would be manifested in giving publicity to the tidings, the expedients used, the ideas of his auditors relative to the importance of his mission, their probable indifference, perhaps contumely and scorn, pronounced over-zealous, carrying matters too far, perchance fanatic, or monomaniac, might be the epithets that might serve to distinguish him from the mass of mankind, and be the reward of his labors of love, during the performance of his earthly mission.

Yet the thought of the manner in which these considerations would effect him, the various motives that would call forth his commiscration, the little weight that a contemptuous reception of his message would have on his personal feelings, only as far as the honor of his Sovereign was concerned, his slight associations and attachments to earth, other than as the scene for the completion of his work, his thoughts of heaven, as the centre of his operations, the home of his heart, his native country, &c., all tended to instruct and admonish.

It was now that the Scriptural meaning of the words, "The very God of peace sanctify. you wholly," "body, soul and spirit," "thy

will be done on earth as it is done in heaven," "ye are not of the world, I have chosen you out of the world," "redeemed from all iniquity,"

a peculiar people," "strangers," "pilgrims," "sojourners," "fellow-citizen with the saints in light," &c., communicated torrent after torrent of light upon the peculiar nature, responsibilities, and infinite blessedness of the way upon which she had newly entered. And in answer to the inquiry, Can you declare this great salvation to others? her heart responded, Yea, Lord, to an assembled world at once, if it be at thy bidding! Only "arm me with thy Spirit's might." "Into thy hands I commit my spirit;" let it but actuate this body for the performance of thy good will and pleasure in all things; and if at any time thou seest me about to depart from thee, cut short the work in righteousness, and take me home to thyself. "Tis done! the great transaction's done,

I am my Lord's, and he is mine;

He drew me, and I followed on,

Charmed to confess the voice divine.

Now rest my long-divided heart,

Fixed on this blissful centre rest,

Nor ever from thy Lord depart,

With him of every good possessed."

"THE WAY OF HOLINESS."

THERE IS BUT ONE WAY.

SECTION VIII.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."

Light from the eternal hills!

Thou lamp of life divine!
River of God; of many rills,
Reaching to all mankind.

Laden with precious freight,

Fresh from the courts above,
Alike to all, both small and great,
Thine embassy of love.

Gold were a thing of nought,

Rubies of priceless worth,

Compared with treasures thou hast brought,
To fallen sons of earth.

O how precious, precious beyond all computation was the blessed word of God now to her soul. She had valued it before, but now, as she retraced the way by which the Lord had brought her, she saw that each progressive

step had been distinctly marked by a reference to its requirements.

Though often greatly advantaged by the recital of the experience of fellow-travellers to the heavenly city, so much so that she greatly loved the assembling of themselves together, yet she found, on looking back, that former perplexities in experience had too frequently arisen from a proneness to follow the traditions of men, instead of the oracles of God.

She now found that "there is but one way," and this way far better, and "shorter” also, by bringing every diversified state of experience however specious or complex, to compare with the "law and the testimony." And if not according to these, became assured that it was because the true light had not shined there. From this period it became an immoveable axiom with her, never to deem an experience satisfactory that could not be substantiated. with an emphatic, "thus saith the Lord."

On getting into "the way of holiness," she found that much clearer light beamed upon her path. Never in former experience did she so sweetly apprehend the truth of the

words, "Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be thy everlasting light." "And the days of thy mourning shall be ended."

It was while walking in this light that the subtilty, maliciousness, and power of the arch deceiver became much more apparent, and would have become much more a matter of dread, were it not that by the same light she also discovered, with the prophet's servant, when his eyes were opened, that more were they that were for her than all that were against her. And then the knowledge that she was, in experimental verity, resting upon Christ, the anointed of God, imparted such an increase of holy energy, realizing, as she did momentarily, that virtue came out of Jesus, her Saviour and Redeemer, for the full supply of all her wants, under every variety of circumstances, that she was indeed enabled to obey the command, "Rejoice evermore." And then she became so divinely assured also that the "trial of her faith was precious," that it was not hard to "glory in tribulation."

Her perceptions of the absolute need of the