~t'bhlilai7'}' ])eatn ll'ere is the king1ofterrors. Thtodgn fl!ar of death' !l'e- are all our Iiffiiiiiie ilubjectt\rll<iridag&; but deatb:wiU never ent.et there. 'l'he gates, then,•might' well1fieleftopentf!>1'there·is1)0°fe&i";' ,,,·"' · · ,, · 1 ,. · · .- '· " • 11V:"Til:AT ll!I 'l'ltA:T'\ro:tiLD TimilE'W11iL BE. NONE 'oF 'l'tlE 'I:l!tOONVltNJ'ENCBS•OI' DAR:l!t• lll!\Ss.' '"'rber& shall ~ no night there!' : 1. Night interrup\s! oot visiblll. , It hidl'M·the world frdin our 1v.iew, land. is 'thil symbol -0f ignorande. • i'fbe World, is filfl of existence a.nd~beli.utyrout' night hides all;: 2. Night interrupts o:ur la>bour. We "go. forth unto: our labour until the evening." •· 1;;,, ." ··•. ,:, · 117:· Tii:'.&.T" I1FTBAT WORLh 'Tlil!.BE ,wiJ;L J!E NO ADHISSlON'' 011' n.t'.PtmI1''r !Of- ·ANY 1.nliv;,J ";And .there sl\all in .no' wiae enter into. it anything · that defiteth, · neither' wfuits6ever wbrli.~b I aboniina~ion, or maketh 11.· lie: but they whfoh: .;ke,cwritte1l. in. theLiimo's b:iolniflire" (ver. 27),· Observe: 1. T h e ~ ! All impuritiei.bf a-11 k'ind~ and' degrees.2. The included. All who are "written,"- etc... Alt who are regnrte~ 'on the grand roll of redemption. What a roll is, this 1-D. T ..· · ..- . . . .u, .. , . ,, and, µie lyrics of Cowpe~ .are but the :vapid fancies of childhood? , QeoinJ there ~11 undoubtedly be active, and all her productions will be distmguuihed,-b7, t4e ~;best perf!!CtiO;D ~ beauty•. All the moral beauties will; be clear. The, bea~tYt<!f hoY~fllll. the beauty of the I;.oi:d, wi;l.l. adorn every spirifi_ All . will be ,erµlo:w:,d.. wil!b. thc;iae atmbutes of moral lovelinesa ·that. will command the admiration. of each, and, aU. in TliWJ all will rejoice each.other, and all rejoice i,n the lior4, wh~ all thw.1i.i~auty came. - . , -·· , .. , , .-. ,. , ,-!, ,. III. Ui,rrNT~RRUPTED FAYO~ ~ight checl,:s th, Pr\)gr.ess of life; . Tsbe;p.OOeljl!llS of life, i\ is trµe, go on in the night, but they lj,re slow.and feeble. ,.:Ufe canJiQt_ ~ t:b.lJ rui,t?ess long; pulse grows fee~ie, under i_ts ebon, reign, Its tide ebbs UIJ.li~;its colq. l?fea.th. Take a vigorous, bl09ming plant;, and spq,t it up iu the dark. Howr~ will ij, Jose its vitality, become delicate, 09low-less, and-4iel Were our _SUD to Jhr11e Oli! withou11 setting from year to year,_ on this earth, who could tell how high th~ tide 9f life would rise in every living thing? Where there i1;1 "no ,night:' tqer,e·wil!.,be no check to the advance_ of life. Th,e vjtal energies will 11,lw!f,ya be incrll8,si,:ig. _Si:o,ew and soul, character apd cou.iroience, will be. ever .growing i,n for()E!; " ll'com str!lngth to strength'.' all these proceed. No blight to wither,. no _shadow to chill, the~., .. But,l',U the influences that .play around existence there inspire, invj.go,~a~, !'Ild u_plift. f<'light checks ~he progress oflabour. w~ .".gq forth.unto our la"hRut UJltil the eyeµh.g;'' .twiP.- 11ight shuts us in. We retire to :uncon,sciousness anc;I i_nactjqn,. '-'. Are the?e ~ot-;twelve hol!J"II in the day? .If any iµan :wajk in the day, _he 11tug;i~l!)th not, be~se ~ seeth ~e ligb;.t of th. is world. ~upfa m_· ari 1Yalk in.the night, p.e stum_p!eth, ;beC!'llll8_ . tl:lere..ia no light.in.him." "The I}ight eom.eth, .when no man can w~k/' But a woi;{q. where w there _is '.'. no r;iight," _there_ .is0 .no chec)dng of lab<:iur. _,Our1 ,J::!linge of !'Qtio~ WQP.,1'1.be unrea~ned... We 11hall be. always abounding in the work or tha Lord.. Night ~hooks the. Ill'~ (lf happin~. D:uls-n,esa is depre~sing, llence i~ ,is often _U!!,ed .. \lJUha embleuf of misery ; the. Scljll-13 'f~e.re tpe wicked one.ill isJ1poke1,1 of !Ml "!)U ti;r d~kn.~s." Even :th11,;h:rational creatures .arpµnd J.lil foel the deprciS!!iUg ,influence pf ~ gloo~y /j.ay .. Ur;id,~ 1t~e, dii.rk_ clouds a:n4 ~urk'.Y, sjty, the cattle cease to gam\)pl on theJ1i}~. ,a.pd ~ fqw:Js. of h~ven C8!LS8 th13ir music. in the groyes. ,All:/eitl ;th~: pr8's~e: R(idlµ-~ne!IS, ;Light. is the condition and e111bfo.m of joy. A bright ~y BeF,, tli6,c1VorJd. tp.,m~ic, What happiµe,s, theni must there be in a worl,d where there rµi. n() .llight.l . Jn what d~ its happiness consist? The con~xt a_nsw_ers ,the q~si;ion:_,t,4,e .a~ei:i-ce of;~ll ~vit l:(o ~ . nq. sorrow, no, death, no hunger, no thi,rst, .no hµnple,-,¥q .~igl:!-t, The pi:11;1enpe of,a»,the good.: the, river of life, the tree.of life, companio;nship with tl.e hoiy,Jel).ow
~tt1!.r~eQfd:811:~~fi!t8:y t~:i~~h~:;t~~diiioq.: ~tJ,~ scene wh~~e't4!! is.. visi,qn ihe: e~r c!ear, where character is ever pure, the as~t .is, ev~-, ,~utif11I,)if1? is ever. advancing, joy is evcir risiog. The sun never !!il!-~ be1:1e.at!i- the ffi-il8' f}Pr dolls a clou~ ever intercept his, rays.-,D. T.
EXPOSITION. of 'the w~ter ·of life, ·and the tree 'of life: OBAPTER XXII. ·,The latter pa~ of each section ts. oooupied ·Vet; 1.-'-:.&.nd he showed me a pure river.; with the evan8'E;~i8t's own observations foh\ Omit "pun.'! " And" oonneots this part )lKL 22-27 ; XXlL 3-5), fG'r we cannot sup- of the vision- with, what precedes: (eh. xxi. pose that the phrase,." these words," iti .ver. 9.-27), It 'WOUid have been beUer, perhaps, 6, is iDtendad to app~ specially tQ ..._,thing if. tJ!,e twenty!'.fi~ chapter hlld in11b1~d t4e . __in t4ese ~\oular ~tto,llJ!, .He. ,i, tb~ ~ngel nrst D,.ve velall8 of the twenty-secowl., so. as menti9ned in V&\'- ll!, ,aµct ,-gain re.fe,rraj to in to til,ke in the. whole of Ui.e deaorlption o( vers., 10, 15, 16, 17. , M~t probabty tlie pro, the''heavenly Jerusalem.' :But thf)re is a noun "he" iit v~r. 6 does, µa~ Nfer _t.o tll,11 break at this point, as is indicated by the same angel aa this one. .lliveT, The sotrroe repetition of ".And he showed' me," which of thillstree.m,'iis coime or channel, and itii points · t,o a new phase or section of the fertile banks, 1ue mentioned oi implied iii vialOD.' In the previoua seetfuJ;l (eh. xtt 9- what rouowi; 'but 'thel'e is no referinlce to 17) the angel bad showed. St. John the city any estuary or ,mottth.: _mernity u the ocean Mld it.a walls with their gates and found&.- in whioh this river ia.l011t ;Of),n1m et life. tlons; in thia seotion he Jhows him the i;iver "TB"'P (a,ijs is perhapa,identical w, ll!eauin~ on. urr. 1-21.J THE REVELATION OF ST. JOTrn TITF. DIYlNE. 645