That we might receive the adoption of sons.... and if a son, then an heir of God. Gal. iv: 5, 7.

wonder, but not with jealousy. They appear delighted at what they see; they embrace him as a brother. The news reaches the inside of the palace; the inmates hasten out to congratuJate the new-made king. He returns with them and takes his seat at the banquet, amid strains of music and the voice of song.

cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out." He places a crown on his head, that is, he adopts him as his own son; he makes him an heir of his eternal glory.

Now he has a childlike confidence in God as his Father, God having sent forth the Spirit of his Son into his heart, crying, Abba, Father. He This is an emblem of Adoption. takes his place among the children The king represents the Almighty of God, lost in wonder, love, and Father, King of heaven and earth. praise. "Behold what manner of The king's sons signify the angels, love the Father hath bestowed on us, who have never sinned. The boy in that we should be called the sons of rags represents the sinner, man. The God." sinner, "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked," is driven by the storms of guilt and anguish that beat upon him, to seek a place of refuge. "Whither shall I flee?" he asks, in the agony of his soul. He resolves, "I will arise and go to my Father." Thus, in all his misery, he presents himself before the King, Jehovah.

Whereas the king is seen coming forth from his palace, and taking the poor boy by the hand; this is to show how willingly God receives the poor penitent who comes to him in the name of the Mediator. When he was yet a great way off, he saw him, and had compassion on him. He takes him by the hand, saying, "Him that

The angels, those elder sons of the Almighty, gladly welcome the adopted to their number; they receive him as one that was lost, and is found, that was dead, and is alive again, and henceforth minister to him as an heir of salvation.

Not all the nobles of the earth,
Who boast the honors of their birth,
Such real dignity can claim,
As those that bear the Christian name.
To them the privilege is given

To be the sons and heirs of heaven;
Sons of the God who reigns on high,
And heirs of joy beyond the sky.
On them, a happy, chosen race,
Their Father pours his richest grace;
To them his counsels he imparts,
And stamps his image on their hearts.
Dr. S. Stennett.

sengers to behold him. At the side of the trumpeter are seen several bales of goods; these are his stock in trade. Behind, is seen the peacock, strutting, swelling, and displaying his brilliant train. A proper emblem of this proud trumpeter.

This engraving represents a man | long blast, he calls the distant paswho appears to be on very respectable terms with himself. He is sounding a trumpet before him; he is very anxious that every body should know when he performs what he conceives to be a good action. A poor man is asking charity; he never refuses a trifle, provided he has his trumpet with him. Up it goes, and with a

The above cut is an emblem of Spiritual Pride. The trumpeter, giv

ing a little small change to the beg-great natural abilities. In others, by gar, and apprising every body of the wealth and learning. In others again, fact, denotes one who loves to make by certain ecclesiastical endowments, a parade of his religious performances. such as an office in the church, the Does he give to benevolent objects? gift of praying, or of preaching, etc. It is that he may receive the praise These things are all alike good in of men. Does he fast, or pray, or themselves, but the hearts of the posworship? It is that he " It is that he "may be sessors, being unsanctified, the gifts seen of men." On the house-top, are abused, and the Giver neglected. through the newspapers, and other He who possesses true religion will sources of circulation, he proclaims be truly hurable. IIumility is the only his good deeds. He conjugates all proper antidote for pride. When huhis verbs in the first person only: "Imility enters, pride departs, as flies the visited," "I preached," "I prayed," "I gave," etc. Thus the praise of worms becomes necessary to his existence; on this food he grows fat. Deprive him of it, and he will pine away, and die of atrophy. He sacrifices to his own net; he burns incense to his own drag. Self is the god he adores. The "bales of goods" denote that he is well-stocked with selfrighteousness. In his own opinion, he is "rich and increased in goods, and has need of nothing." The peacock, after all, has just as much re-ness on the applause of man. This ligion as he has.

The hypocritical Pharisees of the Savior's time were men of this stamp. They sounded a trumpet before them under pretense of calling the poor together; but in reality it was to say, "Look at me." They had "their reward." In the East the practice varies. It is said that the dervishes, a kind of religious beggars, carry with them a horn, which, when receiving alms, they blow in honor of the giver.

All pride is pretty much alike in its nature and effects. It is produced in some persons by noble birth, and

darkness from the sun. To slay pride, and teach man humility by example, the blessed Savior took upon him the form of a servant. He made himself of no reputation; he humbled himself unto death, yea, even unto the death of the cross. O, wonderful humility! O, boundless grace!

Pride renders its possessor truly miserable in this life. The Father of spirits alone can fill an immortal spirit. The man of pride rejects the blessed God, and depends for happi

is uncertain, unsatisfying, and transi-
tory. Witness the case of Haman,
who, notwithstanding "the glory of
his riches," "the multitude of his
children," and his princely prefer-
ments, was truly wretched. 66
“ All
this availed him nothing," so long as
his voracious pride went without its
accustomed fee-so long as one man
refused to bring his tribute of hom-
age. But pride will render its posses-
sor miserable to all eternity. "How
can ye be saved who seek honor one
of another, and not the honor that
cometh from God only?"

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing; but
inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matt. vii. 15.

SEE in the distance, there, those harmless sheep;
Nor watch or ward at any time they keep;
Well pleased, along the pastures green they tread,
And unsuspecting crop the flowery mead:
The shepherd slumbers in the noontide's shade,
His flock forsaken, and his trust betrayed.
The wolf draws near, in sheepskin shrewdly
dressed,

He bleats aloud, and mixes with the rest;

They prick their cars, and look with some sur-
prise,

But can't detect him in his deep disguise.
He marks his time; when they are all asleep,
He slays the lambs, and tears the silly sheep.
Thus all false teachers are on ruin bent,
And by Apollyon on their mission sent;
Without, the clothing of Christ's flock they wear,
Within, the heart of ravening wolves they bear.

The engraving shows a wolf in comes; he comes, too, in deep disdisguise, and a flock of sheep in the guise, not in his true character; not background. The shepherd is absent as a wolf, but as a sheep. The flocks from his charge; the sheep wander are deceived; he mingles with them; on, without any to control their move- he marks his time. First one stragments. The green pastures and ver- gler, and now another, fall victims to dant meadows afford them plenty of his tooth of blood. At length, in an employment. Innocent_themselves, unguarded moment, he kills all the they suspect no danger. But the wolf | lambs, and tears and worries the en