It will secure us in prosperity and sustain us in adversity. This sanctified Daniel when a minister of State. This enabled Paul to say: 'I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. Every where and in all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!'

The calling which we have, to partake of the privileges of the Gospel, is to be considered as a general as well as individual calling; which will not be effectual to our salvation without personal holiness. The Jews were in a body called chosen, saved, redeemed, sanctified, and so are professing Christians. But notwithstanding this, it is only those indivi duals who comply with the terms of the Gos pel, Faith, Repentance and Holiness, who will be finally saved.-Much truth is contained in the above remark,

Influence of the Holy Spirit.

A DIVINE influence on the heart is promised to those who seek for it: the Scriptures tell us, that God will give his Holy Spirit to them who ask him. And the man who desires to live in obedience to God, and knows how much there is, in himself, of a contrary tendency, is glad to find such a promise. For hereby [he shall be enabled to attain to] that purity of heart and holiness of life which Christianity enjoins.

Christians that truly fear the Lord, have a proportion of the primitive spirit: and if they could learn to watch and wait there, where God works the fear, they would daily receive more and more of it, and in it understand more and more the true intent and preciousness of the words of Holy Scripture.-Penington.

The Christian's business is not Science, but Experience.-Valdesso.

Men cannot withstand conviction when it comes with power; but they may deny obedience to that which they are convinced of. Nay, some in the Apostles' days went further, even to taste of the heavenly gift and power of the world to come and to partake of the Holy Ghost; and yet fell away: Yet is this no well grounded objection against the way and Truth of God. Indeed I make little of the illumination of the understanding, without subjection to Him that illuminateth, in those things wherein He illuminateth.-Penington.

It is more (as to the nature of the thing) to meet with one little touch of power, to keep a man against his corruptions, and the deceit of his heart, than to meet with a great descending of power upon a man's spirit, to wrap him up into high enjoyments, or to enable him to speak great things of the mysteries of God's kingdom. For, it changes his heart more; it helps him on his journey more; it prepares his spirit more for the Lord; it adds to his growth more-than the other. Yea, the other will hurt him, unless his spirit be poised by the Lord and made able to bear it. But the still

working of the Power, which secretly melteth and changeth the mind, reneweth it (as it were insensibly) daily more and more into the image [of God] that is the safe, precious and profitable ministration of life.-Penington's Letters.

It is not the part of him who is a true be liever to make haste; but to leave the times, seasons, ways and means, to the Lord alone, whose will is to be done in earth, as in heaven. S. C.

Much business is no excuse for neglecting Him, in whom we live and move and have our being.

Paul knew to whom he wrote, when he exhorted Timothy to stir up the gift of God that was in him. Timothy had a great understanding, and both knew the gift and how to stir it up. But he that hath not a true understanding, may stir up something else instead of the gift; and so kindle a fire of his own, and offer up his own sacrifice with his own fire: neither of which is acceptable to the Lord.-I. Penington.

It belongs not to the clay, to judge of the time that is taken up in the fashioning of it.

It is not a moderate fire that will purify gold.

We have occasion to wait on the gift of God in our own hearts, which is Christ: by which only right improvement is to be witnessed: not upon the gifts of others.-J. K.

It is a wonderful thing to consider, how the Truth, the Gospel, the Life, the Power which saves, is one and the same in all ages and ge nerations and yet, "hid from the wise and prudent" in every age.-Penington.

[Who is wise, and he shall understand these things-prudent, and he shall know them? For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. Hosea xiv. 9.]

Multos et nostra Civitas et Græcia tulit singulares viros; quorum neminem nisi adjuvante Deo talem fuisse credendum est. Nemo igitur Vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu Divino unquam fuit.-Cicero de Nat. Deor.

Bonus Vir sine Deo nemo est. An potest aliquis supra fortunam, nisi ab Illo adjutus, exsurgere?-Idem: de Officiis.

Many were the motives which concurred to animate the ancient Christians: but as the love of life and the abhorrence of pain are universal passions, there seems wanting a cause as uni