"Judge not, that ye be not judged.

"For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged." (St. Matt. vii. 2.)

The Jurisprudence of the Common Law of England is founded upon the Church Catechism, and should be amended in anticipation of the Second Advent. St. Peter thus speaks :

"And to testify that this is He which is ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead." (Acts x. 42.)

There are rewards as well as punishments, and all men will be proved to be not equal, though all are equally men. St. Paul speaks of his rewards :

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"Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not only to me, but also to all them that have loved His appearing." (2 Tim. iv. 8.)

There is also the resurrection of the first-fruits, and the general resurrection of all mankind, which is sometimes mistaken owing to the omission of the words "out of" the dead in our translation. Well may we all pray in the words that Mother Church puts into our mouths as we lay our loved ones to rest: Spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, Thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from Thee." (Burial of the Dead.)

"PARADISE REGAINED."

Let no one say that the Christian religion can be surpassed by any other cult which may claim the suffrages of mankind. There is no ideal which has

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not its realization in the true Christian Faith. Communion of Saints guarantees intimate sympathy and re-union of just men and women made perfect.

The male sex, whilst it is represented by the one Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ, has inconceivable possibilities before it.

On the other hand, whilst rejoicing in the redemption brought by the second Adam, the female sex has the hopeful impersonation of the second Eve, in whom the whole sex is glorified.

I have already referred to St. Paul's allusion to the marriage of Christ with His Bride, the Church. This great mystery must be spoken of with the deepest reverence, and it is an ideal which places the holy estate of matrimony in an awful light. I cannot believe it is to be whittled away to mean only a mystical Corporate Church, but that from the sex which fell in Eve will the woman be found who by sanctification of the Spirit will be made meet to be the second Immaculate Eve-the Lamb's Wife.

The victory of the woman over the Nachash, recorded in the Book of Revelation, will be an accomplished fact, and it is something that women should look forward to.

The Paradise of the future will possess an Immaculate Adam and an Immaculate Eve, and from this stock will proceed a spiritual seed, which shall out-number the greatest that could be conceived by the Paradise pair who fell!

The Tree of Life will be there, and the profession of medicine may yet dispense its leaves for the healing of the nations, and thus perpetuate "the gifts of healing." So mote it be!

CHAPTER III.

THE FLOOD.

How the pages of Holy Writ depict the innate wickedness which underlies a specious sanctity any impartial reader must discern. Drunkenness and lust of the most loathsome description are the two vices which stain Noah and his family ere the covenant of the beautiful bow had faded away! The three races, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, were not content with a common communication between heaven and earth, but with anarchic audacity, attempt to build a tower which should bridge the two, and were only brought to reason by the confusion of conversation. The confusion of tongues exists to the present day, and no more succinct account can be found than that which is recorded in the Book of Genesis. A wave of wrong-doing periodically sweeps over humanity, and to the student of human history presents an awful picture of the potency of wickedness. It is seen most conspicuously in the chosen race who lapsed into idolatry, and the greater part of whose tribes were scattered to the four quarters of the earth. Civilization is even found co-existing with a false religion, but in so far as it is a religion faulty rather than

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false, the civilization may be less corrupt than the dark darkness which stalks the streets of too many a Christian city.

Now, as a sample of simplicity combined with awful responsibility, let us take the code of the Hebrew race, which is still incumbent upon every race which embraces the covenant of Calvary, as well as that of Sinai.

THE DECALOGUE.

It is humbly submitted that an error has crept into the interpretation of this eternal code, which has had a disastrous effect upon faith and practice.

The Ten Commandments inculcate our duty towards God and our duty towards our neighbour. The first five primarily refer to our duty to God, the last five primarily refer to our duty towards our neighbour.

Three, five, seven, ten, are all mystic numbers with a mystic meaning.

The first three inculcate the unreserved devotion to the All-Good; the two next have a practical bearing upon the relations of mankind, and dovetail into the duty towards one another; but how thrilling is the fifth, as containing a mystical meaning of the "All-Fatherhood and Motherhood of God." "Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord (thy Father) thy God (thy Mother) giveth thee." It is overlooking the fact that in its primary significance it is the honour of the Most High Parents which carry along with it the secondary sense of honour to

the earthly father and mother, which has warped the faith of many.

It is a truth so simple and appealing to all that is highest and noblest in human nature, and carrying with it a special promise which is only an earnest of the great home above. Human parents, as a type of the heavenly, are to be honoured. But human parents, unlike the heavenly, are liable to become the slaves of Satan, and no lever can be used by the great adversary of mankind more powerful than to pervert the parents.

The five fingers of the right hand may serve to remind us of our duty towards God. The five fingers of the left may equally remind us of our duty towards our neighbour. Thus, in the language of Scripture, may God's laws be written "on the palms of our hands."

This interpretation of the Fifth Commandment gives such significance to the words of the Divine Son, "Whosoever loveth father or mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me." The Fifth Commandment is the first commandment with promise; it is the promise not only of the earth that now is, but of the earth to come. The Heavenly Mother is frequently called "the Promise of the Father." Then come the five last commandments, which, considering that they were written by the finger of God, must be eternally binding, and should always be studied and spoken of with reverential awe. The last five are concerned with special sins against our neighbour; murder, theft, adultery, false witness, and covetousness.

These moral mandates are eternally true; upon