merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin." It 126 A Busy Life. is a doctrine concerning man : teaching that he is a creature of God, and subject to his authority, as supreme and absolute, and emphasizing the great facts, that God made man upright, but that he had fallen, and was by nature a sinner, lost and ruined, condemned and helpless. It is pre-eminently a doctrine concerning salvation; teaching that the Father manifests his love for man by giving his Son to be the propitiation for sin ; that the Son loved us and gave himself for an offering and a sacrifice to Gpd, and thus purchased full and complete redemp- tion for us, so that God may still be just and the sinner saved; and that all this magnificent inheri- tance, is imparted to the people of God by the office and work of his Holy Spirit; thus laying the foundation for the glorious Gospel of the grace of God, which proclaims the gift to the world of a present, and all-sufficient Saviour, and authorizes every sinner who hears, to receive him as his own, and iii him a salvation fully commensurate with the Avants of the most needy. Such is the doctrine of Christianity. 2. Christianity is a Law. Its fundamental stat-