Ministers ought not to be reproached for instructive preaching, and
for not yielding to the demand for sensationalism. 2. The love of truth is the
conclusive test of Christian character. S. Rest not in intellectual attainments in
religion. {Gardiner Spring, D.D.) Knowledge and judgment : — These are the
limits which define the course of love, and thus deepen it. I. Advanced know-
ledge is derived from — 1. Experience. 2. Attentive study of — (1) The Divine
perfections. (2) The gospel mystery. (3) The Divine claims. (4) The principles
of Christ's teaching, which should pervade all Christian conduct. II. Moral
PERCEPTION. 1. Results from the full exertion of every moral sense. (1) There are
many things in Christian life which cannot be formulated, but must be felt to be
known. (2) Grace awakens the moral senses. Love makes them delicately sensi-
tive to spiritual things. Christian life appeals to them. Experience comes in the
exercise of them. (3) This experience produces a profounder knowledge and a
deeper love by intensifying spiritual perceptions, because — 2. It is a medium ol
communication with the unseen and eternaL 3. As a medium of communication
with God it makes the soul superior to, and independent of, the senses. When
these close at eventide, the moral senses only open wider for the morning sun. 4,
It robes the soul with a halo of light more assuring and glorious than " the glory-
cloud " emitted. 5. It imparts to the soul that delicate tact and instinct whicb
almost instinctively perceives what is right, and almost unconsciously shrinks from
what is wrong. 6. It is indestructible by death, and shall be an imperishable
avenue for the soul's perpetual advance in knowledge. (G. G. Ballard.)

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