made woman to be better than man, and the perversion is in proportion when she is worse. I beseech every young man ginning life to begin it aright. and every maiden that is be Now is the time. Days are passing. Years are accumulating. It will be too late byand-by. Begin now. THE STATE OF CHRISTIANITY TO-DAY. "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh."-ROMANS, viii., 3. THIS is a distinct statement that the religious system of the Jews had come to the end of its influence. What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, Christ had come to do. The Jewish system of religion had carried mankind as far as it could. It had educated them to a point where, while they had need of more, it had nothing more to give. It is called elsewhere a schoolmaster to bring men to Christ. As a teacher in a primary school educates a child up to a certain extent, and while the child must go on, the teacher can do no more, but passes him to another school or another teacher, so the law was the schoolmaster in the primary school, and sent forward its pupils in the fullness of time into a higher school, where Christ was to give them farther instruction and development. It is becoming common in many quarters in our day to hear men speak of the Christian religion in the manner in which Paul spoke of the Jewish. It is patronizingly said, It has done a good work; it has introduced certain important elements into human society; but men are so far educated by it now that it is no longer able to meet the want of our times; but from some source, from the human soul, or a divine revelation of a new sort, we are to expect something like a latter-day glory, which will be to Christianity what Christianity was to Judaism. It is a part of this habit to represent churches, and minisII.-G G |