11 for his law. Every individual believer may say, thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. He is with his people in their life, and all through the valley of the shadow of death, and when on the borders of the eternal world, he stands ready as it were to receive and welcome them home (Acts vii. 25). If indeed we be Christian Students, we are going to the land of light, we are on our way to those blessed regions where there is no night, and no darkness. It is the glorious description of our resi dence above, the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof; and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. Let us have a realising anticipation of the day when we shall behold the great Teacher, and know as we are known. A transforming and assimilating influence shall accompany the beatific vision; we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. The Lamb is the light of the heavenly city; all the communications of light will therefore proceed from him. The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters. We may well suppose that he who has said, what I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter, will remove the veil which now prevents our beholding the beautiful form and proportion of many a sacred truth, and the light and glory of many a dispensation at present hid in the clouds and darkness that are round about him. Christian Students, rise then to your high vocation. Here is a Teacher incomparably excelling every other Instructor; here is a school infinitely beyond the highest and most renowned school and college here below; the science is good not only for time, but for time and eternity; the honours are not fading but durable, the rewards are not merely earthly and temporal, but also heavenly and everlasting;s like godliness, his teaching is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come. All may here attain the great prize, and the pursuit of it shall not be full of anxiety and toilsome labour, or the attainment of it-leave-cair aching void in the soul. It is heaven upon earth to live with Christ here below, and to rejoice in hope of the glory of God, and we shall find hereafter in his presence fulness of joy. Christian Students, cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward, for ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise, for yet a little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry, qusoor Heda sonal ħu. In the meantime then, and till that great Teacher come, and in his light we see light, we conclude with the Apostle's charge to Timothy to enoitsolum * soifas dmo I 9AT ERRATA. Page 52, line 11, for 'in,' read' see.' 99, line 11, for authoratative,' read' authoritative.' 100, line 6, for 'unto,' read ' into.' 242, note, line 4, for 'teneda,' read' tenenda.' 288, note, line 1, for 'concurs,' read' concur.' INDEX I. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX, CHIEFLY OF THE WORKS MENTIONED IN THE MINISTER'S [There are many works mentioned in the Lists, Chapters xiii, xiv, ` Attonis Opera, 477 Philemon, 465 Ambrose's Communion with Angels, Augustine's City of God, 229 Altingii in Deuteronom. 455 Jeremiah, 458 Romans, 463 489 Looking unto Jesus, 420 Confessions, 513 Ambrosius, 476 Augustini Opera, 476 |