25. Every heart knows its own bitterness, and God knows the bitterness of every heart!

26.—It will be our highest wisdom to hear the rod here, that we may not feel its lash hereafter.

27.-Sin separates man from God and man from man; Grace brings back man to God, and unites mankind in a holy brotherhood.

28.-Christians should be earnestly, and constantly seeking God's teaching here on earth, assured that soon the Great Teacher will advance them to the upper form in heaven!

29.-Despisers of our holy religion may make a loud boast of their philanthropy; we may however be assured that the man who fears God in Christ, possesses the most enduring motives for caring for God's creatures. xviii. 4.)

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30.—Faith and Hope should not be confounded. There is a remarkable difference between them: there may be a false hope without faith, but where there is real hope, there will be genuine faith, for faith is the parent of hope!

31.-Sanctified affliction is the key which unlocks many of the precious consolations which lie treasured up in the promises of God's word.

32. It is common to dissociate commerce and religion, as though the one were necessarily antagonistic to the other, yet it is religion and religion alone which supplies a man with such principles, as will enable him rightly to discharge the obligations of commerce.

33.-A. holy life is a constant teacher.

34.-If we do not give up our sins in life, the author of sin will not give us up in death!

35.-If men would think more seriously, they would write less flippantly: it is well to seek truth expensively; when thus sought, it will be more highly prized.

36.-The offer of salvation is made to mankind in this life and this life alone; it will not be repeated in eternity or in hell; we may therefore speak of it as a glorious offer to be received at one time and in one place, or for EVER

REJECTED.

37.-Daily communion with God is the best antidote to a worldly fretful spirit!

38. The Saviour cares for, and sympathizes with, every member of His mystical body, as though He had no others to care for; this is beautifully illustrated by the affectionate interest which He manifested towards His mother as He hung on the cross, while He was engaged in redeeming the world.

39. The man who enjoys a full faith, will find Christ a full Saviour.

40.-A presumptuous sinner is an undoubted madman.

41. As the believer sits at the foot of the cross, while he mourns over his sins, he is enabled to rejoice in the finished work of the Saviour: he sorrows that his sanctification is as yet incomplete, and at the same time rejoices that his justification is already complete, and in the certainty that his sanctification will be.

42.-If we remember God, He will not forget us.