In Thine own house! There Love Divine Fills the bright courts with cloudless joy: But 'tis the love that made us Thine Fills all that house without alloy! Oh, boundless grace! What fills with joy Unmingled all that enter there-- God's nature, love without alloy-- Our hearts are given e'en now to share! O Mind Divine! so must it be, That glory, all, belongs to God! O Love Divine! that did decree We should be part, through Jesus' blood! O, keep us, Love Divine, near Thee,-- That we our nothingness may know; And ever to Thy glory be-- Walking in faith while here below. J. N. D. RESTORATION (Gen. xxxv.) The words "Arise, go up to Bethel" contain a great practical truth to which we desire to call the reader's attention. It has been well remarked by some one that "God, in His dealings with us, always keeps us up to the original terms." This is true; but some may not exactly understand it. It may, perhaps, savor of the legal element. To speak of God as keeping us up to certain terms may seem to militate against that free grace in which we stand, and which has reigned through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Many, we are aware, have a kind of horror of everything bordering, in the most remote way, upon the legal system; and we may say we sympathize with such. At the same time, we must take care not to carry that feeling to such an extent as would lead us to throw overboard aught that is calculated to act in a divine way upon the heart and conscience of the believer. We really want practical truth. There is a vast amount of what is called abstract truth in circulation among us, and we prize it, and would prize it more. We delight in the unfolding of truth in all its departments. But then we must remember that truth is designed to act on hearts and consciences, and that there are hearts and consciences to be acted upon. We must not cry out, "Legal! legal!" whenever some great practical truth falls upon our ears, even though that truth may come before us clothed in a garb which at first sight seems strange. We are called to "suffer the word of exhortation"--to listen to wholesome words--to apply our hearts diligently to everything tending to promote practical godliness and personal holiness. We know that the pure and precious doctrines of grace--those doctrines which find their living centre in the person of Christ, and their eternal foundation in His work--are the means which the Holy Ghost uses to promote holiness in the life of the Christian; but we know also that those doctrines may be held in theory, and professed with the lips, while the heart has never felt their power, and the life never exhibited their moulding influence. Yes, we frequently find that the loud and vehement outcry against everything that looks like legality proceeds from those who, though they profess