rials of which it is built; for it is built of stone, and brick, and wood, of which ordinary houses are composed. But it will one day be a Church; because it will be solemnly set apart for the worship and service of God. It has been built with that intention, and will be used for that purpose.

So it is with the Christian. He is one set apart for God. "The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for Himself." The name of God is written, as it were, "in his forehead." He is "a temple of the Holy Ghost." He has given himself to the Lord. This was just what St. Paul felt, when he uttered the words of our text. Once he thought he was at liberty to go his own way and to do his own will. But God had wrought a wondrous change in him. He had tasted of pardoning mercy. He had been brought under the influence of grace. He had learnt the preciousness of Christ, and had thankfully embraced His salvation. And now he felt he was Christ's property,

Christ's servant, a vessel naturally worthless, but mercifully "fitted for the Master's use." Speaking therefore of himself and his brethren, he says, "None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord's."

I spoke to you in my first Sermon about living without God. God forbid that any one of us should be living thus!

I spoke to you in my next Sermon about turning to God. God grant that many of us may have turned to Him-may have taken the first decisive step towards a better course!

And now let us give our best thoughts to the subject of my present sermon-Living to God. I shall take these three pointsHow can we live to God?

Why should we live to God? and
When should we live to Him?

I. How can we live to God?

1. We must live a different life from that of ordinary men. The little Church I spoke of stands amidst other houses; but yet it must not be considered as a common building.

So, if we would be God's people, we must feel differently, and act differently, from many around us. We none of us wish to be singular. We would not court observation. But a really God-fearing person is forced to take a line somewhat different from many about him.

This is sometimes very painful; but it cannot be avoided.

A pious Child in a family, for instance, wishes to serve the Saviour. And yet perhaps no one in the house feels as he feels. He meets with no encouragement, it may be-no sympathy-none to join him and help him in his happy blessed course. This makes his way a very difficult one. Still he must be faithful to Christ, cost him what it may.

A Servant may stand almost alone among his fellow-servants. They may be for the world; he is for God. They are thinking how they may get on in life; he is anxious to get to heaven. His feelings then and his actions must needs be very different from others. He has no wish to be singular; but he must be, or else deny his Lord.

In a School, or in a House, or in a Village, it is soon known who are the serious ones, who are the Soldiers of Christ and the Candidates for heaven. Their conduct, their lives, their words, soon tell the tale. Yes, brethren, depend upon it, those who were Christ's disciples in former times were very unlike the careless ones around them. They were each one as a light" in the world, as "a city set on an hill," that "cannot be hid."

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And so it must be now. We can't creep along the road to heaven unobserved. We can't be on the Lord's side, and yet pass unnoticed in the crowd. We can't be Christ's disciples, without being liable to

the charge brought against Peter. "Surely thou art also one of them; thy speech betrayeth thee."

Be prepared then, you who would be the Friends and Followers of Christ, to take the line marked out for you in God's word, though it may be the very opposite to that which others are following.

2. There must be a separation from the world.

God's children are in the world, but are not of the world.

They are in the world, and therefore He would have them engage in its employments -discharge its duties-take part in its occupations. In the seventeenth chapter of St. John, we find our Lord thus interceding for His people, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, as I am not of the world."

The religious Labourer may labour still;