326 , DECEMBER 



putable axiom, the sentiment of a poet who ought to 

 have known better, 



" He prayeth best who loveth best 



All tilings, both great and small ;" 



a sentiment as silly as it is unscriptural ; for what con- 

 nexion can there be between the love of the inferior 

 creatures, and the acceptableness of a sinner praying 

 to the Holy God? It is the intervention of Christ 

 Jesus, the anointed Priest, which alone gives prayer 

 acceptance. 



There is no sentimental or scientific road to heaven. 

 There is absolutely nothing in the study of created 

 things, however single, however intense, which will 

 admit sinful man into the presence of God, or fit him 

 to enjoy it. If there were, what need was there that 

 the glorious Son, the everlasting Word, should be made 

 flesh, and give His life a ransom for many ? 



If I have come to God as a guilty sinner, and have 

 found acceptance, and reconciliation, and sonship, in 

 the blood of His only-begotten Son, then I may come 

 down from that elevation, and study creation with 

 advantage and profit ; but to attempt to scale heaven 

 with the ladder of natural history, is nothing else than 

 Cain's religion ; it is the presentation of the fruit of 

 the earth, instead of the blood of the Lamb. 



