faith which works by love, and manifests itself by good works, and are enabled through the gift of God to pray unto the Source of light and truth, not only with the Spirit, but with the understanding also. (1 Cor. xiv. 15.)

We recommend the advice of Mr. Addison, viz. "That when by reading or discourse we find ourselves thoroughly convinced of the truth of any article of our faith, and the reasonableness of our belief in it, we should never after suffer ourselves to call it into question, for we may perhaps forget the arguments which occasioned our conviction. But we ought to remember the strength they had with us, and therefore still to retain the conviction which they once produced. This is no more than what we do in every common art or science; nor is it possible to act otherwise, considering the weakness and limitation of our intellectual faculties, how liable they are to be impaired by old age, and many physical causes: it likewise being certain, that faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength from practice more than speculation."*

But to conclude with a much higher authority, that of the great apostle Paul: "Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection." (Heb. vi. 1.)

* Addison's Evidences, p. 203.

THE END.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.