I spoke last night from the nineteenth psalm. It is, like all God's holy Word, a wonderful portion- beginning with God's glory in the heavens, His greatness, majesty, wisdom, and power-all in connection with the sun, a type doubtless of Christ (vers. 1-6). Then he passes to the Scriptures, which are also a divine display of righteousness, wisdom, and goodness (vers. 7-11). But what does this twofold testimony of creation and the word find in man? sin, secret or hidden, and presumptuous sins, which need indeed cleansing and divine restraint. This reaches not only to the words, but to the meditation of the heart. Then the closing word seems to give the key to all blessing-"O Lord my strength (or rock) and my Redeemer." It is striking and blessed that such a word should close the psalm.

In the beginning, heavenly glory; in the middle, the Word convicting of sin; and at the close, the Redeemer, through whom alone it is possible ever to have a share in that heavenly glory. S. R.
'TO HIM THAT IS ABLE. "