Health," nnd much ie done to promote the physical comfort and health of the people. This is good. It is of much advantage that the people, down to the poorest, should have pure air and wholesome food and favourable surroundings, and it is the duty of the Church, as well as the state, to look to these things. Bot more is needed. Thero must be proper education of the people. They must be taught, not only the care of the body, but the cnre of the soul. Tbe only complete education is that which embraces the whole man-body and soul and spirit. We are only perfectly educated when we are taught of God, "that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world" (Titus ii. 13). Longevity was not only a promise of the Old Testament (Deut. iv. 40; Eccles. xii. 13), but it is e. promise of the latter-day glory (Isa. !xv. 20).-W. F Ver. 13.-Here are three great things. I. A GREAT GIFT. Speech is one of our l1ighest eudowments. It enables us to utter our thoughts and to converse one with another. Man's advancement in knowledge and virtue has mainly followed from his possessing this faculty. There have been many ingenious speculations as to bow speech has been obtained, but it is enough for us to say that it is from God. When we see a dumb man, we may learn the worth from the want, and should bless God for his goodness in baving given us this noble gift.. II. A GREAT PERIL. The best things may be turned to bad uses. So with the tongue. If rightly used, it is a great blessing; if wrongly used, it is a great curse. "Evil" and "guile" are the common ways in which speech is abused, much to the hurt of the speaker and of the hearers. There is thus not only great waste, but manifold and great evils. " Life and death are in the power of the tongue" (Prov. xviii. 21). ill. A GBEA.T ACHIEVEMENT. It is possible to "keep" the tongue. To do this we must go back from the tongue to the heart (Prov. iv. 23). When the heart is right, the tongue will be right also (Matt. xii. 33, 34). Such mastery can only be acquired by earnest effort and patience and loving contemplation of Christ. St. James says he who has attained to this rare power.is a" perfect man" (Jas. iii. 6, 6).-W. F. Ver. 16.-God'sface, "The face" is the organ of expression. The thoughts, the feelings, the inward movement11 of the soul, show themselves by the face. Therefora "the foce" stands for the man (Gen. xlviii. 11); and when God is spoken of after the manner of men, bis face is put for himself (Exod. xxxiii. 14). The text is like tho mystic pillar of the wilderness. It has two aspects. While God looks forth with love and favour towards bis people, ho shows himself as torrible to his e11emics (E:s:od. xiv. 24). His face, wherever seen, is always against those who wilfully and wickedly persist in doing evil. I. GoD's FA.OE IN NA.TUBE IS AGAINST THEM TIIAT DO EVIL, '].'here is law in nature. To obey the law is to conquer, to disobey is to suffer. As to transgressor~, there is neither exception nor immunity. We see the stern, unbending severity of law in the awful passagt>, Prov. i. 24-31. II. Gon'e FACE IN THE HOLY ScnIPTUnEs JS AGAIN'ST THEM TUAT DO EVIL. Tako the ten commandments, and from the first to the last it is the same. '!'be Law is holy and just and good. It demands obedience from all, and denounces condemnation and wrath against transgressors, without respect of persons. 'l'he recorded judgments of God may he held as expressing the same thing. All through, from Genesis to Malachi, whether as respects nations or individuals, God's face is ngninst the evil-tloer. In nu part of Scripture is this brought out more vividly and forcibly than in tho Psalms. III. Gon's FACE, IN THE Pi!RSON OF 111S SoN AND OUR SAVIOUR, IS AGAINST THEM TIIAT DO EVIL. Christ, in his doctrine, hie precepts, his example, nnd in his roclernpLivo work, is wholly and for ever against sin. His object is to "take awny sin," and to bring them that do evil to do good and to be the loving nm! obedient cbildrou of God, thnt they may walk in the light of God's favour for ever.-W. F.
Vers. 1-10.-Deliverance and gl"atitude. Occasion of the psalm uncertain. Cele- brates somo great deliverance wbir,h awakens praise and inRpires him to teach othern trubt and the ~ecret of a prosperous life, 264 THI~ BOOK OF PSALMS, [PS. XXXlV, 1-22,