(Ps. 119:105.)

"These words which I command thee this day shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt reiterate them to thy children, and speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up" (Deut. 6:6, 7).

FRAGMENT Thus were they all in Israel to remind themselves and their children, at all times and on all occasions. Their confession of God was to be of the most open character; and how great a help to the soul is this frank confession of God! "I have set the Lord always before me" has ever for its companion word, "He is at my right hand:I shall not be moved" (Ps. 16:8). God's seal is for the forehead, not the back; and how many are saved by it from the intrusion and ravages of the devil's locusts! Nor does the apostle hesitate to say, "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Rom. 10:10).

Let us not think it legal to insist upon commandments, and to write upon every available space a "Thus saith the Lord." Such a consecration of things is the way to prevent the devil's scribblings, who will not lose any opportunity to appropriate every vacant spot to his own purposes.

God's word is no intrusion and never out of place. By it the heavens were framed, and the earth established; and it still establishes, harmonizes, gives meaning, and character and beauty, to every thing. It is no more out of place anywhere than is a ray of sunshine; like it, it glorifies what it rests upon. Extract from Num. Bible.