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brow they may gaze upon the Promised Land, filling the expanse beneath with splendor and magnificence.

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Memory's tracings upon the heart of man are not for Time only. Linking our souls to the Past, establishing our identity, and affixing our accountability, they go with us into the Unseen, there to be our companions through eternity, either for weal or woe.

Of all terrible things in Hell, the retrospects of a lost soul must be the most appalling. Anguish indescribable will be awakened by a still, small voice, eternally repeating, "Son, remember . . . . thy lifetime!" Steeped in perdition, the Lost One is constrained to look back to earth. What avail now the (so-called) "good things," which he took in exchange for salvation? Where are now his purple and fine linen? The harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe were in his feasts; but in their stead he heareth only the cries of the damned. He fared sumptuously every day; but now he cannot find a finger's drip of water to cool his tongue. And he reviews his day of grace. Often and often the Saviour knocked at the door of his heart, but He was denied admittance. Manifold were God's providential dealings with him; yet their righteous tendency was deliberately frustrated. Great was the Lord's forbearance-wonderful was His long-suffering; but they were set at nought by his own determined continuance in sin. He cannot put from view the Sabbaths which he profaned, and the ordinances which he despised. Perhaps there will arise before him a vision of some

quiet sanctuary, and the hallowed company of worshippers assembled therein; and he will gnash his teeth, when he recollects that he is now an inmate of Hell-a companion of devils for ever.

Nor will saints in glory be without their memories. Heaven would not be to them what it is, if they forgot the great tribulation out of which they came. Jesus would not be to them All and in all, if they could not sing:

"Thou wast slain,

And hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood,

Out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation!"

With augmented powers and higher faculties, we shall then measure the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of His love; and yet, even with these, we shall find that it "passeth knowledge." Marvellous, however, will be our discoveries, when we see, not through a glass darkly, but face to face— when we see the King in His beauty—when we see Him as He is.

We shall understand, in a larger measure, His guidings. He brought us, the blind, by a way we knew not. He led us in paths that we had known. At some crisis in our history He changed our habitation, and against our will conducted us into a new sojourning-place. There, blessings awaited us. The ministry of reconciliation at last prevailed with our souls. The preached word was made to work effectually within us. The Holy Spirit took of Christ's, and showed it unto us. Often had we been pointed eye of faith beheld Him as

to Jesus; but now the

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world. Wonderful was the Lord's method of making darkness light before us, and, by the conversion of our souls, making crooked things to be straight.

We shall understand, too, the love that denied us certain temporal things, upon which we had set our affection. Our purposes for some alliance or settlement in life were frustrated, and we gave ourselves up to a miserable repining. We were baffled, and, as we thought, undone. But we know now that our wishes fulfilled would have abandoned us to mere worldly-mindedness. Our souls were imperilled, and our Redeemer interfered to save them.

We shall understand His multitudinous interpositions in our behalf. In this world, His creatures perceive but a small part of His goodness. Blessings, countless as the sands, are their own; but the known mercies bear only a small proportion to the unknown. We shall wonder as we discover, for the first time, our deliverances from danger-our preservation from injuries -our protection from maladies; and the manifold escapes that were ours in our earthly pilgrimage.

When faith is lost in

sorrows, and see that If it were a sickness,

We shall understand the nature of our afflictions. Faith, when exercised, ever satisfied itself with the assurance, "What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter." sight, we shall look into past they all came to us in love. we shall find that it was sent at the time it was needed; that it was the kind of correction best suited to us; and that it lingered no longer than our Ileavenly Father saw fit. If it were the loss of

worldly means, we shall discover that we had begun to trust in uncertain riches, and that God took them away, and in very faithfulness afflicted us. If it were the removal of friends, we shall see that we were never caused to shed for them one useless tear. The separation was necessary, and was, therefore, brought to pass. We were making to ourselves idols, and the idols God will utterly abolish. Or, their time had come to be received up, and, accordingly, they were taken home. Thus, into whatsoever dispensation of the Lord we look, we shall find therein evidences of His goodness, mercy, and truth. Our researches, if endlessly continued, will only vindicate His honour. Our experience will be that of David's :— "The Lord is righteous in all His ways,

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A solemn, subduing conviction has settled itself on my mind; and, under its influence, I closs this chapter. I am, in my lifetime,

the materials for reminiscences.

continually creating To-day's events will

on to morrow belong to the Past. All that I think, and speak, and do, shall be, throughout Eternity, my own "retrospects."

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CHAPTER VII.

GLORIFYING GOD.

"As it is most just, so it is also most sweet, to aim at all this, That God may be glorified. It is the alone worthy and happy design that fills the heart with heavenliness, and with a heavenly calmWhat are the angels doing? This is their business without end. And seeing that we hope to partake with them, we should even here, though in a lower key and not so tunably, begin it. And upon all occasions our hearts should be often following in this sweet note, or offering at it, To Him be glory and dominion for ever."

ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.

HE sweet summer is come again, and the earth is once more apparelled in her robes of loveliness. From every grove I am saluted In the air I

by the voices of unseen choristers. breathe I seem to drink nectar. The Master's work has called me from my home, and of late I have been "in journeyings often." But there is a pause on this forenoon, and I find myself saying "Grata est quies!" The sun is climbing to his height in the heavens ; the air is hot, and the shade of an ilex is agreeable. A scene of surpassing beauty environs me. I am gazing on the southern front of an Elizabethan mansion, and am transported in imagination to the banks of the Tweed. The numerous gables with projecting bay-windows, the mullioned oriel, and the feudal flag-tower, remind me of Abbotsford. On every

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