we die, then we shall be free-free for ever, and be with Christ, and like Him.

Jesus gives us our title. Our Princess was living in Denmark; she once had no title whatever to the crown; but now she is heiress to the crown, and all because of her union with the Prince, who is heir. Thus the moment I believe, I am associated with Christ, and am a joint-heir with Him in all that He has, His Deity excepted. What He is, I am. If I die to-night, I go to Him. My sins do not entitle me to heaven, but they do show me my need of salvation. It is my union with Christ which entitles me to heaven.

This I see by faith.

Oh, dear friends,

"There is life for a look at the Crucified One,
There is life at this moment for you."

For seeing is believing. Look, then, and be saved. God is love, and loves to bless; but if you die unsaved, your damnation will be just, and that not merely because of your sins, but because God so loved the world, that He gave His Son to take your place as a sinner; but whom, alas! you would not acceptwould not believe!

ADDRESS IX.

A PRESENT SALVATION.

"He that is our God, is the God of salvation."-Psalm lxviii. 20.

No words of mine, beloved friends, could exaggerate the importance of salvation; and I would have each one of you now ask, Have I the salvation of God, or am I among those who have neglected the "great salvation"? Am I here a saved or an unsaved soul?

Put yourself at the very outset this morning into immediate contact with the subject I am about to unfold to you. God only knows how momentous are the moments passing over you! How we should prize them as related to eternity! For in a short time you may be in the slender bed; before many more suns are set we may stand at your grave, and pronounce over you that which we have held to be hopeful, or otherwise, about you.

Ah, what is life, what is love, what is wealth, what are years, what is anything if your soul is unsaved? What will it profit you if you gain the whole world and lose your soul?

I feel as if I were treading this morning amid scenes

most solemn; and I would speak to you, beloved, "as a dying man to dying men." "Oh! that the little health and time left to me in my life may be spent so that dying men may become living souls!

Many there are who have very narrow ideas of what salvation is. I know that some have very little farther notion of salvation than this, that if they were saved, then they would not care about death; or that if they were saved, God would not be against them; or that if they were saved, they would go on in comparative peace while they live, and when they come to die, Be safe.

I would not underrate the value of such peace or safety it is a grand thing for a man to know that he is safe, ready to go out of the world when God gives him the call. Ah! yes-1 have preached it a thousand times; no man has any right to a present happiness unless he knows he is safe for eternity. For oh, you may die soon; you may be a stiffened corpse in your bed to-night! And I repeat it, what would it profit you if you were to gain the whole world and lose your soul? You may have a mitre or a coronet on your brow, but God takes you; and you become dust; what of mitres or coronets if you lose your soul? I say any man who does not know himself to be saved has no right to even a modicum of peace, for he does not know but that in this very hour he may die, may go out into eternity a lost one for ever.

Others have no higher idea of salvation but that when they die they will get TO HEAVEN. Shall I underrate this either? No, indeed. It will be a blessed thing to be admitted to heaven; but we shall have far more than simply being in heaven. Angels may be in heaven, but they have not the salvation of God. Oh! our salvation!-the salvation we have rises infinitely above anything that mere place could give, or that the highest angel could conceive, had he not known it by the revelation of God in His Son, and in the Church,

His body. Yes, angels will for ever learn redemption from its Alpha down to its mighty Omega, when we shall sit with Christ on His throne. And therein also will they learn of God Himself, what He is, His love, and grace-the length and breadth, and depth and height of it.

Let me, now, then, for a brief time glance, first, at the grand SOURCE of salvation, which is God; secondly, at the SUBJECTS of it, namely, SINNERS; thirdly, at the TIME of it, for it is a PRESENT salvation; and then, in the last place, PROCLAIM IT TO YOU ALL for your acceptance.

Oh! may God, the God of these Tuesday mornings! -the God of these "times of refreshing," when His paths have indeed dropped down fatness in our midst !— may my God, who is love, with His own truth be with you to-day, and with me!

I. THE SOURCE OF SALVATION.-SALVATION IS OF GOD. It comes from God, and gives the greatest and grandest estimate formed of God by the whole intelligent creation. One hardly knows where to begin or where to terminate; (may God direct our thoughts!) but with regard to God Himself, it was no new thought-no impulsive act-but had eternally its place in Him. If we only knew it, it was the chief glory of His mind-that which eternally manifested His exceeding grace. The marvel is, that God saved us— that we should have so come in in His eternal love. He might have saved angels, or He might have gone to some other lost world than ours; but He took up the most worthless thing, the most distant of worlds, the prodigal world. Can you conceive anything more distant than man without God-a man infidel towards the God that made him-a man who denies, even hates, the existence of God? We look at the drunkard, or at the man on the drop,

a murderer about to expiate his crime; we look at the poor New Zealander in his uneducated condition, unable to interpret the shining of a star, benighted in mind and cannibal in life; we behold his degraded body, and we think of him occupying God's love! God, for ages of ages, out of the fulness of His own grace, thought of him and of us for Himself; and so thought of us, "that He gave His only-begotten Son, that believing in Him we might not perish, but have everlasting life."

God is the source of the whole thing; and the source of it not only for man, but for Himself. Yes, as we have said again and again, it was as if God wanted some special opportunity whereby to display the resources He knew to be in Himself.

Let me suppose, for example, that you were possessed of vast mind and wealth; and that there existed no one on whom or for whom you could use those resources, it would seem almost as good for you to have had none. The mind, for example, would be good in itself, but it could have no suitable aim; no one could know of it. God, speaking after the manner of a man, wanted an opportunity, the very greatest, for manifesting HIMSELF, His own mind, and love, and holiness; He found it in the sinner. Oh, let us, then, think more of God, and less of ourselves.

Believe me, as there is nothing new in God, salvation with Him was an eternal delight—and I say it with reverence-the very highest thought that could come of God, has been, in it, revealed to us of Him. Why? Because there is no gift of His love so vast as His Son-no other boon He could confer on us so great as the Son of His love. God so loved the world that He gave His Son to die-His only-begotten Son, that we might have life-might have salvation; and then, besides this, the salvation thus is the highest display ever given of God; and results in His greatest glory.