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there is a heavenly Purifier of the fallen invigorates and rejuvenates the sore-struggling, half-sinking sinner ; who thus feels nerved to a new fight with the frightful foes that have so long held him down. He is* as it were, endowed with a new heart and gifted with a new strength ; and he feels his future is secure. Thus this firm faith in the holy Healer, the potent Purifier, the sure Saviour, is at once hope and strength, peace and power, unto him who, wrung with anguish, knew not how and whence relief could come.
Besides the sinner, aware of his appalling fate but helpless to avert it, there are others unto whom the Purifier of the fallen is an inexhaustible source of hope and strength. Is it not the common experience of most of us that, fighting hard against temptations and passions, we were often pushed to the very brink of the abyss, and a fall was almost inevitable ; but the saving thought, the redeeming belief, that the great Restorer ever helps those who help themselves, worked like a charm, filled
