A Correspondent asks the origin of the words, "We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and not for our own works or deserving. Wherefore that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort."

It imports little, as far as we are concerned, who said them, but it was of mighty import to him who uttered them; and to every one who at any time between the eternity behind us and the eternity before us, does in truth in his heart utter them, they are of more worth than all the gold of all the earth. They are not a human theory. They have Christ's atoning sufferings on the cross for their foundation. There, eternal Justice is fully satisfied against sin, and God declares that because of this, all who believe in Christ are by Him accounted righteous.

So different is this from all human religions that all, without exception, oppose and hate it, and persecute it. It dethrones the pride of man, for it gives to Christ alone the glory for our salvation. It is a revelation from God, and they who possess it in their souls have had to do with God Himself, and are "made meet for the inheritance of the saints in light" (Col. 1:12).