vation to him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb." Then let the stricken hearts of parents, whom death has made childless, no longer indulge an immoderate grief. Your beloved and lamented offspring, looking down from their heavenly spheres, would chide your sorrow. Among the ransomed they have taken. their immortal stations.

REV. DR. WILLIAM COOKE, LONDON.

ONE of the most beautiful incidents of the Redeemer's life affords to the question of infant salvation a most decisive and satisfactory solution. There stands the Incarnate God! Truth beams from His lips, and healing power radiates from His omnipotent touch. Mothers in Israel gather around Him, and anxiously present their children for His benediction. The disciples, ignorant of the depth and tenderness of His sympathies, and knowing as yet but little of the benign purpose of His coming, rebuke the tender women for their intrusion, and thrust them and their children away from His presence. But He, the messenger of truth, and the procurer of life and salvation for all, bids the trembling women draw near to

Him, and welcomes their children to His loving arms, uttering those memorable words, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God.” (Mark x. 14.) Nor can the word "such" be frittered down to mere likeness; and, if it were, the likeness itself would indicate a fitness for the kingdom; and if a fitness, a title thereto through grace. But another text gives the meaning of the word a direct personal application to children themselves as such: "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones [little children being then in His presence]: for I say unto you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." (Matt. xviii. 10.) These plain and striking words settle for ever the question of infant salvation. In heaven the little ones are angels, blessed spirits, dwelling in God's immediate presence, beholding His face, and rejoicing in the light of His countenance.

Parents, wipe away your tears: your little ones are safe. Though severed from your embrace, they are received into the embraces of Him who died for them and rose again. Lift up your eyes then from the gloomy sepulchre to the radiant throne, and there behold them resplendent in robes of purity, and exultant in the bliss of the Divine presence.

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pare to meet them in that bright world, where the parting tear shall never be shed, and the sad farewell shall never be heard. Meanwhile be unceasingly careful to train your surviving offspring to a meetness for that blessed inheritance, that at the last day, when standing in His glorious presence, you may say respecting both them and yourselves, "Here, Lord, are we, and the children Thou hast given us."

DR. CHALMERS.

I CANNOT believe that the Saviour, who evinced such attachment to children upon. earth, who took them in His arms and blessed them, who rebuked the apostles for forbidding their approach to His person, who declared that "of such is the kingdom of heaven," —I cannot believe that the infant flower, which so soon lies withered upon its stalk, is not trans planted into those unfading bowers where it will flourish in all the bloom and vigor of immortality.

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REV. DR. CANDLISH, EDINBURGH.

In many ways it may be inferred from Scripture, that all dying in infancy are elect, and are therefore saved.

REV. DR. LAWSON, SELKIRK.

THIS venerated divine says, in his "Reflections on the Death of a Beloved Daughter," He will compensate all her sorrows in that land where sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Sweet hope! Let no man attempt to bereave me of it. It is founded on the Scriptures, on the mercy of God, and on the exceedingly abundant grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. I will not renounce this hope. It appears to me to be founded on the sure word of God.

JEREMY TAYLOR.

WHY should Jesus be an Infant, but that infants should receive the crown of their age, the purification of their sainted nature, the

sanctification of their persons, and the saving of their souls by their infant Lord and Elder Brother.

EVANS.

YOUR heavenly Father never thought this world's painted glory a gift worthy of you, and therefore He hath taken out the best thing it had in your sight that He might Himself fill the heart He had wounded with Himself.

REV. JOHN NEWTON.

I AM willing to believe, till the Scripture forbids me, that infants of all nations and kindreds, without exception, who die before they are capable of sinning "after the similitude of Adam's transgression," who have done nothing in the body of which they can give account, are included in the election of grace; and that the words of our Lord with respect to another class of persons, are applicable to them: "It is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."