Paul, and Luther, and Latimer. Tbey all had their weaknesses and infirmities. They erred no doubt in some things. But they all had this grand peculiarity. They were men of one thing. They had single hearts. They were unmistakeably " men of God."
The blessings of a single heart in religion are ahnost incalculable. He who has it, does good by wholesale. He is like a light-house in the midst of a dark world. He reflects light on hundreds whom he knows nothing of. ''His whole body is full of light." His Master is seen through every window of his conversation and conduct. His grace shines forth in every department of his behaviour. His family, his servants, his relations, his neighbours, his friends, his enemies, all see the bias of his character, and all are obliged to confess, whether they like it or not, that his religion is a real and influential thing. And not least, the man of a single heart finds a rich reward in the inward experience of his own soul. He has meat to eat the world knows not of. He has a joy and peace in believing to which many indolent Christians never attain. His face is towards the sun, and so his heart is seldom cold.
Let us pray and labour that we may have a single eye and a whole heart in our Christianity. If we have a religion, let us have a thorough one. If we are Chris- tians, let us be decided. Inward peace and outward use- fulness are at stake in this matter. Our eye must be single, if our whole body is to be fiill of light.
Notes. Lxtke XI. 33—36.
38. — [No man,„lighted a candle^ dci] The saymg of this Terse is eviaently intended to he a rebuke to the unhelieving Jews, who