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evidences that we are children of God at all. Assurance of faith precedes assurance of sense. In my next, I shall have something to say about this latter kind of assurance. In the meantime permit me to recommend to your careful study, "Erskine on Faith and Assurance of Faith," "Anderson on Faith," and "God's way of Peace" a most valuable little book from the pen of Dr. Bonar, of Edinburgh. The first named, you may find in E. Erskine's sermons. His sermons on this subject have been published by the A. T. S. in a separate volume. I am sorry to say that "Anderson" is out of print. It is to be hoped that our Board of Publication will soon issue a new edition of it. We ought not to permit such valuable works to remain inaccessible to our people. I have called your attention to the " assurance uf 164 A Busy Life. faith;" I have now a few things to say about "assur- ance of sense," as it is commonly called. The great principles on which this kind of assurance is based are the following: 1. The Spirit of God dwells in every believer, and is working in him to will and to do according to his good pleasure, so that he brings forth the fruits of the Spirit. 2,. By our own consciousness, by looking into our own hearts, we may discern the results of this work