I have been thinking of the importance of Matt. 18:23-35. It illustrates 2 Cor. 5:19-31. God was not imputing sins to sinners when Christ was on the cross. That was a ministry of reconciliation-a discharge of their debts. The discharge is temporary if men refuse the reconciliation, but eternal if they receive it.

God's appeal to men is His love in Christ displayed in the cross. The very appeal is a discharge of their sins-not imputing them; but, to be an eternal discharge, they must be reconciled to Him and His way of dealing with them.

FRAGMENT Much we may do, and busy haste may show;
Yet 'tis not eager running to and fro that does His
will:

He loves that we upon His strength may lean,
Thus from His stores with chastened hearts to
glean,
And praise Him still. A. D. S.