If it pass into oblivion, its lessons have not been graven on the mind, and our state baa not pro,·cd the discipline it was designed to be. Stand, 0 believer, upon the mount of present station, and survey the path with dl its windings by which you have ascended to this lofty summit. Such a review will be profitable in the extreme, it will produce deepened humility and thankfulness. Keil says, "the recollection of privation and want can never be an occasion of joy." Surely he forgets the Latin line," hmo olim meminisse juvabit." Contrast ever heightens joy, a danger successfully surmounted is one of the most plea.sing of memories. 2. The exhibition of God's p1·oteding grace anti love demand,s particul,ar recollection. Not the might and resources of the Israelites, but the watchful, provident care of Jehovah, had led them safely through the desert, He had been to them "a booth for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain" (Isa.. iv. 6). The honour of God was concerned in having a permanent memorial of Israel's stay in the wilderness, and this institution was adapted to preserve the continued confidence of the people in him aud consequent freedom from boastful self-assertion. In many ways, "the joy of the Lord is our strength." 8. The deliverances wrought for our forefathers in olden days should excite gratitwle to God in our breasts. Can we recall unmoved the triumphs of the early Christians, or the heroism which God's Spirit enabled martyred Protestants to evince? The wonders of our age become the heirlooms of the ages that follow. CoNCLUSION. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ commemorated in the Lord's Supper WBB the Passover of the Church; the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost marked the era of the Church's Feast of Weeks; the Feast of Tabernacles yet waits its due counterpart, when the elect shall be gathered into the kingdom from every land, to celebrate the cessation of earthly toil, to exult in the complete removal of sinful stain, and to enter upon the undimmed, undying gladness of the eternal sabbath. Not one of God's people shall be missing throngh illness or distance of abode, and a retrospect of the pilgrimage of earth shall enhance the bliss of heaven.-8. R. A.
EXPOSITION. after the law e.s to holy convocation■ an<l CHAPTER XXIV. festive.ls had been pronounced. A connection between eh. xxiii and oh. Vere. 1-4.-The ordinance on the le.mpa contained in the first three verses is repeated xxiv. 1-9 is found by Keil in the fact that from Exod. xxvii. 20. The oil to be used the oil for the holy lamps and the shewbread for the lamps was to be pnre oil olive, that were offerings of the people, a sacrificial is, oil made of picked berries, without any gift with which Israel was to serve the Lord intermixture of dust or twigs; and it was to be beaten instead of" pressed," because when continually. "The offering of oil, therefore, the berries were crushed in the olive-press, for the preparation of the candlestick, and small portions of them bec11me mixed with that of fine flour for making the loaves to be and discoloured the oil, whioh was, therefore, placed before J ehove.h, formed part of the less pure than when the fruit was simply service in which Israel sanctified its life and beaten and then left to drain. The lamps were to burn oontinually ; that is, from even- lnbonr to the Lord its God, not only e.t the ing to morning every night. Without the appointed festal periods, but every day; and vail of the testimony, in the taberna.ole of the the law is very appropriately appended to oongrege.tion; that is, in the holy plaoe, as the sanctification of the sabbaths and feast distinct from the holy of holies. Aaron, days prescribed in eh. xx.iii." But it is either personally or by his sons (see Exod. xxvii. 21), was to dress the lamps every better to consider the whole chapter paren- morning, and light them every evening thetical between chs. xxiii. and xxv., the (Exocl. xu. 7). The lamps were upon the first pa.rt having been suggested by the list seven-branohed candlestick, which is called of days on which holy convocations were to the pure oandlestiok, because made of gold. be held, because it is connected with the The light of the seven-branched oe.ndlestick temple or tabernacle service; the second part symbolized the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit, which should illumine God's (the blaepbemer's death) being inserted Church (Zeoh. iv. 2-6; Rev. I, 12, 20). bece.11"8 it chronoloipce.lly happened shortly Vers, 1)-9.-'.f~e 1hewlil'ee.d, or h~ad of on. x.uv, 1-9.] 'l'HE BOOK OF LEVI'l'ICUS. 373