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Thoughts for the Thoughtful.
(REIso1ous ssLscr1oxs.)

(RELlal0Us sELEcT1ONs.)
The sacrifice Of Christ is done over
again in ever life which is lived a1t
to self but to God.
The conceivableness of the atog
ment follows from the analogi1
drawn from natures laws working "a
the wheat; but the proof Of the atoae-
ment is the word Of Christ Himself.
The Christian must leave the world
alone. His blessedness lies in quiet
work with the Isreal of God. His
home is in that deep, unrufled tran
guilty which belongs to those who
are trying to know Christ.
It was Christ's work to reconcile
God to man. That is done and done
forever; we cannot add anything toit.
We can offer no sacrifice: the con-
cluding sacrifice is done. "By one
offering He hath perfected them that
are sancti6ed."
II we would separate the world
from sin, and from the penalty Of
sin, and the inward misery of the
heart attendant on sin in this world
and the world to come, it is written
in Scripture, 'There is none other
name under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved, than the
name of Jesus.
We would fain go to another coun-
try and begin life afresh. We look
upon the grave almost with compla-
cency, from the fancy that there we
shall lie down to sleep and wake fresh
and new. 1t was this same longing
that expressed itself in heathenism
by the tabled river Of forgetfulness,
Of which the dead must drink before
they can enter into rest.
| A living character is impressed
upon us: we are as the glass or mir
ror which reflects back q likeness,
only we reflect it livingly; it does not
pass away from us as the image does
from the glass, but is an impaired
life, which develops itself more and
more within us; for Christ is not a
mere example, but the life Of the
world; and the Christian is not mere
copy, but q living image Of the living
God.
| See what . Christian is, drawn BY
the hand of Christ He is a man on
whose clear and open brow God has
set the stamp of truth: one whose
very eye beams bright with honor; in
whose very look and bearing you may
see freedom, manliness, veracity;
brave mana noble man-frank,
generous, true, with, it may be, many
faults; whose freedom may take the
form Of impetuousity or rashness, but
the form Of meanness never. Young
men. if you have been deferred from
religion by it's apparent feebleness
and narrowness, remember, it is
manly thing to be Christian.
Says Robertson: II you knew how
sick at heart I am with the whole
work Of parlement, talkee, palaver, or
whatever else it is called; how lightly
I hold the ''gift Of the gab;" how
grand and divine the realm Of silence
appears to me in comparison; how
humiliated and degraded to the dust
have felt in perceiving myself quiet
y taken by men for the popular
preacher Of q fashionable Watering
place; how slight the power seems to
me to be given by it Of winning souls;
and how sternly I have kept my
tongue from saying q syllable or q
sentence, in pulpit or platform, BE-
cause it would be popularl
Through the atcnement Of the Re-
deemer man becomes reconciled to
duty. There is no discord more ter
rible than that between man and duty.
There are few Of us who fancy we
have fo,fnd f,ur owu 1,Iacos IN &h;s