all meet together another morning until we meet on that morning when Christ summons His own, and we shall meet to dwell forever with the Lord.

O, my friends, the way from the foot of the cross is clear, right straight to the throne, and there is nothing to hinder. Paul says, "Jacob will leave his ailments in the grave." This flesh is heir to many ailments,-but thanks be to God, when the trumpet shall sound and we shall come forth from the grave, we will leave all those things and come up glorified bodies, without any pains and aches, with nothing to mar our happiness. Glorious morning! It will soon be upon us! A few more mornings, at the farthest, and we shall be on Canaan's shore. A few fleeting hours! Won't it be a glorious morning? In a few short months or years, our conflict will be over, our warfare will be ended, and we shall be forever with the Lord. Let us to-day ask ourselves the question "Have I got an interest in Christ? Have I got hope in Him? Have I an interest in the kingdom to come? Is my name written in the Lamb's Book of Life?" The guest-chamber will be all ready for us.

I have travelled a good deal you know. Well, when I come to stay at a friend's house, I am shown to my room, and I look around it and see that my friends have anticipated every wish, and every comfort. There is the fresh water, the clean towels, and there may be a boquet of flowers. Perhaps the host will come in and ask me to look around and see if there is anything I need, or wish for; and I look around and see that there is not a thing that I can want, that is not already supplied. When Christ brings us into His guest-chamber there wont be anything wanting. Everything we will want, we will have. May God help us set our face like a flint, so that we may have part in the first resurrection!

Some people say, "I don't know how the dead are

going to be raised." In London, especially, they often asked the question, because there they dig one grave very deep, and put one member of the family into it, one after another, one on top of the other, eight or ten deep. They say, "If those who died in Christ are going to be raised first, how is He going to rise up believers from the midst of such a grave?" Well, if you take a lot of sawdust and put bits of steel in with it, and then take a strong magnet and draw it over the sawdust, every particle of steel will come to the top. So, when the great magnet of God's trumpet call shall pass over these graves at the resurrection day, those who have loved and followed Him will hear and spring to His call. Those who have not loved Him will not even wish or think to answer it; sawdust lies under the steel magnet. flee away from Him. O, let us live so when that morning shall come, it shall be a blissful morning!

they will lie as the They would rather close to Him, that

ADDRESS TO CHRISTIAN WORKERS.

"You remember the first week we were here, we were talking about works. We are about ready to go away, and we want to bring that subject before you again—the subject of works. Of course, I am talking now to those who think they have been saved. Those who have been here some of the time during the past ten weeks understand that I do not wish to try to stir up men to work for God until they are first saved, until they have first accepted salvation as a gift. A man cannot work his way into heaven. A man cannot do anything to please God even, until he has first believed in Christ, and accepted salvation through Him. Let me read from the second chapter of Galatians, 16th verse; 66 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." Then that verse in the 4th of Ròmans: "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt." after we are saved we cannot help going to work. If a man tells me he has been saved of Christ, and yet has no desire to work for God, I know it is a spurious conversion ; it is not a true salvation; it has not got the ring of heaven in it. The first words that fell from the lips of Christ on earth were, "For wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" You will find, too, that during His

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ministry He toiled early and late in the work.

A man may

say he has faith, but if he has not works he has only a dead faith. You cannot have faith without works; you cannot have fire without heat. Do not let these men that are not willing to lift their little fingers to help God's cause-do not let them think they are going to heaven only because they have a pew in church, and criticize the minister, and if a minister touches their conscience in any guilty spot they want to get a new one-that minister does not suit them! Those men are deceiving themselves. If a man has not got a spirit of work, he has not got the spirit of Christ or righteousness. The mind of a man that has been born of God is not in that man.

In the 16th chapter of John it says, "I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; For without me ye can do nothing." There are one or two things in this chapter I would call your attention to. It says, "fruit,” “ more fruit," and "much fruit"-three kinds; there is another, "no fruit." I believe there is a good deal of pruning that would not have to be done to us if we abided in Christ. "He that abideth in Christ bringeth forth much fruit." But we fall off and are fickle and need pruning, so then the knife must be put in. This time of the year the gardener is clipping his fruit trees if he wants them to bear. So God

has to prune us. Instead of our murmuring and complaining about it, we ought to go to work to put forth more and more fruit. How many have lost their children and afterwards have gone to work earnestly for the first time for the Lord! Before they lost their children, they worked and lived wholly for them, spending all their time to accumulate money for them. God took their children to Him for their own sake as well as for their parents' sake—to lift them higher. No one who has read the Scripture will say that it does not teach us to work.

Every Bible student loves to work. The Word of God inspires us to work. Paul said the love of Christ constrained him. Jeremiah said the Word of God burned in his bones. He fed upon it and it was sweet to his taste. If a man gets his heart full of the Word of God, he is not then interested just in one little corner of the vineyard, but he will take a wide field of labor and interest. He will rejoice to hear of a conversion, in any and every part of the world. He will be glad to hear of God's work among all denominations of Christians, among Baptists, among Methodists, among Presbyterians. The moment he hears the Word of God taught, he comes out of the sectarian world, and is interested to have the cause of God advanced in all parts of the world. His interest is not confined to the prosperity of his own little sect, but it goes out toward every good work.

A man was taken sick, and while he lay there, some one sent him a bunch of flowers. He said if he had known how much good it would do to a sick man, he would have sent some when he was well. A great many do not know how much good they can do until they have been tried, and have been tried to their sorrow. If we will look around us day after day we will find many a good thing to do. We ought to pray every day that we may wipe away the tears of suffering from some one's face that very day. If we are going to help the poor widow and those fatherless children, we must do it now. God has sent us here to make the world brighter and better, and to help those that carry burdens. Some one said the world seemed like two mountains, a mountain of joy and a mountain of sorrow, and if every day we can take a little from the mountain of sorrow to the mountain of joy we might be better and do better. "He that waters, himself shall be watered." Every one of us should study how we can be a blessing to others. These people who are going round with your hearts sad and