Welsh Journals

THETEEASURY. 42 ~"~"~ -;4U^E,;1867; :•., Pbice 2i>.' re litorir is nigfr nntB t§tti 44 .OSES, the servant of the Lord, was delivering his last great address to the children of Israel on the eve of their entrance into the land of Canaan. In that address he repeated unto them the law and the testimony, explaining the ground and urging the terms, on the condition of which alone they were to escape threatened curses and to receive promised blessings. And to render them perfectly inexcusable, the great prophet adds that the terms to be com¬ plied with were not beyond their reach; in other words, that obedience to the law was not above their attainment; for the law was very nigh unto them, the words conveying its com¬ mandments were very near to them, in their mouths and in their hearts; it had often been repeated in their hearing, it was doubtless deposited in their memory ; and possibly they were not without some sense of its supreme excellence, and of their obligation faithfully to observe it in their lives. We too cannot ask, " Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it?" or, " who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it?" It is not.in heaven far above us, nor beyond the sea distant from us. It lies open before us in our pulpits, in oar Sabbath schools, and at our family services. There are doubtless several copies of the scriptures at each of our homes. The father has a Bible, and the mother a Bible, the son and each of the daughters have a Bible, the servant also has her Bible. The Word of God is the largest volume on the side table, and the most prominent, being placed in the centre. The little table beside the bed in the secret closet is ornamented with the same sacred Book. I remember onoe going into a bedroom, where there stood in the centre a small