and weather should not keep me from going to Camberwell. I got there; the goodness of the Lord breaking down all obstacles for me. Again I beheld that thin, pale-faced young man. His text was, "My Saviour." Oh! that knocked me down altogether, and broke me to pieces; from that Sabbath-day till the time when it pleased the Lord to call Joseph Irons to his eternal home, did I continue to sit under his ministry, a period of upwards of thirty years, during which eventful course the afflictions,

SENTENCES OF THE REV. SAMUEL EYLES PIERCE; TAKEN DOWN IN WRITING BY HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH PIERCE, WHILE HE WAS PREACHING, DURING THE LATTER PART OF HIS MINISTRY.

To live on Christ, is to live over the truths of God in our hearts.

THE greatest trust God ever bestowed
on Christ, was to bestow on Him the
Church, the body of Christ, and the care
of the same; and the greatest trust be-
stowed on the apostle Paul was the gos-in
pel of the grace of God.

Like the children of Israel were in bondage in Egypt, so our spirits are in bondage within us, and will be so till death.

There is no salvation in our believing in Christ, because salvation is in Him independent of that.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints, in consequence of the death of Christ, the just for the unjust.

Christ did not bless the bread, for the bread could not be a spiritual blessing. He invoked a spiritual blessing on His people in their future observance of this ordinance to the end of time. It is called the cup of the Lord, because His name is called over it.

Full assurance of faith is believing the perfection of Christ's sacrifice.

is

Explanation of 1 Pet. i. 18. And hope perfectly in the grace that brought unto you in the revelation Jesus Christ.

of

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, is not the gospel; it is only a declaration that, in believing, we see and know that we are saved.

The gospel is a revelation of Christ, and of the perfection of the Church in Him.

In believing we are transported into the bosom of Christ, and enjoy heaven our souls.

The Lord never forgets any outgoing of our hearts towards Him.

We see love in Christ that can never be fathomed.

There is that perfection in the finished salvation of Christ, which lifts us up on high.

The Lord remembers us, so as to will everything that is to befal us in this time state.

Though we come into disquietudes, yet He remembers us to lift us up beyond all misgivings.

He remembers nothing against us, but everything for us.

Whatever has passed spiritually between the Lord and us, is immortal, is eternal.

You are never engaged in asking any request of Jesus Christ, that is forgotten of Him.

Our prayers are but an echo of what Christ is interceding for.

The Lord never had a sigh towards Him, but He will answer and grant.

It is in Christ, not in our knowledge of it, that we are clean from all sin in the sight of God.

To walk legally, is to walk after the flesh; and to walk after the flesh, is to walk legally and suspiciously of Christ.

God cannot charge any man in Christ

with sin, any more than He can Christ Himself.

Angel, a sword without a scabbard ; man, a sword within a scabbard.

The body is the sheath of the soul. Meetness for heaven is an act of the Holy Spirit on our minds, whereby we have a capacity to apprehend what the Lord has revealed, whereby we hold communion with Him.

There are three rings all round the crowned Lamb:-1st. The Church, who is nearest to Him. 2ndly. The ring of angels. 3rdly. The whole creation, as every creature living upon earth. "For we know that the whole creation groaneth."

The restitution of all things.
The four beasts are living creatures.
Some say, representatives of the Holy
Trinity.

God never imputed sin to the elect.
It was not Christ's engagements with
God; it was God's engagements with
Christ.

Christ is exalted in that very nature in which He suffered and died.

Christ is the book of life; and our names being inscribed on Christ, and in Christ, are thus written in the book of life.

Mr. Romaine called it, the Acts of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles; not the Acts of the Apostles.

Christ was the first of all God's thoughts.

The Holy Spirit cannot prophesy without a subject, which is Christ. When Christ became incarnate, the spirit of prophecy ceased.

The things of God are made known to us by revelation, not by prayer.

Christ is the face of God.

A little glimpse of Christ's person, puts down all our graces.

Christ's heart contains all the love of God; and His bowels contain all the manifestative mercies of God.

Our communion with God does not depend on our keeping it up with Him; but it depends entirely on His own friendship.

give us an account of God's dealings with men.

God is all thought, and His thoughts are continually and everlastingly engaged in thinking on His people in Christ.

It is not three essences; it is the One essential Godhead.

If we have no faith in the Holy Ghost, there can be no faith in Christ. It is by the Holy Ghost we receive Christ, and know who He is, what He contains, and what He hath performed.

The Holy Ghost first gives us life, before He gives us light.

Pray for a more enlarged apprehension of Jesus Christ, that you may be so enlightened by the Spirit of God as to take Him in from the Scriptures of truth, and three books:-1. Creation of God. 2. Book of God's providence. In the Song of Solomon all in nature is expressed and made use of to the praise and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. 3. The book of grace-His eternal love, and favour of the eternal Three to the elect of mankind in Christ. The pillars of silver, expressive of the purity of the gospel doctrine. Gold means the stability of the foundation. Purple, the covering of blood. Paved with lovethe heart of Christ burns with love. Solomon signifies peace.

The principal glory of Christ's crown is salvation.

Christ's having been accepted of the divine Father, is a proof that all His people are and were accepted in Him.

God looks upon every member of His Church as He does upon Christ Himself.

It is God's great act to give His people the knowledge of Christ; and they then set up their rest in Christ, and sing the Lord's song.

If we are cold and dead, we ought even then to speak the language of faith, that Christ may be glorified.

In the 8th of Proverbs there are the first thoughts of Christ Himself. In the 1st of Ephesians there are God's first thoughts of us as His elect chosen. And the first act of the Holy Ghost is re-to give us spiritual life; and the first good thought we had of Christ was that of a Saviour. This begins our fellowship with Christ on earth.

The meaning of cherubim, was God Himself in His Divine Persons. Seraphim signifies burning ones, presentatives of the great Jehovah, Vision means some extraordinary and supernatural appearance.

The history of men in the Bible, is to

Christ keeps up a Church on earth, on

"THAT WILL DO TO LIGHT MY PIPE."

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ABOUT eighteen months ago, when the he burst out into a loud laugh, exclaimFrench Government was engaged in des-ing, "You are done, my fine fellow! I patching large numbers of soldiers to am jester No. 1 of the regiment or the seat of war in the Crimea, a regi- rather, ask my comrades! It is as elear ment made a halt of several days at a as the sun that shines that I am not a town in the south of France. It so bad hand at making a fool of you, and happened that a Bible colporteur was that I care as much as I did in the year in the same town, engaged in prosecuting '40, about mumbling Ave Marias on my his work. His Christian solicitude was knees. My chaplet is to have a long warmly excited by the thought of all the string of the funniest tricks and jokes. dangers that were about to be encoun- Ask my comrades, I say, again: they tered by these men, now so full of glee, will tell you about this better than my and wholly indifferent to what was before modesty will allow me to do. When I them; and whom a seasonable word am dead, dead, do you see, my dear might possibly bring to a state of feeling friend "Here the colporteur intermore in consonance with the seriousness rupted this flow of trifling language, by of their position. Impelled by this so- exclaiming, in a tone of voice which licitude, he addressed such an earnest caused some of his auditors to tremble: request to the colonel of the regiment" After death, poor miserable man, the in question, that he obtained permission judgment will follow and what a judgto converse with those who were first to ment! It makes me shudder with embark. affright! Listen how the Lord Jesus Christ expresses it: Depart from me, ve cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mat. xxv. 41). There will be weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth"" (Mat. viii. 12). For a moment the young soldier ceased to laugh, and appeared as if silenced; but his levity quickly returned, and, turning towards those who were standing by, he called out, "I verily believe, on my honour, that the old boy wants to insult me; but, never mind, the pill I have made him swallow will stick in his throat for one while at least." "Give me back the book," exclaimed the colporteur, with earnestness. “Nay, nay, old fellow," replied the soldier, "I should be ashamed so to affront you before such a respectable company as this is. What, I should like to know, would my comrades think of you, were they to see you taking back with your left hand the present which your right hand had but just offered? Matters have never been managed like that, and never will be, in the French army. Whatever is given, is given willingly, and in the same manner I shall keep it. Moreover, your book may be of use to me, and this is no doubt what you wish. In the camp, one has not always at han a piece of paper to light one's pipe, ant it will serve capitally for that. Much

One morning, then, while surrounded in the fore-court of the barracks by a group of soldiers, to whom he was speaking, in the fulness of his heart, of the consolations which they would find in the New Testament in times of danger, if they were only to beseech the Lord to enable them to discover them, a young man, of an open and most intelligent countenance, stepped forward, and coming close to where the colporteur was standing, said to him, in a cordial manner, that he had been deeply touched by his serious and affectionate exhortations. They have convinced me," he added, of the necessity of getting possession of the Word of God; but, alas!" he continued, drawing a deep sigh, "I have not a centime wherewith to make this precious purchase."

"That need not signify," the colporteur at once replied: "if you have so great a desire to possess a copy, it shall not be said that a Christian allowed you to go away without giving you one, even though I may have to pay for it myself to those to whom I give an account of my operations." And drawing one of the smallest New Testaments out of his wallet, he handed it with much pleasure to the soldier. But what was his surprise and grief! for scarcely had the rogue got possession of the book, than

One evening, after the lapse of fifteen months from the period when this occurrence took place, on our colporteur arriving at a small village, situated at a distance of upwards of a hundred leagues from the town where the New Testament was taken from him in so unbecoming a manner, he inquired for an inn where he might hope to rest from the fatigues of a day during which he had been very actively em-afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit ployed.