desire to be set apart to him, and for him, and for his glory? Do we attach any meaning to the text, "Whether ye eat, or drink, do all to the glory"—that is, receive all as engraven with "Holiness to the Lord?" What is your name? "Christian." And what is meant by "Christian?" A consecrated person. It is not the minister that is set apart only; it is the people also. When you are baptized as children, you are outwardly set apart, but no more; but when the Holy Spirit regenerates your heart, you are inwardly set apart with "Holiness to the Lord." Do you then seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness-not only, but chiefly? Religion is not the only thing; trade, profession, are also duties; and what we ask men to do is, not to make religion, worship, the Bible, the only things; but to make them the dominant, the leading, the governing things. We do not ask you to cease to be men, in order to become Christians; but to be Christian men, and to feel that your destiny, as it ought to be your aspiration in the present, is "Holiness to the Lord."

But you cannot consecrate yourselves. The high priest could not consecrate himself; he needed to be consecrated by the mysterious and inimitable oil, that it was death for any man to make, or even to try to imitate; you need to be consecrated by an unction from the Holy One.

The Holy Spirit is the Anointer, the Consecrator of the people of God: he engraves the signet of the heart with the inscription, "Holiness to the Lord." Justified by Christ, we may be consecrated by his Holy Spirit. Purchased by Christ's blood, we are to be set apart by Christ's Spirit. The blood of Christ is on the believer, that he may be redeemed from the curse; the unction of the Spirit is in the believer, that he may be "Holiness to the Lord;" Christ's righteousness your title before the Lord; holiness to the Lord your consecration for his service, and to his praise and glory.

Are we thus justified? are we thus consecrated? Let us seek to aspire to this. Let us pray that we may rise to a right apprehension of our grandeur, not by nature, but by grace; and of our destiny in that day, the first beams of which begin to sprinkle the distant east, giving token of its speedy approach, when the very bells of the horses, and the humblest vessels in the humblest household, shall be "Holiness to the Lord."

One song employs all nations, and all cry,
Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!
The dwellers in the vales, and on the rocks,
Shout to each other; and the mountain-tops
From distant mountains catch the flying joy,
Till nation after nation taught the strain,

Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Behold the measure of the promise fill'd;
See Salem built, the city of our God!
Bright as the sun, the sacred city shines:
All kingdoms and all princes of the earth
Flock to that light; the glory of all lands
Flows into her unbounded is her joy-
Praises in all her gates-upon her walls,
And on her streets, and in her spacious courts,
Is heard Salvation. Eastern Java there
Kneels with the native of the furthest West,
And Ethiopia spreads abroad the hand

And worships. From every clime they come
To see thy beauty, and to share thy joy,
O Zion! an assembly such as earth

Saw never-such as heaven stoops down to see.

VI.

IT IS DONE.

THE words of the Son of God, "It is done," pronounced toward the close of the Apocalyptic drama, seem to be the echoes of words uttered on the cross. "It is finished," closed the sacrifice; "It is done," winds up its magnificent results. What was then finished in the shape of purchase, shall on the arrival of this era be historically perfected and confirmed. The words, clearly retrospective in their bearing, will prove to the listening universe that every promise and prophecy enunciated by God in his holy Word will then and there be completed and fulfilled.

When Jesus said upon the cross, "It is finished," he implied that all that related to his agony, as a fact, had been then consummated; when Jesus says on his throne of glory, "It is done," or, "It is finished," it will show that all that relates to his glory then and there has come to pass. The first was uttered from the lips of the Man of sorrows; the last will be enunciated

by Him on whose head are many crowns, who is Lord of lords and King of kings. As sure as he drank the bitter cup, and finished the curse, and made an end of sin, and brought in everlasting righteousness, so sure shall he wear many crowns, sway the sceptre of a universal majesty, reign in each heart, and rule from sea to sea, and from the river to the utmost ends of the earth.

Let us notice very briefly, not much in detail, some of those great truths that shall be translated into facts when Christ comes the second time, without sin unto salvation, to receive a kingdom, and to reign for ever. First, then, the promise proclaimed in Paradise will then and there be perfected in all respects-"The woman's seed shall bruise the serpent's head."

These words

Satan fell like Christ left the

are not yet fully accomplished. lightning from the heavens, ere earth; but Satan still, however shackled and limited in his aggression, walks the world, its untiring foe, and goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Satan is crippled, but he is not yet crushed. His power is broken, but the remnant of his sceptre is still mighty upon earth. But when Christ shall come again, this Angel coming down from heaven shall lay hold upon Satan, that "old serpent," and bind him in chains for a thousand years;