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perishable body only — he must be at least equally so- in 

 things which relate to the immortal soul that was 

 created after his own image ! The harvest just ga- 

 thered in, is, if we believe the record that he has 

 given us, a yearly emblem of the final judgment at the 

 end of the world. So our Lord himself tells us, 

 (Matt. xiii. 39.) But how many are there who by 

 their conduct shew their disbelief of that great event ? 

 whose profane lips, whose unholy lives, and whose im- 

 penitent hearts, continually give God the lie, and seem 

 profanely to ask, " Where is the promise of his com- 

 ing ?" " But God," as even unrighteous Balaam was 

 constrained to confess, " Is not a man that he should 

 lie, nor the son of man that he should repent.'* To the 

 unbeliever, this is a truth which if he ever thinks of it 

 must strike terror into his soul ; for every Harvest Home 

 shall at last rise up as it were in judgment, and con- 

 demn him for not having listened to that voice, with 

 which it so loudly proclaims the eternal truth of 

 a sin-hating and a sin-avenging God. 



But what says the same voice to the humble and 

 renewed Christian ? It may, indeed, convict him also, 

 at the present time, of some remaining unbelief and 

 mistrust. It may, perhaps, whisper a doubt, whether 



