spending when I ought to spare, nor sparing when I ought to spend. I will regard my money as a sacred trust from Thee, with which I must both diminish the power of sin and sorrow, and promote the kingdom of Thy Son upon the earth! Amen!

Meditation II.

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THE GIFT OF HEALTH.

DESIRE to-day to impress on my mind the truth that I am not my own, for I am "bought with a

Therefore I must glorify God with my body as well as with my spirit. Both are God's!

What doctrine can be more ennobling than that which St. Paul so expressly teaches, that my Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God dwells in me! This flesh, weak, infirm, and liable to sickness as it is,so often from its unruly appetites and desires

the cause of many temptations and disgraceful falls, -is nevertheless the tabernacle wherein dwells at the present time the eternal Spirit of God! Side by side with my spirit there truly dwells the Spirit of God, hallowing and consecrating His dwelling-place.

I believe not only in the immortality of the soul, but in the resurrection of the body, of this flesh, which shall then be changed from its condition of "vileness," into a glorious and celestial body according to the mighty working of Jesus Christ—" whereby He is able to subdue even all things unto Himself."

My prayer then to-day is, that I may regard my body with true self-respect, as the temple of the indwelling God!

It will thus be my duty, and not only my

self-interest, to watch over the health of my body with the utmost care, not indeed that I am to avoid watchings or fatigues, or the danger of contagion, or any peril whatsoever, which duty may call me to endure;—but that I am plainly bound to watch over the health of my body, as over the welfare of God's Holy Temple!

And after all is it not true,-shameful as it is to confess it, that the want of self-control, the indulgence of my wishes, or even of my appetites, has been a more common cause of injury to my health, than any duties or any labours which I have ever been called upon to discharge?

And, besides this, is not health one of the most precious of all God's gifts to man?

It is so far better than money, that men

would gladly sacrifice all that they have, to gain what most consider to be the flower and glory of life! But how seldom is it employed for God's glory! How little of my own health has been deliberately used for God! Is it not a sad truth that the more health we have, the more we are tempted to forget God; and that many put off all their deeper thoughts of God, till sickness gives them time from their labours, or their pleasures, to reflect in peace! Whilst health lasts, we regard it as our own,-as a permanent possession, for the full enjoyment of which, nay, almost for the abuse of which, neither God nor man can call us into judgment.

"Sickness and weakness for religion, and thoughts of God; health and strength for labour, and for business, and for enjoyment!"