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 Satan, but at once exclaims, Get thee behind me. It is no use hiding our evils—they must be parted from; we must do as well as know; for unless we forsake all that we have, even our life of evil, we cannot be the Lord's disciples.

HERE is one circumstance illustrative of the character of John the Baptist, that has not often been dwelt upon; it is, that while under the influence of divine inspiration, he bears the most unequivocal testimony to the character and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ; but when left to his natural character, he was not wholly free from doubt: hence the message by his disciples to Jesus, "Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?" In the Lord's reply to the inquirers, as in many other instances, he does not appear to give a direct answer. He does not definitely say, I am; but he instructs the disciples of John to go and inform him of all they had heard and seen; and as the Lord had wrought several miracles before them, so that the blind saw, the lame walked, the lepers were cleansed, the deaf Heard, the dead were raised, and to the poor the gospel was preached;—this kind of evidence was exactly suited to the state of the inquirers, and is also suited to the mind existing only in a state of natural goodness. But the same testimony in the spiritual sense, is suited to inquirers