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within these walls. O sinner! SINNER! stand still and see the salvation of God. God gave Christ to suffer and to die for the sinner; and the sinner receiving Him -believing in Him-is saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ-only believe-BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED.""

May God in His infinite grace, by His own blessed Spirit, seal His truth on your hearts, that you may know what it is to be saved! Why not now sayGod, then, is my God, I can say it, for He is for the sinner-He gives Himself to the sinner-and so I can say, "My God."

May God bless you. May the Lord bless you.

ADDRESS II.

THE LOVE OF GOD.

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"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us And, "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."-Rom. v. 8; and latter clause of 5th verse.

I SHALL endeavour now, for a little, to speak to you plainly concerning the love of God. I say plainly, because there are millions who know it not; who know not its message, or knowing it imperfectly, have never known God; and consequently have never intelligently known God's salvation; and are buffeted about by every wind of doctrine-by every doubt and fear arising from their not knowing clearly and plainly the love of God. And, furthermore, I want to speak it plainly, that there may be no doubt as to the fact of this love being, first of all, in God Himself, and not in us, but only in us as seen to be first in Him towards us. The love is first of all outside of us. Hence it is that God commends it to us as a thing we are to see, and on seeing it to embrace and possess; or, as the word is, to have it "shed abroad in our hearts [as an actual experience] by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.'

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I want to tell out this matter simply and boldly this morning. And why? Not only on account of present advantage, for many a poor sinner hearing me may see it and be saved; but also because of the ignorance which everywhere exists respecting it. What is the Gospel but the news of this love of God? The Gospel is not that the sinner, before it can be received or believed by him, must undergo a certain change qualifying him for it. No, indeed. We are weary of that wretched mixture of things ever and anon presented to the sinner as divine truth, and which goes under the name of the Gospel. A change in a man before God can love him! Or, a change in him in order that God may love him! Or, worse again, when a man has come to feel and confess his sins, then God will love him! Wretched doctrine, and inoperative for good as it is wretched. This is an evil to be dealt with now-a-days. The Gospel has to be extricated from out of such melancholy error. But men notwithstanding do ask for the Gospel, and wonder that sinners are not saved. And, truly, as to numbers, they are not saved. What is the cure for this? Say some, “We must have earnestness-zeal." Zeal! Why, the more zealous, if wrong, the worse it will be.

There is much said just now on the question, How is England to be evangelized?— how are the masses to be reached? But a prior question meets one, With what are we to evangelize? Anything less than the Gospel will never evangelize-never save. This is the matter to be dealt with-not who will go, but what are we to preach. There are some, alas! in these lands, who, instead of pouring out to the dying sons of men a full manifestation of God's love to the lost, elaborate a theme which, instead of revealing, obscures that love, leaving the poor sinner in a life-long ignorance of it.

I must be intelligible here. A problem of some

interest to us all has yet to be solved. How is it that men really, and even newly, converted among us, no sooner are they converted than they become the means of the conversion of others. Everywhere over these lands, and elsewhere, God is giving them souls. They alight on our darkest counties, and the tidings. reach us of the salvation of sinners. They are not trained in our schools. They are not much known to the churches. They carry no human credentials; but they are converted men, and preach the Gospel; and, through God's power accompanying their preaching, sinners are continually being saved.

This surely is a thing to be looked at. These men, who go out on their own charges, go nowhere that sinners are not converted. Now, how is it that, as at this present time, a cloud of salvation seems to burst over them wherever they labour. The fact is, they have a clear knowledge of what the Gospel is, and they simply and boldly proclaim it in its great and grand essentials.

The question should be fairly and boldly met. Of what avails money, machinery, messengers, if the message be wanting? Says Paul, "I am separated unto the Gospel"-the good news-" of God;" and again, "Necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel." If I do not bring God into the scene-if I do not tell His feelings of love towards sinners, as manifested in the fact that He gave His Son to die for them, it is no Gospel, and can never save. But this God Himself does-He commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US-DIED FOR THE UNGODLY.

Now let us, first of all, inquire as to who the Being is who commends His love toward us. It is none other than God-the God who made us; who has to do with uss-the God who fixed us in the age in which we live, and who will hold us responsible for the

life He has given, and the privileges with which the age is laden ; the God whom we have soon to meetyea, if we died to-night, to meet to-night; the God who is to judge the quick and the dead. The God who commends His love to us is the Being of whom the sinner, because of his sins, is naturally afraid, especially under thought of dying, and of going into His presence; but of whom, if he knew the Gospel, he could affirm that he was not afraid—that is, with a slavish fear. And why? Because he would see that God is for him-that God it is who, on the ground of Christ having died, justifies the ungodly-the God from whose throne there is no higher court of appeal, from whose decision no question can be raised. Oh! it is a wondrous thing for a poor sinner like me to stand as a mouth-piece for God, in the presence of you all, simply, lovingly, intelligibly, and boldly declaring the love which God hath toward us. It is well for us to know who and what He is. We are so intimately associated, that, for our peace, a knowledge of what are His feelings toward us is indispensable. I could not go on with any ordinary person with whom my interests were bound up, unless I knew what were his feelings toward me. We do know what God's feelings are-He commends them to us; they are favourable toward usbeing, from eternity, full of grace and love.

Let us further inquire into the character of this love. In the first place, it is eternal. If it be in God it must be eternal. God, who is perfect, could have nothing that would be new. God is love-not newly so, not of later times, but from all eternity" the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever." The unchangeableness of God is one of the greatest and grandest of truths. His love, like Himself, is not new-is not an impulse, not an attribute merely, but God in His nature and essence is love.

And, therefore, if I am an object of His love, it is

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