all things, that is to say, that do not involve a contradiction in their very nature. This declaration reason accepts. If, then, all the perfections of God-His highest wisdom and His greatest power-are pledged to every effort to reclaim the erring, when will His self-sacrificing love terminate? What will it leave undone to secure the fulfilment of its inmost desire? There can be no contradiction, no limits, to the working out of Infinite Self-sacrifice. It has already overcome the most malignant enmity of selfishness. It has "destroyed death, and him that had the power of death." For the conversion of the chief of sinners it was pleased to come forth in an unusual manifestation. What it did for the chief of the sinners here, it may do for the greatest sinners hereafter. We cannot set any limitations either of space or duration to its manifestations; nor to the possibility of enmity yielding to love so generous.

3. The instinctive desire after well-being cannot die in the human spirit. It can only be destroyed by a radical change in the constitution of man. If such a change could take place, man would be no longer man. And to punish or to save this changed being would not be, on the one hand, the punishment of a human

transgressor by the destruction of his soul, nor on the other the salvation of a believer by quickening in him the consciousness of the Divine life. A firm belief in the unlimited power of Christ's death enables us to obtain a glimpse of the boundlessness of self-sacrificing grace. If its power be not limited to this sphere of existence, there must be other spheres and other periods of probation where it will have scope for its utmost operation.

4. Conversion is a new starting-point-a new epoch in life-a new operation of Divine power. Conversion is not achieved by law-by an unbroken continuity of legal operations in man's life-but by a manifestation of selfsacrificing love changing the whole current of his life. The converted soul becomes great only as it receives and manifests the indwelling of the Divine life. And when this indwelling is fully realized, as it will assuredly be, the end will come. Sin will have fully exposed itself. Selfishness will have fully shown its heinousness. Grace will be all-triumphant. All imperfection will be done away in the consummation of the perfect purpose. "God will be all in all."

5. The dreams of imagination, the soarings of poetical fancy, the sighings of the oppressed, he speculations of philosophy, the disclosure

of science, the ardent devotion of patriotism, the efforts of philanthropy, the prayers of saints, the predictions of prophets, the teaching of apostles, will all pass away, and will all be surpassed in the completion of the Divine purpose in Christ before the world began. Self-sacrifice will reign through universal being. The glory of the Triune Jehovah will be acknowledged, will be delighted in and admired by all created existence. Death and hell will be cast into the lake of utter oblivion. There will be no more curse." Where sin abounded it will be found that grace "hath much more abounded." the exulting shout of the universe will be, "Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty: just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of Saints! Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name; for Thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before Thee, for Thy designs are made manifest!"

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