Yours, CRUTTALE PIERCE. take thee every day for my all-sufficient Jesus, | may be AH in All; to attain to be a poor to live upon thee; thou hast all my comfort, pensioner, having nothing and yet possessing strength, victory. I would not stir a step all things in Him. but looking to my Captain. I am a poor raw recruit, but my desires is to thy name. have heard of the pearl; the news of the pearl awakens my attention, and I must confess I have a desire to commence an adventurer in the mine. One pearl is worth a bushel of paste, polished ever so highly. Well, Sister, here's equality again; here's no attainment, but we'll go digging together, and never leave till we win the prize. One says, "Yea, doubtless, and I count all things dung." So, say yon, so I desire to say, the pearl, the pearl. Win this, and you win all. I want to down with attainments, that you and I may set out afresh, every day, in the strength taking up our condemnation, and following the Lamb, coming to Him emptied of self in all its forms, desiring to know ncthing but Christ, and Him crucified; to have no other portion; to be nothing, that He I said, them that have fled, will be always flying; in other words, them that have repented, will be always repenting; or, them that have turned, will be always turning. You are a philosopher now; the figure is taken from the diurnal motion of the earth, which keeps constantly turning round to the sun; so we turned by the wiles of Satan ; our own corruptions, and the allurements of the world, are to be constantly turning round to the Sun of righteousness. The word repentance, signifies to turn; just as the earth turns round to the sun and this, both naturally and spiritualty, is by the influence of the Spirit, though modern philosophers will not grant it. A HYMN. IS JESUS precious? sinner, canst thou say Is He thy Hope, thy soul's Support and Stay, Yes, He is precious! O that I could speak The praise that from a soul redeemed should My lips forth into glowing strains would break, He is most precious! there are loved ones Twin'd like the clasping ivy round my heart; Yes, Thou art precious! while on earth I My All, dear Saviour, Thou alone shalt be! My All in earth, my all in death's dread day, And still my All throughout eternity. V. THE GLORIFICATION OF CHRIST. (Concluded from page 522. last vol.) "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee also," John xvii. 4. Now, as Jesus gave himself for us, an offering | is to them in him. He who spake as never and sacrifice to God (as said Paul, Eph. v. 2). for a sweet smelling savour; so it was to the Father; and that, not only as his own, but the God and Father of all his people. In the verse before us, this is clearly stated; hence we read, "These words spake Jesus, &c., Father, the hour is come." On the cross, the same fond term is employed. And now he is in heaven, John tells us,---" If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the propitiation for our sins" (1 Eph. ii. 2). From this accumulation of Scriptures, we learn the refreshing fact, that God is not only the God and Father of Christ---but such of his believing children. Whatever he is to him, he man spake---so taught his followers, through Mary Magdalene, in his corrective and directive discourses after his resurrection---" Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God" (John xx. 17). It is true as in all things, Christ has the pre-eminence; so He has pre-eminently God to be his Father; as He is there eminently the Son of God, Whereas believers are his sons by adoption and grace, as Paul teaches us, Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will" (Eph. i. 5). This is demonstrated by their participation of the was the purpose of Jehovah, as He declared, Spirit; by whose gracious aud efficient teach | addressing Himself to Jesus, "Thou art my ing they are enabled to call Him Father, as servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified, said Paul, "Ye have received the spirit of (Isa. xlix. 3). Marvellous was the glory that adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father God put upon Jesus before and after his death. (Rom. viii. 15). But it was not so with Great was the glory wherewith He invested Jesus, "For, although in spirit He called the seed of Abraham; when, according to his Him Father, yet not the Spirit of adoption everlasting purpose of grace, it was eternally and grace, but because of his being the Son uuited to the Person of his co-equal and coof God by eternal generation; as the only eternal Son; and the angelic nature, which is Begotten of the Father." Oh, my friends, higher in the scale of creation passed by, as if it be the blood-bought right of all believers, the Holy Ghost declares, "For verily he took as one of the New Testament privileges to not on him the nature of angels; but He enter (as said the Apostle, Heb. x. 19), "with took on Him the seed of Abraham" (Heb. ii. boldness into the holiest, by the blood of 16). Everything He did and said, was reJesus" how much more might the Son of splendent with his glory; and, notwithstandGod come there; not in another's, but bising it was generally hid under his servantown name; not on his own account only, but that of his people. For, while He had much to demand for Himself, He had much to request for them. Therefore, as well knowing what the Father had promised Him, when in his bosom, ere He actually had become man, "He lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father," &c. Surely Emmanuel was the chief Speaker in the 121st Psalm; and He cried out, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." Never did He look up there with more implicit confidence than now, well knowing the success of his enterprize; since it had long been predicted of it-"The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand" (Isa. liii. 10). We may here learn, that the God-man's access to his God and Father in prayer, has opened a way for that of his redeemed, as the Apostle declares, "For, through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father" (Eph. ii. 18). And moreover, in so coming, led, and taught of God the Holy Ghost, to call Him Abba, Father; as Rom. viii. 16, with the divine seal of being the children of God. The third truth for our meditation is, What that was which He had particularly on his heart?"Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee." If it were the testimony of God respecting his beloved ones-" This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise" (Isa. xliii. 21), oh, how much more does it belong to Emmanuel, that He did in reality glorify his Father. As his glorifying the Father was the effect of the Father's glorifying Him, we will begin with this groundwork, and so climb up the superstructure. In his former prayer He said, "Father, glorify thy name." The answer to which was, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again," (John xii. 28). In the following chapter, xiii. 31, 32, we read, "Therefore when he (Judas) was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall straightway glorify Him." This form, and likeness of sinful flesh; yet at times it broke forth like the waters pent by dams, and with irresistible power sweeps away every obstacle; or, as the sun wrapped in a cloud, at length disperses it with its splendour, and is beheld in all its glory. Thus was it with the Son of God in the vail of humanity-clothed with flesh-and generally without form and beauty; yet, on the memorable Mount Tabor, the pent-up glory in the human nature, broke through, and shone in all his majesty, as the brightness of the Father's glory and the express image of his Person (Matt. xvii. 2). He glorified Him, not only in raising Him from the dead, but raising Him to heaven, as is celebrated by Paul, when he says, "Him hath God exalted with his right haud, to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins (Acts v. 31). But what Jehovah Jesus specially demands here is, that God his Father would glorify Him in his sufferings and death. For, as He had declared, "The hour is come;" so was it manifoldly distinguished, as one for the prevalency of spiritual darkness, and the powers of Satan, with heaven and earth arrayed against God's holy child, Jesus. And of this he takes special notice, saying, "This is your hour, and the power of darkness" (Luke xxii. 53). What was there sought in faith, was answered in mercy; because, as the Lord had promised, "I will be with Him in troubles ;" so, by crowning Him with success amid his unequalled sufferings and ignominious death, He glorified Him above all things. His death by the cross was a most ignoble one; but this did not make Him ignoble. The death He died, was an accursed one ; as said Paul," Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Gal. iii. 13); but He himself was most blessed. Aud notwithstanding He was crucified through weakness, i. e., the flesh; yet, in this period of Jacob's greatest trouble and shame, and suspended between heaven and earth, a F as if undeserving of any regard or pity, even in the lowest depth of his amazing humiliation; an answer was returned to the demand-"Glorify thy Son;" exhibited in the wonders accompanying his sufferings and death. To some of them we refer you. When in Gethsemane, "Being in an agony, He prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground; and there appeared an angel unto Him from heaven, strengthening Him" (Luke xx. 43, 44). spectacle to God, angels, men, and devils; | taken to do, was his own glory brilliantly exhibited. God had been awfully dishonoured by man; and, as far as man could do it, his glory tarnished by sin; Jesus, as his righteous Servant, prays that He might glorify Him. This glory which He took not away, He restored. And it was effected by his own glory being eclipsed for a little while, as said Paul, when he declared, "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour" (Heb. ii. 9). The same tragic deed he mentions in Phil. ii. 7, 8. The first, and earthly Adam, dishonoured God by his disobedience: the second, and Lord-fromheaven Adam, glorified Him by his obedience, which was sinless, perfect, and complete in all the will of God. As in every thing He had been dishonoured by man, so, in all glorified by God, and Glory-Man, Christ Jesus. By Adam his holy law had been wholly broken; but by Emmanuel fulfilled in all its requirements of love to Himself, and his neighbour, the Church of the living God, whose names are written in heaven. What was said on another occasion is applicable to Him; "The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake; He will magnify the law, and make it honourable " (Isa. xlii. 21). As his justice could have never been satisfied by man, so has it for ever been satisfied by Christ. Hence we read, "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand" (Isa. liii. 10). As sin with all its desolating evils had entered into the world; so Jesus took it away, and opened a way for the flowing down of his goodness, grace, love, and mercy; the whole thereof harmonizing with his justice. Jesus has done more to glorify God thereby, than mankind confederate, have done to dishonour Him. Great, in truth, is the dishonour man has brought to God by rebellion. But oh! marvellously great is the glory which Christ has brought to God! which is an eclipsing or absorbing glory. As the light of the sun puts out the light of the stars, that they cannot be seen; so what Jesus has done, swallows up all the dishonour sin has done, both to God and his elect world. In Him therefore, as sang David, “ Mercy and truth meet together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other" (Psal. lxxxv. 10). As some great truths for daily comfort, as God the Spirit enables us, we may observe, in conclusion, that, as God the Father glorified his Son in his sufferings, by sustaining Him; so also by supporting his beloved ones unequivocally, He demonstrating that they are his children, and by setting his seal on them, even the Holy Spirit of promise, the earnest of the inheritance. And moreover, as Christ glorified his Father; so, as enabled by Him, At the time they came to apprehend Him, and He manifested Himself to them with, "I am he," we read, that immediately they went backward, and fell to the ground" (John xviii. 6). Again, in the acknowledgment of the dying thief, that He was Lord and Christ, when all beside had denied Him-we repeat, all beside, God the Father appeared to deny Him, in not answering his prayer, as He complains, "O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent" (Psalm xxii. 2). "His disciples denied and forsook Him." We say amid all these, God glorified his Son Jesus in the penitent's dying confession; or rather in the confession of the dying malefactor: for that confession has never died, and never will die. And again, He glorified Him by refusing to allow the sun to cheer with its rays, that world, which, by its wickedness had extinguished for a season, the glory of its Maker and Upholder. But, not only did God glorify Christ God-man in, but by his sufferings; since, thereby, He achieved the memorable victory recorded by the Holy Ghost, "That through his own death He destroyed Him that had the power of death, i. e., the devil; and delivered them, who, through fear of death, are all their life-time subject to bondage" (Heb. ii. 14, 15). And finally made an atonement for his beloved ones' sins; and so for ever satisfied Jehovah's justice, that He declares in the virtue thereof, "Behold my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect in whom my soul delighteth" (Isa. xlii. 1). The place of his triumph was that of his greatest shame; and the time of his being reduced by cruelties to the utmost weakness, was when He accomplished what Deborah so sweetly sung of, "O, my soul, thou hast trodden down strength" (Judges v. 21). But this is not all that this glorious Advocate had in his heart. For, although the first, not the only, nor least of all He demanded; and therefore He subjoined, "That thy Son also may glorify thee." This could have never been without the former. If God the Father had not glorified his beloved Son as his anointed Servant, never had He have glorified Him. Therefore, as in Christ's glorifying the Father, the Father's glory was resplendent; so in finishing the work, the Father had given Him, and He had under they glorify Him; showing forth, not only the sufficiency of his grace, but its sovereignty and blessedness, in ascribing all they are, have, and expect to be, to his grace; owning in Paul's language, "By the grace of God I am what I am" (1 Cor. xv. 10). Thus fulfilling their high destiny, commencing on earth, and perpetuating it throughout the countless ages of eternity, what Jehovah hath declared respecting them; "This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise, even the praise of the glory of his grace." (Isa. xliii. 21; Eph. i. 6). WAYSIDE GREETINGS. DEAR FELLOW-PILGRIMS, HOMEWARD BOUND! "Grace unto you, and peace be multiplied."-It is impressed upon our mind to greet you at the opening of the new year, and to congratulate you upon your safety in Christ! for while Jehovah's purposes are ripening fast, and His prophecies are being daily fulfilled, come what will, the Lord's dear people are safe in Christ's keeping. Happy thought! nation may rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there may be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes; and the world may tremble on its axis, but amidst it all, the little band of redeemed ones are safe" in the hollow of Jehovah's hand." We want you sensibly to feel this as the year opens upon you, and you are saying, Well, I have passed through another "gate" in the pathway of life, but I can see nothing but thorns and brambles a-head. Stay, beloved, What are those words cut into that wayside post ?—"the righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles." cr Through his love to us, He delivers us, and nothing that may occur to this agitated world can separate us from that love! for "having loved his own, which are in the world, He loves them to the end." No separation then from Jesus! This cruel war does bring cruel partings and separations at almost all our railway stations, may be seen relatives, bidding farewell to their soldier friends bound for that vast mausoleum, "the Crimea." There is the mother in anguish of soul, imprinting the last kiss upon the cheek of her boy, now swelling with pride under his gay habiliments. There are little ones clinging sobbingly to the manly form of the father, while the poor wife hangs probably for the last time upon the arm of her stalwart husband. Sad scenes. But there is no painful adieu for the children of God with their best Friend-He ever liveth, and nothing can separate those whom His love has united to Himself. But While greeting the Lord's family, we want to make especial reference to our dear Editor, and his labours in the sister Isle. We do love the halo that surrounds the old family Magazine. While at heart, it cherishes our Lord's injunction, "Feed my lambs," its outward influence is, to clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and extend the hand of sympathy to the destitute. Its faith is, "the Gospel," while its branches exhibit "fruit." "And the Lord's dear people, above all others, should be a matter-of-fact, working, fruitbearing people! Love should inspire to labour, and the life be dedicated to the service of Christ,* not with any pretentions to assist Him in the work of salvation; no proposition can be more monstrous; this is all done, but as an exhibition of the life of God in the soul, and love to Jesus in the heart, God is only served, and can only be served by a living soul. We do therefore anxiously desire that our dear Editor may be greatly encouraged in his various undertakings, for we do, from our heart, believe he is the right person in the right place, which is a thing so rare in this world of mistakes: but here is the reason, his appointment thereunto is of God and not man. sincerely wish him, therefore, God speed! Let each reader encourage his heart by obtaining another subscriber for the Gospel Magazine, at the opening of the year; it is not much to ask; and may he not be downcast at occasional lulls, for that which appears against us, is ofttimes for us.‡ Nothing can tend so to We *Far from thinking that there is any thing ·legal "about the remarks in the Editor's " preface" upon this point we entirely concur with him, believing that it is the Christian's privilege Sermon in November Number of the "pulpit," by the Rev. Edward Lillingston, B. A., incumbent of St. George's, Edgbaston. to "work out "that which is "worked in." Read We herewith set the example. A remarkable instance of this has recently occurred in connexion with "The Irish Church Mission Society." That society lost £ 1500 by the bank failure of Paul, Strahan, and Bates; yet, in four weeks after the circumstance was known, not a less sum than £5000 was poured into the funds of the society. We have also another wish, and that is, that zealous Bonmahon would start a Servant's Home, and polish some of those rough materials into good domestics, and disperse them among our English families, for we know that the fair sex of our land will bear us out in the assertion, that we have scarcely any good servants here. We bless God for the success which has attended the BIBLE FUND.-It was His own work; we should like to hear of it expanding unto a Bible and Tract fund, that from the Bonmahon press might issue periodically Tracts of a sterling character, God-honouring Tracts that would fly about bearing the name of Jesus. We think something of this kind might be carried out, and subscribers be entitled to so many for individual distribution. raise mankind from a state of degreda-nister, as he steps within the habitation of tion as industrial education. Let the industry, to tell of the name and fame of rough sons of Erin be taught early habits Jesus. of patient industry, be fully acquainted with the value of labour, and gain an acquaintance with the objects by which they are surrounded, and then be led up to the higher benefits of the Gospel of Christ; and Popery may well look on, and quailing knash her teeth; for such an advancement, aims a death-blow at her cruel servility. Now our brother is in the midst of it, dealing with heads and hearts, and may God bless him in his difficult labours! His office is no sinecure-a look at the photograph portrait of an Irish lad, in the interesting address lately issued, gives us an idea of the materials he has got to work upon; and is it not lamentable to see the poor people of Ireland dragged down to their present low condition by the trammels of Popery, when they have that in their native character, that would cause them Beloved, we turn again to our "Greetto aspire, even a quickness of appre-ing." What a mercy in this age of steam hension and affections much warmer and electricity and wonderful doings, that than will be found among European there is such a thing as standing in the races? and if we look at the higher midst of the whirling eddies, upon an imclasses, we should like the plain question moveable rock, with the assurance, "I answered, "What has been the cause of am safe for an eternal world!" Jesus, the absenteeism of landowners in Ireland? my precious Lord and Master, has done -why have they preferred living in any all for me, that renders me thus secured. other country than their own " Let Oh how important to feel and know this; Popery answer the question. This sub- for look how fast the moments of ject may be without the precincts of the life are running out, like the sand from GOSPEL MAGAZINE, but the study of the hour glass, on our Grandsire's mantleIreland in connexion with the wretched piece. Time has but to run its race, and policy of the Church of Rome is well worth accomplish its work; it listens to no apconsideration. We are persuaded also, of peal to lessen its revolution; man may the importance of Agricultural Schools. live as he likes, time cares not; its work Let English and Irish peasants turn their is to carry him onwards and onwards, attention to cottage-farming, and field- and this it does certainly and surelygardening, and their operations will be at- Oh! what a mercy to be able to say by tended with such an interest, as that all faith, Fly on, time, thou dost but carry houses and scenes of vice will lose their me daily nearer and nearer to eternal charm, and industrious habits gradually happiness. form; any thing that has this desirable I tremble not at the speed of thy chaeffect, should meet with friends. In some riot wheels, but rejoice in the fact that parts of Switzerland, where the farms thou art hurrying me on, up the walk of are all small, and worked by their own life, to the mansion and inheritance, of proprietors, and cottage-farming is ex- which I am heir. Cheer up, then beloved, tensively carried on, there is no pauper-be not cast down because the way homeism worthy of the name; no overplus wards is difficult, and circumstances of population. And the people are marked an irritating tendency, crowd upon the for their sobriety and thriftiness. We experience; no, says Paul, remember He do hope therefore, that the Bonmahon hath said, "I will never leave thee nor AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL may meet with forsake thee. Say then boldly, the Lord every encouragement, and that we may is my helper, I will not fear what man see, springing from it, individual attempts shall do unto me." Let patience not at cottage-farming, and field-gardening, merely have an abode in the heart for a for we believe there will then follow a short season, and then be ejected to give warmer reception for the Christian mi- place to impetuous feelings, but let pa |