speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."

Strive to be among those at the last day to whom the Judge will say, "I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in naked, and ye clothed me sick, and in prison, and ye visited me."-Matt. xxv. 42, 43. What a powerful reference to the above language of Isaiah is the language of the Judge! Live so near to Christ, leaning upon his bosom, like John, until he has communicated his sympathies to your heart.

Strive to pull souls out of the fire. Souls are very precious; this you know well don't let them perish: get them saved at any cost. The heart of a truly sanctified Christian feels much for souls. Get a heart like his who wept over Jerusalem in her sins, as well as over Lazarus in his grave at Bethany. Pray for it. Be much with God about it, and you will feel something like it. This sort of heart is an amazing qualification for useful effort. Live to feel for others, and your life and feelings will lead to the salvation of others. To be a means of salvation to immortal souls, O what a feast of happiness! Get the bowels of Christ, whose life was one unbroken exhibition of compassion of the highest order, and imitate the benevolence of your heavenly father, and the perishing rescued by you will bless you in Judgment.

The way to keep your sanctification is, to LIVE IT. Obey God rather than confer with flesh and blood. Renew your covenant daily. Do no evil. Omit doing no good. In

time of temptation pray. In the absence of feeling, believe. When injured by others, return it by kindness. When pleasures would allure, and the fascinating charms of the world would ensnare, say,―

"Thy name to me, thy nature grant;

This, only this, be given:

Nothing beside my God I want,

Nothing in earth or heaven."

The way to secure the largest amount of personal happiness, is, to secure the largest amount of personal holiness.

CHAPTER XIX.

LOVE IN MOTION.

LOVE is naturally and essentially possessed of the elements of activity. Like the sea, it is always in motion. Its waters of benevolence are never at rest. The tide flows every day; and should its waters ebb on one shore to all outward appearance, it is only that they may flow on another.

Love is so far from being a sleepy or quiescent thing, that it is a principle absolutely possessed of a holy and heavenly restlessness. If there be but a little of it, it will act in proportion to its quantum. If much, it will do much. It cannot be still. Keep it in your soul, and it will keep you in action. Just like the steam moves the engine; the weighted cords the clock, and the spring the watch, so love moves the Christian. Like a crystal stream, running down through a flowery country, giving increased beauty to the landscape as its almost vocal ripples commune with the sporting sunbeams, falls upon the paddles of yon water mill and sets the whole inward apparatus in motion; so pure love, flowing through the heavenly landscape within, turns the spiritual wheels of will, desire, disposition, and charity thus the perfect Christian, like a spiritual machine, propelled by love only, is set in motion for the glory

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of God and the benefit of mankind. Love and motion in some way or other are inseparably connected.

The holy and useful life of the Christian is the outward development of the great principle within. The verbal profession of the great blessing in consideration constitutes the foliage, the happy expression of the countenance is the blossom, while zealous and benevolent actions are the fruits of the tree of holy love. This love is invisible in the heart, but visible in the life. The sanctified soul feels its powerful promptings within, while others share its blessings without. Love to God travels out and shows itself by obedience to the will of God. Love to our neighbour shows itself in the spirit of goodness, charity, kindness, gentleness, forbearance, long suffering, the spirit of forgiveness when injured, and benevolent effort. Every variety of circumstance serves to bring out its different celestial features, and prove that LOVE IS THE CENTRE AND CIRCLE OF EVANGELICAL RELIGION. Get love enveloped in your heart, and I warrant it to be developed in your life. This is man in God's moral image. A moving love! a second god, an out-beaming loveliness, communicating itself to others! Heaven's choicest treasure in an earthen vessel ! "HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD AND GOD IN HIM."

Actions speak louder than words. It is a difficult thing to misunderstand the language of action. I once heard a deaf man say, that he could form an idea of what a certain preacher meant by his peculiar action and looks in the pulpit, although he could not hear a word. Just so with the wholly sanctified Christian-his action is understood, which loudly speaks to the eyes and hearts of those around, “This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments." His religion, far from being a mere speculative thing, about which the head busies itself independent of the heart and life;

is a matter which enlists the whole of his moral sensibilities carrying in its one hand a holy life, and in the other a good conscience toward God and man. Such an one, whose heart is full of love, and whose whole life is governed by love, is a perfect Christian, though he possesses a thousand physical and mental defects. Thus the greatness of our holy religion condescends by its simplicity to the acceptance of all-king or subject-philosopher or peasant. None can get more than a heart full-none need have less. Let all get this, and mankind appear like a vast population of angels in human form. Lord, hasten the day when love shall be universally incarnated. Amen.

Of the wholly sanctified believer it may be said, "The root of the matter is in him." Trees of righteousness always have love for their root, consequently the fruits produced are to the praise and glory of God: they spring from a principle which lies deep in the good soil of a purfied heart, and which contains all the essential elements of evangelical obedience. Love is the nature of God, the command of the law, and the life of the Christian. Love, like a well-moistened root, supplying the tree with its pure sap, and sending the heavenly juice up to the top and breadth of the life, covers the branches with the emerald leaves of a consistent profession, and seasonably supplies the fruits of righteousness in all things. A religious professor, whose heart is destitute of this active and productive principle, can no more yield the fruits of the Spirit, than a tree without a root can produce apples. There is a wide difference between the forced fruits of a slavish fear, and the spontaneous fruits of a Godlike love. Fear of the curse pulls the legal moralist with grief and dread unspeakable but love to God and man carries the Christian moralist onward with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Fear, with hands heated in the fires of perdition, pushes at the