Sentences from Laneton Parsonage.

70. OUR SAVIOUR came upon earth, which, even in its greatest beauty, was to Him but a land of darkness, and He lived, not as we live, in comfort and peace, but in poverty and shame, amongst the sinners who hated Him. And when He had taught them all that it was good for them to know, and had cured their diseases, and helped them in their difficulties, He gave Himself up to a death of agony to save them and us.

71. When we are called to give an account of our lives to GOD, it will be a fearful thing to have to confess, that we have enjoyed His blessings, and yet have never been thankful for them.

72. Whilst we think only upon indulging our own wishes, our consciences are often silent; it is only when we have gained our point that we begin to see how sinfully we have acted.

73. GOD sees the working of our evil hearts in our slightest actions, and the faults of children are in His eyes very grievous, because He knows that they proceed from the deep corruption of their nature; and that if they are not checked, they will assuredly end in great offences.

74. We think we shall not do wrong, and so we do not keep ourselves humble, and do not pray to God to guard us. It is very much safer to feel that most likely we shall wish to do as others do, because our hearts are as sinful; and then we shall learn not to trust to ourselves, and through the mercy of GOD we may escape.

75. If we read the Bible, we shall find that all persons have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; it is said repeatedly. We sometimes fancy we are good, because we are not aware how perfect we ought to be. We are to keep the commandments of GOD, and to walk

in them all the days of our life. Not to keep one or two commandments sometimes, but all of them at all times.

76. Imagine what you would be if you were to keep all God's commandments; you would get up early in the morning, and your first thought would be about Him, and His goodness in taking care of you; you would say your prayers, without any wandering thoughts; all the day you would be endeavouring to please Him; you would never use an unkind word, or give way to a proud thought, but you would be humble and gentle, constantly trying to do what you could to make other persons happy, and never seeking your own pleasure instead of theirs. When you read the Bible, you would not do it irreverently, as if it were a common book, but as if you really felt and believed that it was God's holy Word; and besides this, you would never be envious nor discontented, but you would take everything that happened quite cheerfully, because it was ordered by GOD.

77. It is not because we do not see our faults, or think about them, that we are really good in the eyes of GOD; rather we ought to be very

much frightened at ourselves when we find that we are becoming accustomed to doing wrong.

78. Prayers, if they are not said carefully and earnestly, are but a mockery.

79. The devil puts thoughts into the minds of even the best persons, but they are very sorry for it, and do not attend to them; and when we are afraid that GOD will not hear us, because we · do not pray rightly, we must remember that we end all our petitions in the Name of our Blessed SAVIOUR. If we endeavour to keep our thoughts from wandering, GOD for His sake will accept us.

80. All trials become worse to us when we are not at peace with ourselves, and happy in the consciousness of striving to serve God.

81. It is easy to speak of the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting; the words come like any other words; they pass our lips easily, but they are, like the Name of the Allholy GoD, awful and vast, and only to be mentioned with the fervent hope that when our bodies are raised, and our souls re-united to them, and we enter upon the life everlasting, it may be a life of joy in the Presence of GOD.

82. Parting with those we love must of necessity be one of the great trials of human life. So many accidents, so many changes, may happen before we meet again; and there are very few who have faith enough to feel that there is an All-seeing eye, and an Almighty arm equally at hand to watch over and protect in their absence as in their presence. We fancy, who does not fancy? that our friends are safest with us.

83. Even children can understand what a blessing it is to have a Being to love them, Who is so powerful that He made them as well as all the world; and to have a friend in GOD'S Blessed SON, Who by His death has redeemed them and all mankind from the anger of GOD, and has promised them great happiness in heaven ; and even children when they wish to be good, can feel what a help it is to know that they have some one always near, GOD the HOLY GHOST, to sanctify or make them holy.

84. Is there any time in the year more pleasant than a bright morning in early autumn, when the air is soft yet bracing, and the leaves are only just beginning to change, and white