ment. Every true believer in Christ is his own priest. For him the way to the throne of Grace is always open. Everywhere and everywhen he can come boldly and with full assurance:

"Having therefore boldness, brethren, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." Heb. 10. 19-22.

Now every one who has this precious faith not only on his lips, but as a blessed experience in his heart, can joyfully sing:

"But O, what gentle terms,
What condescending ways,
Doth our Redeemer use

To teach His heavenly Grace!
Mine eyes with joy and wonder see
What forms of love He bears for me.

Arrayed in mortal flesh

He like an Angel stands;
And holds the promises

And pardons in His hands: Commissioned from His Father's Throne To make His Grace to mortals known.

For me and all mankind

The Lamb of God was slain;
My Lord His life resigned,

For every soul of man.

Loving to all, He none passed by,
He would not have one sinner die."

This is the doctrine. Is it not a precious teaching? Is it not the very foundation of inner peace and rest and joy? Paul and Luther and Wesley and the saints of the Ages experienced it. It is the basis of justification by faith. It made:

"The goodly fellowship of the Prophets, "The Glorious company of the Apostles, "The noble Army of martyrs,

"The Holy Church"

-insofar as she has been and is holy.

Woe to the Church whose pulpit ceases to preach, to teach, to insist on, to drive home without ceasing, the doctrine of the vicarious atonement which is the foundation of justification, which underlies the doctrine of the Priesthood of Believers! Woe to the Church-member who re

mains ignorant of or gets away from these fundamentals. He is falling back into the Phariseeism of Christ's time, into the Romanism that made the Reformation necessary. He is throwing away the Christ of Paul, of Luther and of his Reformation. Even if he belongs to a Protestant Church he is a Romanist in heart and life. From this may the good Lord deliver us and our land!

SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THIS DOCTRINE.