They know him, they hear his voice, they know him as a man knows his friend: they know him, in short, instinctively.

Just so does the soul recognize what is of God and true. Truth is like light: visible in itself, not distinguished by the shadows it casts. There is a something in our souls of God which corresponds with what is of God outside us, and recognizes it by direct intuition; something in the true soul which corresponds with truth, and knows it to be truth. Christ came with truth, and the true recognize it as true; the sheep know the shepherd, wanting no further evidence.

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

F. W. KOBERTSON.

No outward mark have we to know
Who Thine, O Christ, may be,
Until a Christian love doth show
Who appertains to Thee.

For knowledge may be reached unto,

And formal justice gained,

But till each other love we do,
Both faith and works are feigned.

Love is the sum of those commands
Which Thou with thine dost leave;
And for a mark on them it stands,

Which never can deceive:

For when our knowledge folly turns,
When shows no show retain,

And zeal itself to nothing burns,

Then love shall still remain.

GEORGE WITHER.

WAY OF ACCESS.

Thou art the Way !

All ways are thorny mazes without Thee,

Where hearts are pierced, and thoughts all aimless stray; In Thee the heart stands firm, the life moves free:

Thou art our Way!

THREE WAKINGS.

Teach me Thy love to know,

That this new light which now I see
May both the work and workman show:
Then by a sunbeam I will climb to Thee.

GEORGE HERBERT,

DARK the night, the snow is falling;
Through the storm are voices calling,
Guides mistaken and misleading,
Far from home and help receding:
Vain is all those voices say!-
Show me Thy Way!

Blind am I, as those who guide me ;
Let me feel Thee close beside me!
Come as light into my being!
Unto me be eyes, All-Seeing!

Hear my heart's one wish, I pray !
Show me Thy Way!

Thou must lead me and none other. Truest Lover, Friend, and Brother, Thou art my soul's shelter, whether Stars gleam out, or tempests gather. In Thy presence night is day:

Show me Thy Way!

WAY OF ACCESS.

"No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."

WE

JOHN i. 18.

E cannot love a mere abstraction, an impalpable something, simply because we believe we ought so to love. Truly to love God we must know him, know him as our Father, as our best, truest, nearest Friend; feel him near to us in every bright and joyous, and in every clouded and trying scene of life; speaking to us in the glad sunshine and the darkened cloud, in the dewy freshness of the summer morn, and the calm and glowing radiance of the sunset hour, in the gorgeous tints of the autumn forests, and the opening leaves and bursting buds of the joyous spring; drawing near to us in all our