which the very courts of law were honeycombed with corruption, and
demoralised by the power of drink. His tremendous image of a fierce fire
raging across a dry prairie, and burning the grass to its very roots,
while the air is stifling with the thick 'dust' of the conflagration,
proclaims the sure fate, sooner or later, of every community and
individual that 'rejects the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despises the
word of the Holy One of Israel.' Change the name, and the tale is told
of us; for it is 'righteousness that exalteth a nation,' and no single
vice drags after it more infallibly such a multitude of attendant demons
as the vice of drunkenness, which is a crying sin of England to-day.




VISION AND SERVICE

'In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. 2. Above it
stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his
face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of
Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory. 4. And the posts of the
door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with
smoke. 5. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for
mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. 6. Then flew one of the
seraphims onto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken
with the tongs from off the altar: 7. And he laid it upon my mouth, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away,
and thy sin purged. 8. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom