hose who are spiritually least qualified for it are to be found
sitting in the seat of judgment, rather than taking the place of the
inquirer and the learner. The Bereans of old did not scornfully
reject the, to them, strange teachings of the Apostle Paul, but
searched the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Now, forsooth, the Scriptures themselves are called in question, and
the very foundations of Christian faith are abandoned by men who
would fain be looked upon as the apostles of modern thought. May GOD
preserve His people from abandoning the faith once for all delivered
to the saints, for the baseless ephemeral fancies of the present day!

THE POSITIVE CONDITIONS OF BLESSING.

We have considered the things which are avoided by the truly blessed
man. O, the miseries and the losses of those who fail to avoid them!
We have now to dwell upon the special characteristics of the man of
GOD, those which are at once the source of his strength and his
shield of protection.

"His delight is in the law of the LORD;
"And in His law doth he meditate day and night."

The unregenerate cannot delight in the law of the LORD. They may be
very religious, and may read the Bible as one of their religious
duties. They may admire much that is in the Bible, and be loud in its
praise--for as a mere book it is the most wonderful in the world.
Nay, they may go much further than this; and may imagine, as did Saul
the persecutor, that their life is ordered by its teachings, while
still they are far from GOD. But when such become converted, they
discover they have been blind; among the "all things" that become
new, they find that they have got a new Bible; and as new-born babes
they desire the unadulterated milk of the Word that they may grow
thereby. Well is it when young Christians are properly fed from the
Word of GOD, and have not their taste corrupted, and their spiritual
constitution destroyed, by feeding on the imaginations of men rather
than on the verities of GOD.

It is not difficult to discover what a man delights in. "Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." The mother delights to
speak of her babe, the politician loves to talk of politics, the
scientific man of his favourite science, and the athlete of his
sport. In the same way the earnest, happy Christian manifests his
delight in the Word of GOD; it is his food and comfort; it is his
study and his guide; and as the Holy Spirit throws fresh lig