“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is.” So God’s eternal truth declares, and who is able to contradict it? None; not the mightiest, although some of earth’s towering intellects have spent themselves in endeavoring to overwhelm and batter down this glorious bulwark of human hopes, yet it stands, and shall stand while God is God. Knowing, then, the stability of this foundation, it is amazing to see so many passing to the dark unknown beyond, leaning only upon a doubt. A true trusting in God gives the perfect peace which passeth understanding—gives sweet rest even in the midst of storms, gives a supporting assurance of “green pastures” and “still waters” beyond, when our feet press heavily upon thorns in the life-path. How can we know anxious care when we are assured that “he careth for us”? How can we complain, and weep, and sorrow when we know that the “steps of the good are ordered by the Lord,” and that all our times are in his hands? When we consider that he spared not his own Son, but freely delivered him up for us all, shall we think that he would dispense lesser gifts with a parsimonious hand? Oh! no; freely he giveth unto us whatsoever we have need of—not as we see, but as he sees; not, perhaps, at all times as we could wish, but always as his superior wisdom dictates, for as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him, and his mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon them. Does the world look with suspicion upon religious people? On the contrary, they are far more readily trusted than if their character of godliness were not known. Such is the purity and beauty of the principles of which they are exponents, that with the mass to know a person is a Christian is sufficient guarantee of character. Does godliness debar its friends from partaking the pleasures of earth? Does it cause them to look gloomy and miserable? No, oh, no! Every pure joy, every real pleasure is open and free to the Christian; they are bidden “rejoice” and “rejoice evermore,” and it is declared of the Eternal that no good thing will be withheld from them that walk uprightly. A Christian does not limit God, but feasts upon his promises with the perfect assurance that they will be fulfilled; for, since the world was, not one has failed or ever can fail. Our God changes not, but we, creatures of frailty, very often change, and what God promises to-day to a pure soul, the sinning soul of to-morrow can no longer claim. “Beautiful are thy ways and fair, O Zion, mountain of holiness, and perfect peace have they which walk in thy paths.” Therefore, trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Trust in the Lord and do good, and verily thou shalt be fed. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding, for they that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which can not be removed, but abideth forever. For them there is no darkness, but the day about them is full of light.—Sel.