awful visions which come and go in this valley a scene of beauty and holy calm, which the Lord has reserved for His wearied ones. The Christian's heart is cheered with this conviction, that when sorrow is sent as his portion, this is not an evil; but that in the hand of our Heavenly Father it becomes a real blessing. Jesus never needed to teach His followers that the world is full of sin and misery, pestilence and disease-they knew this, alas! too well-but He did show them the way which would lead them from ruin, bondage, and woe, to where there should be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying." He came "to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind; to set at liberty them that are bruised." But then, what are our greatest sorrows which afflict us? Come, see if there be any sorrow like unto the sorrow of Jesus. And learn also the important lesson, that it is through His great tribulation that His followers find rest. Bishop Latimer firmly believed the doctrine, that tribulation in the world is necessary for us. On one occasion he had to put up at the house of a gentleman on whom Providence had smiled abundantly. In the course o conversation the host said, "I never had a sorrow in my life." Then," said the good bishop," give me my horse; I'll not stay in a house that never had a sorrow in it, for certain I am that God is not there." Often our tears are caused by povertytemporal depression-defective friendships -human frailty-or bereavements. It may be the darling child is taken away, or the wife of youth is cut down; for death has an arrow to wound all hearts. BUT there's an hour of peaceful rest XXII. Rest for the Doubting. "THE work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever."-ISAIAH xxxii. 17. "AND to you who are troubled, rest with us."2 THESSALONIANS i. 7. AH, Jesus! why should I complain? These surface troubles come and go, The deeper depth is out of reach TWENTY-SECOND DAY. WHERE the lamp of Divine Truth shines there the people should rejoice. We oftentimes express a hope that the "days of darkness," when the Bible was a concealed or a forbidden volume, are fled for ever; for there were times when, if the blessed page was not monopolized to be kept out of sight, it was cast into the flames to be burnt. Or if suffered unharmed to see the light of day, it was fastened by a lock and a chain to the church wall. Those were truly called days of darkness. there are persons yet moving on God's beautiful earth, about which their knowledge would be very small, were it not for the sacred page of revelation, who would fain keep the Gospel a secret from the great masses of men; and this, too, in direct opposition to His command, who has said, "Search the Scriptures." Such persons would deny to the down But cast and the desponding, the blessed guidance and warning which its heaveninspired pages are calculated to afford. How sad to reflect upon is all this! But is it not more sad still, when those who are not deprived of the Bible find therein nothing to dispel the gloomy doubts which pervade their minds? who, because of fear, are all their lifetime subject to bondage? Ask them what are their thoughts concerning Christ, and what are their hopes of an eternal state? Do they discern the glory of the invisible God, above all that dark mass of scepticism which pervades this world? Do they make the world subserve their religion, or their religion the world? Alas! to these inquiries there is found what is far from being a satisfactory answer. Truly the Christian himself may long have been the subject of doubts. The tempests of unbelief may have beaten sore upon his defenceless head, until he found a sure Refuge and hiding-place in |