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 Righteousness risen upon his soul; and happy will be that advancing state in the regeneration, described by the prophet, "Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be thy everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." (Isa. lx. 20.) When the church turns away from the Lord, and is guided by falsehood and self-love, then it is that love grows cold, and faith becomes dim: in the language of prophecy, "the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them." (Mic. iii. 6.) It is a state of spiritual desolation where love ceases to animate the heart, and faith to enlighten the eyes, that is thus described in Matt. xxiv. 29, "the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light;" and also, in Revelation vi. 12, by "the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood."

HEN we contemplate the spiritual sense of these words, with what amazing interest will this miracle open to our minds! Not a day passes without the power of Jesus being exercised! Those whose souls have been somewhat quickened by the voice of Revelation—the truths of which have raised them a little from the dust of earthly and sensual pursuits—begin to think of the great doctrines of im-