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 where still flow an abundance of celestial delights—the mingled stream of milk and honey. A similar kind of heavenly instruction is contained in every incident, miracle, parable, and prophecy of the Word of God. Did the Lord Jesus, when, as God manifest in the flesh, he personally visited his people, restore sight to the blind, cause the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, and quicken the dead to life? These miracles teach us that He, who is at once the Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace, opens man's dark understanding, the eye of the mind, to a bright perception of the truths of heaven; that he imparts celestial power and speech to those who were before dumb in praise and thanksgiving to God; that he gives hearing or obedience to those who were deaf to the calls of mercy; and those who were dead in trespasses and sins, he quickens into a life that is pure and everlasting. O my soul, give praise to Him who, by His Holy Word, has thus bowed the heavens and come down to teach and instruct his wandering children, to guide them in all their ways, and to bless them for evermore. Thus hast thou "redeemed me, of Truth." (Psalm xxxi. 5.)

WO men went up into the temple to pray; the one a pharisee and the other a publican." (Luke xviii. 10.) And while the pharisee stood and