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 cake! It is idolatrous Ephraim worshipping and offering to God the CAKE NOT TURNED! We may offer to the Lord our half done cake, but to such offering the Lord will have no respect, because it can bring down no blessings to the offerer. Strangers will certainly devour our strength; the false persuasions of the carnal mind only flatter to deceive, that they may destroy heaven in the soul. We should think deeply upon this subject before the grey hairs come here and there upon us, as they did upon Ephraim, while he knew it not. (v. 9.) Grey hairs indicate advanced age, when in us love should be strong and our faith bright. If we offer to the Lord the unturned cake, we are placing polluted bread upon the altar, and this will bring down our grey hairs with sorrow to the grave! Pure worship consists of love and faith united: and blessed is he who offers not upon the altar of God a CAKE NOT TURNED.

HERE are so many interesting facts contained in the affecting history of Joseph and his brethren, that any attempt in the plan of this work to illustrate the whole, would be vain. We must confine our thoughts to the coat of various colours.

The twelve sons of Jacob, whence arose the twelve tribes of Israel, are named in Scripture to signify the whole church of God in its fulness or complex; each son and tribe denotes, by the law of spiritual represen-