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Giving One's Self.

What am I? What am I before God, but just two mites-a body and a soul?-mere mites as regards His great infinitude. How happy I would be if I could give unreservedly my two mites to God, according to His right in them and claim upon them, and not according to mine! How sure might I be that He would graciously receive them, and how infinitely happy should I be in that acceptation!--BISHOP HALL.

Giving to God.

Giving, after all, is to God.

Remember the woman

who broke the alabaster box of ointment, and was criticized. They said: "It is wasted. You can not afford it. It should have been otherwise laid out." But Christ justified her, and said: "She has discerned Me; she has discerned the Lord's body; she did it for Me, for Myself; and wherever My Gospel is preached there shall this also that this woman hath done be told for a memorial of her." MCNEILL.

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GLORY.

Glory Which Awaits the Soul.

We shall not always be as we are today-contracted and hampered because of our little knowledge and our slender faculties and dull perceptions. Our ignorance and prejudice shall vanish. What a man will become we can scarcely tell when he is remade in the image of God, and made like unto our divine Lord, who is the first-born among many brethren." Here we are but in embryo. Our minds are but the seeds, or the bulbs, out of which shall come the flower and glory of a nobler manhood. Your body is to be developed into something infinitely brighter and better than the bodies of men here below; and as for the soul, we can not guess to what an elevation it shall be raised in Christ Jesus. There is room for the largest expectation here, as we conjecture what will be the full accomplishment of the vast intent of eternal love, an intent which has involved the sacrifice of the only-begotten Son of God. That can be no mean design which has been carried on at the expense of the best which Heaven itself possessed.--Spurgeon.

The Glory of Heaven.

We are told that "eye hath not seen, neither hath e heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." Yet the eye has seen wonderful things. There are sunrises and sunsets, Alpine glories and ocean marvels which,

once seen, cling to our memories throughout life; yet even when Nature is at her best she can not give us an idea of the supernatural glory which God has prepared for His people. The ear has heard sweet harmonies. Have we not enjoyed music which has thrilled us? Have we not listened to speech which has seemed to make our hearts dance within us? And yet no melody of harp nor charm of oratory can ever raise us to a conception of the glory which God hath laid up for them that love Him. As for the heart of man, what strange things have entered it! Men have exhibited fair fictions, woven in the loom of fancy, which have made the eyes to sparkle with their beauty and brightness; imagination has reveľed and rioted in its own fantastic creations, roaming among islands of silver and mountains of gold, or swimming in seas of wine and rivers of milk; but imagination has never been able to open the gate of pearl which shuts in the city of our God. No, it hath not yet entered the heart of man. -SPURGEON.

The Glory of the Resurrection.

The body is to be changed. What alteration will it undergo It will be rendered perfect. The body of a child will be fully developed, and the dwarf will attain to full stature. The blind shall not be sightless in Heaven, neither shall the lame be halt, nor shall the palsied tremble. The deaf shall hear, and the dumb shall sing God's praises. We shall carry none of our deficiencies or infirmities to Heaven. As good Mr. Ready-to-Halt did not carry his crutches there, neither shall any of us need a

staff to lean upon.

There we shall not know an aching

or a failing eye.
'I am sick.'

The inhabitant And it shall be an

brow, a weak knee shall no more say: impassive body--a body that will be incapable of any kind of suffering. No palpitating heart, no sinking spirit, no aching limbs, no lethargic soul shall worry us there. No, we shall be perfectly delivered from every evil of that kind. Moreover, it shall be an immortal body. Our risen bodies shall not be capable of decay, much less of death. There are ro graves in Glory. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for their bodies shall rise never to know death and corruption a second time. No smell or taint of corruption shall remain upon those whom Jesus shall call from the tomb. The risen body shall be greatly increased in power. It is sown in weakness," says the Scripture; but it is raised in power." I suppose there will be a wonderful agility about our renovated frame. Probably it will be able to move as swiftly as the lightning flash-for so do angels pass from place to place —and we shall in this, as in many things else, be as the angels of God. Anyhow, it will be a glorious body,' and it will be raised in glory." So the whole of our manhood shall participate of that wonderful depth of bliss which is summed up in the word glory."-SPUR

GEON.

The Glory of God's Presence.

In Heaven we shall dwell in the immediate presence of God. We shall dwell with Him in Learest and dearAll the felicity of the Most High will be

est fellowship.

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