“But there is a day coming when all things shall be made new, and we shall be made new with the rest.  I do not want to be understood here, however, as believing that God will in any sense force his renewing power upon any one; or that this renewing power will be enjoyed in the world to come by any but such as earnestly desired it here.  I believe that when we get into the other life our eyes will open to such clear visions of the beauty of holiness and the excellencies of heavenly love, all thoughts of evil will be rejected with a repugnance something like what we would feel here by having the most offensive or poisonous substance thrust into our mouth.  It is declared concerning the New Jerusalem that nothing shall enter therein that defileth, or worketh abomination, or maketh a lie.  Nothing shall enter therein that defileth.  Our Lord has graciously told us the things that defile a man.  He says:  ’Evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:  all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.’  Now, these are the Lord’s own words; and they enable us to understand just what is meant by the words, ’nothing shall enter therein that defileth.’

“Now, Brethren, when the angels that meet us at the gate of the Golden City shall take of the blood of the Lamb, and, with gentle hands, wash away every stain of defilement from the sins here enumerated, and we, thus cleansed, find ourselves safe, forever safe, within its blessed walls, will we not shout and say:  ’Behold! all things have become new’?”

Stay nineteenth night with Brother Eli Dickey.  We are now in Ashland County, Ohio.  Heavy rains to-day, and waters very high.

MONDAY, May 22.  Pass through Richland County, and stay twentieth night with Brother Samuel Shaffner, four miles from Bucyrus in Crawford County.

TUESDAY, May 23.  Night meeting at Benton.  Subject:  “The Miracles of Christ’s Healing Power.”  TEXT.—­“And he healed all that came unto him.”

We hardly need being told that man is composed of body and soul; that the body is the visible, material part of man, in which the soul, man’s invisible part, finds its home.  Man’s material part is but little superior to that of the rest of the animal creation.  It is subject to the same laws.  It must be fed and sheltered.  It finds enjoyment in food and drink, and comfortable surroundings, very nearly akin to what we see in the life of brutes.  Like them it is subject to natural decay, liable to disease; and like them, must die.  But man is in possession of capacities and capabilities infinitely superior to anything the rest of God’s sentient creation enjoys.  He has a soul which is capable of unlimited attainments in the knowledge and love of God, and in the knowledge and love of his fellowman.  The heathen philosophers supposed they had done their whole duty to themselves and the world when they could