this spiritual sustenance the life of the soul can never die out, in the Divine Presence every day is holy. "JEHOVAH thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations" (Ps. xc. 1, 2; cii. 24, 25).

If, as we are told, there was an age when savages lived in caves, with intellects not ranging much above the brute creation, the monkey, and the kangaroo, it was because the relative Being, the JEHOVAH GOD, was not with them, the scheme of the Gospel of our salvation was not known to them. We know very little of the past history of our world. There may have been a fallen race before "The JEHOVAH GOD formed Adam" (Gen. i. 27, ii. 7), who may have degenerated into beings almost like the beasts that perish; ignoble captives in chains under darkness; in Luke viii. 27-39 we have the type, or rather the development. And so now, if God were to leave our world, we should degenerate into brutes, or worse, into devils. "In him was life, and the life was the light of men." It is this spiritual perception of the abiding presence of God through Christ I wish to induce, and to maintain in the reading of these volumes.

"Thus saith the JEHOVAH the King of Israel, and his redeemer the JEHOVAH of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God" (Is. xliv. 6). This Being is the same as in Rev. i. 17, "I am the first and the last."

"So near, so very near to God,

I cannot nearer be;
For in the person of His Son,
I am as near as He.

"So dear, so very dear to God,
More dear I cannot be ;

The love wherewith He loves the Son,
Such is His love to me.

"Why should I ever careful be,
Since such a God is mine?
He watches o'er me night and day,
And tells me, mine is thine."

July 18, 1873.

Three Tracts remain to be written (D.v.)-On Prayer; The Agency of Satan, and Temptation ; &c., &c.; and the writer's work will be done, very imperfectly, it is true.

JEIIOVAH, THE COVENANT NAME OF GOD.

CHAPTER I.

CHRIST IN THE BEGINNING.

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"In the beginning was the Word."-JOHN i. 1.

Y purpose in this little work is, to set forth
Christ, and God in Christ, as seen throughout

Scripture. He is the central object of revelation; all the sacred writers are conjoined together to proclaim Him; to witness of Him. This could not have been of any human invention; of human construction. So many witnesses could not have been found, to form a line down a period of forty centuries, for the sacred record dates from the Creation: no, the work is God's; He created the Bible; it is a revelation. of Himself. The name JEHOVAH is a special revelation of Himself, and as I set forth the position it occupies in the sacred volume, God's own declaration of Himself by it, the name as a relative name, I do hope my reader will perceive how very near He is to every one of us; how by Christ He is brought home to us, into our hearts, our assemblies, our economies, our

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eras, our closets. How He is, indeed, ever with us, a present God. It is the knowledge of this, the intelligent certainty of this, that will carry us through every trial, tide us over every wave. The certain knowledge of the fact, that He is at the helm of government, of the government of the world; that He has an infinitely wise purpose in all He does, will tide us over every billow, carry us fearlessly through every storm.

The reasonable mind, soul, and spirit of man yearn for spiritual communion, for something they do not possess by nature; there is this thirst for light and life, this yearning after immortality; after union with God, and they can never be satisfied but by the life of God being begun here, that is to end in eternal union with Him. "If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth."

"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John i.). Here is transposition, and translation, a change from one state to another, and it is this kingdom of grace into which I wish to bring my reader; I say of grace, because it is entirely of God; we have done nothing to merit it, we can do nothing to claim it; it is the free, sovereign gift of heaven, and we must receive it as such, and confess it to be such: "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins" (Col. i. 12-14). This