gladness. Lord, as there is no doubt but that such was the excess of Thy love and favour, whereat even the angels were amazed, so is it sure that I was most bound, not only to run the way of all Thy commandments, but also to spend my life for the love of Thee. Thou hast bestowed on me this so excellent a gift, more noble than human understanding is able to conceive, from whence springeth an obligation which doth bind me unto Thee. Who doth not see that I shall be most unthankful, if I acknowledge not Thy singular love? O my heart, open thyself, and show with what bond of reloving, Jesus loving thee, thou art bourd.-DR. SUTTON.

See that you fight as His servant. Fight in His Church, under the shadow of His Cross; claim and hold thy place in the host over which floats evermore that blood-red standard. Go not out of it, lest thou deliver thyself unto Satan. Remember, that though he is no ruler in Christ's regenerate world, he is yet the ruler of the darkness of this world. Walk, then, in the light, with the children of the light. Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together; hold fast the form of sound words; keep within the new Jerusalem. Let not the host of the uncircumcised find thee

wandering, for idleness or vaunt, or curiosity or lust, into the land of the Philistines; hold thyself, for thy safety, in the city of thy God. There is the great Captain of thy salvation; there are the Sacraments of His grace; there the prayers, and blessings, and examples, and fellowship of His elect; there the fiery squadrons of His unseen army filling the mountain round about His prophet. Abide thou there, and be faithful in thy post, and thou art safe for ever. But do thy own work in that post. Take unto thee all the armour of God; mortify thy lusts; use thy aids of prayer, watching, and fasting with Christ. Remember the Master's word: "This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."* A life of sloth, or ease, or indulgence, is not His life. Follow Him indeed, and the enemy shall not harm thee. His grace shall not fail thee, His love shall not forget thee, His arm shall not cease to shelter thee. He is at thy right hand, thou shalt not be moved. Yea, and soon thou shalt see the blessed end. The tarrying ages have almost passed; the eastern sky burns beneath the coming footsteps; the army of the saints is massing; this very year may, for aught we know, see the Lord amongst us in all His manifested glory. And then comes the mighty overthrow; then shall

* St. Matt. xvii. 21.

the accuser be cast down; then, beside the Master, shalt thou judge angels; then shall be the victory which thou hast expected; then shall the dark forms for ever vanish from thine eyes; then shall evil, driven in upon itself, be for thee a terror of the night that is over, remembered only to exalt the triumph of His might and of His love, who hath by the blood of His Cross lifted thee above it. Then shalt thou have reached the bright, the blessed, the eternal rest; when He hath "put all enemies under His feet," and when, through His almighty grace, for each one who hath endured unto the end, "this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, and death shall be swallowed up in victory."-THE BISHOP OF OXFORD.

The solemn remembrance before God of the one eternal Sacrifice; the Real Spiritual Presence of the great Bishop of souls feeding His church with the Bread of life, which cometh down from heaven; the blessed Communion, lifting these soiled and yearning hearts to the glorified Humanity on high;

* I Cor. xv. 25.

and the dedication of body, soul, and spirit, as a living sacrifice, incorporate in His, and by Him presented in Himself to His Father and our Father; these are the truths of the Eucharistic sacrifice. They find their best expression in full and frequent celebrations, in the united voice of intelligent prayer and song, in the Priestly blessing and the Eucharistic eating and drinking of all present. They constitute a ceremonial which is at once national, scriptural, and impressive. Instead of lingering in the Levitical court of the sacrifices, vainly grasping at shadows that have passed away, they lead the Christian forward-clergy and people together to the very Presence above the cherubim. They enable us all, as kings and priests unto God, to eat of the Most Holy in the holy place; for the Memorial which we there eat and drink for the remembrance of Christ is to us the very sacrifice-His Body broken and His Blood shed, unto forgiveness, remission of sins, and immortal life.

CANON TREVOR.

HYMNS

ON

HOLY COMMUNION.

THE Hymns that follow may be profitably used as helps to holy meditation in the pauses of the Communion office, and especially where there is a large number of Communicants. They are full of earnest thoughts that gather round the Person and the work of Jesus Christ, and they contain many prayers and aspirations peculiarly suitable for all who draw near with faith and take the Holy Sacrament, to their great and endless comfort.