9. Pardon can never precede the offence. "If we regard iniquity in our hearts, the Lord will not hear us when we pray."

10. Under the law of love in the gospel, God restores the pardoned to confidence and trust. He does it with the most delicate feeling towards the sinner. "All his transgressions that he hath committed shall not be mentioned unto him." 11. There is no favoritism in the gospel. Its object is to elevate. It bestows special blessings for real worth. The requisition, that, to be forgiven, we must exercise similar feelings toward others, that we recognize in God, and from which we implore relief, is in keeping with this plan to elevate the receiver.

12. Every man carries to the throne of grace, within his own heart, the conditions of his own pardon. The law is wisely placed within his own hands. He may find acceptance or rejection, according to the tenor of his own heart.

QUESTIONS.

1. What is said of moral obligation?

What of this knowledge?

What is the result?

2. What was God's object, in giving the law to Moses?

Do not all men acknowledge the divine requirements, as a whole, to be self-evidently just ?*

8. What is the object of the Christian religion? Does God withhold, from the soul, any proper enjoyment? *

Are not all its requirements made in the interest of man's soul? *

4, For what is the law of God held before him? Is it given as a source of hope?* Gal. 2:16. For what does Christ hold up his life?

What is its emblem?

5. What has the gospel never done?

What did Peter do?

Will man be likely to repent, while he sees in himself but little to repent of ? *

6. From what cannot man be released?

What may he have?

What can never be lowered?

What is said of duty?

What of release ?

What announcement ?

7. When will the penalty of sin be revoked? What quotation is made?

8. What are the final conditions of pardon?

To what do they look?

For what do we need the objective teachings of the gospel?

What remark is made?

9. What of pardon?

What quotation?

10. What is said of love?

How does God restore?

What quotation? Ezek. 19: 22.

11. What is said of the gospel?

What its object?

On whom does it bestow special blessings?

What remark is made?

12. What is said of those who pray?

Where is the law of pardon?

How may he find acceptance?
Read James, 4: 3.

SUBMISSION TO GOD.

LESSON LXXXIX.

"Lead us, not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." -Matt. 6: 13.

1. The task of persuading men, cordially, to accept a special revelation from God, is not an easy one. Not that there is any unreasonableness in the idea of a special revelation, when all our necessities and relations are considered. 2. The natural heart dislikes the task, requisite to a proper investigation of the subject. The philosophy of the Christian religion will not be likely to be understood by the masses, until there is a deeper personal interest in Christ.

3. The hardest point to be gained in the human heart, is to persuade man to yield himself, childlike, to God, to be led, influenced, and henceforth controlled by Him.

4. Christianity implies this submission, and without it, there is no perfected Christian character. God asks man to place his hand within His, and trust him as a Father.

5. This implies a perfect trust in what is morally right. God's law is a perfect rule of action. This law is under his shaping providence. The results must be good.

6. It also implies an unqualified acceptance of God's means of salvation. The great struggle of this life, is to bring the soul to this trust.

7. In this sense, the sentences of this model prayer, stand to us in a climacteric order. The acknowledgment of God as our Father, is not unpleasant to any. It involves no sterling principle to claim it, although incapable of understandingly uttering it.

8. The reverence due his name involves a few negative virtues, with a sense of appreciation of worth and sacredness.

9. The allusion to the kingdom, is an expressed desire for the grand influences, restraints, and accomplishments of the good time coming. 10. "Thy will be done" casts the suffrages of the soul in favor of God. "Our daily bread," places the soul's dependence on God, with faith in his supply.

11. The law of forgiveness, is disciplinary, and highly subjective in its effects upon the soul; but, in this law of submission, there is no reserve.