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 as to hold an internal communion with God, and to open the mind to the full reception of the divine influences; and so long as the mind is kept in this state, and the ruling love fixed upon what is good and heavenly, we are in a state of watchfulness and prayer, and the things that flow from the Lord, and enter into man in this state, replenish him with heavenly graces and virtues. The man, in this case, enters into a closer conjunction with his Heavenly Father, and is consequently ready for his Lord's coming, whenever it may take place. "What I say unto you, I say unto all. Watch."

AT does Christianity really teach? Its first great truth, upon which all other truths depend, shows that the Supreme God of the universe is ONE DIVINE BEING, in essence and person strictly ONE. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord." (Deut. vi. 4.) This language cannot, by any sophistry, be explained away. In the prophecies by Isaiah we read, "I am the Lord, and there is none else; there is no God beside me." (xlv. 6.) "Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the ." (v. 15.) "Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts,