most important, even for the lives of the young persons who so kindly work in it, that we should remove. I received 1501. from you on the Fast-day; and I have letters from the various medical practitioners entrusted with its distribution among the suffering poor, of all classes, creeds, and countries, which prove the immense good which it has done. I never was so thankful for a collection in my life as I was for that one; and I never was more thoroughly satisfied of the immense happiness which it has been instrumental in producing. We did our best for the physical wants of the poor; let us now do something for their spiritual necessities. I leave it to your hearts, and in your hands.

CHAPTER IX.

GOD'S ACTS.

"He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel."-Psalm ciii. 7.

EACH verse in this Psalm contains a distinct and ever new reason for gratitude to God; each seems to be a fountain, out of which streams a new current of inexhaustible gratitude, ever due and ever rendered to a great and gracious and sovereign benefactor. I explained in the previous chapter, the nature of that ground for gratitude contained in verse 6, "The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed." I showed you also in what respects the Lord has "made

known his ways unto Moses." I merely glanced at the next clause of that verse, "and his acts unto the children of Israel;" the meaning of which is, that "what God revealed to Moses, that He performed to the children of Israel." What was the revelation of truth to the one, He translated into actual fact or experience to the other. The Jewish nation, throughout their long and chequered history, was a standing and perpetual proof that these truths. God made known to Moses, and that these He translated into acts, deeds, mercies, miracles, chastisements, judgments, in the history of that remarkable people. Thus He explained his way to Moses when He said, "It shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to ob

serve and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee

seven ways.

The Lord shall com

mand the blessing upon thee in thy storchouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and He shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as He hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee."

This record is the way of God as He revealed it to Moses: the history of the children of Israel is the act of God as made known to them. Whilst they kept God's commandments under that august theocracy, the great type and model and font

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