motion. We work, if we work at all, in the Spirit ; we worship, if we worship at all, in the Spirit. Oh, to honour God the Spirit in all our assemblies! Oh, we seek not to misplace His Word, but we must give Him the honour due to His living Person. We must, dear people, honour Him as we honour the Son; for this God is a jealous God, and will not give His glory, whether it be the glory of the Father, the glory of the Son, or the glory of the Holy Ghost, unto another.

When the Father was specially here in those dispensations of old, bearing testimony in vision, in type, in metaphor, in figure, what was it but bearing His special testimony to the Son? He pointed forward to the coming One. And so, when the blessed Jesus came as God the Son, He pointed to the Father; He honoured the Father in all His testimony and in all His work; and now the blessed Spirit honours the Father, and the Son; but the whole Scriptures honour the Holy Spirit, they all point to Him as the Life, the Giver of life, the Author of life, the Spirit that quickeneth. Oh, for the power of the Spirit most manifestly in our Conference this night! I do believe, dear fellow-believers, that we have had His presence in our midst. I speak for my own soul: I have found it good to be here; to me it has been heaven's gate; to me it has been God's house. I would fain tarry here; I would fain tabernacle here; but I know, as my God bears me witness, unworthy though I be to take His blessed Name upon my lips, or to put my hand to His service, I know I am spared to bear my testimony, in however humble a measure to the

world outside. May we go down from this Conference filled with the power of God the Spirit, filled with the grace of God the Spirit. It is as it was with Stephenas a dear brother has already borne his testimony,-just as we are filled with the Holy Ghost shall we testify of Jesus, just as we are filled with the Spirit, too, shall we become very bold in testifying of Jesus. Oh, for the grace of boldness in testifying of Jesus before a godless world, and in the midst of a cold Church! Oh, for the grace of boldness in preaching God's Christ to fellowbelievers! I speak as a very humble minister of the Gospel of God's grace; but I have had my experience in this regard, that there is a snare, a great snare, found in the fact that we are addressing fellow-sinners while we are addressing fellow-saints. There is a great tendency then to hold back lest we should give offence. Oh, for grace to be bold, to be faithful, to be true to God's truth and true to God's people! Oh, to bear our testimony to the preciousness of our Jesus, to the satisfying character of His work, that we need no other beloved, that this Beloved possesses all our heart, our soul, our strength, our mind, and that as He dwelleth in us by the Holy Spirit we cannot but speak His preciousness! May this house be filled with the odour of His Name! And again, my prayer is, that we may return to our several spheres refreshed in soul, strengthened in faith, determining in the sufficient grace of our God to be true to His blessed Son, to give glory to Father, Son, and Spirit, alike in our preaching and in our lives.

Prayer was offered by the Rev. W. PENNEFATHER, who afterwards pronounced the benediction.

Friday, October 29th.

Subject "THE REALISATION OF THIS ANOINTING THE GREAT MOTIVE FOR HOLINESS AND THE SOURCE OF POWER."

MORNING.

The Rev. W. PENNEFATHER opened the proceedings by saying,—On this our last morning will you ask that we may all be anointed as with fresh oil. Let us pray in silence.

SILENT PRAYER.

The 52nd Hymn from "Hymns of Prayer and Praise,"

“The Head that once was crowned with thorns,"

was then sung.

The Rev. W. PENNEFATHER said :—

Beloved Christian friends,-We feel that gratitude to God should be the prevailing feature of our worship to-day. "The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad." He has granted us to meet this year, notwithstanding difficulties that were interposed; He has granted us fair weather; above all, He has granted us a sense of His own presence and power. And oh, my friends, when we think of what we are, and then when we think of what God is, we are “lost in wonder, love, and praise." But He is the God of all grace, and He delights in the exercise of His Divine sovereignty and love; He delights to let flow

from the very throne of the Eternal the treasures of knowledge and wisdom; the stream of Divine goodness comes down to this parched world of ours. us then praise and pray.

Let

Prayer was then offered by the Rev. W. PENNEFATHER. The 154th Hymn from "Hymns of Prayer and Praise," was sung :—

"Jesus, the very thought of Thee
With sweetness fills the breast!
But sweeter far Thy face to see,
And in Thy presence rest.

Tongue never spake, ear never heard,
Never from heart o'erflowed
A dearer name, a sweeter word,
Than Jesus, Son of God.

Oh, hope of every contrite heart,
To penitents how kind!

To those who seek how good Thou art!
But what to those who find?

Ah! this no tongue can utter ! this

No mortal page can show ;

The love of Jesus, what it is,
None but His loved ones know.

Jesus, our only joy be Thou,

As Thou our prize wilt be;

Jesus, be Thou our glory now

And through eternity.

To praise the Father, and the Son,

And Spirit, all Divine,

The One in Three, and Three in One,

Let saints and angels join."

The Rev. MARCUS RAINSFORD then offered prayer,

and spoke as follows:

Beloved friends,-All realisations of God's ways and works in reference to our salvation must be founded on faith in Him; and I can only have faith in Him as I know Him as revealed to me by His blessed Spirit in His Word! Therefore the knowledge of God is the greatest thing to be attained on this side of heaven, as the knowledge of God will be the greatest attainment of glory; it is wisdom, it is life, it is power. You remember how the Apostle Peter treats of the knowledge of God, and of the results and the powers of that knowledge, in his 2nd epistle, the 1st chapter. He tells us, from the 2nd to the 12th verses, that we have "through this knowledge grace and peace multiplied to us." He tells us we have "through this knowledge all things pertaining to life and to godliness;" he tells us we have "through this knowledge exceeding great and precious promises;" he tells us we are "through this knowledge made partakers of the Divine nature;" he tells us "through this knowledge we do escape the corruption that is in the world through lust;" he tells us in the 8th verse, it is through this only that we cease to be barren and unfruitful; and in a previous verse we are taught to add to our faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance and to temperance godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity; he tells us in the 9th verse, it is through this knowledge our spiritual eyesight is illuminated; and it is through this knowledge realised in the soul, we have an abundant entrance administered to us