and did not dry his tears until, by divine power, he had constrained the grave to restore him.

That young mother weeps, though her babe that died was only a few months old; and other months have gone by since the little one was laid away in its rest. She thinks of its sprightly form, its curling hair, and sparkling eyes, and rosy lips, and fragrant breath: and how sweet it looked in the coffin, with its closed eyelids, and pale face, and waxen hands, folded on its snowy vesture, and pressing the green sprig and white flower: and she can scarcely restrain the cry-"Oh, give my infant back!" And if, in this gentlest form of losing the loved and lovely, there be such a keen and abiding grief, how shall I speak of those, who, after the choicest plants of affection had struck their roots deep into their hearts, lengthening and strengthening their filaments, in all directions, through and through them, year after year, have then had them wrenched and torn from them, leaving them bleeding and helpless, with many a wound which hardly a lifetime could heal. Ah! ye who have lamented the death of children grown up to youth's beauty and promise: or of a wife, or of a husband, whose presence was the sunshine of your home: or of a father, or of a mother, whose smiles, and kindnesses, and prayers, made all your time a blessing: I wonder not that your spirits are ever inquiring: "When shall we meet again?" Would you wish to live forever, if they should not live also? Painful as was the separation here, you had reason to expect it. You knew that, in some way, it must come. It has come. And now, you long for reunion-immortal reunion!

Come! ye angels of the resurrection! come, and comfort them! Come! ye angels of the judgment!

the paradise and city of God! Sho mansions, and the rejoicing groves, verse and olden memories! Sho kindred there! See! If they died enough for them. If they died in in Jesus, that is enough for them. shall be faithful unto death, that wil And if those who come after you. and example, that will be enough : meet, to part no more forever. An of you, as of others "The Lamb v of the throne shall feed them, and s living fountains of waters; and G all tears from their eyes."

THE YOUNG RULER.

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"What lack I yet?"-MATT. Ch. xix: 20.

THIS question is the best stand-point in the history before us. It affords a central and elevated position, from which we may command a complete view of the whole case. The past, present, and future of the Young Ruler's career: his history, condition, and destiny: what he had been, what he was, and what he might and ought to have become: are topics, all of which lie within the comprehension of the inquiry-"What lack I yet?"

The most thorough treatment of the question would require both a negative and a positive answer: showing, first, what he did not lack; and, secondly, what he did lack. This method would most perfectly bring into review all the circumstances recorded, and enable us to deduce from them the entire complement of the principles they embody and the lessons they enjoin.

But, I cannot take time to pursue this method. Allow me, therefore, to state, that the proper negative answer includes four points. They are these:

1. The Young Ruler did not lack the knowledge of eternal life;

2. He did not lack the knowledge of the essential connexion of Duty and Destiny;

3. He did not lack the general outward observance of

Here, then, is the question-W and the positive answer to it is-T the Christian Spirit: the Spirit of of entire consecration to God and

As to the case of the Young Ru him, was certainly reduced to this interview with Christ, he not only of perfecting his knowledge of du fected. He was distinctly and im of both the nature and the rewards of his own duty. Before that, he wholly excusable: but, afterwards, cusable. It was no longer the war prevented his full salvation. It w "One thing thou lackest"

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to repeat the substance of his instru "If thou hadst that one thing, thy faultless, and thy destiny, gloriou It is the spirit of my disciples. It which no man can either become or In a word-it is the Spirit of Sac entire consecration to God and his is thy lack: that thou art destitute that thou art selfishly and inveter

for, he had great possessions." "He was very ful" says LUKE-"for, he was very rich." ful"-says

The demonstration was irresistible! And yet thrice recorded, as a warning to the world What a contrast of scenes it presents! How How affecting! How instructive!

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See the young man!-running to Christ: 1 at his feet and lifting heart, voice, vision, in passioned prayer! What cares he for the gaping What cares he for a scornful world? What for anything-but Christ, and duty, and etern Noble youth! Magnanimous! High-minded! hearted! He looks a man-every inch, ay thought, a man! And what is so sublime as a a real man—a true man! Comparatively—it is to be rich nothing to be a ruler: but-to be a genuine man: a God-like man: O! that is son nay, it is everything! Some declaim loftily of and archangels, cherubim and seraphim: and place, such eloquence is well-full of inspirat elevation. But the true man has no ambiti else than man. It was not by the angels,