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 tree, will give promising evidence of an abundance of fruit.

How peaceful and joyous is the life that leads to conjunction with God! it is at once the death of sin and the birth of righteousness. May we all be impressed with this fact, that there is a daily dying that leads to life, and a daily living that ends in death! Nourish then, dear reader! the grain of mustard-seed, and verily thy soul shall live.

HE extraordinary miracle of healing the woman who had an issue of blood twelve years, simply by her touching the Lord's garments, is one among many others which shew, that divine power was not only in the Lord, but that such healing virtue ever issued from Him for the benefit of every sincere applicant who humbly desired relief from the Great Physician. To obtain relief, however, one thing is essential on our part, that we ardently desire it. If this one thing needful be present, we shall seek it and pray for it. Such is the Lord's mercy, that we have only to ask and have, seek and find, and to knock and it shall be opened. (Matt. vii. 7.) Asking, seeking, and knocking, are descriptive of three distinct operations of mind: asking signifying the desire of the heart for goodness; seeking, the effort of the understanding in the search of truth; and knocking, the