BEAUTIFUL BIBLE WORDS.-No. III.

AUL, in writing to the Hebrews, aiming to extol his great

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better than the angels, having, by inheritance, obtained a more excellent name than they."

Some of the angels had very expressive names. We read of GABRIEL, which means "the strength of GOD." We also read of MICHAEL, which means 66 one with GOD." Now, I am tempted to believe that these two angelic names represent the whole of that seraphic army which either stand around the throne of the ETERNAL GOD, or are flying to execute His commissions, to guard His saints, and to accomplish any part of His will committed unto them. If so, then the names of Gabriel and Michael, inform us of this comforting truth-that the angels are filled with the strength of God; and, therefore, are mighty in power; and, also, that in all their dispensations, they are one with GOD. They know no will but His; they listen to no voice but His; they obey no command but His; they seek to honour, to glorify, to serve, none but the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

But, speaking of the Son of God, Paul says: "He has, by inheritance, obtained a more EXCELLENT NAME than they." The Jews concentrate the names given to the Messiah, and they say His names mean that He is "THE PRINCE OF GOD'S PRESENCE. That name, they tell you, is descriptive of His three great characters-that is, He is (1) the LORD, (or, Proprietor and Head of the Church); (2) He is the MESSENGER (revealing and directing the accomplishment of HIS FATHER'S will); (3) He is THE KEEPER, (i.e., of all the new covenant promises and provisions so mercifully laid up for His Bride, the Church); and of all that the Father has given Him, He tells us many times, nothing can be lost.

But there are three New Testament names given to our Saviour which preach to me volumes of the richest Gospel I ever heard in all my short life.

I. He is called "THE WORD." It is a remarkable fact that all God's greatest works have been spoken into existence. God said, "Let there be light, and there was light." In the conversion of His Israel, He says, "When I passed by thee, I said unto thee LIVE, and thou becamest mine." He said, "Lazarus, come forth!"-and from the grave he came. God's life-creating voice is in the second glorious Person in the Trinity-the blessed God-Man who said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" and down the persecutor fell. "The WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us." This was, if one may so speak, His emphatic name before His humiliation.

II. In the Gospel dispensation, He has two names. One on His Father's side, which is CHRIST-God's anointed; and one on our side, which is JESUS. Then,

III. He has another name which although, in measure, it has always been true,-yet, in its highest and fullest extent has yet to be realized, and will be in the coming dispensations. It is 'EMMANUEL, God with us.

I would be pleased to write many things; but "The Village Preacher" is limited in these little CHEERing Words.

A minister but a very few years ago, in London, said from his pulpit, "That it did not satisfy him that his people merely crept into heaven, he wanted them to go boldly, and obtain a good degree." I could but reply to the afflicted member who told me of it, that if the people of my charge, and among whom I went preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, did but go, some swimming against wind and tide, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship, so that they landed in the paradise of God at last, I should be satisfied; and that as to myself, if I did but make one stride within the gold-paved streets of the heavenly Jerusalem, I would be content to sit down, for it would be heaven, only heaven, eternal and complete heaven to me; and all those who contend for degrees, would be quite welcome to advance, and to all they could enjoy, and bless God, more than me.-Foreman,

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NO WEEPING IN HEAVEN.

BY JOHN FOREMAN.

F all the saints of God, no countenance shall then be marred with grief, no tear-drop of sorrow shall then hang pensive on the cheek: a time for weeping is not there. Every Isaac will be comforted after his mother's death; no Abraham will then weep the loss of his Sarah; all tears will be wiped from all the faces of those of the Lord's people who have wept, until they had no more power to weep. No Job's face will again be foul with weeping, nor the shadow of death set on his eyelids. Naomies will no more refuse their name, because they have gone out full, and came home empty and sorely afflicted. No Hezekiah shall again weep sore with sickness; the prophetic man of God shall no more weep approaching evil, for evil shall no more come on the children of God's Israel. The priests of the Lord shall no more for their people weep between the porch and the altar, for declensions from the ways of God. The ambassadors of peace shall no more weep bitterly, because the highways of Zion lie waste, nor shall the ministers of truth any more weep over their labours, exclaiming, "Who hath believed our report, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?" The fleece will no more be dry while the ground is wet, but both will be wet together. Martha will no more be filled with cares while Mary is sitting sweetly delighted at her Saviour's feet, but both shall sit together. The minister shall no more be comfortable in the pulpit, and the hearers dull in the pew, nor the people lively, and the minister afflicted as with a kind of pulpit ague, but all will be filled with the peace, love, and life of God together, without any such distinction of place or feeling. One saint will not be drinking in gall draughts of temptation and sorrow, while another is drinking the wine of consolation and feasting on the bread of God. One will not be doubting his interest in the Lord's favour, while another is joyfully saying, "I know in whom I have believed." One will not be groaning, being burdened with sins, and doubts, and fears, saying, I go mourning all the day long be

cause of the enemy, while another is shouting, thanks be unto God who always causes us to triumph in Christ. There will not be a Peter weeping bitterly that he has denied his Lord, while a David is singing, "Thou anointest my head till my cup runneth over;" nor will there be a mourning Mary saying, "They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him." O no! blessed be God, the church will not then be like the mountains of Lebanon, sunshine on one side, while snowbanks lie on the other; nor like Joseph's coat, exhibiting many colours; but all faces together at once, and for ever, will be wiped from all tears and sorrow; when all that weep now in Zion will then laugh, every eye will sparkle with holy pleasure, every countenance will be animated with immortal delight, every heart will glow with endless satisfaction, and every mouth will be filled with the everlasting praises of God; without one emptily dejected hand hanging down on one feeble knee. And consequently there will be no more crying, as from some mischief threatening danger approaching, or from some lack of good. Neither shall there be any more pain, as of a mortal body full of disorders, or of a heart inlodged with the deadly poison of sin; or from a surrounding world of wickedness, or from spots and stains in the life of those we love, or from greater imperfections in our own; for all these things will for ever had passed pway.-Rev. xxi. 4.

THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD.-"Who will show us any good?" say the wicked. The revelation of the glory of God-the display of His holiness, truth, love, and wisdom-have no value in their eyes. The earth is, of course, empty of goodness, incapable of satisfying their aspirations; for it is simply full of Godand God, to their apprehension, is very different from goodness. "God saw all things that He had made, and behold they were very good." The Christian sees them, and says the same. Is the earth to me full of the goodness of the Lord? It depends upon the sensibility of my soul to the sufferings of the crucified One? When at the cross I learn that God is love, then I find the goodness of God everywhere.

HEART BREATHINGS.

BLEST Spirit, teach me by Thy Teach me to feel an interest in [sin,

JESUS DID IT ALL.

SINCE I first discovered Jesus to be the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth, I have more than once met with a poor sinner seeking peace at the foot of Sinai instead of Calvary; and I have heard him, now and again, in bitter disappointment and fear, groaning out, "What must I do?" I have said to him, "Do! do! what can you do? what do you need to do?"

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