Wednesday Evening

The room was very crowded. After singing, reading a large number of requests for prayer, sad much supplication, Mr. CODE read Exodus 13:1-16. He drew attention to God’s speaking there of the first-born of Israel as His own, and typical of us: “Sanctify unto me―they are mine.” Four times we are told, “By strength of hand have I brought them out of Egypt.” They were God’s; redeemed by power, and by blood. This is what God has done for us, we are made nigh to God by the blood of Christ, quickened together, raised up together, and made sit together in heavenly places in Christ. We are God’s. He says of us, “They are mine.” He then made some important remarks on sanctification― “Sanctify unto me”―and enlarged on our obligations as God’s dear children to be separate from all evil. He referred to the seventh verse to show how decided God is on this point. First, they were to eat unleavened bread—a type of Christ. Secondly, no leavened bread was to be seen with them; third, no leaven, which would make leavened bread, was to be seen in all their quarters.
There was then sung―

“Jesus! the name I love so well,
The name I love to bear;
No saint on earth its worth can tell,
No heart conceive how dear.

“This name shall shed its fragrance still
Along the thorny road,
Shall sweetly smooth the rugged hill
That leads me up to God.

“And there, with all the blood-bought throng,
From sin and sorrow free,
I’ll sing the new eternal song
Of Jesus love to me.
Mr. JOHN HAMBLETON gave an address, on “Jesus only.” First he exhorted the Lord’s children to think of “Jesus only” as their wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. And secondly, although there was reason to believe that scarcely any unconverted persons were present, still, if there were only a few, he affectionately addressed them on “Jesus only” being God’s way of salvation, and earnestly warned them to flee from the wrath to come.
Mr. H. G. GUINNESS then gave out―
“Yes, we part, but not forever;
Joyful hopes our bosoms swell;
They who love the Saviour never
Know a long, a last farewell.
Blissful unions
Lie beyond the parting vale.

“O, what meetings are before us:
Brighter far than tongue can tell:
Glorious meetings, to restore us
Him with whom we long to dwell.
With what raptures
Will the sight our passions swell.”

Before singing he briefly called attention to the solemnity of such meetings, and the need of watchfulness lest we brought unbelieving prayers to God, instead of the prayer of faith: “Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.”
These happy meetings were closed with prayer.