your Saviour, if you do not love to go to Him, then you will be like the Raven, who wandered away and never came back again to his keeper's hand. But if you love your Saviour, if you do not like to forget Him, if you love to go to Him, and ask Him to keep you near Him, safe from all evil, and to feed you, and to watch over you day and night, then you will be like the Dove. The Dove is a gentle, loving bird, and therefore our Saviour calls His children His Doves, and says that their voice is sweet to Him. He loves to hear them pray to Him. When the Holy Spirit came down on the Lord Jesus, in the sight of men, it descended upon Him like a Dove.— You must ask your Saviour to give you His Holy Spirit, and then you will be not only like the Dove, but like your blessed Saviour, meek and lowly in heart, gentle, and full of love to God and man.

The Lord is thy Keeper.-PSALM cxxi. 5.

VII. THE RAINBOW.

THE first thing that Noah did when he left the ark and stood upon the dry land, was to build an altar, and offer up a sacrifice to God. Noah did this to show that he knew it was only for his Saviour's sake that the world was given back to him, and that he had been kept alive to dwell on it. Noah offered up a sacrifice to set forth the death of the Lord Jesus, for the salvation of the world: he took possession of all the Earth in his Saviour's Name. That sacrifice was sweet to God, because it set before Him His beloved Son. And the Lord said in His heart, that He would not again curse the ground any more for man's sake: neither would He any more smite every living thing as He had done: but that while the earth remained, seed-time and harvest, and

cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night, should not cease. This was because the first thing Noah did was to look up for God's blessing on the Earth, for the sake of the Lord Jesus.

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And God blessed Noah and his sons. He gave them the living creatures to be their food: but the blood of the animals God told them that they must not eat. And then it was that God commanded that whoever killed another, should himself be put to death: because man was made in the image of God.

And God gave to Noah a promise, and to every living creature that went with Noah out of the ark. This was the promise-That there should not any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God set his beautiful bow in the cloud, that when we are afraid of the dark sky, we may look up to see the promise of God. The Rainbow is God's promise written in the sky. It comes in the heavy black cloud, and every body looks up to see it. God made His bow to comfort Noah, and to the sight of the dark cloud.

comfort us, at When we see it