ing over the troubles through which they have passed;
they keep lugging up the cares and anxieties they have been called
on to bear, and are forever looking at them. Why should we go
reeling and staggering under the burdens and cares of life when we
have such prospects before us?

If there is nothing but glory beyond, our faces ought to shine
brightly all the time. If a skeptic were to come up here and watch
the countenances of the audience he would find many of you looking
as though there was anything but glory before you. Many a time it
seems to me as if I were at a funeral, people look so sad and
downcast. They do not appear to know much of the joy of the Lord.
Surely if we were looking right on to the glory that awaits us, our
faces would be continually lit up with the light of the upper world.
We can preach by our countenances if we will. The nearer we draw to
that glory-land, where we shall be with Christ--the more peace, and
joy, and rest we ought to have. If we will but come to the throne of
grace, we shall have strength to bear all our troubles and trials.
If you were to take all the afflictions that flesh is heir to and
put them right on any one of us, God has grace enough to carry us
right through without faltering.

Some one has compiled the following, which beautifully describes the
contrast between law and grace:

The Law was given by Moses.

Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

The Law says--This do, and thou shalt live.

Grace says--Live, and then thou shalt do.

The Law says--Pay me that thou owest.

Grace says--I frankly forgive thee all.

The Law says--The wages of sin is death.

GRACE says--The gift of God is eternal life.

The Law says--The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Grace says--Whosoever believeth in Jesus, though he were dead, yet
shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Him shall never
die.

The Law pronounces--Condemnation and death.

Grace proclaims--Justification and life.

The Law says--Make you a new heart and a new spirit.

Grace says--A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you.

The Law says--Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things
which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Grace says--Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven, whose
sin is covered; blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute
iniquity.

The Law says--Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with