These are to be employed for the measurement of his sins. He is to remember and enumerate the number of times he has been in fault, and twice every day mark the same number of points on the proper line of the series. Now what is the result of the first week’s discipline? The lines, the reader will observe, become shorter and shorter daily, till at length, at the end of one single week, according to Dr. Wiseman, “sin _is_ {66a} abandoned, hated, loathed. At the conclusion of the painful task, the soul finds itself prostrate and full of anxieties. The past is remedied; but what is to be done for the future?” {66b} Such is the description given by this high authority of this miserable, mechanical counterfeit of Christianity. What becomes of the deep-seated corruption of the human heart? Where is the work of the Spirit? And if the conscience could be cleansed, and the past remedied by such a paltry human artifice, where, Oh, where was the necessity for atonement? and what need was there that Emanuel should shed his precious blood upon the cross? But does it not verify the charge which I brought against the system, of substituting man for God in the salvation of the sinner? What is it that conquers sin in the first two days and a half of the retreat? Is it the Saviour? Is it the Spirit? Or is it the man? Wiseman says,—“It is the work of each week, thoroughly done.” {66c} To this one leading principle all Jesuitry may without any difficulty be traced; and if so, we may surely learn the one weapon by which it may be resisted and overcome. The evil originates in the substitution of man for God, and therefore the weapon by which it must be opposed is the exaltation of the Lord himself, as the only author of the soul’s salvation. “Be thou exalted, O God, in thine own strength, so will we sing and praise thy power.” There is a great conflict raging. There are swarms of these subtle adversaries filling the land; there is a vast power arrayed against us; the enemy is active, well combined, and unscrupulous; but they must not be met by their own weapons; for we had rather have all that is dear to us trodden under foot in the lowest dust, than gain the most brilliant triumphs through the use of a single weapon adopted from their armoury. We give them the exclusive use of all their probabilities, and are ready to meet them, without either subtlety or disguise, but with the plain, honest, frank, and open bearing of honest-minded servants of the Lord; we must be satisfied to struggle in the Lord’s strength, and to employ the Lord’s weapons. Nor need we be afraid in the conflict. Their human machinery, I freely grant, is superior to ours; their agency more complete, and their combination more perfect. “But the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit.” They in all their system have been guilty of the substitution of man for God; but our joy is to exalt God on his own