ABUNDANT GRACE.

Grace," said the poor laborer," Grace, that means something for nothing." This is precisely the idea of Grace, "something for nothing"-yes, and the grace of God is everything for nothing.

By grace are ye saved through faith."-Eph. ii : 8. "Not of works," for no man can buy salvation by his efforts. "Not of works," for our works have many of them been evil, "Not of works," for how cau the toils of a brief hour purchase the bliss and blessing of eternal ages? It is by Grace, by free, full, unmerited favor, that man may have "salvation with eternal glory."

"By the grace of God I am what I am."-1 Cor. xv: 10. Not by my works, for they would have sank me in despair. Not by my strength, for it is weakness. Not by my good resolutions, for they have been broken a thousand times. Not by my wisdom, for I have perverted it and used it in the ways of sin. But by Grace, by mercy, by the free favor of God, I am what I am. Not what I might have been, not what I should have been, not what I hope to be, but what I am. And this is by Grace. God sought me when I wandered from him. He loved me when I disregarded him. He pitied me when I blasphemed him. He melted my heart though I strove to harden it against him. When He had spread for me the royal feast of love, then grace sweetly drew my reluctant footsteps to the blessed board.

Where sin abounded grace did so much more abound."-Rom. v: 20, Sin was an occasion that proved how deep and rich was heavenly mercy. And so in a persecuting Saul,-in a denying Peter,-in a wild and reckless Newton,-in a wicked, blasphemous ME, grace has so much the more abounded. The persecuting Saul was a pattern of all God's long suffering, and God counted him faithful, putting him into the ministry. The cursing Peter was commissioned to feed the sheep and lambs of Christ. The wild and reckless Newton was a messenger of peace to multitudes, and I, through God's love, am now permitted to tell of "The

praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."-Eph. i : 6.

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The Grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men, teaching us that denying ungod iness and wordly lusts, we should live soberly, righte ously, and godly in this present world, looking for that. blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ."-Titus ii: 12, 13 Grace brings salvation-from sin, from condemnation, from guilt, from lust, from the dark and dire thraldom of the destroyer, from death, by a resurrection to glory, and from the second death by the gift of eternal life. So mighty is the grace of God. Grace takes us from the horrible pit and miry clay. Grace places our feet on the rock and establishes our goings. Grace puts a new song in our mouths, even praise unto the Lord. Grace clothes us with the stainless robe. Grace gives us the gospel armor. Grace teaches our hands to war and our fingers to fight. Grace is sufficient for us in every dark and perilous hour. Grace lifts us when we fall and sustains us when we arise. Grace leads us through all the wild and dangerous ways of life. Grace cheers us in the dark valley and gladdens us on the hills of light. Grace abounds always, but most in our weakness, for then the power of Christ may be manifest in us to the glory of His name.

The Lord God is a sun and shield, he will give GRACE and GLORY.”—Ps. lxxxiv: 11. They are linked together. The glory of his grace will be fully manifested by-and-by. Grace is the beginning of glory. Glory is the ending of grace. Grace is glory's spring. Glory is grace's full ocean. Grace is glory in bud. Glory is grace in its full fruitfulness. God will give both. Grace here to save us-glory there to reward

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Grace here to crucify us to earth, and glory there to crown us in his kingdom.

"Wherefore gird up the loins of your minds and be sober, and hope unto the end, for the grace that shall be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. -1 Pet. i: 13. O, what grace shall then be brought.

Then shall grace be perfected in immortal glory. Tears and toils and woes shall be done. Sin and death and the grave shall be vanquished! Sorrow and sighing shall forever flee away. The dark reign of the adver sary shall be ended, and grace, reigning unto eternal life, shall triumph in the world. Where sin abounded grace shall so much the more abound, so that God's will shall be done in earth as it is done in heaven.-Math vi: 10. His kingdom shall come and he shall reign forever in glory. He shall then give rewards of eternal glory to all who have known the blessing of his wondrous grace.

"In the ages to come he shall show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Jesus Christ."-Eph. ii: 7. The present is too brief a term for the full revealing of divine favor. We cannot know the wealth of God's love in this world. It passeth knowledge. But "in the ages to come," in the boundless sweep of the illimitable future, in the wide and expanding periods that shall fill the cycles of eternity-there can God's grace be revealed in all its glorious amplitude. And how? "In His kindness towards us through Jesus Christ." Thus, shall grace reveal itself in all the unfording scenes of glory in the world to come.

"We then as workers together with God beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain."—2 Cor. vi: 1. Let the grace of God be revealed in you. Let not your hearts be hardened against the work of grace.

Who shall answer for you? Who shall excuse you? Who shall deliver you in the great day of Christ, if ye refuse the grace of God? A sinner saved by grace would tell you there is grace that is abundant. Grace for sinners. Grace for publicans and harlots. Grace for drunkards and gamblers. Grace for thieves and murderers, aud robbers. Grace for all whose hearts respond to mercy's invitation, and whose faith embraces the divine promises. "The GRICE of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."--Rom. xvi: 24.

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THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.

"The Lord himself shall descend from heaven."

I. Testimony from the Patriarchs. ENOCH, Jude 14; JOB Xix ; 25-27. BAALAM, Num. xxiv: 16, 17.

II. Testimony of DAVID, PS. 1: 3-6; cii: 16; xevi: 10–13; xcviii: 7-9.

III. Testimony of Prophets. ISAIAH XXV : 9 ; xxvi: 21; xxxv: 4; xl: 10; xlii: 13; lxii: 11; lxiv: 1; lxvi; 15. JEREMIAH xxiii: 5-6. EZEKIEL xxi: 25-27, DANIEL Vii: 13–14; xii: 1. ZECHARIAH XIV: 3-4.

IV. Testimony of Apostles. PAUL, 1 Cor. xv: 22, 23. Phil. iii: 20. 1 Thess. i: 9-10; ii: 19; iii: 13; iv: 16, 18. 2 Thess. i: 7-10; ii: 1-8; iii: 5. 2 Tim iv: 1. Titus ii: 13, 14. Heb. ix: 27-28; x: 37. PETER, Acts iii: 19-20. 1 Pet: i; 13; v : 4; 2 Pet. i: 16; iii: 14. JAMES V: 7–9. JUDE 14. JOHN.-1 John iii; 28; ii: 2. Rev. i: 7; vi: 16, 17; xix: 11-16.

V. Testimony of Argels. Acts i: 9-11; Rev. xxii: 6. 7. VI. Testimony of Christ himself. Math. xvi: 27; xxiv: 30,31, 39, 42, 50; xxv: 13, 19, 31. Mark viii: 38; xiii: 26, 34-36. Luke xii: 36, 40, 46; xvii; 24, 30; xxi: 27. John xiv: 1-3, 18, 28. Rev. xvi: 15; xxii; 7, 12, 20.

Here are seventeen witnesses-two Patriarchs-Baalam→ David-Four Prophets-Five Apostles--Three Angels, and our Lord himself. Believest thou the prophets? They declare 1. Christ will come personally. Actsi: 9, 11; 1 Thess. iv : 16; Heb. ix: 28.

2. He will come visibly. 1 John iii:2; Math. xxiv: 30. 3. Gloriously. Math. xxv: 31; Mark viii: 38; Luke ix: 26. 4. With his holy angels. 2 Thess. i: 7; Math. xiii: 39; XXV: 31.

The objects of his coming will be

1. To raise the dead. 1 Thess. iv: 13, 16; 2 Tim. iv: 1-8, 2. To judge the world. Acts xix: 31; Tim. iv: 1-8 ; Math. xxv : 31, 46.

3. To save his people. Heb. ix: 27, 28; Is. xxv: 6, 9.

4. To destroy the wicked. 2 Thess. i: 8, 9; ii: 8; Is. xi: 4. 5. To restore all things. Acts iii: 21, 23; Rev. xxi, xxii. 6. To reign forever and ever. Rev. v: 10; xxi: 5; Math. xxv: 34; 2 Tim. iv: 1.

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WONDROUS LOVE.

"For God so LOVED the WORLD that he GAVE his only begotten Son, that whosoever BELIEVETH in him should not PERISH, but have EVERLASTING LIFE." John iii; 15.

Some missionaries, it is said, were once called into the presence of an heathen king, and were desired to unfold the doctrines that they taught. They began to read to the king from John's Gospel, and came to this passage. "Stop," said the king "read that again." Again they read the wondrous record of divine affection. Stop," said he, "read it again." They did so. "Call my counsellors," said the king, and there in the presence of royalty, surrounded by the congregated wisdom of the kingdom, they considered this sublime and glorious statement of divine love.

A minister who had once preached from this passage was waited upon the day following by a heart-broken penitent, who said, "I was at the meeting yesterday." "Then it was the sermon that brought you to reflect on this subject." "O, no," she replied, "it was not the sermon, it was the text." So true it is that "the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." But oh, how often we read with carelessness these wondrous announcements to mortal man.

There is a God, the High, the mighty and the Holy One. He inhabiteth eternity he dwelleth in light. He maketh the clouds his chariot, he walketh upon the wings of the wind, He hath his way in the whirlwind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet He spreadeth out the heavens as a tent to dwell in. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants are as grass-hoppers before him. All nations are as the small dust of the balance in the sight of him, the great, the mighty, the eternal God.

He has a Son-His only begotten son; his well beloved Son. He did always his Father's will. He was