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by his fellow-creatures, but their cords could not hold him: it was reserved for Jesus to accomplish the wonderful deliverAnd thus it is in spiritual things; human laws may restrain a man and keep him for a while in due bounds, but when fierce temptations come, all human restraint is at an end; it is Jesus, by his divine grace, who alone can bind the soul, and this he does with the chains of love.

The devils besought Jesus not to send them out of the country, but to allow them to enter into a herd of swine, which he permitted, when the swine, about two thousand in number, ran down a steep place into the sea and were drowned. This so offended the people of the place where the miracle was wrought, that they besought Jesus to depart out of their coasts. Thus blind were they to the value of Christ and

his salvation, and prized the perishing things of this life more than the blessed Redeemer.

O let not this be your case, lest you lament your folly when it is too late. But what became of the man who was delivered from the devil's control? He came to Jesus and besought permission to be with him; but Christ desired him to go and tell what great things had been done for him, and what compassion had been shown to him. This is what the Saviour expects of his redeemed people, to glorify him and his salvation; and this is but little to do for him who has rescued us from so much misery in time, and from the wrath to come,

Weep not he cried; then touch'd the dead;
The bier stood still; and loud he said,
Young Man, I say to thee, Arise!
He then on Jesus fix'd his eyes.

THE RULER'S DAUGHTER.

"O thou of power," the Ruler said,
"The sick to heal and raise the dead,
Thy word of renovation deign,

My daughter then shall live again."

THE ninth chapter of the Gospel of Saint Matthew presents us with further instances of Christ's power in the miracles it contains, all of which were additional proofs, if further proofs were wanting, that he was the Son of God, and so many additional evidences that his mission was from Heaven; leaving those inexcusable, who, after so many convincing facts, could deny he was the true Messiah promised in the Old Testament.

A man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed, was brought to him, and in this instance he spoke differently to what he did before; not immediately healing the sufferer, but adressing him thus: "Son, be of good cheer, thy