yourself. Ah! that is another sort of peace, springing from a love opposed to the love of God; it loveth darkness rather than light, because its deeds are evil. The love the world proffers is capricious, exacting, and always disappointing; the love of Christ is tender, ennobling, and faithful; the love of God is life; the love of the world is death; the peace the world gives is the peace of the hardened heart and the seared conscience; the "peace of God passeth all understanding;" the world cannot trouble it; it is beyond the reach of Satan to destroy it. Dear reader! have you peace with God? and if not, wherefore?

If you are of the world, (and all those who are not in Christ Jesus are of the world,) you can understand nothing of the principle from which this love springs, though you may feel its power; "For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

Satan has his imitation of love, as he has of all spiritual manifestations of Divine Truth; the wide philanthropy that speaks of embracing

all persons, and all errors irrespectively in its affections, (though there is generally a reserve which excludes the children of the kingdom,) the false charity that is content to believe all are in a way of safety who walk according to their own darkness, who make a Saviour of alms-giving, honesty or benevolence, or religious observances; this is not the love of the Spirit.

If you are contented with the world's joys, you know nothing yet of the love of God by the blood of the Lamb, and cannot be expected to have a care that others miss the mark of eternal life, which has no value in your eyes!

Yet this priceless love has been shed upon you day by day; the gift of every good thing falls through the hands you have pierced with your sins.

His love endureth; He waiteth still to be gracious; He is ready to forgive; plenteous in mercy. Turn ye to-day! Behold His hands and His feet! Hearken to the cry of complete salvation that rises from Calvary!

"IT IS FINISHED!"

Oh, my

reader! Love did it all!

"LOVE DID IT."

"Behold! what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us!"-1 JOHN iii. 1.

'Twas Love, abounding Love, that won The Father to bestow the Son,

To bear His people's shame! The guiltless One, by fools reviled, The Servant meek—the Holy Child Jesus! O welcome name!

"Twas Love that drew the Saviour down
From angels' songs and heavenly throne,
Upon the cross to die!

Love bore the taunt, the scourge, the woe!
That hour of darkness none may know-
And all for such as I!

What brought Thee from Thy rest above,
Thou Holy One, thou spotless Dove!
On man's hard heart to fall?
Witness of Three in One to bless,
Of Wisdom, Power, and Faithfulness,
'Twas Love that did it all!

Love did it all!-undying Love,

Nor sin, nor time, nor change, can move—
Tender, enduring, strong.

The Love that hath my sins forgiven,
That makes my portion, and my heaven,
Shall swell my happy song.

I'll tell it in the sinner's ear,
I'll sing it to the worldlings near,
And ask no other theme.

"Twill flow to soothe the mourner's wail,
And children hold the oft-told tale
Dearer than fiction's dream.

So lead me, Holy Dove, to rest,
And ever on my Saviour's breast
With God Eternal dwell;

And there each cross and cloud recall,
And praise the Love that did it all,
And Love doth all things well!

The narrative I have so briefly touched on is homely and bald in incident, in that we miss the knowledge of the manner in which the Spirit of God worked on the old sailor's soul. I could have found many an anecdote, both of history and home life, more attractive; but, simple as it is, the Lord carried it home in power to a soul that was soon afterwards brought under the abiding influence of the Holy Spirit, and it seemed an earnest of blessing. Perhaps, it may also suggest to some who possess the heavenly treasure with which the Lord entrusts His followers, to give “not grud

gingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheer ul giver."

Many, into whose house salvation has entered, are saying, "How much shall we give of our substance, for the Lord's sake?" when they have yet to learn how much they can forgive for His sake.

It is easier to bestow half our possessions on the poor, to give tithes of all that we call our own, and to restore four-fold for that we have taken, than to stretch out the willing hand (seven times a day, if need be) to the offending brother; and yet the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation.

We cannot love our enemies by looking at them, by enumerating our wrongs, by guaging our own sufferings, inflicted of many; it is not thus that we shall fulfil the new commandment; it is by looking to Him who has forgiven us, oh! how much more than we can possibly pardon in our worst enemies; it is by feeling the full and free forgiveness bought for us by the blood of the Lamb slain; it is by the love of God shed abroad in our hearts, that all enmity is cast out. The Christian has received freely,