grimage, and fail to see it crowded with Ebenezers, with
this inscription: "Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes
from tears, and my feet from falling?" My soul, where wouldst thou have
been this day, hadst thou not been "_kept_" by the power of God?

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

6TH DAY.

"He is Faithful that Promised."

"I will heal their backsliding."--HOSEA xiv. 4.

Restoring Grace.

Wandering again! And has He not left me to perish? Stumbling and
straying on the dark mountains, away from the Shepherd's eye and the
Shepherd's fold, shall He not leave the erring wanderer to the fruit of
his own ways, and his truant heart to go hopelessly onward in its career
of guilty estrangement? "My thoughts," says God, "are not as your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways." Man would say, "Go, perish!
ungrateful apostate!" God says, "Return, ye backsliding children!" The
Shepherd _will_ not, _cannot_ suffer the sheep to perish He has
purchased with His own blood. How wondrous His forbearance towards
it!--tracking its guilty steps, and ceasing not the pursuit till He lays
the wanderer on His shoulders, and returns with it to His fold
rejoicing! My soul! why increase by farther departures thine own
distance from the fold?--why lengthen the dreary road thy gracious
Shepherd has to traverse in bringing thee back? Delay not thy return!
Provoke no longer His patience; venture no farther on forbidden ground.
He waits with outstretched arms to welcome thee once more to His bosom.
Be humble for the past, trust Him for the future. Think of thy former
backslidings, and tremble; think of His forbearance, and be filled with
holy gratitude; think of His promised grace, "and take courage."

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

7TH DAY.

"He is Faithful that Promised."

"He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the
day of Jesus Christ."--PHIL. i. 6.

Sanctifying Grace.

Reader! is the good work begun in thee? Art thou holy? Is sin
crucifying? Are thy heart's idols, one by one abolished? Is the world
less to thee, and eternity more to thee? Is more of thy Saviour's image
impressed on thy character, and thy Saviour's love more enthroned in thy
heart? Is "Salvation" to thee more "the one thing needful?" Oh! take
heed! there can be no middle gr