SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' JOURNAL. Published Monthly by Messrs. WERTHEIM & Co., Paternoster-row. NOTICE TO THOSE WHO WISH TO BECOME REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS. -Four Copies of the British Flag can be forwarded by post, to any address for one postage stamp; so that a Subscription of five shillings paid in advance, will secure Four copies Monthly, for one Subscriptions may be sent by Post Office Orders, made payable to Mr. WILLIAM A. BLAKE, 15, Exeter Hall. As in small towns and villages News-agents are unknown, it may be well for the public to know that all Booksellers in the Kingdom can procure the British Flag through their London Agents, who will, no doubt, promptly execute any orders given to THE JOURNEY AND ITS END. How wonderfully does a desirable object to be attained at the end THE CHRISTIAN SENTINEL; OR, SOLDIERS' MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1857. GLORIFYING GOD. BY REV. JAMES SMITH, CHELTENHAM. "When they knew God they glorified him not as God."-Rom. i. 21. PAUL'S representation of the state of the heathen world is most fearful, and the more fearful because it is so true. What it was in his day, it is pretty much in ours. The cause of this wretched moral condition is given us in the words selected for our meditation, They once knew God, or they had a correct knowledge of God, as the one, true, living and eternal God; but when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, wherefore God gave them up; and when God gave them up, the most terrible effects followed. Nothing can be worse than for a man to be left to himself, for when a man is left to himself, there is nothing bad of which he is not capable. The point on which we wish to fix your attention is this,-That God expects all that know him, to glorify him. And all who have the knowledge, ought to glorify God. In order to glorify God, we must believe him. He has spoken to us in his word; he has spoken in the plainest manner, and upon all subjects of importance, and he expects that we should believe what he has said. This is but natural. If God tells me I am a sinner, and that as a sinner I am exposed to punishment, and that there is no escaping from punishment but by faith in his Son, I ought to believe him; and so to believe him, as to feel assured that if I live and die without faith in Christ, I am lost, and lost for ever. Believing this, as an accountable and immortal being, I should endeavour to obtain a correct knowledge of Christ, and flee to him to be saved from the wrath to come. If I do not believe what God has said, both in reference to myself and the Lord Jesus, I make him a liar, B and how can I dishonour him more than by giving him the lie to his face? In order to glorify God, we must seek to be reconciled to him. By nature we are God's enemies; we think of him as enemies, we act towards him as enemies, we speak of him as enemies. He tells us of this; he warns us of the consequences of this; he invites us to be reconciled to him; he assures us that if we will become his friends, he will not impute our trespasses unto us, but that he will reckon all that Jesus did, and all that Jesus suffered, as if we had done it, and deal with us accordingly. That is, if we are convinced of our sins, confess them before him with sorrow, and ask his forgiveness; he will pardon all our transgressions, receive us into his friendship, and bless us with ten thousand tokens of his love. Now if God speaks to us thus, if he makes such proposals to us, how can we glorify him if we do not accept them? And if we refuse to accept them, and prefer living at enmity with him, how can we complain, if he fulfils the threatenings of his holy word, and cast us into hell? In order to glorify God, we must worship him. God is the only proper object of worship; he requires us to worship him, and if we withhold from him the worship of the heart, we rob him of his right. In worshipping God we should adore his divine perfections, praise and bless his name, confess before him our sins, appeal to his sovereign mercy, and seek all spiritual and temporal blessings from his hand. The worship God requires is that of the heart, and if he have the worship of the heart, he will have that of the whole person, for the man is as the heart is. Now if we know God and do not heartily worship him day by day, we do not glorify him as God, and are therefore guilty of the same crime as brought the poor wretched heathens into their present degraded state. In order to glorify God, we must obey him. If God command anything it ought to be done; and every one that knows what God has commanded, ought to do it. If God command us to love him, we should love him. If he require us to make him the only object of our worship, we should worship him alone. If he require us to treat his great and glorious name with reverence, we should hallow his name. If he bid us give one seventh part of our time to his worship and service, that time should be sacredly set apart for him. If he bid us love our neighbour as ourselves, and only do unto others just what we would wish them to do unto us; that ought to regulate our lives and influence every part of our conduct. If he command us to believe in the name of his only begotten Son, and seek and expect salvation only from him, we cannot glorify God without faith in Christ, and resting upon his perfect work. In order to glorify God, we should strive to please him. "Ye ought to please God," said the Apostle, and reason says the same. If there be a God-if that God has made me-if the God who made me sustains me, and confers innumerable blessings upon me-if I am dependent upon him for life, and truth, and all things, then there can be no question but it is my duty to endeavour to please him. This should be the first and last object of my life; at this I should aim in every thing I do. But is it so? Do I seek to please God every day, in every place, in every action? If I do not, I do not glorify him as God. for Reader, how is it with you? You must know something of God, you have his word, his ordinance, and his servants with you. But, do you glorify him as God? Do you believe his word? Are you reconciled to him? Do you worship him? Do you obey him? Do you strive to please him? If not, you do not glorify him; and if you do not glorify him on earth, how can you expect him to glorify you in heaven? Remember, he is a jealous God, and will not allow you to give to another the glory he requires from you, without punishment. He is the God of truth, and will not break his word; so that if you live in sin, you must suffer for sin. If you live and die at enmity with God, he will punish you with everlasting destruction from his presence, and from the glory of his power. Hell is prepared for sinners. In hell God will punish all who glorify him not as God; once in hell, the sinner is there for ever; there will be no gaol delivery; there are no pardons for the dead. Except you repent, you must perish. But you need not perish, you may be saved: "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved: for "He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned." THE SHELTERED ARMY. BY THE REV. JOHN COX. How much have various armies suffered, at different times, for want of suitable shelter. This was the case, to a very great extent, with the allied armies in the Crimea, during the late campaign. How glad were they when the warm clothing and sheltering tents arrived, and when they were all well clad, and safely housed! I have read of an army of several thousands who once found shelter from the heat, under the spreading branches and off-shoots of a large banian tree. But to a larger army than either of these I now wish to call attention-an army peculiar in many respects, and peculiar also as regards the shelter provided for them. This army consisted of 600,000 men, and strange to say there were about as many women, and a great number of children; in all, upwards of two millions. At the time we refer to they were about to march, and all were prepared for the great movement. Amidst this vast multitude there was no one sick or feeble, (Psalm ev. 37), no one unwilling to go forward. They had long expected and desired to move, and many wondrous things had been done to prepare their way. A great victory was about to be gained, not by them, but for them. The army of a mighty kingdom sent out to oppose their march, will all perish to a man: soldiers, generals, chariots, horses; and the great king who will command the host must also perish,-not one of them shall be left. If any soldiers wish to see how true all these wonderful things are, let them turn to their Bibles and read the book of Exodus, from the first to the fifteenth chapters. Never was there any thing so wonderful as this! No war of ancient or modern times contains incidents so in teresting. This was God's war. Pharoah and his people set themselves to fight against the Most High. "Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker." Pharoah found it so, and so must all who imitate him. God will crush the hard heart that is too proud to repent and humble itself before Him. But we must come back to the army we referred to. It is said that the people of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. Exodus xiii. 18. The word is a military one, and signifies that they did not go out like a disorderly mob, but like an organized company. They are "called the hosts of the Lord." Exodus xii. 41. As soon as they were fairly on their march their heavenly leader, "the Lord of Hosts,' "went before them in a pillar of cloud to lead them by the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light," "thus he spread a cloud for a covering," and signified to them that he would be their safe guide and constant protector. Never was an army so sheltered as this-nothing could hurt them so long as they obeyed and trusted their Heavenly friend. But I want you to look again at them before they began their march. It is the last night of their stay in Egypt. Go from tent to tent and you will find all ready for their departure, which is to take place at midnight. But are you not surprised to find them all doing the same thing, eating the same food, and standing in the same attitude? Look too at the door of every house or tent, and you will find the same mark, a red mark, made by blood being sprinkled there. This was done by God's command. He told them to kill a lamb for each family, and to eat its flesh with a peculiar kind of bread and herbs, with "their loins girded, and their staves in their hands." They were also commanded to "sprinkle the blood of the lamb on the lintel and side posts of the doors." The reason for this is thus stated: "I will pass through the land of Egypt and |