Faith at Jericho.

On the seventh day they compassed the city seven times; and, as surely as God had spoken the word, the deed was done. He kept them from ventilating their doubts. He compelled them to look to Him and to trust in Him. He poured contempt on all their wisdom and all their strength, so that their unbelief just withered away at the root and died out in their hearts, because it had nothing to feed upon.

And God Almighty rose, and swelled more and more on their view day by day, until at last, I almost think, those men themselves physically swelled and grew bigger. God had come to them and filled them, so that at last, when Joshua did unmuzzle them and say: "Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!" from those thousands of pent-up hearts there went forward a great wave which, as the original suggests, carried the walls with it on the upgoing. The walls fell down under it. Under what? Under that shout. There was so much of Almighty God in it, as well as of the pent-up enthusiasm of men, that nothing could resist it. It swept clean to Heaven, and carried everything with it on the way. in God, from the beginning to the end. I wish I had the tongues of men and angels to plead with this audience gathered here today. If the spirit of this did fall upon you and me, we could go out and yet shake London's Damnation to its center. -MCNEILL.

And that is faith

What Is Faith?

What is faith? In one great essential aspect of itand I grant that it is a many-sided thing, and that the atonement may have many sides, but the human side is very crisp and sharp and clear, and this thing called faith in one great essential aspect of it is-what? It is a simple, literal bowing of the soul in abject obedience. That is why you are so long in coming to it. What does faith mean? It is bowing and bending, and saying in the depth of your heart: Yes; amen." Have you said that? You are not saved until you have. You and I and every soul of us standing before the Cross of Christ and the Passover Lamb who hangs thereon must say, with our whole heart bowing in the simplicity of the meek obedience of faith: "For me--yes." And, again, it comes out, contrariwise, that the very essence of unbelief now is and the great day will bring that out in the gleaming lightnings that fly round about the judgmentseat the essence of unbelief is not a want of understanding, but a want of obedience. There is a moral taint in unbelief. I say bluntly I believe that, at bottom. unbelief is a stupidity intellectually and a crime morally. It comes not from the bigness of intellect, but from an intellect warped and twisted and stunted and biased from the very beginning.

Oh, for the obedience of faith, my brethren! If you are not a believer, I know that I may be rude and boisterous, and I may be setting you against me. Well, forgive me! I do not mean that; but I do want to do my best to bring down your soul-to bring down heady and

high-minded thoughts to the obedience of Christ. Oh, that we may be brought down to simple faith and childlike trust! There is no salvation otherwise. Simply obey.--MCNEILL.

The Character of Faith.

Faith is common, natural, reasonable, sublime. You put it to its highest power, its loftiest use, when it is turned to trust God in the word that He has spoken and in the love that He has displayed on Calvary.-McNeill.

The Centurion's Faith.

Suddenly one day, when you are going along and feeling yourself so lonely in the midst of thousands, there falls upon your ear a voice—some broad Scotch or (what to me is both unspellable and unpronounceable) Welsh— something of home, and fatherland, and motherland. At once your whole face lights up, and bells begin to ring in your soul, and you nearly fling your arms around that man's neck, because his tones and his words brought to you thoughts and visions of home. Well, Christ knows all that. O men and women! What a lonely world this must have been to the holy Son of God! How desolate! No wonder that sometimes, even after a hard day's work, He refused, maybe, to stay with people, and climbed away up some lonely mountain side to get as near home and God and holiness as possible, and as far out of the sin, strangeness and unfriendliness. And what happened to Him was, but in far greater measure, just what I have tried to describe as happening to yourself in this strange,