To be continually
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lHE PEN OF lRoN.-When bishop I,atimer
was on trial, he at first answered carelessly
But presently he heard the pen going be-
hind the tapestry, which was taking down
his words. Then he was careful what he
SAID. There is an an all-recording pen be-
hind the curtain of the skies, taking down
our words and acts for Judgment.


1t is pen iron. g The sin of Judah
Is written with pen of iron, and the point
OF diamond" 1t graves deep its records
on the imperishable tablets of eternity--a
record of every thought, word and act
How ought we to live, since we can almost
hear the all-recording pen going every hour
since we know that every day we are filling
page In the books that shall be opened at the
Judgment, and the record is imperishable
as eternity.


A rich landlord in England once perfor
med an act of tyrannical injustice to a wild
owed tenant The Widows son, who saw
1t, became painter, and years after sue
ceeded IN placing painting of that scene
where their oppressor saw it. As his eve
iell on the picture, the rich man turned pale
and trembled, and offered any sum to pur-
chase it, that be might put it out of sight
II every scene of wickedness through which
man passes should be painted, and the
paintings hung up about him, SO that he
would always see the portrait of himself
with the evil passions expressed on his
countenance, and himself in the very act
Of wickeGness, he would be wretched.-
Such picture-galery there is and in eter-
nifty the sinner will dwell in it for every
feature and lneament of the soul In every
feeling and act of wickedness, is portrayed
lmperishably, and will be exhibited to the
gaze of the universe forever.


by the discoveries of modern science.
the rays OF the sun are made to form the
exact portrait of him on whom they shine.
We are all living in the sunlight of eternity
which is transferring to plates more endu-
ring than brass the exact portrait of the
soul IN every successive act with all it's at
tendant circumstances.


Interesting to the antiquarian, is the mo-
ment when he drags out from the sands Of
Egypt some obelisk on which the +" pen of
IRON, and the point of a diamond'' have
craven the portraits, the attitudes, the dres-
ses, and the pursuits of men who lived and
died 1000 years ago. But none can utter
the interest of that moment when from the
silence OF eternity shall be brought out tab
lets thick-set with the sculptured history
OF sinful soul, and men and angels, with
the sinner himself shall gaze appalled, on
The faithful portraiture of life of sin
Remember, then, oh, transgressor, you must
meet the record of your sin in eternity.


S. Fl.