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 on the altars of Jehovah, our God and our King, the sparrow and the swallow increase their young.

Would we gain that peace which the world cannot give, and would we increase our natural and spiritual knowledge, that we may advance in the angelic life? We must be really sincere and heavenly-minded when we compass the altar of our Lord. In the worship of God, our best affections and thoughts should be engaged; the rams of Nebaioth, and the birds of paradise, with others, should occupy the altar. It is thus that our sacrifices will be holy, and our worship filled with the life of heaven.

When we make the altars of Jehovah, the love and worship of the Lord, our home and our rest, we shall indeed increase abundantly our store of heavenly knowledge, and shall add to our bliss both here and hereafter.

HE Christian is called upon to engage in a warfare that exists within, between the good and evil principles, the false and the true; and in this warfare, he must, under the divine assistance, come off conqueror, or he can never obtain the "crown of life." The affections and desires of man before the regenerating process has commenced, are of an earthly and sensual nature; they incline him to fix his affections upon the earth, and thus to lull him into a state of carelessness and indifference as to his eternal concerns.