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 salt—a strong desire of heart that such union should be accomplished; this done, the blessed effect of purification will soon follow, and we shall be clean.

Y the eye of man, when mentioned in Scripture, is signified the understanding—for this is as much the eye of the soul, as the organ of vision is of the body. The understanding sees from the light of heaven, but the bodily eye from the light of the world. Those things which the understanding sees are spiritual, and the field of its view is all things relating to the mind—to affection, thought, wisdom and life; but the things which the bodily eye sees are terrestrial, and the field of its view is the scene of nature, and everything therein. Now, inasmuch as the understanding is twofold, therefore our Lord, in Matthew, describes the particular eye that is said to offend:—"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." There is with the understanding of man a kind of twofold power—a power to perceive and know the truth, and a power to love it. The knowledge of Truth merely, is signified by the left eye; but the power of loving that truth, and the delight experienced by being guided by its teaching, in all respects, is denoted by the right eye. How many are there in the world who have a knowledge of the truths of heaven—who