He is " risen! risen 'to the heaven of eternal light.'? " Now,"either the preacher in this case inußt have • boeri in th'e'wrongj'or'Peter's words on the day ' '6C- Pentedbst' are' not 1 possessed of all the authority which we have been accustomed to attribute to them. For of anothor man, whose ' name was David,' he' unambiguously affirmed - that M I' is' not ascended into' the heavens. 'f Hear,' too, the words of Christ to His disciples : " As I. said unto the Jews, so say I now to you : whither Igo ye cannot come. But if I go away, 'I will come again and receive you unto myßelf, that where I am there ye may be also." For lack of discerning the necessity of Christ's return to this earth, preachers as a rulo, say little or nothing about it, and the majority of ■ pious people do not' care to have the sub, ject mentioned. Thus the blind are leading'the blind,' and the ditch is the probable destiny of both. ' ! it is impossible for any ray of saving light to gain access to a man's mind so long as he cherishes the fable of his own natural im mortality. It nullifies Christ's gospel so com) ' pletely, and substitutes for it, a gospel so ■ entirely different from that which he com manded his disciples to preach, that we confess our inability to see any hope of salvation for ' him who labours under the mighty delusion. It is possible for even good and pious people to be " alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, and because of the blindness of their hearts." Our moral senti, ments, however excellent, operate to no saving result, unless they are in harmony with the teuththat God has revealed. "Sanctify them through Thy truth i Thy Word is truth." "Of His own will begat He us with the word_ of trath." " Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." Now.it is p vain for us to except to become partakers of the divine nature by anything that God has not promised. 