the one with the other.1 A knowledge of their true nature and of the principles by which they are governed would enable the Christian to bring them together in unity; and so would they be mutually helpful the one of the other.2

In place of seeking to separate them-viewing the one as a gift from heaven, the other as of the earth earthy-the one as a mark of divine love, the other as the result of human

1"Faith, if it be true, living, and justifying, cannot be separated from a good life. . . The least faith that is must be a persuasion so strong as to make us undertake the doing of all that duty which Christ built upon the foundation of believing."-(JEREMY TAYLOR: Holy Living.) "The Gospel, while it provides directly for the peace of a sinner, provides no less directly and efficiently for the purity of his practice, .. and he who truly accepts Christ, as the alone foundation of his meritorious acceptance before God is stimulated by the circumstances of his new condition to breathe holy purposes, and to abound in holy performances. He is created anew unto good works."-(Dr. CHALMERS.) "He should not only read diligently and pray diligently, but he should do diligently every one right thing that is within his reach, and all that he finds himself to have strength for."(Dr. CHALMERS.) "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, or if there be any praise,' we should mind these things and practise them. Such is the rule of Christian practice."-(Dr. ISAAC BARROW: Sermons.) "Noah and David sinned. because they had not added to their faith, temperance-the subjection of all passion and appetite to the highest good; Jonah and Elijah sinned because they had not added to their faith and patience; Peter sinned because he had not added to his faith, virtue-a true manly courage; and Paul and Barnabas sinned. . . because they had not added to their faith, brotherly kindness. Indeed, what could on this point be more positive than that declaration of inspiration, 'If ye do these things,' if you diligently cultivate all the graces of Christianity, 'ye shall never fall ?"-(Dr. H. DARLING: The Closer Walk.)

"Knowledge and practice do mutually promote and help forward one another. Knowledge prepares and disposeth for practice; and practice is the best way to perfect knowledge in any kind. Mere speculation is a very raw and rude thing in comparison of that true and distinct knowledge which is gotten by practice and experience." "Knowledge, perfected by practice, is as much different from mere speculation as the skill of doing a thing is from being told how a thing is to be done. Men easily mistake rules, but frequent practice and experience are seldom deceived."-(Archbishop TILLOTSON: Sermons.) "If they (ie., religious feelings and convictions) are not to be merely head notions or evanescent feelings, they must be taken into the will, and pass out into our actions. This is what our Lord said: 'If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine whether he be of God.' Knowledge is to follow doing, not precede it. In order to understand, we must commence by putting into practice what we already know."- (Professor SHAIRP: Religion and Culture.) "He should not only read diligently and pray diligently, but he should do diligently every one right thing that is within his reach, and those he finds himself to have strength for."-(Dr. CHALMERS.)

sin and depravity,' he would see that the one is necessary to the health, well-being, even to the very existence of the other. Works are not only necessary to faith, they are the end and fruit of it.3 Faith is given to aid us in the accomplishment of our work. Christianity is not a mere

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1 "A line is drawn, and directly, or by implication, we are told that all on this side is of heaven heavenly, and all on the other is of the earth earthy. Such a division is not only false in itself but the parent of an innumerable progeny of falsehoods. ... The consequence is that we have science and religion, and not religious science. We dissociate religion from science; we make one the antagonist, or at best but the underhanded friend of the other; and, branded as profane, science has little care for its intolerant and supercilious brother."-(J. A. LANGFORD: Religion and Education.)

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2 Faith and works, presuming them to be the true faith and true works, compose an indivisible whole, and mutually complete each other, so that works without faith are nothing, and faith without works is a mere word."—(VINET.) "Faith begins the change within by purifying our hearts and desires; and thence goes on to perfect our outward words and actions. And unless it proceed to this, it will never be able to bear us out and to justify us at God's bar."—(Rev. J. KETTLEWELL.) A true belief in Christ and personal holiness are not two things distinct from each other, and capable of being set over against each other; but, on the contrary, the same thing at different periods of its existence. The first is the blade, the last the full corn; the first is the babe in Christ, the last the strong man."-(Rev. Dr. H. DARLING.) They that would have religion without moral righteousness talk indiscreetly, and are farther from the kingdom of God than a mere moral man. -(TILLOTSON) "We are not accepted of God or saved because of our good works, but we are made a people zealous of good works because we are saved by grace."-(R. TAYLOR: The Establishment of the Law.) Faith " 'develops and perfects itself in proportion to the works that manifest it."-(VINET.)

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3 "Good works are the perfection and expression of holy principles, the very end and object of all religion, the very substance of happiness, the very element of heaven."-(T. ERSKINE: Revealed Religion.) "Our works are not only the manifestation of our faith and love, but their aliment as well."-(VINET.) "The clearest notions of truth become clouded if they be not accompanied by corresponding practice."-(Rev. J. SMITH.) "It is the good effects of Christian faith upon our hearts and lives that makes it justifying and saving."-(Rev. J. KETTLEWELL.) "What can Christian perfection be but a right performance of all the duties of life, as is according to the laws of Christ, a living in such holy tempers, and acting with such dispositions, as Christianity requires."-(Law: Christian Perfection.)

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4"A right faith is wholly in order to a good life, and is of no value any farther than it hath an influence upon it." (TILLOTSON: Sermons.) "The right faith of man is not intended to give him repose, but to enable him to do his work. It is not intended that he should look away from the place he lives in now, and cheer himself with thoughts of the place he is to live in next; but that he should look stoutly into this world in faith that, if he does his work thoroughly here, some good to others

doctrine or belief, it is a life and a practice; and to ignorance of this may be traced much of the religious error and the religious shortcoming of the present day.1

Religion is too much regarded as something distinct and apart from ordinary life, something only for particular times and places, and suited merely to particular circumstances.2

or himself, with which, however, he is not at present concerned, will come of it hereafter" - (J. RUSKIN: Modern Painters.) "If God graciously vouchsafe to us inward consolation, it is only to animate us to further progress. . . . If the promises are our aliment, the commandments are our work; and a temperate Christian ought to desire nourishment only in order to carry him through his business. If he so supinely rest on the one as to grow sensual and indolent, he might lecome not only unwilling but incapacitated for the performance of the other."-(MORE: Practical Piety.)

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1 "There are some of you who like to hear sermons about the doctrine of election, and the perseverance of the saints, and sermons against transubstantiation, and sermons that make your hearts leap and your pulse beat high, who have a feeling that a minister wastes his own time and the time of his congregation when he preaches against common vices, and enforces the obligation of common virtues. seems to me that the difference between lying and speaking the truth is of infinitely more importance than the difference between Calvinism and Arminianism, and that the difference between Romanism and Protestantism, is less serious than the difference between integrity and knavery." (Rev. R. W. DALE.) "It is the reigning fashion in discourses constantly and almost entirely and at once to plunge into the peculiar mysteries of Christianity on a plausible pretence of deriving all our knowledge of God from the cross of the Redeemer. The consequence is that the sincere are deceived into sloth, and cramped and kept low in their religious knowledge; a crowd of empty hypocrites are emboldened in secure notional faith; the more rational kind of enemies to the gospel are hardened against it; the whole system of religion is enervated; and the peculiar truths of the Gospel are divested of their native beauty and majesty."- (Dr. Love: Discourses.) "No one will be acquitted and rewarded at that bar for knowing and discoursing, for wishing or desiring, but only for working and obeying." Christ has given us his laws "not for talk and discourse, but for action and practice; and his promises he has annexed to them, not as rewards of idleness, but only of active service and obedience. Our last doom shall turn not upon our knowing or not knowing, our willing or not willing, but upon our obeying or disobeying."-(Rev. J. KETTLEWELL.)

2 "Some Christian men . . . have energetically maintained that to him who lives under the constant control of the grandeur and terror of the eternal world, the wealth, the learning, the refinement, the beauty belonging to this transitory life, can have no interest. I believe that this theory has inflicted the greatest injury on innumerable souls, has ended in paralysing not only the common human sympathies which the divine wisdom planted in our nature, but the devoutest and holiest affections originated by the spirit of God in the Christian heart."-(Rev. R W. DALE: Discourses.) "If all the actions of the natural and social life be considered as without the province of religion, the necessary consequence will be that

We do not think of it, at least so much as we ought, in connection with our daily occupations and social relationships, with our conduct in society, and with nature around us.1 Christianity is not something distinct from or opposed to every other thing, but it is something superadded, so as to mingle with, improve, and elevate all else. It is one thing

men shall think themselves at liberty to perform them not according to the rules of religion. Whenever we look upon the ordinary actions of common life as indifferent, whenever we forget that there is either virtue or vice in almost every one of them, we are in great danger of indulging vice and contracting guilt in the performance of them. Whenever we allow ourselves to imagine that those actions have no influence on our salvation, we shall be ready to do them in such a manner as must obstruct our salvation."-(Dr. A. GERARD: Sermons.) "The man who sees God only at certain times and in certain places, as in temples and groves, will feel as if he were beyond God's cognizance and control in all other positions. Hence we find the earnest (we cannot say spiritual) worshipper at the altar cheating in the market-place, and indulging the basest propensities of his nature, when he thinks himself under the clouds of concealment." (Dr. McCosH: Divine Government.) "There is no such thing as making religion religion and business business; there is no such thing as a man's being a holy man in the sanctuary and a cheating man in the shop; there is no such thing as a man's being a pure spiritual man in the church and a tricking politician in the caucus." (H. W. BEECHER.)

1 Men should be disposed "to address themselves to the discharge of all temporal tasks under a firm and pleasing belief that, by doing these in a proper manner, and in a suitable spirit, they are best qualifying themselves for an inheritance in that more enduring state of existence towards which the hopes and aspirations of their minds are continually carrying them."-(Manual of Conduct.) Man's "very worldly employment in honest trades and offices is a serving of God." The ploughman, the artisan, the merchant, "these men are, in their callings the ministers of the divine Providence, and the stewards of the creation, and servants of a great family of God, the world, in the employment of procuring necessaries for food and clothing, ornament and physic."-(JEREMY TAYLOR: Holy Living.) "Have you, as a part of your obedience to Christ, taken time to sit down and think what birds and flowers mean ?"-(H. W. BEECHER.) "Few persons think of the heavens now, except as a practical and scientific realm. They don't see God in the handiwork of the earth. Whereas the sublime old Hebrew worshipper, walking forth, beheld God in the stars that whispered by night, in the sun that flamed by day, in the rain, and lightening, and thunder, and in all the phenomena of nature, they have grown wise and scientific, and have hunted God out of our material globe."-(Ditto.)

2 "The man who does the commonest thing in the world recognising it as part of the divine order of things, that one man should be serviceable and useful to another-the man, I say, who does a thing well because of this, and who tries to do it better, is doing God service." "The work you have to do to-morrow in the counting-house, in the shop, or wherever you may be, is that by which you are to serve God. Do it with a high regard, and then there is nothing mean in it; but there is everything mean in it if you are pretending to please people when you only

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to view religion as something distinct from, opposed or contrary to all other things; another to view it as higher indeed than all else, but as becoming a part of them, and mingling with and elevating them; and that to which all other things naturally lead, and to which they look for their highest perfection.1 All learning and all education, if it be of the right kind, must lead up to religion.2 The more a man is educated and trained the more must he feel his need of religion, and the more dissatisfied will he become with anything short of it.3

It results from this tendency to regard religion as something distinct and apart from all other things, that Christian people so frequently separate religion and morality, and speak of the latter as if it were something different from if not actually opposed to the former. Can a man love look for your wages. It is mean then: but if you have a regard to doing a thing nobly, greatly, and truly, because it is the work that God has given you to do, then you are doing the divine service.”—(GEORGE MAC DONALD.) By a religious fulfilment of common duties, we become effectual fellow-workers with God in advancing the interests of his kingdom in the world."-(Manual of Conduct.) "All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true hand labour, there is something of divineness." "No man has worked or can work except religiously, not even the poor day labourer, the weaver of your coat, the sewer of your shoes. All men, if they work not as in a great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, work unha pily for themselves.' "You have not work otherwise; you have eye service, greedy grasping of wages, swift and ever swifter manufacture of semblances to get hold of wages."-(T. CARLYLE.)

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"Pray learn to understand how all work has in it a spiritual element; how the meanest thing on earth has a divine side; how all the temporary forms include essences that are to be eternal. Whatever be the meanness of a man's occupation, he may discharge and prosecute it on principles common to him, with Michael or Gabriel or any of the highest spirits of heaven. If an angel came to earth to live and work in the likeness of a man, and in one or other of man's many occupations, he would not care much whether he governed a kingdom or sold tripe."-(T. BINNEY: Both Worlds.) "When religion governs all our inclinations and actions, and the temper of our minds, and the course of our lives is conformable to the precepts of it, all is peace."-(TILLOTSON.)

2 "Culture, if thoroughly and consistently carried out, must lead on to religion, that is, to the cultivation of the spiritual and heavenward capacities of our nature."-(Prof. SHAIRP.)

3 "Religion is to the soul what health is to the body; it is the right ordering of all the faculties."-(H. W. BEECHER.) "Religion was given us as the best rule for the conduct and government of our whole lives."(R. NELSON.) "Religion sets up its jurisdiction over all the operations of the mind."--(ALBERT BARNES.)

4 It seems to me a "monstrous theory of some Christian people, that if