how he feels on Monday after what he calls "a little relaxation on the Sunday." (7.) There is the man who indulges freely in what many people consider worldly amusements, because "it is not well to be too strait-laced; Solomon, indeed, warns us against being righteous over-much; and there is nothing so likely as Pharisaism to disgust young people with religion" (H. E. I. 5038-5043). So we might go on with this miserable catalogue. Satan, we are told appears sometimes in the guise of an angel of light, and in this respect his children are wonderfully like him; they are marvellously ingenious in using holy principles to cover unholy purposes. But what does all this ingenuity amount to? Whom do they succeed in deceiving? Not men for any length of time. The wolf never succeeds in long completely covering itself with the sheep's clothing. The mask of the hypocrite will slip aside. And when it does so, men despise him for wearing it. Did he show himself as he is, men might, would, condemn him; but they would not despise him so much. And God--He is never deceived. He loathes the false pretenders to righteousness; and ere long He will strip them bare, and expose them to the execration of the universe (H. E. I., 3017-3032; P. D., 1923, 1924, 1930). What is the practical lesson to be learned from the whole? To pray that God will help us in all things to be sincere; to live, "as seeing Him who is invisible," remembering that _He_ sees what is invisible--the motives underlying the actions that are seen of men. Nothing else can win for us from Christ the priceless commendation, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" TRIALS OF THE DIVINE PATIENCE. vii. 13. _Will ye weary my God also?_ In this chapter we are told under what circumstances this question came to be asked. An astonishing assumption underlies it, viz., that anything can be a weariness to God, that anything can be a trial of the Divine patience. Let us think of this.