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 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with me." If we really desire to see the Saviour, we shall, like Zaccheus, when we behold Him, descend from an assumed elevation, and joyfully receive him into our house, and honour Him as the only worthy being who condescendingly dwells with us but to bless us.

OW expressive of the lost condition of man are the words, "We have erred from Thy ways like lost sheep." They not only show the extent of our wanderings, but the dangers and difficulties we must have encountered in leaving the only Being who could guide us safely. Our ignorance of the world, our mistaking "darkness for light, and light for darkness," must have tended to place us in dangers innumerable, from which only the good providence of the Lord could have rescued us: we have been truly a people "sought out;" and after all our wanderings some special providence has found us, opened our eyes to our selfishness and ingratitude, and so far humbled us as to lead to the confession of our evils, and to the resolve, "I will arise, and go to my Father."

When trial has effected its object, when temptation has accomplished its purpose, and all our wanderings have disclosed to us the truth, that "there is no peace