I have no faith in neutrals, for if they were to make known their minds, they would be found on the wrong side.—The late Rev. D. Macfarlane, Dingwall.
The fairness of the New Jerusalem.—If we saw our Father’s house, and that great and fair city, the New Jerusalem, which is above sun and moon, we should cry to be over the water, and to be carried in Christ’s arms out of this borrowed prison. Christ shall then appear a new Christ—as water at the fountain, apples in the orchard and beside the tree, have more of their native sweetness, taste and beauty, than when transported to us some hundred miles. I mean not that Christ can lose any of His sweetness in the carrying, or that He in His Godhead and loveliness of presence can be changed for the worse betwixt the little spot of earth you are in and the right hand of the Father. O Time, Time, go swiftly, and hasten that day!—Samuel Rutherford.