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abuse God's holy Word. This was right then; but, because it was right then, it is wrong now. The end of it is come: when the flower blossoms, the petals die; when the fruit is formed, the blossom withers and drops; when the antitype is come, the type goes; and to copy the type now, to imitate the type now, is practically to cancel the last eighteen hundred and conclude the end is not come, and to say, years, "We are not in Christ, but we are under Levi, and still subject to bondage." Then, what is meant by this washing now? It is what the Psalmist says very beautifully, “I will wash mine hands in innocency." In what innocence? In that blood - the only innocent thing in God's universe that was to be for the remission of the sins of the guilty. Hence, all those allusions in the New Testament washing of water," "the renewing of the Holy Ghost." The apostle's expression, "washing of water," is not in reference to baptism, but in reference to this; and he is using Levitical language to convey a New Testament or a grand Christian truth namely, that God loves those to approach him in worship, not who wear the most splendid robes, not who have the greatest wealth, or power, or position; but the clean hands, and the clean hearts, and those that give up neither hand nor heart to vanity, but who serve God in spirit and in truth.

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We have, next, the holy anointing oil, composed of the most precious elements combined together; and this holy anointing oil was applied to every thing, to indicate that every thing was impure, and needed to be consecrated.

What does all this teach us? It teaches us that all creation, all created things, are tainted. The beautiful flowers that burst from the earth, the grand trees that wave in the sunshine and in the storm, rock and crystal, river and ocean, all that is minute, all that is great all have the taint of man's transgression; for when man sinned against God, all nature felt the effects of his sin, and was dragged down with

him. But, just as every thing here was consecrated by that outward oil, so we believe that not consecrating oil, but a consecrating hand, shall one day be waved over all creation; and then nature shall be restored to her first beauty, and all things, however tainted by sin now, shall be made holy; and all hearts thus made holy, shall be made happy, and a better Paradise shall close the world than the Paradise that commenced it.

CHAPTER XXXI.

RECAPITULATION.

PERSONS INSPIRED TO EXECUTE THE DIVINE PLAN. GIFTS AND GRACES NOT ALWAYS UNITED. EDUCATION. SECULAR TEACHING IN INDIA. THE SABBATH AND

ARY WORK. SABBATH AND CRYSTAL PALACE.

SANCTU

THIS last chapter contains the words that were addressed to Moses, at the close of the forty days' sojourn on the Mount, in intimate personal communion with God. It is also a summary of all the institutions and the furniture of the tabernacle, which God so minutely specified in the previous chapters, and of which I have already given a sufficiently plain exposition. He states that, in order to promote all these elaborate arrangements, the exquisitely chased golden candlestick that was to be in the holy of holies, the mercy-seat, the cherubim that were to overshadow it with their wings, to indicate the desire that the angels have to look into those things the vail that was to separate the holy of holies from the holy place- the curtains, and all the other ornaments of the tabernacle, God raised up "Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah," to execute and complete. Now just notice here: God gave the plan clearly, graphically, distinctly, to Moses; but it needed men raised up specially by the Spirit of God to execute the plan, and to give it practical development. And we learn from this fact, that a gifted intellect is as much the creation of the Spirit of God as a regenerate heart. Gifts are from God as truly as graces: it needs the guidance of God's good

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Spirit to enable a man "to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them; and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship; " just as it does to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God. A great intellect, I repeat, is as much the gift of God, as a holy and sanctified heart is from the grace of God; only we must always remember that the two are not necessarily combined; that the latter - the sanctified heart is saving; but that the former - the gifted intellect may be an element of ruin, not of everlasting blessedness in the sight of God. Many men have transcendent gifts, that shed new light upon the world by their splendor, who, at the same time, have hearts sunk in depravity, and wickedness, and sin. They have been raised to heaven by the greatness of their gifts; they sink themselves to ruin by the degeneracy of their lives. Far better have a holy heart, and a very ungifted intellect, than have the most gigantic mind, but have a depraved heart to wield and to make use of it. I know no combination more terrible in this world, than to have an archangel's wisdom, but to have a fiend's depravity to make use of it; and I can conceive no education more mischievous in this world, than the education which cultivates the intellect to the utmost, but leaves the heart to its own inherent and fallen tendencies and propensities. Education is not storing man's memory with historical facts, or with scientific laws; nor is it cultivating and sharpening man's intellect by constant usage; but while it is this, it is also sanctifying man's heart by that knowledge which is not only power, but is also holiness and peace: and I cannot conceive a greater calamity to happen to a nation, than to teach it this world's wisdom by the master-spirits of the day, but to have nobody to give it that teaching — the unction of the Holy One, the sanctifying truths that sweeten all other knowledge, and make it not only light to direct through the intricacies of science, but life to sustain in the hopes and

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prospects of everlasting joy in the presence of God. Never, therefore, my dear friends, either countenance yourselves, or sanction, directly, or indirectly, any teaching that is not accompanied by, based on, and saturated with, living, true, spiritual Christianity. Not that we fear knowledge; I know that it is far better to have a people instructed only in secular wisdom, than tohave a people lying in the depths of intellectual ignorance; but then, I think, when we can have both the light that shows, and the grace that directs, we ought never to be satisfied with the one without possessing the other also. In some countries, it is more light that is needed. In India, for instance, I believe education and science are most needed. I would send more teachers, if I could, to instruct the Hindoos in science alone. If I can get them to educate in Christianity, too, then by all means let them do it; but one would rather have education there in science alone, than no teaching at all; and for this special reason, that the whole Hindoo religion is a composite of scientific absurdities, as well as religious untruths; and that man who proves to a Hindoo that an eclipse of the moon will take place on a certain day, or that an eclipse of the sun will happen at a certain hour, does not only correct a scientific misapprehension on the part of that Hindoo, but he also destroys a dogma of his religion and his creed; and when you do this, you convey to his mind the necessary result that his religion altogether is wrong; for if one dogma of it is clearly proved to be uninspired, you show that the whole edifice must crumble and fall together. And therefore to prove this to him is good; but whilst this is done by the mere teacher of secular knowledge, the Church of Christ ought to follow him up with the teaching of that knowledge which is life everlasting. We thus see, that God gives light to the intellect, as well as grace to the heart; and we may, perhaps, from this learn a very humbling, but a very blessed truth that the man with a gifted intellect is as much sum

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