"MY CUP RUNNETH OVER."

My Saviour drank, when here below,
A cup of sorrow and of woe;

But mine with blessings doth o'erflow!

My Saviour's head with thorn was crown'd,
His honour trampled on the ground;
But I a priestly crown have found!

My Saviour's face-that face divine-
Was mar'd and spit upon by man,
That mine with joy and peace might shine!

His hands and feet were pierced through,
And, with the spear, his body too;
But mine are free His work to do!

My Saviour's griefs and stripes, how great!
His sufferings who can e'er relate?

But I need bear no heavy weight.

Oh, let me, then, with joy pursue
My happy path, and keep in view
The prize my Lord to faith doth shew.

Abound, my soul, in faith and love;
The doings of thy God approve
Which fit thee for thy home above.

Shun not the Saviour's cross and shame;
But spread the virtues of His name

And tell His everlasting fame.

'Tis but a little season here,

To walk and serve in godly fear;

But 'tis eternal ages there!

Spend, then, thy "little while" below,

The praises of thy God to shew,

And day by day in grace to grow.

With Christ already thou art one,

And life eternal is begun!

Which shall endure when time is done.

TIME IS SHORT.

WE should consider it a very high privilege to be truly testifying for Christ down here, where everything is against us and against Him. It is glorifying to our God, that we walk by faith, and endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Those who have slept in Jesus can no longer do so; they have left opportunities of serving Him which yet remain to us; let us not fail, then, to take them as they offer. "The time is short." Short for suffering, and that is comfort to the wearied; short for serving, and that is a stimulus to the faithful loving heart. That word, "As ye have opportunity," is very blessed. Are we not conscious of missing many opportunities? I have often thought of the sad and bitter feeling that Peter, James, and John must have had, when they looked back upon the opportunity their gracious Lord afforded them, of watching with Him, and soothing Him in His hour of deep distress. Could ye not watch with Me one hour?" (Ps. lxix. 20; lxlii. 4.)

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Sleep on now, and take your rest," says that meek and lowly One. What a time for a servant to be resting-while the Master was in an agony; but they had missed their opportunity, such an opportunity as was never given before to man, and never can be again. And are we not often like them? Christ is not here personally; but He has yet left us an opportunity of serving Him.

May we His name confess,

Midst suffering, shame, and loss;
Stand forth His faithful witnesses,

And glory in the Cross!

FELLOWSHIP, No. 2.

If it is only by "the communion of the Holy Ghost" that we can truly have "fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ;" and if it is only by the gracious operation of the Holy Ghost, through the Scriptures, that we can have any true knowledge of the Godhead, how important that we should "search" the inspired pages of truth, in humble dependance upon Him who searcheth "the deep things of God," particularly when we remember that blessed saying of our adorable Lord, "This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent;" and also that when the beloved disciple, by the Spirit, touched on the same glorious subject, he added, "These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full." (1 John i. 3, 4.)

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In meditating upon a subject so amazingly profound and sublime, we may well take our shoes from off our feet; for it is holy ground. The psalmist said, "Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah ?" Who can shew forth all His praise?" Surely it is not by our "searching" that we can find out God, that we can find out the Almighty to perfection (Job xi. 7); but, taught by that same Spirit, who indited the Scriptures of truth, who " searcheth all things," teaches all things, and guides into all truth, we find that the "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come," is revealed to us (though in measure now,) in the glorious perfections of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Taking, then, the Holy Scriptures as our only sure guide, we find very early in the sacred records some

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blessed intimations of a plurality of persons in the Eternal Godhead. "God said, let us make man in our image. So God created man in His own image. (Gen. i. 26, 27.) "Behold the man is become as one of us." "So He drove out the man." (Gen. iii. 22, 23.) "Let us go down and confound their language. So the Lord scattered them abroad." (Gen. xi. 7, 8.) In Isaiah vi. we see the same truth brought out; "I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I: send me. And He said, Go." The Spirit of God also strikingly intimates, in Prov. viii., that there was One lying in the bosom of the Father before all worlds, in the sweet repose of ineffable delight and affection. "Jehovah possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep: when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by Him, as One brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him; rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and My delights were with the sons of men." Surely

this is none other than the beloved Son, who, in the days of His flesh, said, "Now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was. (John xvii. 5.) And is not this view of the subject greatly confirmed by the words of Agur, in the same book? "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in His fists? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name, if thou canst tell?" Other Old Testament Scriptures speak of the "Spirit of God" (Gen. i. 2; xli. 38. Ex. xxxi. 3); and also of Emmanuel, the virgin's Child; the Son given, the mighty God; and Nebuchadnezzer declares that he saw in the fiery furnace one "like the Son of God." (Is. vii. 14; ix. 6. Dan. iii. 25.) These Scriptures unquestionably teach us about plurality of persons in the eternal Godhead; at the same time, the Spirit of God continually preserves the doctrine of the One living and true God. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord." (Deu. vi. 4.) "Is there a God beside Me? Yea, there is no God; I know not any." (Is. xliv. 8.) "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord." (Jer. xxiii. 24,

24.) "The Lord of Hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel." (Is. xlvii. 4.)

But with all these various ways, in which it pleased Jehovah, at different times, to reveal Himself to His people, by the prophets, it remained for God to speak to us by His Son, by whom He made the worlds, in order that the true light might more fully shine forth. "No man," said He," hath seen God at any time, the