Though the name of the author of Psal. cxxxvii.
be not recorded yet his generous disposition
should ever be admired. If I do not remember thee,
let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if
I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. Good
old Eli mourned more for the loss of religion, than
for the loss of his relations. His heart was bro-
ken before his neck. If the church be lost. Chris-
tians cannot be saved if the church be saved.
Christians cannot be lost.
Muckle Kate Not a very ordinary name! But then, Muckle Kate, or Big Kate, or Kate-Mhor, or Kate of Lochcarron was not a very ordinary woman! The actual day of her salvation is difficult to trace to its sunrising, but being such a glorious day as it was, we simply wish to relate something of what shone forth in the redeemed life of that "ill-looking woman without any beauty in the sight of God or man." Muckle Kate was born and lived in Lochcarron in the county of Ross-shire. By the time she had lived her life to its eighty-fifth year she had well-earned the reputation of having committed every known sin against the Law of God with the exception murder. Speaking after the manner of men, if it took "Grace Abounding" to save a hardened sinner like John Bunyan, it was going to take "Grace Much More Abounding" to save Muckle Kate. However, Grace is Sovereign and cannot be thwarted when God sends it on the errand of salvation, and even the method used in bri
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