No Christian is safe when his soul is slothful, and his God is far from him. Every Christian is always safe as to the great matter of his standing in Christ, but he is not safe as regards his experience in holiness, and communion with Jesus in this life. Satan does not often attack a Christian who is

living near God. It is when the Christian departs from his God, becomes spiritually starved, and endeavors to feed on vanities, that the devil discovers his vantage hour. He may sometimes stand foot to foot with the child of God who is active in his Master's service, but the battle is generally short. Oh for grace to walk humbly with our God!

Preach up Christ, and down go the priests. The grand old Calvinistic truths, which are now kept in the background, are the great Krupp guns which will blow to pieces the heresies of the day, if they are plainly and persistently preached in harmony with

the rest of revealed truth. Like ships of war in time of peace, the doctrines of grace have been laid up in ordinary; let us send them forth to pour red-hot shot into the enemy.