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in the darkness. The isolating influences of sin have done their work. He is shut out from the light of His Father's eye, or to Himself He seems to be: the joy, the delight of His life is gone: the blessed fellowship seems broken: there is a horrible sense of loneliness within His heart, and a terrible desolation within His guiltless soul. So He sinks, He staggers, He dies: Jesus, "the Forsaken."

And so, dear brother, dear sister, He bore your sins into the land not inhabited. No witnessing spirit can find them there; no denizen of those dreary regions can re-discover them. They are left amid the wastes of desolation; they are sunk like a stone into the depths of the vast ocean of infinite love. They are lost sight of by man; the very devils of hell cannot re-discover them; the angels find them obliterated from their view, and God Himself has turned His back upon them, and left them in the land of separation.

Are you going to bring them back from thence? Are you going to make a discovery of them afresh? Are you going to bind them on your own guilty soul, and re-introduce yourself into the Divine presence, cursed with their blighting influences? Oh, be content to leave them where God has left them; since your Scape-goat has borne them into that region of separation, be content to leave them there. He staggered under their load: you need not. He bore the agony which they entailed: you need not. He cried out in His desolation: you need not be desolate. He found Himself forsaken: you need not be forsaken. Because He has penetrated into the depths of the desert, and because He has borne the deepest agony that even the God-man could bear, it is our blessed privilege to find ourselves not in a land of separation, but in the land of love. Glory be to God! first of all, our hearts are bound in love to the Invisible God, to the Father, bound to Him, from whom our being has proceeded, in His own dear Son, and then bound to each other, because we are bound to Him. Out of the land of separation have we been brought into the land of blessed society: the fellowship of heaven is all around us. What! Know ye not that ye, who were strangers and foreigners, if ye have really trusted to the work of your Great Representative, are now fellow-citizens with the saints, of the very household of God, and heirs of everlasting glory in the Father's kingdom!

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Read at the Conclusion of the Brighton Mission Services.

DEAR YOUNG CHRISTIANS,

As God has been pleased, in His own good will, to take away my voice for a while, I cannot speak to you; but perhaps you will be all the more likely to remember two or three words of loving counsel from my sick room.

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First. Remember you are in yourself just as weak as ever. All your feeling of strength arises from the fact that Jesus is

yours.

Secondly. Therefore guard above everything your fellowship with Him. Speak to Him by the way. Make Him your confidential Friend.

Thirdly. Remember that while you could do nothing to obtain salvation, your true life of high and holy doing now begins. You are "created again unto good works."

Fourthly. Study the word of God, and especially the character of Jesus. We grow in grace as we grow in knowledge of Him.

Fifthly." Walk by faith." Trust! Trust! Trust! Right all through. And Jesus will never fail.

Sometimes, when you think of me, pray for me. I need

your prayers.

God bless you, my dear children in the Lord.

Your ever faithful friend,

10, Palmeira Square, Brighton,

W. HAY M. H. AITKEN.

January 28th, 1876.

* The "Mission" was abruptly terminated by the sudden and severe illness of "the Mission Preacher."

REPORTED, PRINTED, AND PUBLISHED,

BY CHARLES E. VERRALL,

"BRIGHTON PULPIT OFFICE,

4, PRINCE ALBERT STREET, BRIGHTON, AND 97, CALVERLEY ROAD,

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.

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REV. W. HAY M. H. AITKEN, M.A.,
Late Vicar of Christ Church, Everton, Liverpool,

Preached during the Ten Days' Mission, at St. Margaret's Church,

Brighton,

FULLY REPORTED BY THE EDITOR OF THE "BRIGHTON PULPIT."

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CHAS. E. VERRALL, Reporter, Printer, and Publisher, "Brighton
Pulpit " Office, 4, Prince Albert Street.

Two of the above Sermons are reprinted in a separate
form, Price 2d. each. Subjects: "The Soul's Pleas," and
"The Sprinkled Blood."

AUTHORIZED

EDITIΟΝ.

PRICE 4s., NETT CASH.

SECOND SERIES OF

"MISSION" SERMONS,

PREACHED AT ALL SOULS' CHURCH,

AND THE

DOME OF THE ROYAL PAVILION, BRIGHTON,

In JANUARY, 1876, by the

REV. W. HAY M. H. AITKEN, M.A.,

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A THIRD SERIES of Sermons by the "Mission Preacher" Now Ready, Price 4s. nett cash.

Reported, Printed and Published by CHARLES E. VERRALL,

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Brighton Pulpit ” Office, 4, Prince Albert Street, Brighton.

To be had in Pamphlet form, Price Twopence.

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