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 falling on such, breaks up all their false and flattering hopes of a faith without life, and when the stone falls on them in all its power, it effects a thorough threshing or winnowing! A total separation of all their seeming good from the interior evils of their real life, leaving nothing in them but what is worthless and vile. Thus they are broken, or deprived of all truth, and so sifted, or threshed, that nothing good remains. By this process the evil are broken, and all truth with them dissipated—they are ground to powder, or "made like the dust by threshing." (2 Kings xiii. 7.)

Remember, dear reader! that those who shun all evil and falsehood, become as wheat, of which the Lord says, "Gather the wheat into my barn." (Matt. xiii. 30.)

EPHAS is a Syriac word, derived from the Hebrew, and signifies a rock or stone, which in the Greek Testament is rendered Petros, a word also denoting a rock or large stone, and from which the name Peter is derived. When Andrew brought his brother Simon to Jesus, the Lord, who knew all men, when he beheld him, said, "Thou art Simon, the son of Jona; thou shalt be called, which is, by interpretation (Petros) a stone." This name given to Simon, will explain the passage in Matt. xvi. 15-18, where the Lord, speaking to his disciples, says, "Whom