat, and my flesh trembled when I saw what she had done; and I lifted up my soul in thankfulness, also solemnly warning her. May the Lord, who so many times delivered her from death, save her soul also from destruction. We had a little phaeton at Kwhich was usually drawn by a very low pony, but one day Mr. Gon our taking a blood mare, which I insisted used to ride, and which was seldom in his clothes shockingly torn: in answer harness; the shafts being short, she al- to my enquiries, he only said he could most touched it every time she stepped, not help it; and Frank (the donkey), but we went to C- and returned had behaved very well-he was not in the as far as the steep hill, close to the least frightened; but when I examined house, in safety. Sarah and I were the his things, I was indeed lost in wonder only persons in the phaeton, and just as and gratitude, and long kept the little we got on the top of the hill, the mare frock as a memento of the Lord's goodcommenced kicking; I tried to turn her ness; there was scarcely an inch of it across the road to avoid the pressure on whole; it was marked with the nails and her heels, and succeeded in doing so, and iron shoes of the horse and donkey, and then stepped out myself, and ran to her literally torn to rags: the brim of his head, and held her, urging Sarah to get Tuscan hat was trampled on close to his out, but the mare alternately plunging, head, indeed it seemed quite a miracle so as to lift me almost off my feet, and how he could possibly escape, but yet then kicking violently, she hesitated not even a scratch was perceptible on long; then the animal backed, so as him. When I expressed my surprise and nearly to go into a ditch many feet deep, thankfulness, he said, "Oh, mamma, and with large blocks of stone in it: at last Sarah got out, and I was so exhausted by the effort of holding the mare, that as no one came to our assistance, I had to throw the reins on her neck, and let her go; she instantly set off full speed down the hill, and dashed the phaeton to pieces. Mr. G- and several of the men met her in the avenue, and thought we were, of course, thrown out and killed, but the tender care of our God and Father had sent his angel and delivered us: we were not the least injured. May the spared lives be devoted to the service of so kind a Master! John W. , had a donkey, of which | he was very fond. When he was about four years old, his papa wished to take him out one Sunday for a ride; he was unwilling to go, as it was the Sabbath. However, they set out, and had some of the boys about the farm walking with them. In crossing a stream of water, the animal on which Mr. Gmounted, refused to go over, and John W- was left to himself till the boy led the other across. was that was because I went out riding on Sunday; and you know I did not want to go.' These wonderful temporal deliverances lead me to hope and pray more earnestly for blessings on his soul. Oh, that he may be early led to seek the Lord, whose ways are pleasant indeed, whose yoke is very easy, and whose paths are PEACE. How awful if he refuse these tokens of mercy, after such signal mercies. May the Lord touch his heart, and, by His Spirit, lead him to seek Him early; and, if it be His will, lead a life of devotedness to His service. Over and over again I have besought the Lord to permit my children (all) to be His dear servants, I care not in what quarter of the world, so that they may be doing His work. I would rather see them Missionaries toiling in hardship and neglect, than see them the most prosperous merchants or people of the world, and living without Him. Since our becoming so reduced in our circumstances, I have often, in my unbelief, been ready to say, Now we shall be destitute. Still, when just in the last extremity, relief has come; and surely, While standing still under a steep as the ravens, contrary to their natural bank, a horse in the field, with an iron inclination, were made to supply the serchain on his legs, that he had broken, vant of God with food in former days, so and was dragging behind him,. made a help has frequently been derived from spring off the bank directly on the don- the most unexpected, and unlikely key; it threw John W- and drag- sources; so that I might truly see the ged him; both animals trampled so on hand of my God alone in it, and learn to him, that Mr. G- thought he must trust Him for the time to come; but, have been dead. When they lifted him alas! instead of this, when the trial ar up, he was quite unhurt; not a hair of rives, I despond; still hope whispers,his head was touched. I had been read-"Thou shalt yet praise Him :"--but uning in my own room, and felt uneasy; I belief says, "No-this time He will fail scarcely knew why; I rose to look out, you; now at last you are going to be and see if he was coming, as Mr. G- forsaken." My children have more faith had promised not to keep him long. I than I. Surely God is not like man, or saw him walking up the avenue with He would be provoked by my abomin |