that the doctrine which our blessed Savior taught tends to make men sinners.  Oh, no!  But this is what it means:  That God is so merciful and gracious that until men are instructed and warned of their danger, he does not hold them severely accountable.  But when the light of truth is shed around them, and the way of life and salvation pointed out to them, and they then shut their eyes to the light and close their hearts to knowledge, he holds them accountable, and deals with them as sinners.

“I feel now to address a few words to the dear young people who are assembled here.  The Lord bless you in the dew of your youth, while your hearts are yet tender; before age and sin have made you hard, give your hearts to God.  This you can do by loving our Lord Jesus Christ, who laid down his life for you.  When you love him with the heart, you believe on him with the heart; and when you believe on him with the heart, you have a desire in your heart to obey him by doing his commandments.  You will purify your souls by obeying the truth.  ‘Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.’  ’Seek the Lord while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near;’ for, saith he, ‘they that seek me early shall find me.’

“But you may desire to know how you are to seek the Lord, and where you are to look for him.  I hope you are thinking of this now; so I will tell you.  The only place where the Lord can be found is in his Holy Word.  There you find him in the form of the man Christ Jesus.  And whilst he is there set forth as the ’man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,’ he is also set forth as the ‘true God and eternal life.’  He there says:  ‘If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.’  ’And he that drinketh of the water that I will give unto him shall never thirst.’  This water is the TRUTH of his Word.  It so fills the soul with love and light and joy and peace, as to become a fountain of delight within us.  Reading God’s Word in the right spirit is drinking of the Water of Life.  When this truth finds a place in the memory through the love of it, the memory keeps our thoughts perpetually supplied with it, and thus it becomes, as our Lord says, ’a fountain within us unto everlasting life.’”

SATURDAY, March 21, Brother Kline, in company with Brother Daniel Miller, went to Brock’s Gap, and spent the night at Brother Sunafrank’s.

BROCK’S GAP.

This is a small area of country in Rockingham County, Virginia, containing about one hundred and fifty square miles.  It is the head basin of the north fork of the Shenandoah river.  It is almost completely surrounded by high and rugged mountains; and where the river has broken a gap for its outlet the scenery is not surpassed by that of Harper’s Ferry.