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535E £ memory Thy wayâ€"«not mine, 0 Lord, However dark it be ! Lead me by Thine own hand ; Choose out the path for me. Smooth let it be, or rough, It will be still the best ; Winding or straight, it matters not, It leads me to Thy rest. I dare not choose my lot ; I would not if I might : Choose Thou for me, my God, So shall I walk fright. The kingdom that I seek Is Thine ; so let the way That leads to it be Thine, Else surely I might stray. Take Thou my cup, and it With joy or sorrow fill ; As best to Thee may seem, Choose Thou my good and ill. Choose Thou for me my friends, My sickness or my health ; Choase Thou my cares for me, My poverty or wealth. THIS STARTLING REMEMBRANC'E came to Israel at a time when her sorrows were very great, and her sins were greater still. She had been wounded, so that she was sick and sore ; and she found no heal- ing medicine, and none to bind up her wounds. In her distress she remembered not only her faults, but also the former loving kindnesses of her Lord. She gathered from that ancient assurance of grace that her God loved her still, and would return to her in great mercy. She dwelt with hope upon that divine assur- ance of irrevocable favor : “ I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” When earthly joys ebb out, '1: is a blessed thing #â€" 1-.. ....-.......,... A; if they make room for memones or heavenly visitations and gracious assur- ance. When you are at your lowest, it may happen that then the God of all grace comes in, and brings to your remembrance the love of your espousals, and the joy of former days, when the candle of the Lord shone round about you. n May the grand discovery of everlasting love be made by many of you for the first time in your lives ! Oh, for the surprises of Almighty grace ! As when one in ‘ ploughing stumbles on treasure hid in a field, and rejoices exceedingly, even so may you in new-discovered love ! I. First, consider THE MARVELLOUS APPEARING .’ “ The Lord hath appeared of old unto me." Here are two persons ; but how different in degree ! Here we have “ me,” a good-for-nothing creature, apt to forget my Lord, and to live as if there were no God ; yet He has not ignored or neglected me. There is the High and Holy One, whom the heaven of heavens cannot con- tain, and He has appeared unto me. Be- tween me and the great Jehovah there have been communications; the solitary silences have been broken : “ The Lord hath appearedfl" hath .appeared “ unto ~»â€"â€"- A: u...‘ ”A... Not mireâ€"not mine the choice, In things of great or small, Be Thou my Guide, my Strength, My Wisdom, and my All. [1312']. zappccucu, nu..- wrr-_-__,, me.” Hundreds in tms house of prayer can each one say without doubt or hesita- ‘ tion, “ The Lord hath appeared unto me. ” ‘ Perhaps of late the Lord has manifested Himself to you as He doth not unto the world ; and even if it has not been so just now. yet there was a happy time, now in the old long ago, when you saw the Lord. This 13 a very wonderful thing, that Jehovah the Eternal should reveal Him- self to the creature of an hour ; that the thrice Holy should speak to the greatly guilty 3 See, here we have “ the Lord " and “ me ;” and between these two this is the golden link, an appearance to infinite love : “ The Lord hath appeared unto ea rth worms. It was needful that He should do so ; for nothing but His appearing could have scattered our darkness, removed our death and brought us salvation. It needed that Himself, and delivered them from the fascinations of this present evil world. Tell it out among the sceptics and the -.. rfh worms. “The Lord hath appeared SUNDAY READING. THY WAY-e-NOT MINE. 1’ for memories of unto me. for the results of His gracio )7 I care not wno US my nature and my fife. recorded in the diary of indelible ink ; but it is al soul, and experience dee tion. a discovery '4 love to me ! Furthermore : “ The Lord hath appear- ed of old unto me,” in the person of His Son. God came to each believer in Christ Jesus. God came in boundless love to each one of us as “ Immanuel, God With us.” Towards each one ot us, He “ took upon Him the form of a. servant, and hum- bled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Listen ,, J L-um:1:n ueabu, CV61; uxlv “v“.-- . my heart 2 In His maxâ€"lhood and humilia- tion the Lord God appeared to thee. On the Cross thy Lord Jesus showed Him- self to thee in lovef Now thou hast found it out, Is it not a glorious dis- covery. 1- 1 1,-.. -A..~-n4-1" on- UUVCLJ- 31“ WW DUI: s1; v-v-v_ ,, eyes, and you trembled for fear of the 1 justice which you had provoked '2 Do you ‘ remember when you heard the story of the Crucified Redeemer? when you saw the atoning sacrifice ? when you looked to Jesus and were lightened? It was THE HOLY SPIRIT LEADING YOU out of yourself ; and God by the Holy Spirit was appearing unto you. These past appearances have been eclipsed by others still mere clear and full; but, at the same time, as Israel remembered the first passover, as the beginning of things with the nation, so do you remember those first appearances of the Lord : for then you began to live. Some of us can " T-~»â€"â€" 2..-; “A; ULLVAA JV“ ~ remember where the Lord Jesus first metl with us. Though it had been in the desertl as with Moses, or by the brook as with J acob, or by the city wall as with J oshua, or in the furnace as with Shadrach ; we should forever have reckoned the place to be holiness unto the Lord. Call it J ehovah- Shammah for the Lord was there. This appearance came in private assur- ance. To me it was as personal as it was sure. I used to hear the preacher, but then I heard my God : I used to see the congregation, but then I saw Him who is invisible. I used to feel the power of words, but now I have felt the immeasur- able energy of their substance. God Him- self filled and thrilled my soul. Through ' and through, His almighty love pierced my heart. 'I cannot help calling your attention to the fact, that the Lord came in positive certainty. The text does not say, “ I hoped so,” or “ I thought so ;” but “ The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, say- ing.” She who spake thus saw the appear- ance and heard the speech. Brethren, be sure about your spiritual experience. Itl would be a horrible thing to leave the 1 spiritual things a. matter of question, or to regard them as visionary and uncertain. To me it is bliss to say, “ I know whom I have believed.” II. My seci'nd head is. THE MATCHLESS DECLARATION: “ The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Think it over. Believe it. Stagger not at it. If the husband should say to his wife, “I have loved thee," she would believe him : it would seem only natural that he should do so. And when Jehovah says to you, a feeble woman, an unknown man, “ I have loved thee,” He ment it. This is no fiction. God means by love what we mean by it : only H18 love is higher, deeper, fuller, holier than . ours can ever be. Note, next, it is the declaration of unal- loy_ed love.__ The Iiord h‘afi begg bruisiqg. and wounding, and crushing His people, and yet He says, “I have loved thee.” These cruel wounds were all in love What! when He smote dld He love? “Yea, I loved thee.” What ! when she was past human help and foul with sin 2 “ Yea,’ said He, “I have loved thee.” “ But, Lord. I have never been worthy of it.” “ No,” saith He, “ but I have loved thee all the same for that.” “ But, Lord, I have not been conscious of it.” “ I have loved thee all the same for that.” “ But, Lord, I have run away from thy loving guidance.” “ I have loved thee all the same for that.’ God’s heart to His people is love, love, love, love, only love. With- out beginning, without end, without measure, without change is the love of Jehovah. This statement is a declaration of love in contrast with certain other things. Did you notice in the fourteenth verse of the thirtieth chapter. “ All thy levels have forgotten thee ; they seek thee not ?” Let me sound these ’1‘“’0 NOTES IN SHARP CONTRAST with each other : “ All thy lovers have forgotten thee ;” but, “ I have loved thee with an everlastimr love.’ What a dif- ference between the false friendship of the world and sin, and the chang eless love of God? You, being earth- bound in heart, have been going after your idols, and they have all deceived you. You have been trusting here and there and your trusts hav e all betrayed you; but the Lord \ Jehovah saith,“ I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” As for our love of Him, how fickle! W e have been hot to- -day and cold to- morrow. Our love has been an April day warm shine and cold sho“ er; but the Lord Iis gracious visit are in 1y life. The event is try of my memory in it is also written in my ce deepens the inscrip- not who qugspions it, THE WATCHMAN, has loved us with infinate constancy, eve“ with an everlasting love. He has never changed. He could not love us more. He we 31d not love us less. “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” The con- trast is very beautiful, if we place over against it either the world’s love to us, or our own love to God. - Thus, dear friends, our text is aword of love in the past; “ I have loved thee.” We were rebels, and He loved us. We were dead in trespasses and in sin, and He loved us. We rejected His grace and defied His warnings, but He loved us. We came to His feet all trembling and afraid, and He loved us, and washed uS, and robed us. He loved us. and there- fore He saved us. Since then we have been earthly, sinful. changeful, and unbeâ€" lieving, proud foolish but He has loved us without pause. God has not loved us with , -AL.‘ ‘“ a; ‘1er ahich will die out: after a certain length of time : His love is like Him- self, “ from everlasting to ex erlasting.” This is a declaration of love secured to usâ€"secured in many ways. Did you ob- serve in this chapter how the Lord secures His love to His people, first, by a coven- ant ? Further, this love is secured by relationship. In thine adoption and re- generation the Lord has avowed Himself to be thy Father, and has virtually said, “ I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” “ The Son abideth ever.” “ If children, then heirs.” His love is pledged again by redemption. Redemption has sealed everlasting love. That spear which found out His heart and set flowing its blood and its water, has killed all doubts as to the eternal endurance of our Lord’s love. This is a declaration of love divinely confessed. The Lord has not sent this assurance to us by a prophet, but He has made it Himselfâ€"“ The Lord hath ap- peared.” This declaration does not come through another tongue or lip; but the divine Lover Himself breathes His own love-word to His chosen: “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” III. We finish, thirdly, with THE MANIFEST EVIDENCE. “ I have loved thee with an everlasting 3 love ; therefore, with loving kindness have i I drawn thee.” Here are drawings men- tioned. Have you not felt them I We have not seen God, beloved, but we have felt Him drawmg us. Oh, what tugs He ‘ gave to us when we were children ! Do you remember, when you were boys and girls when you coulp not sleep at nights for heavenly drawings towards divine things? Do you recollect, when you were in the country alone, how you would sit down under a hedge and cry, you scarce knew why, longing for something better than you had as yet reached? Do you re- member when the Lord Jesus drew you out of the horrible pit, out of the mid- night of despair? Do you remember how He drew you till He set your feet upon a rock? He drew you from spiritual death, from the corruption of sin, from the, do- minion of the devil. He drew you into life, love and liberty. He drew you to the foot of the cross, to the throne of grace, to the church of Christ. As the drawings come from God so are they drawings to God. Blessed is he whose heart is being drawn nearer and nearer to the Most High. Naturally, we struggle back to carnal things ; we get taken up with business, with the family, and with a thousand grovelling cares : but when the Holy Spirit draws it is UPWARD AN D HEAV'EINWARD. He draws us to repentance, and to faith. and to love, to holiness and to continuance in well- doing. Oh, that we may now feel divine drawings towards Him who is our all 1n all. The Lord assures us that these are drawmgs of His loving kindness. How- ever He draws, it is in love : and when- ever He draws it is in love. We think that He pulls and snatches in anger. but He knows that He has always drawn in loving kindness. Because the horse is wilful it thinks the driver stern ;our way- wardness makes us think our Lord austere. The forces which He puts forth to work upon us are tender, gentle, kind and lov- ing. He has drawn you and me “ with loving kindness.” I am sure He has thus dealt with me. Will you think of your own case and bless His. name? Lord, thou hast drawn me when I did not know it ; thou hast drawn me when I thought I was willingly moving_o_f‘my _own accord. Only one thing more. These drawings are to be continuous. “ With lovingkind- ness have I drawn thee ;” and He means to do the same evermore. If you will look the chapter through, you will see that God promises to keep on drawing, I would not care to preach to you a gospel which has no final perseverance in it. Spiritual life which can die, is not the eternal life promised in the Gospel ; and heavenly love which can fail is not the everlasting love of our text. My road to get to heaven lies in this : as far as I have come on the road, the Lord has drawn me, and will draw me the rest of the way, Such a. magnificent text as ours ought to make us consider two things. The first is. Is it so? Am I drawn .9 ‘If God loves you with an everlasting love, He has drawn you by His loving-kindness : is it so or not? Has He drawn you by His Holy Spirit, so that Are you a believer? Do you carry Christ’s cross'.l You have been drawn to this. ‘ Then take home these gracious words : “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” If you have not been so drawn, do you not wish you were 2 Oh, it were worth dying a thousand deaths to be a. Christian after that fashion of Christianity Which is based on everlasting love I 0 man, if you cannot claim this, at any rate desire it, and go humbly on your knees to Christ ; Jesus, and look to Him, and live ! ‘ But, child of God, if you know these drawings, and if it be true that God loves you with an everlastmg love, then are you resting? “I have a. feeble hope," see it 56w, and-I blesé thy name for YOU HAVE FOLLOWED ON ? says one. What 3 How can you [man so . He who is loved with an everlasting love, and knows it, should swim in an ocean of joy. Not a wave of trouble should disturb the glassy sea of his delight. What is to make a man happy if this will not? Come : come ; we must have no more hanging ‘ heads. Hallelujah ! Hallelujah 1 If the Lord has loved me with an everlasting love, I will not be cast down, though the earth be removed. His love is better than wealth, better than health (great blessing las that is), better than honor, better than usefulness. Everlasting love, and thou hast it ! Man alive, wipe the tears out of thine eyes, and lift up thine head I “ Oh rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him ;” for if He hath loved thee so, what hast thou to fear? What is to be done but to love Him in return who hast loved us “ All that remains for me Is but to love and sing, And wait until the angels come To bear me to my King.” “I believe in the existence of Almigh- ty God, who created and governs the whole worldâ€"l am taught this by the works of Nature and the Word of reve- lation. “ I believe that God exists in three persons; this I learn from revelation. Nor is it any objection to this belief that I cannot comprehend how one can be three or three one. I hold it my duty to believe not what I can comprehend or account for, but what my Maker teaches me. “I believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testamert to be the will and i word of God. - “ I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. The miracles which He wrought established in my mind, His personal authority, and render it proper for me to believe whatever He asserts. I believe,‘ therefore, all His declarations, as when he declares Himself the Son of God, as when he declares any other proposition. And I believe there is no other way of salvation than through the merits of His atonement. “ I believe that things past. present and to come are all equally present in the mind of the Deity; but that with Him there is no succession of time, nor of ideas; that, therefore, the relative terms past, present, and future, as used among men, can not with strict propriety, be applied to Deity. I believe in the doctrines of foreknowledge and predestination. I do not believe in those doctrines as imposing any fatality or necessity on men’s actions, or any way infringing free agency. _M -L:1:L-¢ A: nn'y VA. IILJJ u...’ ..._7,, “ I believe in tfie Ether inability of any human being to work without the constant ads of the Spiritpf all grace. ‘. .‘._A _£ alum UL ua-v ~r___- “ I believe in those great, peculiarities of the Christian religionâ€"a resurrection from the dead a.n_dra day of jngement. AL'JAL- vonv -â€" - “ I believe in Ithe universal pi‘ovidence of God ; and leave to Epicurus and his more unreasonable followers in modern times the inconsistency of believing that God made a world which He does not take the trouble of goyernmg. I 0 v v-vâ€"~â€"- - .“Althongli (I, have “great respect for some other forms of worship I believe the Congregational mode on the whole to be prefergble to any ether. 7 Lâ€" -_..-4.L ..... A. L “ I believe religion to be a matter not of demonstration but of faith. God re- quires us to give credit to the truths which he reveals, .not because we can prove them, but because He declares them. When the mind is reasonably convinced that the Bible is the Word of God, the only remaining duty is to receive its doc- trines with full confidence of their truth and practice them with_a pure heart. “ I believe thst the Bible is to be under- stood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages : since I can not persuade myself that. a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it. “I believe that the experiments and subtleties of human wisdom are more likely to obscure than to enlighten the re- vealed w111 of God, and that he is the most accomplished Christian scholar who has been educated at the feet of Jesus and in the college of Fishermen. “ I believe that all true religion consists in the heart and the affections, and that therefore all creeds and confessions are fallible and uncertain evidences of evan- gelical piety. “ Finally, I believe that Christ has im‘ posed on all His disciples a life of active benevolence; that he who refrains only from what he thinks to be sinful has per- formed but a part, and a small part of his duty; that he is bound to do good and communicate, to love his neighbor, to give food and drink to his enemy, and to en- deavor, so far as in him lies, to promote peace, truth, piety and happiness in a. wicked and forlorn world, believing that in the great day which is to come there will be no other standard of merit, no criterion of character, than that- which is already establishedâ€"“ By their fruits ye shall know them.” Last week the Masonic fraternity made Kingston lively, and this week the Odd- fellows are taking possession of the place. Maxime Millet, of St. Norbert, N. 8., while sitting by his chimney talking with a friend, was struck dead by lightning and his friend stunned- No rain fell and the fatal flash was the only one during the day. A Jamestown, N. D., special to a Chicago paper says that the elevator men will refuse to store grain for the farmers on account of the law passed enforcing a license of $2.50 on each 1,000 bushels stored, and serious trouble appears to be in store for the farmers. Mrs. Peterson died a few days ago at Springfield, Mo., of dropsy. The body crushed into the largest casket that could be get. In a few hours the cofiin burst with a loud report and the head was torced out. The corpse was then hurried to the grave, and as it was being lowered one of the men lost his hold of the rope, when corpse and all fell into the grave ina shattered mass. The pit was then filled. Daniel Webster’s Faith. 31, [890. We will sellfor the next030 DAYS .our we1.1 known and selected stock at prlces that W111 astonlsh every one. Our $35Wi Come along and you will get Bargain. ANDERsON, NUGENT 8:1 l849-l853 NUTRE DAME STREH in any form, and certainly unusual that a special pictorial illusmti should be made and inserted 1n the reading columns of such a papa the Cabinet maker and Art F urnisher of When such a surprising step is taken it may be unquestionabl} 5* sumed that the articles so treated possess merits far aboxe the ordinar- From a copy of the journal mentioned we find that a portmtg the exhibit of and centre table, of which the above cut is a fac similc bci. ‘* 581635” for commendation and praise. The table is made of cb0111'ith 5‘: of free monumental scrollwork carving; the leg, simiz‘11l1tlt‘35d': which brass claws are attached, and the chair 15 of that kin d k 011% wire-backed, upholstered very richlV in Crimson and Old Gold Brocatelle. Both of these articles, as we have already stated, formed 173:"; 3:31 ~ ; McGarvey’s large exhibit, which, by the way, has received SOY; ‘ eulogiums from both English and Canadian newspapers, and both ““1"; menUfactured here under the personal supervision of the firm: T)“: such tables are now in their showrooms, as well as specimen; f 1W: chairs 1n various styles of covering. .Thcy are, in short. emf-1P”: " that high class furniture which has been made by them for somi 3'53” and which can be seen every day in their MANUFA CTURES 0F CAACélDA Messfs' MCGARVEY may well be heartily congratulated prominence thus given to their goods by those critics of high 3’" factures on the other side of the Atlantic, and upon the mo! ferred 0? their house by such complimentary notice as-th ,- ALA ,_ nstanced. “gem/Ming in profion‘z‘on ,"07/ i/ze ”ex: 30 do; J 0mm M 6647216315 0/; RESULTS FROM THE COLINDERIES. SPACIOUS WAREROOMS. FURNITURE Canadian Made Furniture AJI'E COLINDERIES. Our $30 one for $23. DRAWING-BO OM CHAIR Wholesale and Retail, MONTREAL. It is exceedingly rare to find English journals noticing the ome and see our great Bargains in of Montreal, has been so favored, a “03H Hmnm ma: Ham» 28.5 0.38 wrangu Our $20 one for OWEN MGGARVEY 8: SGN; anadian Chair Table. Exhibited at the Kent St, Lindsay art “137 5616ch Accoun lar b0! .