The Temptation of Christ.

'I SEE no more Thy Cross, O holy Slain !
I hear no more the horror and the coil

Of the great world's turmoil.

Feeling Thy countenance too still,-nor yell
Of demons sweeping past it to their prison.
The skies that turn'd to darkness with Thy pain
Make now a summer's day;

And on my changed ear that Sabbath bell

Records how CHRIST IS RISEN.'

Mrs. E. B. Browning (The Seraphim).

Oн, whence has it come, and what can it be,
That so strangely and dimly troubles me?
I yearn so much to-night to rest

My weak heart on some loving breast:
Something has stolen my man's heart away,

And given me a little child's again;

And so softly and strangely it droops and aches,
I know not if it be pleasure or pain:
But I long for some heart as troubled and weak,
To sweeten the pleasure or soothe the pain.'
William Fulford, M.A. (Longings).

'THAT men would be better than they are if they always chose good instead of evil, is evident. But that they would be better, or indeed, could have a rational existence, if they had not the power of choosing evil instead of good, is the most foolish and presumptuous of fancies.'

John Sterling (Thoughts and Images).

THE PRINCE OF LIGHT

AND

THE PRINCE OF
PRINCE OF DARKNESS

In Conflict

OR

THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

Newly Translated, Explained, Illustrated, and Applied,

FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, KINROSS;

AUTHOR OF 'JESUS, MIGHTY TO SAVE, OR CHRIST FOR ALL THE WORLD, AND ALL
THE WORLD FOR CHRIST,' 'SMALL SINS,' ETC., EDITOR OF THE
WORKS, WITH MEMOIR, OF RICHARD SIBBES, D.D.

It's Gotteswerk, so wird's bestehen,
It's Menschenwerk, wird's untergehen.'

Is it God's work, 'twill always stay,

Is it man's work, 'twill pass away.'

Inscription on the Statue of Luther at Wittenberg.

LONDON

JAMES NISBET & CO., 21, BERNERS STREET.

1864.

EDINBURGH: T. CONSTABLE,

PRINTER TO THE QUEEN, AND TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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MY DEAR FRIENDS

THE REV. CHARLES STANFORD,

CAMBERWELL, LONDON,

AUTHOR OF POWER IN WEAKNESS: MEMORIALS OF THE REV. W. RHODES: 'CENTRAL TRUTHS;' ETC. ETC.

AND

THE REV. JAMES CULROSS, M. A.,

STIRLING,

AUTHOR OF LAZARUS REVIVED,' ETC.

BELOVED FOR THEIR OWN AND FOR THEIR BOOKS' SAKE

THIS VOLUME

IS

WITH TRUE AFFECTION

DEDICATED:

'The God of ALL grace, Who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.'-1 PETER V. 10.

A. B. G.

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