His grace-careful to really try to live as you know will please His allseeing eye. For though He planted you, and tends you, and gives all the increase of your spiritual life, yet the real issue of your life is your own charge, because it is His will that it should be so. You can destroy all His goodness, all His love, all His care. But if you are careful in all your doingsas casting your seed in the river of GOD-to produce that which shall grow and please Him, then yearly memorial harvests shall be happy times to you, and you shall have holier hopes as time after time you can more fully trust to Him to gather your sins into His forgetfulness, and upplement your little goodness and fruitfulness with His divine forbearance, and love, and fulness.

"When the Harvest of each nation

Severs righteousness from sin,

And Archangel proclamation
Bids to put the sickle in,
And each age and generation
Sink to woe, glory win ;

“Grant that we, or young or hoary,
Lengthened be our span, or brief—
Whatsoe'er the life-long story

Of our joys or of our grief—
May be garnered up in glory,

As Thine own elected sheaf!"

All who are trying to live to GOD can truly and hopefully pray in these words, about His Great Harvest. And you know that God hears every "prayer."

XV.

REVERENCE.

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."-PSALM Xxiii. 6.

"I WILL dwell in the house of the LORD for ever!" Those are the last words of the Twenty-third Psalm. It is a Psalm that all Christians love deeply the words of the shepherdking of Israel, about GOD's being the Shepherd of life, and therefore of the soul. GOD prepares our life; He renews our fainting soul; He guides and protects us through death. In life and through death! Surely His "goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our life." So David gladly

confessed. And therefore he said, “I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."

No: he

He was

He had

Did King David mean that he would always stay in the house of the LORD, in order that all the day long he might sing GOD's praises? could not have meant that. king over GOD's people. many duties to do, as every good ruler of a nation has. Think of the business he had to transact! He had to be always thinking of others, besides of his own duty to GOD. He governed the people of the LORD. He led their armies, made their laws, regulated their times and seasons. A good king is a very busy man: and David was a good king. He could not, had he wished to, have spent all day long in the house of prayer, and in sacrifice and praise. And yet he really meant what he said that it was his delight

to "dwell in the House of his GOD for ever."

He meant that even when He was not saying his prayers in the Holy Place, where GOD has chosen to let His glory manifestly dwell, he lived in a sense of being in GOD's presence. King David was a good man, and so he was always reverent. To-day I want to speak to you about Reverence. Just as King David could say that GOD's Law was "his study all the day long," because he wished all his life to be ruled by it, so because his was a reverent mind, he in spirit was ever "dwelling with God."

One of GOD's Ten Commandments enjoins such a reverence. Of course you know which.

The Third Commandment tells you this, "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy GOD in vain." I suppose you know of some things