produce of stiffness and formality, the writer looks back with encouragement to the daily comfort and assistance which it has given him during several successive years. The certainty that the thoughts to which it may lead are not yet begun to be exhausted, gives him a hope that he may not have laboured, if it can be called labour, for himself or for others, in vain. The end of all meditation is to learn more of God, and to become more like Him; not to stand still, or merely to lament our deficiency, but to stir us up in earnest to renew the fight, in the strength of God, in hourly consciousness of the presence of Christ, and in the power of His Holy Spirit, and His holy Word. If only such works are used day by day, as this is intended, to lead to and not from the holy Scriptures, and in occasional moments of leisure to revive the recollection of them, he has no fear; for there, if any where, men will find the true picture of their own perverseness, ignorance, and waywardness, on the one side, and on the other all the encouraging and hope-giving truths which point to the love and care and aid of their Father, their Redeemer, and their Guide.