Reader, do you say, "How can the wisdom of Jesus be mine-how can all the wisdom that is in Jesus be in me-and yet I feel it so little? Is it a figure of speech and nothing more?" This is not a needless question-it is an useful onea leading question-and worthy of much consideration. I believe the truth to be this. Christ is ours, with all that He is, with all that He has -with all His wisdom, as well as with all His glory. Now, Christ and His Spirit are one. He hath sent His Spirit to dwell in us, and He does dwell there. The Spirit, being one with Christ, brings Christ Himself into us-Christ with all His wisdom, and all His power. In the Person of the Spirit we have all the fulness of Jesus, because Christ and the Spirit are one. We have then, as believers, the fountain, the reservoir, of all wisdom within us, in the indwelling of the Spirit, who is one with Christ. Does not Jesus tell us as much, when He says, "The water, that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life"? Jo. iv. 14. And again, "He that believeth on Me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Jo. vii. 38, 39.

Christian Reader, what you and I require, is to realise what a reservoir we have to go to

what fulness of wisdom is at our command. It is there in all its fulness-but it is practically felt, and successfully used, in proportion to our sense of its being there, and our faith in having recourse to it. The more we draw from it, the more shall we have-the less we feel its presence, and avail ourselves of it, the less shall we be wise, the less shall we realise our powers in Christ Jesus.

May we, then, have grace to know our wisdom -to realise that the wisdom of God is oursthat Christ is made unto us wisdom. Thus may we repose fully in Jesus, and find Him wisdom to our souls.

A FEW RULES FOR DISCOVERING THE LEADINGS OF THE SPIRIT.

The Spirit leads to all wisdom of action in the affairs of life.

In all such things Christ is made unto us wisdom. 1 Cor. i. 30.

And this by the Holy Spirit.

Col. i. 9. Isa. xi. 2.

Thus interpret-Isa. xxx. 21. Isa 1. 10. Prov. iii. 6. Psa. xxxvii. 23, 31. Psa. cxix. 35, 133. Psa. cxliii. 8-10. Psa. lxxiii. 24.

How to discover the leadings of the Spirit.

1. Have no will of your own. Psa. cxliii. 10. Matt. xxvi. 39-42. Jo. vi. 38.; vii. 17. 2 Co. x. 5.

2. Take the matter at once to God, before your will has time to be formed, and your judgment prejudiced. Psa. cxliii. 8.; xxvii. 11.

3. Trust in the promise of guidance. Psa. xxxvii. 31. Psa. lxxiii. 24. Isa. xxx. 21.;

xlii. 16.; xlviii. 17. Jo. x. 3, 4.

4. Wait patiently for guidance. Nu. ix. 17— 23. Hab. ii. 3, 4.

5. Look for plain Scriptures to guide you. Psa. xix. 8.; cxix. 104, 105. Prov. vi. 23. Col. iii. 16. But avoid the profane habit of taking the first text that your eye rests upon.

6. If any thing be decidedly against plain precept of Scripture, put it away at once. It is then a mockery to pray for guidance, and only tempting God to let you have your own way. Nu. xxii. 12, 19, 22. See 1 Ki. xiii. 7-9, 11—19.

7. In things not plainly wrong, don't trust to your own judgment, nor decide at once on human principles of right and wrong, but try to find out God's will concerning it in your own particular case See Acts. xvi. 6-10. Prov. iii. 5, 6. 2 Sa. v. 19, 23.

8. If obliged to act in one way or another at a given time-after prayer for guidance, act according to the best of your judgment, trusting that you have been directed by the Lord.

The Spirit of God acts in such matters by giving us a clear conviction in the mind. See Acts xvi. 10.

9. If you have conscientiously sought to be guided, but find that still you have acted amiss, be not cast down; but trust that God will make even this to work for your good, and teach you wisdom for the future.

10. When you are in thorough uncertainty how to act, and nothing but your own inclination is involved in it, the safest way is to take the course that is the least pleasing to self.

REPOSING IN JESUS, AS OUR

RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Ir is written concerning true believers, " Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." 1 Cor. i. 30. And again, "This is the name whereby He shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness." Jer. xxiii. 6. In these passages it is written, not that our righteousness is in Christ, or of Christ, or owing to Christ, but that Christ Himself is our Righteousnessthat our righteousness consists in Jesus Christ Himself.

Christ, then, is made righteousness to them that believe; and this, not so much by what He did, as by what He was and is-not only in His acts and offices, but also in His person. His deeds of righteousness are imputed to His people for justification, as it is written, “Therefore, as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of One, the free gift came upon all men unto