flat on your face, much of the time, is enough for any man. Only serpents are emblems of a mortal life without end. The wandering Jew is the most to be pitied of all men. Says Goethe 'Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.'

Let us

"There are things innumerable and indescribable for all of us, of whatever class or age, to do, after we obey the command, Get thee up.' A willing mind will make them plain to us but one at a time. We are to live only one day in the twenty-four hours, and one hour in the sixty minutes. If God gives us strength for this, we have all we need. acquire the habit, if we do not already possess it, of a calm and holy confidence in Him, who only can help us over our difficulties. Getting down on our faces, if ever so hard beset, is not to be thought of. We should teach our children that trials are the best part of life, because they make us men and women of holy valor; they fit us for a higher order of angels; they whiten our robes as no fuller can whiten them, be none never so royal in his patent right.

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Anything short of this leads the way to despair and rebellion against God and man. It often ends in insanity. * *

"But O! the joyful hope, ever present to the vision of him who overcometh to the end! That hope which is an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus! *

"Therefore, whosoever thou art that crieth in thy soul. 'Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought us over Jordan to deliver us into the hand of our enemies, and to destroy us! hear the voice of the Lord saying- "Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?"

"From this hour, determine, in His strength, to obey his command. Sanctify yourselves for work – new work in the vineyard of the Lord, and go forward towards Ai with a joyful heart, and with a song of praise upon your lips.

FINDING THE CITY.

A LETTER.

ISRAEL KNIGHT wrote to his former guardian this:

"DEAR SIR:

"I have given some attention to nine different denominations of Christians. Many others, more or less akin to some one of these, equally claim my investigation; but I now despair of finding what I seek, viz : the church which shall correspond to the City of the Prophet's vision, whose name deserves to be, The Lord is there.

“Though I find something by which to profit in all, there is no one free from my dissent in articles of faith or practice. What shall I do to be saved from my perplexity?

Respectfully yours,

REPLY.

ISRAEL KNIGHT."

"MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND: —

"Read more carefully the Prophet's vision of that

City with the name for which

you look.

"There were gates on all sides. Every gate led to the city.

"Keep straight on any of the roads, the churchgate of which you have entered, and you will come to the place where the Lord is, provided you are right yourself. It is not the gate through which you go, but the heart which you carry through that gate. 'The kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Neither shall they say Lo here! or Lo there! for behold the kingdom of God is within you.' God is no respecter of persons; in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him. Every church has within it elements of truth and

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of error.

of God.

There is no perfection this side of the City

"Nothing is more to be deprecated than the prayer that all may come to think just like our own little clan. It would be the utmost misfortune to all Christendom to have only one church. The city to which only one gate led, would be another Babylon, full of the abominations of the earth.

"When Christ sent forth the seventy disciples into every city and place whither he himself would come, he gave them no creed, imposed no restrictions save of the merest practical import. To him who, wishing to tempt the Lord, asked him, 'What shall I do to inherit eternal life?' reference was given to the law which read, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.'

"Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever