The memory will be chastened-will be enriched with what is valuable and divine, and preserved from retaining what is untrue or pernicious. The Word of God will be hidden there, that sin may be avoided, and that the soul may be benefited.

title to heaven; all its felicity and glory -the other communicates a preparedness for its enjoyment. In a word, the | one is derived exclusively from the obedience and merits of the Redeemer, the other from the purifying and transforming influences of his Spirit. Thus justification is deliverance from the condemnation of the violated law; while sanctification is the " cleansing of our-gulated; they will be raised transcendselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and perfecting holiness in the fear of God." 2 Cor. vii. 1.

The affections will be rendered holy. They will be properly balanced and re

ently above the world; they will be fixed supremely on celestial objects, and delight in soaring into the regions of unlimited knowledge and wisdom, pure truth, consummate holiness and bliss.

The sanctification required by the gospel extends to the whole nature, physical and intellectual, in all its features, The temper will be sanctified. It will developments, and properties. We are be sweetened. Its asperities will be sanctified "wholly in body, soul, and subdued. It will be rendered conformaspirit," and preserved blameless until ble to the temper of Christ. What was the coming of Christ. If Divine grace unamiable and sour will be changed has renovated and purified our nature, into that which is agreeable and pleathe body, with all its members and sant-what was violent will be checked energies, will be the Lord's; we shall feel and tamed-what was arrogant will be in this respect that we are not our own. humbled-what was malignant and Our tongues, instead of being, as the revengeful will be transformed into apostle James represents them, "a world benignity, forgiveness, and love, and of iniquity," will celebrate, with sweet-"the mind of Christ" will be beautifully ness and beauty, the praises of Christ; our hands will vigorously and continually labour for God; our feet will tread in the steps of the Redeemer; all our energies will be consecrated to the Lord, and our members will, as the apostle remarks, be "instruments of righteousness," employed for the Divine service and honour. And, with regard to our intellectual and spiritual nature, it will be powerfully and constantly operated on. Its character will be habitually elevated, and its tone and bias, not only improved, but radically changed.

The understanding will be purified. It will reject and exclude error, however seducing and imposing, and receive with discrimination, and under the influence of the most enlightened views, "the truth as it is in Jesus."

The judgment will be properly informed, and, with regard to great religious principles, be nicely balanced, be wisely and efficiently directed.

developed.

The desires will be influenced. There will be a high character and tone given to them. They will not fix chiefly on terrestrial objects. They will, on the contrary, be moderated and subdued, in relation to "the things of time;" be elevated, stimulated, and rendered glowing, in relation to "the things of eternity."

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The conversation will be habitually and powerfully affected. It will not only be wisely restrained, but be chastened and purified. There will be nothing indecorous, unkind, censorious, or bitter, much less what is indelicate or profane. The speech will be seasoned with salt," and employed for the purposes of edification; and it would be a happy thing for individual professors, for Christian families, for the church at large, if these principles were more fully carried out-if these hints were more carefully remembered, more practically and seriously observed.

The holiness required by Christianity | Christ"-that is, of course, as the legiwill influence the whole deportment. The timate, the fitting instrument—the mind manners will be regulated. The habits is, at first, enlightened, and the heart is will be properly moulded, and conti- renovated. "The entrance of God's nually directed; all the dealings of the word giveth light,"--and, while it irrasincere and holy disciple with his Chris- | diates, it sanctifies. We are "sanctified tian brethren, and his fellow men, will by the truth." This is the divinely apbe consistent, upright, exemplary. His pointed means; and no person can be daily life will be a quiet and beautiful sanctified without the application and exhibition of the excellence of that cha- the continually purifying influence of racter formed by the gospel, and of that the truth. The gospel of Christ, when conduct which is ennobled by the grace it comes with power to the heart, is of God-and thus his religion will be the instrument of conversion. "Being recommended, and his Saviour will be born again, not of corruptible seed, but honoured; thus his light will shine, of incorruptible, by the Word of God, and his usefulness be extended. which liveth and abideth for ever," 1 Pet. i. 23; and, as it renews, so it sanctifies. It elevates every thought, refines every feeling, chastens every affection, purifies every desire; and, while it regulates and hallows, gives an impulse to every effort.

Sanctification is attributed immediately and entirely to Divine agency; that is, as to its source and efficiency. Its origin is, unquestionably, celestial. It is "the God of peace who sanctifies us wholly." It is "by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost," that this thorough revolution takes place in our natures, and that we are purified, in some humble degree, "as Christ is pure." It is by the operations of the Spirit of God that we are delivered from the defiling and debasing influence of sin. Scriptural means are to be employed; but these will be rendered utterly ineffectual, without simple and unfaltering reliance on the aid of the Holy Spirit. He must enlighten. He must quicken. He must purify. Human efforts alone cannot remove one stain. Human energies alone cannot impart one Christian attraction. The fountain in which the penitent sinner is cleansed, is Divine in its source, as well as in the quality and virtue of its waters. It is the power and grace of God exclusively which can transform the moral desert, with all its sterility and desolation, into the fragrant and beauteous garden of the Lord.

Sanctification, however, while its source is Divine, is promoted instrumentally by the truth-by the gospel of the Lord Jesus. By "the Word of

Thus, as sanctification is the growth of the soul newly born-born for God and heaven-so Divine Truth is the spiritual aliment on which it feeds, and by which it is strengthened. We are, consequently, exhorted to desire, “as newborn babes, the sincere"-the unmixed, incorrupt-" milk of the Word, that we may grow thereby."

We find, by attentively perusing the gospel, and marking the operations of Divine grace on the hearts of believers, that Christian sanctification is progres sive in its influence. In this respect, it is analogous to many of the operations of nature, beautifully referred to in the Word of God. It is compared, for example, to the progress of light, which is so steady and decisive in its advance; struggling, at first, with the thick gloom of midnight, but continuing to increase in clearness, until it arrives at meridian beauty and splendour. So "the path of the just is like the shining light, shining" clearer and brighter" unto the perfect day."

At one period, the followers of the Redeemer resemble the tender blade, or the ear just formed, until, by the pro

PASSING EVENTS.

THE last few months have been memorable in the history of the British Metropolis for four great confederations, the Exhibition of a World's Industry, the Peace Congress, the Temperance Demonstration, and the Evangelical Alliance. We must bail them all as signs of progress.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

As the Great Exhibition is about to be closed, we may now be permitted calmly to look at its general bearings upon the state of society, and the prospects of mankind. It would be too much to affirm that it has been an unmixed good. Like everything human, it has had its alloy. It may have ministered, in some degree, to our national vanity; it may have tempted visits to the metropolis which prudence and integrity would have interdicted; it may have produced an excitement and a sight-seeing propensity alien to our quiet British habits;-it may have injuriously affected some branches of business, by the expenditures it has occasioned; it may have led to excesses, in its vicinity, in the use of intoxicating liquors;-it may have increased Sabbath desecration, by the numbers of foreigners and others drawn by its attraction to Hyde Park. It were easy to show that these evils have been connected with the erection of the Crystal Palace. But that they have been incidental, and have arisen more from human infirmity than from the Exhibition itself, must be obvious to every candid and thoughtful mind. Amidst such mighty gatherings of human beings from all lands, we can only wonder, having lived near the place of concourse, that so little of an objectionable character has taken place. would be altogether unfair to charge the Exhibition with evils which must be traced exclusively to the thoughtless

ness or the depravity of our fallen nature.

We confess ourselves of the number who are disposed to look upon the splendid Exhibition of National Industry, now about to close, as having effected benefits of no slender value in the economy of the civilized world. We would fain hope, indeed, that it will tell advantageously upon the higher interests of man.

Is it a small matter, in the present stage of the world's history, to have demonstrated the happy problem, that crowds of Foreigners, from all parts of the world, can be associated, for the accomplishment of a common object, with millions of Britons, not only without any indications of ill-will, but with unmistakeable displays of the most hearty cordiality? The fact of such a confederation will do more for the world's peace than fifty successful battles, which could only create a vast amount of human misery, and lead to deep and lasting national animosities.

Nor is it less gratifying to be able to record how perfect has been the order which has obtained in the Crystal Palace. Not only have the well-considered rules of the Commissioners been quietly and gracefully submitted to; but tens of thousands of persons, strangers to each other, and belonging to different grades of society, have urged their way through the several departments of the Exhibition, not only without any manifestation of rudeness, but with an obvious display of good humour and courteousness, which it has been most gratifying to witness. We cannot withhold from Foreign Visitors the tribute which is due to them, that they have conducted themselves with a It most commendable propriety, and that all national animosities have been lost sight of, in the general and obvious desire to please. To see the represent

atives of all nations thus mingling in | oration and embellishment of human fraternal harmony and good-will, is a life. While Great Britain well sustains spectacle worth looking at, and deserving of a grateful memorial. Who shall say that a better and more friendly understanding among the nations shall not be the result of the great gathering of the people in the British Metropolis! Under the moral government of God, it may be overruled for the greatest possible good.