SATAN will seldom come to a Christian with a gross temptation; a green log and a candle may be safely left together, hut hring a few shavings, then some small sticks, and then larger, and you may soon bring the green log to ashes. My principle method of defeating heresy is by establishing truth. One proposes to fill a basket with tares; now if I can fill it first with wheat, I shall defy his attempts. There are critical times of danger. After great services, honors and consolations, we should stand upon our guard. Noah, Lot, David and Solomon, fell in these circumstances. Satan is a footpad; a footpad will not attack a man in going to the bank, but in returning with his pockets full of money. Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; he has left us on earth with his nature to represent him. God's word is certainly a restraint; but it is such a restraint as the irons which prevent children from getting into the fire. If we were upon the watch for improvement, the common news of the day would furnish it; the falling of the tower in Bioloam and the slaughter of the Galilions, were the news of the day which our Lord improved.