that God will at last accept No, dear friend, you are a sin great sinner, in God's sight, t man may have nothing to lay to charge. Oh, how much you left undone! How much you done wrongly! How much you thought about your body-how about your soul! How much you cared about this worldlittle about that which is con How much more have you

yourself and your children than have loved your Lord!

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3. But further, we need a holy heart. And God must give this. He can take away the heart of stone,' the hard, unbelieving, unloving heart; and can give you a 'heart of flesh,' a believing, loving, tender heart. Happy those in whom the Holy Spirit dwells, whose souls are filled with His grace, and are daily more and more conformed to the image and likeness of Christ.

And can we ever be perfectly and completely holy here? No, we shall about with us a sinful nature carry to the very last. Our refuge in a dying hour must not be any good

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keeps you there. prisoner. He has the keys, an His own good time He will un the door, and welcome you into presence, to be with Him for eve Or perhaps your end is n Happy is it for you, if death eternity are no strangers to y Happy for you, if Jesus is your tion, and heaven your home. T you have only to die; and death lost its sting with you Christ

believed.' And you can add with David, 'When I pass through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.'

There is now but a step between you and death. And well that it is so, if you are a true servant of God. You have nothing to dread.

Death, which is 'the king of terrors' to the ungodly, is like a welcome messenger to you. It is like the plank on which the Sailor walks to shore, after having been tossed on the troubled ocean. It will bear you to your Father's arms. It will lay you in your Saviour's bosom.

Ah, though it is hard to bear weakness and suffering-though days of pain and nights of weariness are appointed you-still you will willingly endure all this, if Christ is with

you. If He makes all your your sickness,' then that be be a bed of blessing to you. better to lie there with God for

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Friend, than to enjoy health strength without Him. illness may be a very precious ti you the most important seas your whole life-the time when shall receive the fullest commu tions from God, and enjoy the t peace.

Let Christ be your watchwor death, your hope, your joy, portion, your all. Think of E when you can think of nothing Cling to Him, when all else is s ping as it were from under Be assured, He will never leave nor forsake you.

I have read of a dying Christian venerable servant of God whose To