OCTOBER 14.

"The love of Christ."-Eph. iii. 19.

"Never was there such matter for songs of praise as the unfathomable love of Jesus. His name is love; and, therefore, it is to me as ointment poured forth. I will remember his love more than wine. His nature is love; his words and actions were love; he preached and practised love; he lived in love, was sick in love, and died in love."-WILLISON.

OCTOBER 15.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me."-Ps. 1. 23.

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Thanksgiving is good, but thanks

living is better."-PHILIP HENRY.

OCTOBER 16.

"Enter ye in at the strait gate."-Matt. vii. 13.

"The gate which leads to life is a strait gate, therefore we should fear; it is an open gate, therefore we should hope."-BROOKS.

OCTOBER 17.

"Redeeming the time."-Eph. v. 16.

"The time that is now idled and talked away-the time that is now feasted and complimented away-that is unnecessarily sported and slept away-how precious will it one day seem to all!—how happy a bargain would they think they had made, if, at the dearest rate, they could redeem it! The profanest mariner falls a-praying when he fears his time is at

an end.

What a liturgy would death teach the trifling, time-despising gallants, the idle, busy, dreaming, active, ambitious, covetous lovers of this world, if time could be entreated to return !"-BAXTER.

OCTOBER 18.

'Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart."-Ps. xcvii. 11.

"However gloomy our prospect may at any time be, let us wait patiently, as the husbandman doth all the winter, in expectation of a future crop from the seed which lieth buried in the earth. 'Light and gladness are sown for the righteous and true-hearted,' though they may not yet appear. The seed-time is in this world; the harvest will be in that to

come. 'In due season we shall reap, if

we faint not." "-HORNE.

OCTOBER 19.

"The Lord is my portion."-Lam. iii. 24.

"The poorest Christian may vie estates with all the world. Let the world drop down millions of gold and silver, boundless revenues, and crowns and sceptres, a poor contemptible Christian comes and lays down one God against all these, and beggars them."—HOPKINS.

OCTOBER 20.

"Give no offence in anything."-2 Cor. vi. 3. "Beware of everything in your conduct that would prove a scandal. They

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who see can get over stumbling-blocks; but who would throw them in the way of the blind? make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but rather let it be healed."-Jay.

OCTOBER 21.

"Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in yea, what indignation, yea, what

you.

fear."-2 Cor. vii. 11.

"It is the nature of true grace to gather strength by every wound. Grace gathers strength by contraries, as fire doth when it is compassed about with coldness. By a Christian's falls his graces grow brighter and stronger. At the long-run, a Christian, by all his falls