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Rh with you.—The great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, still pleads in your behalf. Your condition, therefore, wretched though it be, is not desperate. However, there is something to be done on your part, before you can attain this inestimable prize. You must be up and doing, cooperating with God. While he worketh in you to will and to do of his good pleasure, you are to "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." This hope is not attained by a few lazy wishes and half-hearted endeavors. It is attained only by an earnest, diligent and persevering use of all the appointed means of grace. There are difficulties to be surmounted: hence, you are called upon in the strength of divine grace, to renounce the hidden works of darkness; to "strive to enter in at the straight gate" to "labor to enter into rest." It is treasured up in Christ; therefore, your longing eye must be constantly fixed upon him. In his all-prevailiug name alone, you must