like Job when his cattle were lost, and when his children had perished, and want had come in like an armed man; yet, by years of patient industry and steady perseverance under the Divine blessing, you may, like that same patriarch, gain double of all yo~ lost. But oh I there is no reparation for the loss of the soul ; that loss can never be retrieved, and can never be recalled. When Sir Isaac Newton had lost some most important and complicated calculations, the result of years of patient thought and investigation, by the burning of his papers, the loss to him was immense; and yet, with patience equal to his genius, he could say to the favourite animal that caused it, "Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the labour thou hast cost me I" But what is the loss even of years of patient philosophic investigation and profound mathematical research compared with the loss of a human soul, capable of conducting, in some degree, similar investigations, and of repeating and repairing, in case of loss, those investigations? 4. " Oase away," This is the expression in the parallel passage of St. Luke. Though it may serve in exposition, it is not quite exact. The word (11iu111IM, has rather the signification of having incurred a forfeiture; but, in sooth, a fearful forfeiture-a forfeiture that involves the fate of being cast away into that "blackness of darkness," unrelieved by any starlight of hope or sunshine of promise, and where no rainbow of mercy ever spans the sky. The heathen, without any proper notion of a future state, shrank from the death of the body, because they were then deprived for ever of the light of day. "There is a magnificent fulness of life," says Bulwer, "in those children of the beautiful Bellas, They ever bid a last lingering and half- l'eluctant farewell to the sun. The orb which animated their temperate sky, which ripened their fertile fields, in which they saw the type of eternal youth, of surpassing beauty and incarnate poetry-human in its associations, yet divine in its nature-is equally beloved and equally to be mourned by the maiden tenderness of the heroine or the sullen majesty of the hero. The sun was to them a familiar friend. The terror of the nether world lay in the thought that its fields are sunless." Oh, what shall we, to whom futurity has been revealed, then say of the second death, when the lost soul is cast away, through a fatal forfeiture of the light of bee.van, into that sunless regim where the "blackness of darkness" ever reigns, where it is consigned :to the com- panionship of devils and the dnmned, where it sinks deeper and deeper int11 the bottomless abyss of misery, "where their worm dieth :not, and the fire is not quenched "?-J. J. G.
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PRINTEU nv WILLIAM CLOWl!S AND SONS, UMITED, LOr-iDON AND OECCLES.