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 darkness appear as light, and falsehood as truth. Were man to be left in the full and unrestrained license of such a state, "without doubt he would perish everlastingly;" but the providence of the Lord is ever operating to awaken him to a sense of his condition; and if he submit to such correction, and repent, and turn to the Lord, then the Lord will comfort all his waste places, and make the wilderness of his mind like Eden, and his desert like the Garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. (Isa. li. 3.)

ORNING and night are terms used in the holy Word to express states of the Church, and of the members of which it is composed; and as our Lord desires conjunction with the church and its members, for the purpose of blessing them with all heavenly happiness, He is ever exploring its quality, that it may be known whether there is sufficient desire on the part of its members to receive Him into their spiritual house, and satisfy his divine desire of conjunction with them. Night closes the church at the conclusion of one state, while morning discloses the commencement of a new one. Thus "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."

Hungering and thirsting, as applicable unto man in