Going Down to the World

The Lord’s Supper has often been represented as “a mount of ordinances.” Such it often seems to the young communicant, who is disposed to say, with one of old, ‘’ Master, it is good for us to be here.”t But elevations like this are not for ever; and the descent from them is beset with temptation. It is a time of danger. Never will you need

Lvke 9: 62. Mark. 9; 5.

more circumspection. You are about to return to the very scenes of your former disobedience. How hard a task, to be a new character, amidst the old circumstances 1 Former allurements await you; former habits prepare their nets for you; former companions watch for your halting. The colour of your whole future course depends very much upon the manner in which you sustain your new obligations. Cast yourself therefore, at the feet of infinite Wisdom and Grace, that you may be enabled to “adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.”*