Mr. Spurgeon, in his quaint way, relates how a poor woman when on her death-bed was assailed with fear as to har acceptance with the Lord. "Sir,'' she said, "I am afraid I am a hypocrite. I am afraid I don't love the Lord Jesus." He answered nothing, but, going to the window, took a piece of paper from his pocket, and wrote on it thus:

"Ido not love the Lord Jesus Christ."

"There, Sarah," said he, "sign that." She read it and said, " Why, sir, I would be torn in pieces before I'd sign such a thing!"

"Well, isn't it true?" he said.

" No, sir."

" But didn't you say as much a while ago ? " She replied "I thought I did not; but since you put it like that, I dare not say I do not; for I hope that I do."

"Herein is love:not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10).