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of His society, and it will not be long ere you may be summoned appear before Him. Call up before your fancy the scene of the great and final judgment; stimulate your horror and your fear by a glance at the trembling culprits on His left; lash your anticipations into ecstasy as you dwell upon the bliss and brightness on His right.

"Great God, what do I see and hear!

The end of things created!
The Judge of mankind doth appear

On clouds of glory seated!

The trumpet sounds-the graves restore

The dead which they contained before;

Prepare, my soul, to meet him!"

"Lo, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him--they also who pierced Him-and all nations shall wail because of Him. Even so-come Lord Jesus."

Behold yon streak of orient morning fringing the summit of yonder hill with amber and gold. Listen to that far distant echo that proclaims the advent of His chariot wheels. Ye mists and vapours of the earth, that would obscure the sight and shut out the sound-give way! Ye rising barriers, that beset the road and retard his approach-break down! Ye flimsy shadows of the night, that postpone the day-dawn of His appearingdisperse! Ye doubts and dangers, phantasies, and fears, that veil the glorious prospect from my sight-depart, begone, with all that hides me from my coming Lord!

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WILLIAM BREMNER, 15, PICCADILLY;

LONDON: FREDERICK PITMAN, 20, PATERNOSTER ROW; LIVERPOOL: G. THOMSON, LONDON ROAD

GOD IS LOVE.

T is difficult to account for the evident taste which many able preachers of the Gospel have imbibed for presenting the character of Jehovah to men in its severest and most terrible aspects. This taste certainly cannot arise from their experience of the Almighty's dealings with themselves, for, in most cases, they have been men on whom the choicest of His spiritual blessings have been most richly conferred. It must surely spring from a mistaken view of the disposition of human nature; a view which leads them to act as though they supposed that the most effectual means of persuading men to taste the tokens of the love of God was to be continually exhibiting to them the signs of His justice and the terrors of His wrath. Doubtless the faithful ministry of the truth demands that all the glorious perfections of Deity should be unfolded, and that men should be earnestly warned against provoking God to anger, as well as urged to partake of His mercy; but this should never be made to seem inconsistent with a persuasive display of His love to mankind in general, and His pity and long-suffering towards sinners in particular.

In studying the Word of God we often read of His holiness, His justice, His sovereignty, His power, His inflexibility, and His wrath; but it is only very rarely that we find His character summed up in any abstract quality, and in these very few instances it is always by some beneficent attribute that He is designated, and in no single case is he presented under a repulsive or forbidding name. Thus, while His sterner attributes are often set before us, we never read that God is justice, God is wrath, or God is holiness; but we do read such alluring descriptions of Him as this, God is truth-God is light-God is love. These latter characteristics, then, seem to be the essence

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