351.-The faith of others, our natural parents and friends, may suffice to bring us into the fold of Christ,-the visible Church; but our personal faith alone will bring us to His arms!

352.-Independence is a word which the believer in the sovereign rule of the Lord Jesus Christ should not admit within his spiritual vocabulary; at the same time, he is the only man who can with any fair show of reason lay claim to it, for with God on his side, what can he need? who or what can harm him if the Almighty be his Friend?

353.-If we live in God's fear, we shall die in His favour!

354.-Death is the common enemy of us all; but it is one thing to die and be saved, quite another to die and be damned!

355.-We must not measure God by ourselves,-His mighty projects extending over eternity with our puny schemes, which, like ourselves, are only of a day.

356. He will bear his own cross best who keeps his eyes fixed on Jesus as He bears His.

357.-Christian hope is a tree which is deeply rooted in Calvary, blossoms on earth, and bears fruit in heaven!

358.-Prayer brings us larger wages than anything else in which we engage; it secures God's protection for the body, Christ's pardon of our sins, the Spirit's help for our souls, happiness in life, hope in death, and salvation in eternity. It is the spiritual telegraph, which, when used aright, never fails to convey the sinner's petition to the ears of the Lord God Omnipotent. (St. James iv. 3)

359.-Time past, present, and future, is all one continual present to Him Who is "the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever."

360. We must follow Jesus in His humiliation, if we would follow Him to glory!

361. Men pride themselves on being judges of "profit and loss," yet how blind they generally are to the highest gain-the soul's salvation, and its greatest loss-its damnation!

362. The primitive history of Christianity may be thus briefly described:Twelve men, for the most part unlearned, were opposed to the world, and the whole world opposed to the twelve, and yet the twelve conquered the world! Surely such a reflection must have a salutary effect upon every follower of Jesus.

363.--Prayer and faith are two powers, of which only the Christian knows the strength.

364. Though the sinner travel never so far off in the wilderness of sin, and God be far off in the realms of glory, divine grace bridges over the yawning gulf, and sweetly invites and constrains the sinner to leave his dunghill in exchange for a THRONE.

365.-As we bear our cross, our heavenly Father is often pleased to encourage us by granting us a glimpse of our crown.

XI. Ecclesiastes, v. 6.