Scripture language is for music. There is an inimitable force in it, and a rhythm which has often seemed of itself to suggest the music to me.

Take down from your shelves the lives or the writings of those Christians, who, in their day, have stood most widely apart from each other, who seem to have least in common with each other; lay aside with a smile, or a sigh, the half-forgotten theological controversies that seem to them and their followers so all-important; read the records of their inner life; hear them tell of the struggles, the sorrows, the temptations, the triumphs of their souls. You see they, one and all, speak of a life, a glorious and a real life,— a life that is not their own, and yet which dwells in them,-a life by which they triumph over the deadliness of sin, and the weakness. of their own flesh. They talk of the joy of this life, and of its powers, of its sadness too, and its trials; they tell how they grieved as it waned, and exulted as it grew strong; how they prayed in their spiritual need and sorrow, and sang praises in their hour of spiritual rejoicing. We, too, pray their prayers, we sing their hymns, and, as we see that they could have prayed each other's prayers and sung each other's hymns, we see that, spite all outward diversity, these were one

The Christian
Life.

Bp. Magee.

Love, the Root of Truth.

Augustine.

by the identity of their inner life. Surely it is a strange fact, that men who could certainly have learned nothing from each other, men whose lives were formed under such strangely diverse influences, Calvinist and Arminian, Huguenot and Catholics, Jesuit and Jansenist, High Churchman and Low Churchman, show, each and all of them, this marvellous unity of life.

He

Love, says St. Paul, is the fulness and compendium of the whole law. This love is, as it were, the root, and all truths are the branches and the fruits of it..... who loves, knows every thing; for he possesses the end to which every thing refers itself. Love God, and there will not be any thing which you may not understand.... It is love which asks; it is love which seeks; it is love which knocks at the door, and causes it to open; and it is by this love that we shall abide stedfast in the truths which the Spirit of God hath revealed to us.

Now unto HIM that is able to do

exceeding abundantly

above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, to HIM be glory

in the Church by Christ Jesus
unto all generations,

world without end. Amen.

Great and marvellous are Thy works,
LORD, the GOD ALMIGHTY:
just and true are Thy ways,
O King of Saints!

Alleluia,

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth : let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to HIM.

Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them,

and shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall be no more death:

neither crying, neither pain, any more;
for the former things are passed away.

Devotions of Bp. Andrews.