s to be carried. Immoderate earthly
enjoyments--unbroken earthly prosperity--write upon these, "_Beware!_"
You may live to see them become your greatest trials!

Remember the old saying, "No cross, no crown." The sun of the saint's
life generally struggles through "weeping clouds." One of the loveliest
passages of Scripture is that in which, the portals of heaven being
opened, we overhear this dialogue between two ransomed ones--"And one of
the elders answered saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in
white robes, and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou
knowest. And he said to me, _These are they which came out of great
tribulation!_"

"ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND."

Twenty-second Day.

HOLY ZEAL.

"The zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up."--John, ii. 17.

"Zeal, is a principle; enthusiasm is a feeling. The one is a spark of a
sanguine temperament and overheated imagination. The other, a sacred
flame kindled at God's altar, and burning in God's
shrine."--(_Vaughan._) Such was the holy, heavenly zeal of our Great
Exemplar! His were no transient outbursts of ardor, which time cooled
and difficulties impeded. His life was one indignant protest against
sin;--one ceaseless current of undying love for souls, which all the
malignity of foes, and unkindness of friends, could not for one moment
divert from its course. Even when He rises from the dead, and we
imagine His work at an end, His zeal only meditates fresh deeds of love.
"Still His heart and His care," says Godwin, "is upon doing more. Having
now dispatched that great work on earth, He sends His disciples word
that He is hastening to heaven as fast as He can, to do another." (John,
xx. 17).

Reader! do you know any thing of this zeal, which "many waters could not
quench"? See that, like your Lord's, it be steady, sober, consistent,
undeviating. How many are, like the children of Ephraim, "carrying
bows"--all zealous when zeal demands no sacrifice, but "turning their
backs in the day of battle!" Others "running well" for a time, but
gradually "hindered," through the benumbing influences of worldliness,
selfishness, and sin. Two disciples, apparently equally devoted and
zealous, send through Paul, in one of his epistles, a conjoint Christian
salutation--"Luke and Demas greet you." A few years afterward, thus he
writes from his Roman dungeon--"Only _Luke_ is with me," "_Demas_ hath
_forsaken_ me, having loved