Consciousness of freedom from hypocrisy. This is one of the strongest grounds of the brightest Christian hope. Job stood firm in the consciousness of his own sincerity "But I will maintain mine own ways before him." In another place he says, "The root of the `matter shall be found in me;" and again, "O that my words were now written, that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! for I know that my Redeemer liveth." The Christian assurance 'may not always be very strong, but the true Christian, the weakest, may always be assured of some things. He knows, Oh yes, he knows that he loves some things he once hated, and he hates some things he once loved. He knows he loves the ordinances, the house of prayer, and that he loves the brethren, and "He that loveth his brother hath passed from death unto life."
To the Christian, there is wonderful import in that little word yet. Habakkuk, after enumerating an accumulation of distresses, cries out, "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation; and in the last words of David we find, "Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant," &c.
GLEANINGS,
FROM DR. EVERETT'S STENOGRAPHIC NOTES.
It is not necessary, in order to be true followers of Jesus, that we should lay aside every other object of lawful pursuit. We may be diligently and heartily engaged in the lawful concerns of life; but to be faithful servants of Jesus, his service must be our chief ob-
