d!" he said. "The time was when her baptismal
robes were white and spotless; when she came out, and was separate, and
touched not the unclean thing. Hath God repealed His command thus to
do? In no wise. Hath the world become holy, harmless, undefiled--no
longer selfish, frivolous, carnal, earth-bound? Nay, for it waxeth
worse and worse as the end draws nearer. Woe is me! has the Church
stepped down from her high position as the elect and select company of
the sons of God, because these daughters of men are so fair and
bewitching? Is she slipping back, sliding down, dipping low her once
high standard of holiness to the Lord, bringing down her aim to the
level of her practice, because it suits not with her easy selfishness to
gird up her loins and elevate her practice to what her standard was and
ought to be? And she gilds her unfaithfulness, forsooth, with the name
of divine charity! saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace. `What
peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her
witchcrafts are so many?' They cry, `Speak unto us smooth things'--and
the Lord hath put none such in our lips. The word that He giveth us,
that must we speak. And it is, `Come out of her, My people, that ye be
not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.' Ye
cannot remain and not partake the sins; and if ye partake the sins, then
shall ye receive the plagues. `What God hath joined together, let not
man put asunder.'" [Note 7.]

Thank God for this light upon my path! for coming from His Word, it must
be light from Heaven. O my Lord, Thou art Love incarnate, and Thou hast
bidden us to love each other. Thou hast set us in families, and chosen
our relatives, our neighbours, our surroundings. From Thine hand we
take them all, and use them, and love them, in Thee, for Thee, to Thee.
"We are taught of God to love each other." We only love too much when
we love ourselves, or when we love others above Thee. And "the command
we have of Thee is that he who loveth Thee, love his brother also"--the
last word we hear from Thee is a promise that Thou wilt come again, and
take us--together, all--not to separate stars, but to be with Thee for
ever. Amen, Lord Jesu Christ, so let it be!

It is several weeks since I have seen Margaret, otherwise than in
community. But to-night I heard the timid little rap on my door, and
the equally timid "Annora?" which came after. When Margaret says that
word, in tha