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 our spiritual structure; and if we are obedient to all His commands, if we hear and do them, neither the floods of evil, nor the winds of false doctrine, will be able to shake the firm foundation on which our spiritual house rests. To be happy, then, we must not only know, but. "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye them.

HERE are many persons in search of truth, whose minds are not fully prepared to submit to its requirements; and who, therefore, when it is first presented to them, though they receive it with joy, soon find it, like the early disciples, very difficult to bear. It is to them "a hard saying;" they become "exceedingly amazed," and deem it almost impossible that any can be saved. When any great truth is for the first time presented to their notice, its demonstration is so obvious, that "they immediately receive it with gladness;" it is to them one of the pearls of true wisdom. Should it be the glorious truth, that "Jesus Christ is over all, God blessed for ever," it seems as though they had found the pearl of great price, and they rejoice exccedingly, and "endure for a time." But this truth, as indeed every other truth, is soon found to exercise a searching power in the life—for the Word of the Lord is a searching word, and soon detects and makes known to man his bad