of men are you? Now is a time accepted as truly as was that when our Saviour tabernacled in flesh. Here nature is as pure and the ground as holy as were the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi. Here and now the Spirit of all truth uses the voice of living men, and makes inquiry in the name of Jesus: 'Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?' Men--how do they receive the great light? Do they hover still in darkness and shadow, and say 'what is it?' Do they grope in the realms of hades among the shades of prophets to find which one has come again to teach the world? Do they catch only the faintest distinction between the Sun of righteousness and all the lights that ever went before? O men, are you in dens and cavesamong the tombs? Do you not know that there is day in the upper world? Have you not heard the trump of the resurrection, the voice of the Son of God?

Jeremias, or one of the

Is Jesus only Elias, or prophets? Will Mo

hammed or Zoroaster or Confucius do as well?

Verily, 'the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.'

But the great question comes nearer home. Ye-ye who sit in heavenly places, ye who behold the glory of the Christian truth, ye who see the mighty works that are done in the name of Jesus, and the signs that follow them that believe, ye who see devils cast out and diseases healed and the gospel preached to the poor, who look upon the whole range of charities which the church is ordained to manifest-do you not hear the voice, 'Whom say ye that I am?' Oh, that we could hear a chorus of voices responding, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!' Is there no spiritual rock within us-no faith that could not be moved, though the mountains should be cast into the midst of the sea? Nothing in us but what flesh and blood hath revealed? Oh, believe it-say it :- Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' Then he will bless you. The Son of God will bear witness to your faith.

He will say that you the Father in heaven. He will call you rockof the same kind as the very foundation of the church. You are built upon the foundation, and

have been taught of God

against you the gates of hades shall not prevail, though your body should be hidden in the grave.

The trial of your faith will come, and it will be precious. Only believe.

X.

CONSCIENCE,

FOR WHEN THE GENTILES, WHICH HAVE NOT THE LAW, DO

BY NATURE THE THINGS CONTAINED IN THE LAW: THESE HAVING NOT THE LAW, ARE A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES,

WHICH SHOW THE WORK OF THE LAW WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS, THEIR CONSCIENCE ALSO BEARING WITNESS, AND THEIR THOUGHTS THE MEANWHILE ACCUSING, OR ELSE EXCUS

ING ONE ANOTHER. Rom. ii. 14, 15.

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