If we fear the Lord, we may look for timely interpositions when our case is at its worst. Angels are not kept from us by storms, or hindered by darkness. Seraphs think it no humiliation to visit the poorest of the heavenly family. If angels' visits are few and far between at ordinary times, they shall

be frequent in our nights of tempest and tossing.

Dear reader, is this an hour of distress with you? then ask for peculiar help. Jesus is the angel of the covenant, and if his presence be now earnestly sought, it will not be denied. What that presence brings is heart-cheer.

Meditation is the tree of life in the midst of the garden of piety, and very refreshing is its fruit to the soul. As it is good towards man, so is it fair towards God. As the fat of the sacrifice was the Lord's portion, so are our best thoughts due to

the Most High, and are most acceptable to him. We ought, therefore, to be much occupied with meditation, and the Lord himself should be our main subject. "My meditation of him shall be sweet."