heard about us, saying, "This is the Way: walk ye in it." Better still the Bible is given "as a lantern shining in a dark place." When we personally experience the saving power of Christ, the light of the morning shines into our faces, and as the daystar is outshone by the sun our perplexity is gone forever. Thus personal experience adds final confirmation to Scripture and oral testimony; and certainty takes the place of hope.

"Oh, taste and see that Jehovah is good!" It is a true saying, "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him." All voices, human and divine, are ineffective until by vital appropriation we make the gospel an indwelling fact. Then we know that Jesus Christ hath power on earth to forgive sins. Then we, becoming witnesses ourselves, are prepared to testify that his love affords an easement of all pain and sorrow. Then we feel his friendship as the great incentive to spiritual growth and usefulness. The truth is put beyond all doubt or peradventure when "the Daystar arises in our hearts."

Is it not reasonable that a man, assuming him to be unprejudiced, should put the Teaching to this test? We are all alike sensible of sin; and, aside from the Teaching of Christ, there is no way of salvation. We are like that woman in Capernaum who, having an issue of blood which was pronounced to be incurable, and hearing that Jesus was in the city, said within herself, "If I do but touch his garment, I shall be made whole." She

forced her way through the press, touched the hem of his garment and felt that her malady had gone from her. As she was going her way Jesus said, "Who is it that touched me?" And the woman, "trembling, fell down before him and told him all." She told him the pathetic story of her vain consultation with other physicians, on whom she had wasted all her substance, and how in her despair she had come to him. And he said, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace." Is it not in line with common reason that any one in a similar case should do likewise? If there is no other way of escaping from the record of the mislived past and from the bondage of evil habit, why not come to him whose blood cleanseth from all sin, and whose truth makes men free?

A woman of Samaria, going out to draw water, met and talked with Jesus, who was sitting weary on the curb of the well. She presently left her water-pot and came running into the city, saying to her friends and neighbors, "I went out to draw water at Jacob's well, and there I met a wayfarer who spake to me as never man spake." "Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did; can this be the Christ?" They followed her back to the well and listened to Jesus. They besought him to be their guest; and he abode there two days, and many believed on him. And they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of thy speaking, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world."

Thus, in the last reduction, a man is savingly convinced by personal experience, when he can say, "I have met Christ, have made his acquaintance, have reasoned with him by the way and have learned to love him."

Summing up.-The case is thus presented to our jury of fair-minded men; and, as in similar cases, the call is for decision here and now. The claim of the Teacher as to the truth of the Teaching is true or it is not true. The verdict is called for. Let there be no "hung jury." Proven or not proven ? That is the question. If the evidence is conclusive, there is only one thing to do; to wit, Accept Christ and follow him.

We shall have no further evidence bearing upon the truth of the Teaching until we see the Teacher in the brightness of his heavenly glory. The Daystar itself will fade in the brightness of that high noon. Here we see as in a glass darkly, but there we shall see face to face. We shall behold the King in his beauty, and "we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is."

A native convert in the South Sea Islands gave this testimony: "I listened to the missionary when he spoke of sin, and he and I were like two canoes going side by side. Then he spoke of the way of salvation, and I dropped behind-mast broken and sail blown away-while he sped on. The sea drove me on a barren coast, where I lay helpless for a time. Then I arose in the blackness of darkness,

and felt my way like one groping along the wall. At length I seemed to touch a door; I pushed for my life; it flew open, and I beheld Him with the glory shining in His face!"

The evidence as to the Teaching is before us. Let us use the light we have and live up to it. Let us follow the gleam of the Scriptures, listen to the voices of eye-witnesses and heed the testimony of our own hearts. Here is the secret of peace and moral earnestness. And in due time the shadows will flee away and our path will be as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

HIS SOCIAL ETHICS

The law of Christ.-A complex law.-Kinship in the law. The new note.-Sharing with Christ.— Christ under the yoke.-A law for all men.

The "law of Christ" as laid down by Paul is usually regarded as identical with the Golden Rule, which James called "the royal law," saying, "If ye fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well." But they are not identical, as we shall see.

Here is Paul's code as given in Galatians 6: 2-5: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

"For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

"But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone and not of his neighbor.

"For each man shall bear his own burden."

The advice of Paul on this occasion was called. forth by a controversy which was going on in the Galatian churches. The question at issue was about the laws binding on them as followers of Christ. Some said that the Moral Law as set forth in the Ten Commandments was enough; but there were others who insisted that as Christians they were