heaven is perfect." We have no right whatever, either theoretically or practically, to lower the Master's standard.

Under the old covenant it was not possible to come up to this standard. But by grace and truth, which came by Jesus. Christ, it is our blessed privilege with Paul consciously to be aware that the righteousness of the law (the claim it puts forth), is fulfilled in us. The law could only exact, but give nothing. The claim was, "Do this and ye shall live." Ah, how many an Israelite knew that God required of him to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with his God, and notwithstanding his faithful observance of all the prescribed ordinances, and his bringing the required sacrifices, he had ever to put the question, "Wherewith shall I come before the Lord"? Never could he get beyond the consciousness of sin. The shadow could not help him, he required the substance. What God in His forbearance graciously "passed over was not actually removed or condemned in the flesh. Prior to the atonement sin was not condemned in the flesh; hence it could hold its own, and constantly ring the death-knell of condemnation in the very depths of the soul. The taskmaster knew only of stripes and wounds, and putrefying sores, but had no oil and wine to soothe and revive. The glorious gospel exactly reverses the law's adage and calls

to us,

"Live and do this." It is the voice of Jesus at the grave of humanity, "Come forth." The same who once ordered light now commands "life," and that life, His own. Life cannot otherwise than display itself in action.

Even prior to His own resurrection, when our Lord raised Lazarus from the grave, He ordered the grave-clothes with which his hands and feet and face were bound to be loosed, and him to go forth unbound, and now as He Himself at His own resurrection left His grave-clothes in the sepulchre, He certainly cannot intend us to cover our faces with our deathnapkin, or to have our grave-clothes dangling at our hands and feet. "We know that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin (sin as a whole, n its entirety, with everything appertaining to it), might be DESTROYED, that HENCEFORTH we should not serve sin." The reason that sin shall not have domin

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ion over us is that " we are not under the law, but under grace." The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made us free from the law of sin and death."

The Mediator of the Law died and was buried. The Mediator of the New Cove. nant died, was buried, and rose again, With Him we have died, and been buried not only, but raised again. Beloved saints, ours is the Resurrection life. Let us by God's grace, live in this Resurrection life of power. But ah! let us be on our guard against accepting the theory and contending warmly for it, if we do not come up to the mark in our hearts and lives. The nearer we are brought to God through Him, who is one with the Father, the more our life and conversation must be the reflection of His. And so it may and will be also.

God has given us all we need for life and for godliness. "All the promises of God in Christ are yea and in Him amen, unto the glory of God by us."

Last September this was revealed to me in all its fulness and preciousness. I was sitting in my own drawing-room considering Josh. vii. 25, 26. I then grasped as a living fact those marvellous verses in Rom. vi., that by faith I had positively died with Christ, and as positively was I risen with Hin-reconciled to God-a new creation in Christ Jesus-I in the kingdom, and the kingdom in me-escaped forever from the bondage of Satan and the law. I belonged to Christ, and His was now the motive power in meglorious fact which may now never be un

done. My precious Master now will produce His own fruits in me. No more striving to live Christ, the life is spontaneous as the fruit upon the living branch in the vine. Since then the Gentile Epistles are my daily study. They are the green pastures in which the children of the kingdom derive their nourishment beside the still waters." I now see God's intention pervading the Old Testament promises and prophecies-That He will bring out a people in whom He will dwell, and in whom "His righteousness" shall shine forth before the nations of the earth. I can never cease to speak of "Resurrection life," by faith grasping this glorious mystery that was given to Paul to reveal among the Gentiles, "Christ in you the hope of glory."

It pervades all of his Epistles as the centre truth from which all else springs for our life here and hereafter. How it clears away all the mists and doubts about Christ's Baptism of the Holy Ghost and of fire!

Every believer who has died with Christ upon the Cross has this baptism in Resurrection life, whether he knows it or not. To receive all its glorious power it requires to be received and accepted by faith. Then the Blessed Comforter prepares and fits the heart of the believer for the indwelling of Christ and the Father, and then reveals them in all their glory and beauty to that heart, and all the riches of God's glory by Christ Jesus, and by degrees the believer is enabled to grasp these glorious riches of his glory in Ephs. iii. 16-21.

It seems so dreadful to hear children of God argue about the power of Satan and sin in the flesh-yea, they will have their sins-because it gives them something to do. They will not receive this blessed truth that by Christ's death they have been for ever delivered from Satan's bondage and power, and that in Christ they are in an entirely "New Creation." "If the Son shall make you free ye shall be free indeed." Oh, glorious freedom of "Resurrection life. I am at leisure now to delight myself in God; and my personality with all its energies, activities, and possessions are yielded to Christ. He will conform me to his likeness day by day. He will shine through me. He will speak through me. He will get

glory by and through me for the Father. He will keep me jealous for his honour. He has consecrated me by His death and Resurrection life, and I have only to accept all and yield myself to His supremacy.

"I am no longer my own." “I am dead to the law by the body of Christ, that I should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that I should bring forth fruit unto God" (Rom. vii. 4). "Whoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace; for we, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith" (Gal. v. 45).

These Galatian converts were like most of the Christians of the present day, ignorant of the indwelling righteousness of Christ, and seeking to justify themselves by the law from which He had for ever redeemed them.

There is a very significant word to the blessed ones, indwelt by the Father and Son.

"Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness. The people in whose heart is My law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings (Isa. li. 7).

It is comforting to know that our loving Father knew that the malignity of Satan would stir up bitterness even among his own children, to prevent them receiving this "glorious liberty," that those who are seeking to spread His glory are only receiving a little portion of the bitterness poured out upon our beloved Master, when He was, in His wondrous love, working out the redemption of the poor sinner, whom He had loved from everlasting.

All praise and thanksgivings be unto God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, that they caused us to hunger and thirst, and then satisfied us with their wondrous indwelling presence; and now they will use us as vessels to pour out of their fulness for those around. Yours faithfully in Christ,

M. A. F. P.

NOT KNOWING, YET TRUSTING.

BY FLORENCE WYMAN.

I know not if the dark or fair
Shall be my lot,

If that wherein my hope delights
Be best or not.

Rev. Mr. Aldrich, who has been for fourteen years preaching up and down in the Rocky Mountains, U. S., and, to use his own words, always found that I was as near to God whether up on the highest mountain, or in the lowest valley," gives in the N. Y. Evangelist, the following account of his own recent experience. To attend a conference at Canon City, he started on a foct journey of three day's continuance. When within about twenty miles of his destination he started, a little after noon, for a walk on snow-shoes, the snow being very deep. Thus he walked on until night, “when a dull, leaden hue," came over him, he being now necessitated to direct his course by the wind. Suddenly, he found himself sliding "down, down, down," a fearful precipice, "going over, and over,' " and "expecting to land in eternity." He found himself at the bottom, with a broken snow-shoe, but with little injury to his body. Leaving such help, he started on, the crust sustaining him. He was now getting on nicely, "when," allowing him to complete the narrative in his own words "what was that I heard the howl of a wolf in the distance."

"If any of you have ever been out alone, on foot, in the dark, far from any human habitation, and have heard that dismal howl, you know the sensation. To you who have not, I cannot describe it; my blood seemed to curdle in my veins.

"But remembering to whom I had consecrated my life, I said 'Thy will be done!' and hastened on. As I supposed, that first howl was a signal soon to be followed by others in different directions, each one answering and every answer showing that they were coming nearer. I had no fire-arms, as I never carry them, and having used my last match that morning, could build no fire to keep them off; so knowing that only oir Father could save me, I put my trust in him, and as they surrounded me, ready for the final spring that should make me their victim, even while I could feel their breath, and hear the snapping of their teeth, I raised my voice and began to sing 'Be Thou, O God, exalted high.' At the sound of my voice the wolves drew back, and I kept on my way, still singing with all my heart. As my voice sounded through the pines, and re-echoed through the neighbouring cliffs, I heard no more from my hungry visitors. stars came out so that I could see more plainly,

The

and just as day-light broke in the east, I entered the hotel at Canon City, in time to get a few hours' rest; then to meet with my brother ministers, and thank God for our many blessings, and especially for my miraculous preservation from a most miserable death."

The Wild Man from beyond the Turtle
Mountain.

"A FEW months since," says a presiding Missionary of Minnesota, U.S., "one who had been a heathen red man came 600 miles to visit me in my home. As he came into the door he knelt at my feet. He said to me, I kneel to tell you of my gratitude that you pitied the Red Man.'

"He then told me this simple, artless story :'I was a wild man living beyond the Turtle Mountain. I knew that my people were perishing! I never looked in the face of my child that my heart was not sick! My fathers told me there was a great Spirit, and I have often gone to the woods and tried to ask Him for help, and I only got the sound of my voice.'

"Then he looked in my face in that artless way, and said, 'You don't know what I mean. You never stood in the dark and reached out your hand, and took hold of nothing. One day an Indian came to my wigwam. He said to me he had heard you tell a wonderful story at Red Lake; that you said the Great Spirit's Son had come down to earth to save all the people that needed help; and the reason why the white man was so much more blessed than the red man was because he had the true religion of the Son of the Great Spirit, and I said, 'I must see that

man.'

"They told me you would be at the Red Lake crossing. I came 200 miles; I asked for you, and they said you were sick. Then I said, 'Where can I see a Missionary '? I came 150 miles more, and I found that the Missionary was a Red Man like myself. My father, I have been with him three moons. I have the story in my heart. It is no longer dark. It laughs all the while.' And he turned to me and said, 'Will you not give me a Missionary'? Shame on us who claim to be the Primitive Church that I had to say to him, 'We have not the man, and we have not the means!'

"Christ is peace to-day."

ON the banks of the river Indus, says the Illustrated Missionary News, there was a man named Bakinali, who, alone by himself, taught Christianity to many hundreds of Hindus. He was accustomed to teach in the form of aphorisms, and usually began his conversation with the Persian words, Messih inroz aram, "CHRIST IS PEACE TO-DAY "and then, in his own way, he would talk of the "full, free, finished salvationthe perfect and present Saviour," who is the only ground of a sinner's peace.

Do you wish to know reader, how it is that "CHRIST IS PEACE TO-DAY," then, to-day take to Him your misery,—your fears,—your dissatisfactions, your temptations,-your sins! He will take all these sources of wretchedness from you! and out of His fulness will give you pardon, full salvation, and peace-"PEACE through the blood

of the Cross!" So, for you, sinner, "CHRIST IS PEACE TO-DAY!"

A KAFFIR, in South Africa, a short time since, said to Mr. Hastings, the Moravian Missionary; I pray, but in great weakness. I am a man and can speak with men, but speaking with God I feel like a little child."

Asiatic Turkey.

THE gospel, we rejoice to know, has been making, even during the war, steady progress in the country above named. The Missionary operations are every where in a prosperous condition. We give the following items, as examples.

"In the mountains, not far from the city of Tarsus," says Rev. Dr, Bliss, "is a small Armenian villiage called Kooz Oglook. It has a population of only about 400 souls, all of whom are very poor. Some ten years ago, if I mistake not, a Testament was left in that village by Rev. Mr. Goss. The Missionary brother had received ill treatment at the hands of these villagers, and left the Testament among them purposely. After he left their village, the villagers discovered the Testament. Fearful of its influence, they caught

it

up, and hurrying after him, urged him to take it away. He however declined to take it, and told them to keep it. So the Testament has remained in that village, and from that time to the present it has been doing its silent leavening work. Thirty houses or three-eights of the inhabitants are now Protestants." When the Rev. T. C. Trowbridge recently visited this mountain town and spent a Sabbath there, seventy-five persons were present at the services. In the evening a prayer meeting was held at which thirteen prayers were offered-short, simple, earnest, uttered with broken accents. The meeting was spoken of as one of intense interest. No light had these poor people in their place of prayer but that furnished by blazing pine knots.

The last speaker was an aged man, who said, "Many call me poor, and in truth I have not much of this world's goods. Many think my lot a hard cne, and you all know my circumstances." He has long been blind, and has no wife or daughter to look after him, "But," said he "I call myself rich, and I am one of the happiest of the earth; and this seems the crowning of my hopes, in that to-day we have these friends with us, and listen to their preaching."

One of the muleteers from Tarsus, who was present, struck his breast, and said as they closed,

One thing surprises me. These have but just received the Gospel, yet they are fuller of its influence than those of many years' hearing in our city." Truly "the first shall be last, and the last first." He too, as was afterwards discovered, was suffering from a burdened conscience, and was near the point of conversion.

"A BIBLE WOMAN visits among the Druzes and Maronites in the sandy lanes, in the environs of Beyrout, Syria. Often they consult her as to whether they shall continue to burn incense to pictures and images; others say, 'I fear that I am nothing but a sinner, and I am thirsting to

hear the Word of God; I wish you would come often and teach me.' At all times she points them to Christ, and warns them against seeking other mediators."

Ellichpoor.

MISS FROW writes a charming letter to Mrs. Mahan, from Ellichpoor, India, enclosing an offering from her Sunday school for Mrs. Mumford. What a testimony to the power of the Gospel to soften the heart, and awaken sympathy! The poor little children of India sending of their scanty means to the suffering ones in Bulgaria! Truly the Lord openeth the hand. They send all that was in their treasury, 16 Rupees (£1 7s. 8d.), making, with a former contribution, 26 Rupees. Miss Frow says:

"One of these Rupees has a history. A few months ago the small-pox raged among the natives. A little girl, out of a large family, was seized with it. The first Sunday that she was able after her illness, she came, pale and weak, to the Sunday school. Putting a shining Rupee into my hand, she said This is a thank offering for getting well; please send it to Mrs. Mumford.' I was deeply touched, and reminded of a little boy in America who had often listened with great interest to the reading of my letters. Coming to his mother one day, he said, 'Mamma, I want to send Miss Frow some money.' Shortly after, he sickened and died. In his savings-bank they found one dollar, which was sent to me.

"The children want to know about those two little girls, how large they are, and what names they bear. I wrote to Mrs. Mumford some time ago, but fear she did not get the letter. We are so glad, for all the way the Lord does magnify His name through her. We pray often, and I have felt constrained to ask God to send her several helpers this year from America. peril were five times as great as it has should expect them to reach her safely. Lord reigneth!

If the been, I Oh, the

"I covet another lady to send her. If I had a dozen I could use them all. I would send one to Miss Reade at Punrooty, one to Miss Anstey at Calor, and one for Central Africa. We are asking for eight to join us this year. We are so glad to have dear Mr. and Mrs Sibley with us. We felt it to be a privilege for them to be with you and Dr. Mahan for a short season during their stay in London. Brother Norton has been touring all this year among the Koorkoos. In his first trip he baptized forty-two. I rejoice with trembling, because they have no teachers to remain with them. But I will not distrust God, and no man is able to pluck them out of His hand. Brother Norton has not been heard from this trip.

"Will you not pray for those who have come out on the Lord's side; and that God will send them teachers? I would not mind the hardships, but would the rather rejoice to go among them and live. My message, however, from the Throne is Stand by this post.'

"The Lord has been drawing me into deeper union with Ilimself, and I feel that the only words of my heart are Choose for me, Lord.'"

DIVIDE LIKE

OCTOBER 1st.

PUTTING OFF AND PUTTING ON.

PERSONAL salvation is negative and

positive. There is, first, something to be put off; and, second, something to be put on. And though both take place at the same time, yet they are distinct and dissimilar acts.

This twofold work is most forcibly stated by Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, as follows: "That ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph. iv. 22). Now, here are two distinct but contemporaneous processes. First, we are required to put off, as concerning the former conversation or life," the old man." "The old man "" is our debased, sinful nature, with its impure propensities. It is that taint of original sin, which, being aggravated by indulgence, takes the form of

the abiding fulness and comfort of the Holy Ghost. Sin must go out when Christ comes in; and all the dead leaves, old lumber, and worthless dross of iniquity must and will be burnt up when the extraordinary baptism of the Holy Ghost comes upon us.

But the task is only half done when we have thus flung off the filthy rags and tattered garments of sin. A creative work is yet to be performed. It is not merely to unrobe, but to re-robe, not merely to put away the old, but to put on the new. We are not left in doubt as to the significance of the new man which we are required to put on. It is nothing imputed or ceremonial, nothing external to ourselves. It is the creation of new moral qualities within us, which are here named righteousness and true holiness. In other words, rectitude and purity. And the words, "which after God," indicate that the kind and degree of moral excellence to be produced must correspond with the righteousness and true holiness of God himself.

When this twofold work is accomplished, a specimen of full redemption is furnished. Reader

Let us go into the wardrobe of the Saviour and make the exchange.

L.

"SPEAK THE WORD ONLY AND MY SERVANT SHALL BE HEALED."

THIS is the language of true faith. All

things are not only difficult, but impossible to us; but all things are not only possible, but easy with God. To unbelief the promises appear as impossibilities. To little faith they appear, not as absolute impossibilities, but as almost incredible possibilities. To great faith, that is, to genuine faith in its simplicity, on the other hand, they all appear,