t hinketh in hie heart, ao ia he." Th is ia 11, true teaching, 11.nd m11.y open up 11, new view of moral and spiritual life to the thoughtful mind. II. TBB HEART 18 THE REVEALING PART OF THE TRUE MAN. You must watch life in lta temper and spirit 11,t all times and in all places. You may be deceived by good actions. Men may build 11.lmshouses and yet live so as to break hearts; they may be courno-eous in confronting tyrannies abroad, and yet live impure lives in the indnl 5ence of besetti~g sins. Think of this. Good ACtions do not make a good man; it is the good mac that makes the good ACtions. A man may be beneficent and give thousands to hospitals, or brave and rescue drowning men from death, or patriotic and save a nation in periloUB times and yet he may not have the miud of Christ, and bis heart may be unrenewed. "A pur~ heart." We all love pure things-the white marble, the re.in-we.shed sky, the peerless alabaster, the silver wings of the dove. So Christ would have 118 all desire and seek the pure heart.-W. M. S.
Ver. 5.-~ sense of rectituda. " AI!tl of a good conscience." We here come to the ethical region of rectitude, showing us how complete the gospel is, and how it stands related to the whole of our complex nature. We notice here the connection of "good " with conscience; let WI see what it means. May there be another conscience that is not good? . L THERE MAY BE THE CASCI8T's CONt!CIENCE. We see this in the case of the scribes and Pharisees in the time of our Lord. The simple instincts of justice and mercy were perverted by ecclesiastical routine, and the minutire of legal ordinations. They overlaid the Law, which appealed to the native instincts of conscience, by their traditions, which did not so appeal, and which were burdensome and troublesome. So in Luther's time the consciences of men were in the keel'ing of the priests, and an artificial and Jesuitical morality me.de even immorality sometimes expedient and lawful. Men lost the native instinct.a of right and wrong in obedience to an artificial and ecclesiastical code of morals; they worried themselves about sins that were no sins, and they lost the conecioUBness that men may be sinners even when they are obedient son& of the Church. IL THERE KAY BE THE WORLDLY CONSCIENCE. This makes cUBtom into a god. Conscience is ruled and regulated by what is expedient, or what society expects of men. They are pained at the sin which brings shame before men, but are not disconcerted al desires, emotions, and actions which are evil in the sight of God. It is a wonderful interesting study this-the relation of aociety to sin. For there are fashionable vices and respectable sins which are heinoUB in the sight of God, but the conscience is at eose becaUBe the spirit of the age does not condemn them. How important, then, it is to keep conscience enlightened by the Word of God and invigorated by the Holy Ghost! The end of the commandment is in the best sense to make you a law unto yourself. It is important to have the Bible in our heads, but it is most important to have Christ enthroned iD the tribunal of conscience within.-W. M. S. Ver. 5.-The absence of hypocriay. "And faith unfeigned." We all dislike shame. Led by Carlyle, the English nation has lately beard many prophetic voices against them. We insist, in art, in dress, in manners, and in religion, on sincerity. Without this nothing is beautiful, because nothing is real. We hate feigned learning, feigned skill, feigned culture, and feigned superiority. The apostle tel18 us here that faith mUBt be unfeigned. Now, if the end of the commandment is love, the argwnent is this, that the faith which is to be worked by such a glorious inspiration of charity must be 11:l honest, earnest, real faith. L WE KOST BELIEVE IN HOM.ANITY BEFORE WE OAN LOVE MEN. Believe, that is, that there ii an ideal of God in every man; that underneath his depravity and degradation there u a moral nature which may be renewed, and a life which may be transfigured Into the glory of Christ. }t',,r man's con8cience was made to know the truth, hi8 heart to feel it, a11d his will to be guided ancl energized by it. If we think of men cynically or CODtemptuously, then there will be no earne8t efforts to save that which ie l,w1t.. lL WE MOST BELIEVE I.N THE POWKR OF CHlllBT AND HIB CBOBB, OR \'11\ SUM,l. soT • DTBOBIABTIO IN PREACHING THKM. No doubter can be a good preacher. ~l•iu know ad feel the power of ardent faith. '!'he arrow will mii.s the mark if the hand of' tlie lllCher llhakee, or distrusts its weapon. The 011,0 great element of success is unfeigned OIL L 1-20.) THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. 19