waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake Him, and say unto Him, Master, carest Thou not"-" pertaineth it not to Thee" (Wiclif)—" that we perish? And He arose, and rebuked "—" menaced' (Wiclif)—" the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And He said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have NO FAITH?"- "What dread ye? Ye have no faith yet." (Mark iv. 35–40— Wiclif.)

IN GOD'S APPOINTED PATH.

"Lord, and what shall this man do? . . . . What is that to THEE? follow thou Me." (Jno. xxi. 21, 22.)

They

were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia. After they were come to Mysia, they ASSAYED to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not." (Acts xvi. 6, 7.)

"Paul dwelt TWO WHOLE YEARS in his own hired house [with a soldier that kept him], and received all that came unto him." (Acts xxviii. 30.)*

WHEN THE FLESH IS RESTLESS.

We hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly; working not at all, but are BUSYBODIES. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with QUIETNESS they work, and eat their own bread." (2 Thess. iii. 11, 12.)

Let none of you suffer as a men's matters." (1 Peter iv. 15.)

BUSYBODY in other

"As touching BROTHERLY LOVE ye need not that I write unto you but we beseech you, brethren, that

* Connect with this, Joseph in prison; Moses in the desert; David keeping his father's sheep.

ye increase more and more; AND that ye STUDY to be QUIET, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without." (1 Thess. iv. 9-12.)

IN FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.

"Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands; that if any obey not the word, they also may, without a word be won by the behaviour of the wives." (1 Peter iii. 1.)

"So that the spirit be at rest and quiet: which spirit is before God a thing much set by." (Ch. iii. 4—Cranmer.) "Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall; for the man will not be in rest until HE have finished the thing this day." (Ruth iii. 18.)

IN DAILY LIFE.

"He that is SLOW to wrath is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly." (Prov. xiv. 29.)

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be PUT AWAY from you, with all malice." (Eph. iv. 31.)

Charity . . . doth not behave itself unseemly

is not easily provoked

endureth all things." (1 Cor. xiii. 4, 5–7.)

"Settle it

BEFORE RULERS.

in your hearts, not to meditate before

what ye shall answer: for I will GIVE you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. In your patience POSSESS ye

your souls." (Luke xxi. 14-19.)

"The Lord direct your hearts into the of Christ." (2 Thess. iii. 5; R.V.)

IN THE CHURCH.

patience

'Except the Lord build the house, they labour IN VAIN that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but IN VAIN. It is VAIN for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so He giveth His beloved sleep," or "when asleep."

'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God GAVE THE INCREASE. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase." (1 Cor. iii. 6, 7.)

"Now the God of PATIENCE and consolation grant you to be likeminded one towards another, according to Christ Jesus." (Rom. xv. 5.)

"Thanks be to God, which GIVETH us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ. THEREFORE, my beloved brethren, be ye STEDFAST, UNMOVEABLE, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD." (1 Cor. xv. 57, 58.)

We had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in GOD WHICH RAISETH THE DEAD." (2 Cor. i. 9.)

THE CHURCH.

NOTES OF AN ADDRESS TO YOUNG BELIEVERS.

THOUGH the expression "the church" is only found in the New Testament, there are very instructive types of the church in the Old Testament.

In Genesis v. we find a very short history of Enoch: "And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him." This gives us an encouraging picture of the

church. As he walked with God till he was caught up, so the church is to walk with God till the Lord comes to take her to Himself. (1 Thess. iv. 14.)

Let us now turn to Lev. xxiii. This is a chapter which should be carefully pondered by every one who wishes to understand God's dealings in different dispensations. In verses 10, 11, we read of the sheaf of first-fruits of harvest being waved before the Lord "on the morrow after the sabbath." That was a new day for Israel. In the Old Testament we read a great deal about the sabbath, the seventh day, but not much about the day after the sabbath. It was in fact our "first day of the week," the eighth day, the resurrection day. In verses 15, 16, they were told to count from that day seven sabbaths, or forty-nine days, and on the fiftieth day, the day after the sabbath, they were to offer a "new meat-offering." Pentecost was just fifty days after our Lord's resurrection, and on that day the Holy Ghost came down, and the church began to be formed.

The new meat-offering (v. 17) consisted of two wave loaves “baken with leaven." In this we have a type of the church. When Christ is typified there is no leaven, but when the church is foreshadowed there is leaven, for sin and failure are ever found in the church. The two loaves formed one new meat-offering, and Jew and Gentile form one new man in Christ.

The church, then, was formed at Pentecost, and will continue until 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17 is fulfilled, when “the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,” and living and sleeping saints will be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air.

The closing commission of the Lord to His disciples in Matt. xxviii. was to go and make disciples among all

nations, and to teach them to observe all things that He had commanded. The Acts of the Apostles show how this was done, and for those gathered out in various places the teaching of the Holy Ghost was given in the Epistles.

The word "church" in the original is ecclesia. A "congregation" is a people called together, but the "church" is "called out." Everything depends upon who it is that calls, and from what he calls persons out. A man may call people together, and then a man may dismiss them. In Acts xx. Demetrius gathered the people of Ephesus together, and the town-clerk "dismissed the assembly," or ecclesia. A person may gather people to himself, and call them a church, but it will be his church. God calls His people out of the world and calls them His own, and they are thus "the church of God," as the apostle Paul tells the elders of Ephesus in Acts xx.-"the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood." In 1 Cor. x. 32, xi. 22, and in other places this term is used, and we likewise find similar expressions, as the "churches of God" or "churches of Christ," the local assemblies, including all children of God in any place, as at Corinth, or in a district, as in Galatia.

But other names are used for those who form the church, and each one has its especial significance.

One of these is "the body." When the church is thus spoken of it is in reference to service, as our bodies are for service. Christ is the Head of His body the church, and the Holy Ghost is the power which works in the body. In 1 Cor. xii. 12, the Head and members are spoken of as "Christ." "As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ." And we should recognise no other "body." "By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body." (1 Cor. xii. 13.) "There