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 to happiness, and guard the man from that which leads to shame. Woe is the lot of him who betrays the truth! and we do betray it when we profess religion with the lips, while selfish and sinful affections revel in the heart. This is doing as did Judas, betraying the Son of Man with a kiss! Truth will still go its own way, for all that; for when the rabble intended to cast Jesus down headlong from the brow of a hill. He, passing through the midst of them, went His way. (Luke iv. 30.) The Truth still goes its own way to enlighten and bless! Peace to him who betrays it not, but woe to the betrayer!

T is a sweet and delightful privilege to contemplate any portion of Divine Revelation under the hallowed influence of Him who said, "Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy Word is truth." (John xvii. 17.) May His presence for our eternal good, throw a soft light over our present meditation.

God is said to come from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran, and this peculiar phraseology would seem literally to imply that God and the Holy One, as coming from different places, are two Divine Beings. Revelation, however, declares that "the Lord our God is One Lord" (Deut. vi. 4), "and beside me (saith Jehovah) there is no Saviour." (Isa. xliii. 11.) The words— and, are two names denoting one and the same Divine Being; the former