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 tribulation, and that we cannot progress in our spiritual journey without undergoing constant trial and temptation. But if, while we know and acknowledge this, we secretly, for fear of losing our standing in the world, or our worldly connections, temporise with the truth, we wound the Lord in the hands; and, professing to be members of His church, are, in reality, his greatest enemies. Better would it be for us to be among the Gentiles, who know not God, than to be of His household, while we fear the world! Let us look within ourselves. There may be a Judas to betray with a kiss; there may be a Peter to deny with an oath; and in the hour of trial there may be timidity, when our whole affections and thoughts forsake the Lord. Still the hands of the Lord are wounded in the house of His friends.

UR Lord has instructed us, that where two or three are assembled together in his name, there He is in the midst of them; therefore we can visit no place, and be in no place where He is not present. He is indeed omnipresent. Hence the words, "Come unto me," must have some other meaning than is commonly applied to acts of locomotion. Though the Lord is not immediately present to our perception, He is so mediately. The Lord is the Word, His name is called the "Word of God;" and we cannot