here, every open Christian heart will rejoice and assist. Can man be more just than God?

A course so much in the path of the pious earlier discoverers and modern restorers, such as Newton and Copernicus will not detract from the value of their labours. It will merely sift the gold from the dross in their views, and leave the real treasure more clear.

The fact that loss has occurred, after the first beams of knowledge had been divinely suggested, will only approve the more highly the grandeur of their powers, while trusting through a cimmerean darkness raised by their forefathers in hate of all God's every sentence, especially as they were allowed no new direct revelation.

The question may be asked, How came it lost at all, if recoverable by the same race? The answer is connected with the same fact in other sciences, which the remains of wondrous simple but perhaps rather rough grandeur present in America, as well as in central lordly autocratic Asia, that the fall has been, and the rise has come.

God revealed his moral law perfectly in the earlier ages, but its power over history was not so finished as to establish love to his institutes abidingly; and the light of grace was declared in the truth, but Christian naturalist, Mr. P. H. Gosse, says, while speaking of the signs of the times, and the sceptical opponents of the Bible on the creation question-"I would rather let others speak, but I do feel very strongly the havoc that Satan is making, not only in the world, but even among the children of God with respect to this question. I feel it is a very solemn thing, that the wolf is sapping the outworks of the fold, and the sheep are looking into one another's frightened faces, not knowing what to do or say." This is a generous and frank confession from one who in one work had such settlement for his object, and now seals its importance to be never given up as hopeless.

could not be so fully stamped on the features of time, as after that great fact had also been engraved on the heart, the Calvary work, previously only taught in covenant promise and types. Law is now livingly established in Jesus' example and command, "Follow me," for obedience in beauty, while faith alone in Him, as the substitute, gives "the Life,"

as ever.

Hence, the times of the Mosaic law, after the simple but glorious patriarchal, ecclesiastical, and civil testimony of Melchizedek, (that early one in the crowned order of the heavenlies and earthlies in one unity for glory,) followed the gradual submersion among the Gentiles of all the remains of Edenic and post-diluvian attainments, as proceeding from bad to worse, although the first settlers carried with them to all parts from Babel, great reminiscences in God's thoughts and truths of heart. Then came the Gospel in full.

The Jews were employed to raise the general voice of truth in all topics, and until their latter dark ages of departing glory came on, by their worldly love of earthly idols, they kept much grandeur of light extant. But in their latter days, before Christ, they left the pure fountain for their vain traditions by uninspired elders on all points, and so certainly lost all correct attainment in science. This declension ruined the last hope existing. God for four-hundred years left them to their sins, so that

NOTE.-The significant veneration of the mistletoe on the oak, both by the Brahmins of India, and the Druids of the West, shew, how earnestly the dispersed clung to their most correct, but self-invented types of the promised heavenly branch, as the graft from heaven, mysteriously nurtured by the sap and root, strong in the covenant, and by the God of Creation's law, all pure.

in the hour of the Messiah's advent, we see how few truly intelligent, pious persons existed to hail his appearance with joy and correct views of his pleasure and redeeming power.

Rome was bloody, brutal, and grossly sensual. Greece was soon degraded even of what she had appeared to have like honour. Persia had lost sight of all she ever had-fierceness with splendour. Babylon had become an obscure and rapidly declining relic of sheer pride in the masses. So science became like religion, an imposture and a mummery. Literature, a feeble pool of dirty witticisms, with a gilding of impure and flattering history and biography mixed with romance. Nothing was trustworthy. To be able to write or read was soon to become a gain for scorn, and to be a clever human butcher was the way of acceptance as the beau-ideal of heroism, dashed with a little of Adam's love for females unto death. Restoration, however, had its means of awakening provided just at the crisis. It was done in that masterly way, the cause of the emergency dictated. God had already given a complete canon of truth in his Scriptures, as the Father of All, holding the progress of the school in his own hands, under the Word by the Holy Ghost. He soon sent forth that "Word" in covenant association, and divine membership with the race, (so cold to his own teaching from heaven as a Spirit God over all,) to act on all the home and natural sympathies of the human heart, by precept, example, beauty and purity, seen and made attractive as in one of the race. Man ennobled to a fellowship in nature with God,-Who could not be tempted with evil,—— The marvel of mind, heart, and comprehensive genius -The incarnate Word, and its perfect impersonator in human duties and present responsibilities as

needed by the fallen, and otherwise hopelessly degenerating lost race. The righteousness provider for all. The work was to be such a work, that reaction, by divine action, where it had been most feeble by other means, was to be established. It was to be a work of crowned security. Divine dominion wrenched from further retrogression in the believing all, as a body by the powers of its Head triumphant, whatever especial enmity it might call out in continued impervious children of sin. Thus, the work and word of Jesus received the formal titular of "The Kingdom of Heaven." The glorious honours and beauty of which meaning many of his own people are circumscribing, as belonging only to a phase of the crowns inherent in Him, although dispensed in a measure in the Word, in all administrations, and thus condensed in this last. For in Him is One Spirit, indivisible in the church, though subject under God, to various aspects of many operations, and so He correctly changed its peculiar operators at different stages of the married "double" belonging to all the seed. 1 COR. xii. 5.

Jesus did not say much, as far as is recorded on natural laws in physics. It was not needed. This theme belonged rather to the lower standard

NOTE.-Although the glory of the latter day, in the expansion and sustentation of the work of God, has been greater since Calvary and Pentecost, yet as to individual effects for glorious services, the direct communion with God the Father in earlier ages raised up men, whose claims to stand nearest Jesus, as true servants of the way of trial, have been but seldom equalled, except in the immediate fruits of early Christianity. Nearness to Christ in the Church for the kingdom of creation, will be the reward of the real, in comparative service, not a mere matter of time in the birth, invidiously and dishonouring the Judge and Rewarder of men. REV. xxii. 12.

of those labouring before Him, in less acquirement of the spiritual and heavenlies, arising in Himself from the de facto, as well as de jure, union of birthright in God of man, above this earth's first estate, yea, above the standing of angelic creaturehood. Sons of God by their birth in spirit, believers were ever, as to eternity, in legal and personal spiritual union with the Father. The children of his own divine nature as God. Sons by regeneration's glory. Jesus, however, used natural laws and things so as to shew their purpose, theologically and doctrinally, as speaking types, in all their order, under the conflict of Light, against inertia and darkness.

He loved, and shewed love to all. He took the lowest position of honesty, to secure the sympathies of the lowliest orders; while his illustrious earthly rank by descent, secured, even by its abeyance through the past misfortunes of his line, the most effectual interest in every honourable aristocracy. His angel-proclaimed-and-chanted divine conception and birth, secured the most solemn influence over every pious—to even the ascetic mind. He lived a life of spotless purity after a most solemnly interesting series of strange dangers to his childhood, and so God kept all scripture-reading hearts alive to the prospect of what his manhood would develope. None were disappointed. He excelled the most excellent judgment of the sublime and beautiful. His generosity knew no bounds but those of true usefulness; and his voice was a living charm to the good wherever He moved. While his power in the field of his birth, to secure peace, in perfect harmony with all God had ever taught by the ancients, in the most troubled sinner's soul, was accompanied with such manifest commanding power over all the vital resources of physical associations, as useful to the