to escape condemnation. Oh, no! but the freely rendered obedience of that man in whose heart love is enthroned, and throughout which she extends her sweet, dignified and heavenly sway, perfect love cannot allow tormenting fear to be where she is. Perfect love is opposed to slavish fear: love is the element in which the soul exists, and the spiritual atmosphere which it breathes; and with such a soul, love being everything, duty is most delightful. This love does not study how little it can do for God, but how much for God and the good of man, "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." This is the spiritual Canaan, producing the grapes of salvation in splendid clusters, and overflows with the milk and honey of pure love and perfect peace. The cheering light of God's countenance throws a glory over its landscape; its hills ring with the music of redemption, while great numbers of happy voices shout the glory of the bleeding Lamb. The land of perfect love is bounded on this side by the rolling garden of the heartpurifying grace of Christ, and on the farther side by the bright, celestial regions of everlasting glory; it stands in full and clear view to faith on the map of the promises. Many are saying with the poet

Rejoicing now in earnest hope

I stand, and from the mountain top
See all the land below;

Rivers of milk and honey rise,
And all the fruits of Paradise
In endless plenty grow.

A land of corn, of wine, and oil,
Favor'd with God's peculiar smile,

With every blessing blest;

There dwells the Lord our righteousness,
And keeps his own in perfect peace,

And everlasting rest.

God hath promised to sanctify us wholly; the Bible abounds with promises to believers of purification from all sin. Entire purity of heart and perfect love constitute the great end of all its doctrines and precepts, "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." The promises of God's word call forth our desires and prayers, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." Moses says, "And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." St. Peter tells us that the promises

are given unto us that by them we might be partakers of the divine nature. And our advocate in heaven prays, "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth." Jesus, the woman's conquering seed, bruises the serpent's head and extracts the poison of the sting, takes up all the room in the believing heart, fills it with perfect love. Christ bas died for our sanctification, "Even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it." That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word; that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish." In the blood of Christ there is nothing wanting for the accomplishment of his great design; it is innocent, atoning, and all cleansing blood, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's dear son.

Now, now let me know its virtue below!

Let it wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow: Let it hallow my heart, and thoroughly convert, And make me, O Lord, in the world as thou art. Christ is made unto us sanctification. This has been proved by many who have lived in former times. Enoch had this blessing, and walked with God three hundred years, and was not, for God took him. Noah was all God required him to be, being a just man, and perfect in his generation. Abraham loved God better than his darling Isaac. St. Paul was so completely sanctified that he was dead to the world and the world to him, and gloried only in the cross of Christ. St. John was so filled with this perfect love when he wrote, "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth us from all sin.”

This great blessing has been enjoyed by many of whom we have read and by others we have seen, who have been the means of bringing thousands to God; and if we, as members of Christ's church, are to be successful in bringing sinners to Jesus, we must be holy. May we all seek the blessing of entire sanctification, as it may be obtained now by faith in the precious blood of Jesus Christ. "For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."

Holiness is the great secret of success. There is a power in holiness that will cause the most hardened to feel and own that there is in its possessor a Christian, a living representation of Christianity, a follower of Christ; and where a man is seen to live a holy life, his words will have a greater effect, his prayers will be believed in, and his profession credited, for there it is before you, you cannot contradict it without belying your own convictions. See the teacher in the Sabbath-school who has the blessing of entire sanctification, how anxious she feels for the salvation

of all her scholars, and for this she prays and believes, and God grants her the desire of her heart. A teacher in a Sabbath-school obtained the blessing of entire sanctification, and when she met her little class repented deeply of her unfaithfulness and commenced at once to act for God. She spoke of Jesus to them, her heart yearned for their salvation as it had never done before. One little girl, through the teacher's entreaties, went home, gave her heart to Jesus, and he pardoned her sins and made her happy; and at a meeting where the congregation had been requested to speak to one soul about Jesus weekly, for a certain period of time, she raised her hands with some others, who would try to do so. 66 Her teacher said, " And to whom do you wish to speak ?" My father and mother" was the little girl's reply. And she did so, and both father and mother and others of the family were converted to God; all through that teacher obtaining the blessing of entire sanctification. It is the same in the class leader, if he gets the blessing and is baptised with the baptism of fire, his members will catch the flame and the classmeetings will be times of refreshing, coming from the presence of the Lord.

Look at it in the pulpit. Here is a man in the ministry, his call by the Holy Ghost and church has been clear. He reads, studies, and prepares his sermons; one would think they could not fail to produce a mighty effect, but it seems to fall almost powerless upon the hearts of the people, and very few go away weeping on account of their sins; but let that same preacher get the blessing of entire sanctification, the Holy Spirit urges him to get entirely sanctified. He yields, lays all upon the altar, the fire descends, burns up self and in-bred sin, love fills his heart, he is all love. The image of Christ is stamped upon him, and he shouts "God is love." Now see him in the pulpit with the same text, same sermon; but the heart how changed. It is all on fire; his words cut and fall with a power on the hearts of sinners; some fall out with him, others with themselves, but many fall in with Christ. See that careless sinner and that lukewarm professor, he has gained their attention; their danger and spiritual malady is pointed out, and the remedy shewn, while they think some one has been telling the preacher all about them, and they are ready to say, "He means me, he means me." The penitent longs for the prayer meeting to commence, that he may go to the penitent form, or the communion rail, to pour out his cries to God for pardon, and to receive instruction from God's people, This holy preacher is surrounded with weeping ones, and also believers seeking purity of heart. Classes are filled up, and a glorious revival enjoyed, all through the baptism of fire received by this minister. And so it is in the family

worship; if the father and mother get the blessing of entire santification, the children feel that there is a power in religion, and first one and then another of them get converted, and join the church.

Dear brethren, we now draw this essay to a close, and will give a few thoughts as an incentive to the obtaining of this blessing of entire sanctification, which are the following:-the holier you are in this world the more glorious will your reward be in the world that is to come; there will be different degrees of glory in heaven, because every man will be rewarded according to his deeds; while one shines as the stars, another will shine as the firmament; "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory: so also is the resurrection of the dead."

Some persons have been wonderfully acted upon by considering the difference in degrees of glory in heaven, and they have been very desirous to get near the throne; while others have said they should be happy if they did but just get into heaven; what ignoble minds theirs are. Poor, lean soul, while thou thinkest just to get into heaven by thy coolness, thou mayest be just out, and then once lost, lost for ever. Let us get holy, that we may be fit to work; and then let us work hard and wisely, that we may have a glorious reward, for God will reward us according to our works.

May holiness spread through the sabbath schools, class rooms, pulpits, family circles, and the whole earth, until holiness unto the Lord become so prevalent as to be written on the bells of the horses, is the prayer of the writer. Let it be so. Amen and amen.

THE LAST MOMENT.

WHO have never thought of their last moment, when the journey of life shall draw to a close, and the immortal candidate shall be found standing on life's last shore? From this dread place we must all stand and gaze across the deep and chilling river (deata) that constantly flows between us and the heavenly Canaan. All men are mortal. Their lives are made up of a limited number of moments, and that number is written in the book of God's providence, between whose folded covers the eyes of flaming seraphims, of angels, or of men, can never penetrate. The last moment will soon plume its wing for its rapid approach, and every fleeting hour hastens the last moment allotted to each man's stay on

earth. Its coming is hid behind some mysterious cloud, and in an unexpected time it may burst upon us. "Therefore be ye also ready" is the command of one who loves you," for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." When the last moment approaches near at hand, the wheels of nature begin to move slowly and sluggishly, till they come to a solemn pause. The blood ceases to rush through the veins. The pulse is faint and few. The eye is dim and glassy. The curtain of mortality drops, and the full blaze of eternity, with all its awful grandeur and solemn realities, bursts upon the astonished sight. That last moment will come to every individual; and yet how few realize it or prepare for it! But the solemn and affecting lesson must be sooner or later learned in the dread experience of every man. Across that mysterious boundary line he must pass when the appointed moment comes. How wisely and mercifully concealed from the eye of mortals is that eventful point of time.

Many a hero has the courage to march boldly up to the cannon's mouth, amid the heat and rage of battle, when flaming fires are seen flashing, and roaring cannons are heard muttering forth their deadening killing voices, whose eye will yet quail, and whose cheek blanch, and whose lips will quiver with fear, as he sees the slow approach of the last messenger on the pale horse. To be able to look death calmly and boldly in the face, with the dart gleaming in his uplifted hand, and feel no fear, is the very perfection of religion. Poor humanity may for a moment shudder, the cold shiverings of mortality may shake the outward man, but the grace of God will enable the soul of the Christian to sing, "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." The last moment comes to him not as a grim and ghastly jailer to knock off a prisoner's fetters and march him up to speedy execution; but it comes as the messenger of the Lord, to set a captive free, and to send an exile home to glory, where no winter " frost is seen to whiten the angelic plumage, or freeze the wing with which the immortal shall cleave" the air of that unclouded land. Cheer up thou tempest-tossed christian, and with thy bright eye of faith look on to the future. It is the last moment that shall sever thy soul from terrestrial things, and connect it with celestial things. It is the last moment that shall raise thy soul from earth to heaven, where sparkling crowns are seen flashing on the heads of the sinless and white-robed inhabitants of the better country, and where through the long, long cycle of eternity a crown of glory shall be wreathed around thy high and noble brow, if thou art "faithful unto death." It is the last moment that shall "rejoin you with all you ever loved; restored to all you ever lost, you shall stand plumed with a crest of triumph, full in the undimmed blaze of Immanuel's smile, singing a song for ever new,