Extracts from Colonel Blackader’s Diary.\

1. I see that strong affections with weak grace is like a sword in a madman’s hand.

2. Gunpowder does not more suddenly flash up when a spark of fire falls upon it, than corruption, when Satan throws in his fiery darts.

3. Every one of us carries about with him, as it were, a barrel of gunpowder and a lighted match to kindle it.

4. I am surprised at the odd composition of my own heart: Heaven, earth, and hell, seem to make up the mixture.

5. I would rather have the fervent prayers of the righteous on my side than the whole Scottish army.

*The above extracts are taken from Colonel Blackader’s Diary, a devoted Christian and a distinguished soldier. He was a son of the Rev. John Blackader, the well-known Covenanting preacher. He was born in the parish of Glencairn and saw distinguished service with the Cameronian Regiment in the Continental wars.—Editor.

1. An affair committed to God by prayer is as good as done.

2. You will always find that God bestows mercies on his people proportionably as they believe on Him, and according to the trust they put in Him.

3. Assurance is to be had, and it is the sin of Christians oft-times, that they get it not; for through an excess of mistaken humility, they dare not; they think it arrogance to act faith boldly on Christ.