shall cover me and night: but darkness shall not be dark to Thee, and night shall be light as day; the darkness and the light are alike to Thee." So long then as there exists such infinite disparity between God's omniscience and our feeble gropings after truth, so long must our opinions of ourselves and of others be subject to error and at variance with the judgments of God. "Judge not before the time, therefore, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden" things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then shall every man have praise from God."
Brethren, the lesson of to-day, briefly stated, is this: First, to be very careful and timid m the expression of our opinions of our own or our neighbor's merits. Secondly, to remember always that whatever be the state of the case, the prayer "O God, be merciful to me, a sinner" is more pleasing to the ears of God than an act of thanksgiving that we are not as the rest of men. And, finally, that the more intimately we come into communion with God the greater will be our sense of our own unworthiness, and the more hope will there be that He will have mercy and forgive. " For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted."
