Is it the real purpose of your soul to get on, to advance in the divine life, to grow in personal holiness? Then beware how you continue, for a single hour, in what soils your hands and wounds your conscience, grieves the Holy Ghost and mars your communion.

No worldly gain, no earthly advantage, could compensate for the loss of a pure conscience, an uncondemning heart, and the light of your Father's countenance.

As in nature, the more we exercise the better the appetite ; so in grace, the more our renewed faculties are called into play, the more we feel the need of feeding each day upon Christ.

SUFFERING first, and then glory, mark the due path or history of the saint. This has been illustrated from old time. Joseph, Moses, and David may be remembered in connection with this truth. But it is the common history, in a great moral sense the necessary history, of those who adhere to God, in a system or world that has departed from him, and set up its own thoughts. For such must ever be stemming a contrary current.

The moment of deepest depression has commonly been the eve of deliverance.