18th verse, where it says, "But we all, with open face
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

I think now, you will understand why we have the law. It is not to make
us wicked, for we are wicked already. But it is to show us our
wickedness, it is to reveal to us the fact that we are sinners, and that
we are lost and undone without a Saviour. And then it reveals the Lord
Jesus Christ to us, and we come to Him, the same as men with blackened
faces go to the fountain to wash. So we come with our sins and our guilt
"to the fountain which has been opened for sin and uncleanness," and we
wash all our sins and guilt away; and then we are changed into His image
and into His likeness, from glory to glory, until at last, in the world
on high, we awake in the likeness of Jesus.

QUESTIONS.--To what does the Bible compare the law
of God? For what purpose do people use a
looking-glass? What does a man whose face is dirty
see in the glass? What does it show that his face
needs? Does it suggest that he should wash his
face with the looking-glass? What does he use with
which to wash his face? What does God's law show
us? Does the law make us sinful? Can the law
remove the effects of sin? Who is the fountain for
the cleansing of our sin? Are we saved by the law,
or by the grace of God?

RAIN.

GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER.

SUGGESTION:--A bottle partly filled with dust from
the roadway will help to illustrate the condition
which would quite universally prevail if the earth
were not refreshed with frequent rains.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: In view of the fact that the weather is so very
warm, the earth so dried and parched and we have had no rain for a
period of weeks, I thought it might be useful to-day to consider what
would be the result if God should withhold the rain altogether, and then
to tell you how, or in what manner God brings us the rain and refreshes
the earth and makes it fruitful.

In order that you might see something of the present condition of the
earth, I have brought in this bottle some dust, taken from the centre of
the road. As I turn the bottle around, you see how dry it is and how it
floats in the air, leaving the inside of this bottle all powdered with
dust. Th