"God is as perfectly intent upon the workings of every heart, as He is upon the revolutions of the heavenly bodies; for, if He were not, He would do one thing less perfectly than another, which is impossible with God."-K.White. When we consider that 500,000,000 of men exist now upon earth, what an exalted view does this give of the All-seeing God. As this must be the case-as He must see our every thought, our every desire, our every want, let us purify the thoughts of our heart-let us fear to do in his sight, what we would not do before man-let us be satisfied of his assistance in every time of need.

THE SAVIOUR.

The second subject, especially treated of in the Creed, is the history of Christ upon earth, his birth, death, resurrection, ascension, and glorification. Not one of these records of his incarnation could have been omitted; the whole is a perfect display of that love, so unspeakable, which God beareth towards us; one link broken, the whole chain were incomplete; and so it was that each event of Christ's appearance upon earth was foretold and verified.

This part of the Creed commences by stating the divinity of Christ, taught us by the record of John, when he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove on the baptised Messiah, and a voice saying, "this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased;" also, treated of in the second article, which was drawn up to oppose the doctrine, that Christ was a mere man, thereby robbing us of our only real good in life, our only hope in death. The human nature of Christ is next taught; he was conceived by the Holy Ghost, therefore, the Son of God. He was born of the Virgin Mary, therefore, a man partaking of the same substance as other men; no spiritual form, as some taught, incapable of exhaustion, sorrow, joy or pain, else there could be no fulfilment of a broken law, and the law would still be our scourge. This wondrous effort of divine love, like the mystery of the

Eternal Three, must also stagger our reason, but not our faith: thus is the Christian taught to walk by faith. Our Saviour then, as St. Paul teaches, was made a second Adam. Adam was created holy with free will, and with power to withstand all temptation; to him the law was given, with a penalty, the penalty of death if he broke that law. Adam broke the law, God's justice and truth were equally concerned to fulfil His immutable word. So death entered into the world, and all became subject to death; none could escape it, for it was brought by sin, and sin must be the gift of man to his children, for they are born in their father's image, partaking of his nature, which is a sinful nature; eternal death must thus be the heritage of all Adam's race, and who shall say what is the meaning of eternal death? Annihilation of the soul it cannot be, for the soul is an invisible agent upon the body, the cause of every action, word, and thought, a never resting agent, most intense in feeling when the body is most at rest, yea, when separation from the body seems to be at hand, then is the soul doubled in its capacities; it must be that when it escapes the clog that here is placed upon it, that it launches into intensity of feeling.

Read the Hindoo heathen's definition of the soul.

"The soul is not a thing of which a man may say it hath been, it is to be, or is to be hereafter, for it is a thing without birth, it is incorruptible, eternal, inexhaustible! The weapon divideth it not, the fire burneth it not, the water corrupteth it not, the wind driveth it not away; for it is indivisible, inconsumable, unalterable."-The Vedas, quoted by Maurice.

And shall we think more lightly of our immortal part than the heathen? The soul which proceeded from the Father, is the object of his love; for this the only begotten Son was spared to die. Oh say, when the ocean of eternity rolls its dark waves over that mysterious influence which exercises sovereign sway in thy bosom, say, who will thy pilot be? If heaven be thy resting place none but the star on high can lead thee to the place where thou mayst see thy God. That this resting place might be thine, God's mercy accepted the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, that He might be just and yet the justifier of them who believe. So Christ was born into the world, not the Son of man, otherwise he had partaken of man's sin, but of God: thus he participated not the pollution of human nature. He was like Adam, created holy; with free will and with power to resist temptation. He conquered, and thus was life brought back to the world, while faith and holiness became a new birth to eternity,

Such were the occasion and means of this wonderful redemption, the depth of whose mysteries angels cannot fathom.

The objects of Christ's incarnation were five. 1st.-Christ came to fulfil the law; a just and holy law, which man had broken, proving the justice of God and the guilt of Adam, against whose authority he had rebelled, whese love he had returned with disobedience, pride, and ingratitude.

2nd.-Christ came to redeem us by the sacrifice of Himself. It is universally acknowledged that justice is satisfied by a fair equivalent. Now God's justice could not have been satisfied by man, for he was not in a state to offer any satis

faction; none but our great Sacrificer could offer an equivalent to the Divine justice. Jesus lived thirty years on earth before He began to preach, afterwards He passed three years in the most public manner, yet no fault was found with Him. "Upon the cross He gave up the ghost, but, as He had previously told his disciples, no man took his life from him, He yielded it up of himself. With his dying breath He uttered a loud cry; thereby showing his life was not ebbing away, as it does when man dies, but that He poured out his soul unto death with one mighty effort of divine power." When, according to the promise given to Adam, He yielded his body, the mortal part, to Satan, to death, and to the grave, the curse He came to take upon him-a curse which, having no congeniality with his nature, we can never know the price paid for our redemption, until eternity opens on our view. Still, that curse could not cast the Son of God down to hell, in the usual acceptance of the word, an outcast from God's love. The word hell here signifies the grave or the place of departed souls. It is used here as the literal translation of the Greek. The Greeks, when speaking of the soul's place after death, called it Hades, the land of shades, because they thought this land was the abode of all spirits, good and evil, only that different portions were allotted to them. And this is the meaning of the 3rd Article. "As Christ died for us and was buried, so also it is to be believed that He went down into hell."

3rd.-Christ came to rise from the dead, without which all his work and all our faith would be vain, for death would still have dominion over As yet we have only seen Christ a humble

us.