book. Is it any wonder that John Gordon's minister, when he was in the
spirit in Patmos, should write him as we here read? What kind of a
minister would he have been, and what a sand-glass, and what a book of
angry account he would have had soon to face himself, if he had let all
his people in Anwoth live on and suddenly die in total forgetfulness of
the sand and the shears, the book of duty and the book of judgment.
'Remember,' Rutherford wrote, 'remember and misspend not your short sand-
glass, for your forenoon is already spent, your afternoon has come, and
your night will be on you when you will not see to work. Let your heart,
therefore, be set upon finishing your journey and summing up and laying
out the accounts of your life and the grounds of your death alone before
God.'

7. And, above all, remember that after you have done all, it is the
blood of Christ alone that will set you down safely as a freeholder in
Heaven. But His blood, and your everyday remembrance of His blood, and
your everyday obligation to it, will surely set you, John Gordon of Rusco
on earth, so down a freeholder in heaven.

'Soon shall the cup of glory
Wash down earth's bitterest woes,
Soon shall the desert briar
Break into Eden's Rose:
I stand upon His merit,
I know no other stand,
Not e'en where glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's land.'