He purchased the grace,
Which now I embrace;
O Father, thou knowest He hath died in my place.

V.--A LESSON IN THEOLOGY.--"I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, 'Whom
shall I send? Who will go for us?' What does this mean? Is it bad
grammar or good theology? It sounds like "And God said, Let Us make man
in our image?" "And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one
of Us." In John xii, 40, 41, we find that the Son of God, Jesus of
Nazareth, was the Lord who spoke the words we read in verses 9 and 10. In
Acts xxviii. 25 we are told it was the Holy Ghost who spake by Isaiah.
What does this mean but that the Divine Three in One and One in Three was
the Lord whom the prophet saw?

VI.--A LESSON TO WORKERS.--When iniquity is purged away there is a
willingness to be sent on God's errands. The lips that had been touched
said, "Here am I, send me." If we are not willing to go, it is because
there is still need of cleansing. Let those of us who find our feet slow
to move on God's errands come again to the place of burning. We shall do
well to say with Charles Wesley, in one of his less known poems--

Ah! woe is me, immerst in sin,
A man of lips and life unclean!
How shall I with Thy message run,
Or preach the pardoning God unknown?
Unless my God vouchsafe to cheer
His guilty, trembling messenger,
My fears disperse, my sins remove,
And purge me by the fire of love!

O wouldst Thou teach my lips once more,
The comfort of Thy grace restore;
Assure me, Lord, that mine Thou art,
And stamp forgiveness on my heart;
Then should I, in my Jesu's name,
Glad tidings of great joy proclaim:
Of grace, which every soul may find,
And glory, bought for all mankind.

CHRISTIAN, YOUR GREATEST DIFFICULTIES
WILL COME FROM YOUR OWN
SIDE. IT WAS NOT PHAROAH WHO
KEPT MOSES OUT OF CANAAN.

LX. PAUL AT SEA.
ACTS xxvii. 22-25.

"There's no hope," said the captain, "the ship cannot live in such a
storm." "There's no hope," said the military officer, "we shall never
see Rome." "There's no hope," said the prisoners, "we shall die at sea
instead of on the scaffold." One prisoner, however, had hope, and in the
long run made all his companions to hope. Paul cried out,

"BE OF GOOD CHEER, FOR THERE STOOD BY ME THIS NIGHT THE ANGEL OF GOD,
WHOSE I AM, AND WHOM I SERVE, SAYING, FEAR NOT, PAUL, THOU MUST BE
BROUGHT BEFORE CAESAR, AND LO, GOD HATH G