ound, no standing still; or if it be so,
thy position must be a false one. The Saviour's blood is not more
necessary to give thee a title to Heaven, than His Spirit to give thee a
meetness for it. "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is _none
of His_!" "Onwards!" should be thy motto. There is no standing still in
the life of faith. "The man," says Augustine, "who says '_Enough_,' that
man's soul is lost?" Let this be the superscription in all thy ways and
doings, "Holiness to the Lord." Let the monitory word exercise over thee
its habitual power, "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord."
Moreover, remember, that to be holy, is to be happy. The two are
convertible terms. Holiness! It is the secret and spring of the joy of
angels; and the more of holiness attained on earth--the nearer and
closer my walk is with God--the more of a sweet earnest shall I have of
the bliss that awaits me in a holy Heaven. Oh! my soul, let it be thy
sacred ambition to "Be holy!"

"REMEMBER _THIS_ WORD UNTO THY SERVANT, UPON
WHICH THOU HAST CAUSED ME TO HOPE!"

8TH DAY.

"He is Faithful that Promised."

"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; they shall walk, and not faint."--ISAIAH xl. 31.

Reviving Grace.

"Wilt thou not revive us, O Lord?" My soul! art thou conscious of thy
declining state? Is thy walk less with God, thy frame less heavenly?
Hast thou less conscious nearness to the mercy-seat,--diminished
communion with thy Saviour? Is prayer less a privilege than it has
been?--the pulsations of spiritual life more languid, and fitful, and
spasmodic?--the bread of life less relished?--the seen, and the
temporal, and the tangible, displacing the unseen and eternal? Art thou
sinking down into this state of drowsy self-contentment, this
conformity-life with the world, forfeiting all the happiness of true
religion, and risking and endangering the better life to come? Arise!
call upon thy God! "Wilt thou not revive us, O Lord?" He might have
returned nothing but the withering repulse, "How often would I have
gathered thee; but thou wouldst not!" "Ephraim is joined to his idols;
let him alone!" But "in wrath He remembers mercy." "They _shall_ revive
as the corn." "The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." How and where is
reviving grace to be found? He gives thee, in this precious promise, the
key. It