the teaching of the Spring is that of a glorious Resurrection in Christ; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life: and the hints in regard to an evil resurrection, (they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation) bear about the same proportion to the other in the Book of Nature, that they do in the Book of Grace. There are passages in regard to both, but whole chapters on the Resurrection of the Just.

The Types of Nature, rightly interpreted, tell us how only a Resurrection unto Life is possible; but the impression must be received, the page printed, by Faith. Nature directs us to the source of life, tells us that life, not death, must be our principle of being; a life, of which death is not the interruption, but merely the passage to a new form, and the rising into new glory. The Faith that takes from the types of Nature their significant sheet, finds, by Revelation, that uninterrupted life only in Christ.

Just so with the typical fore-signs of the trees, as well as of the seeds; they bloom again in verdure, and are clustered with new fruitage, after the apparent Winter of death; but it is only because the vital sap lay hidden in the roots, and had retreated thither for continued life, no form of death being shadowed in that process. Faith prints that impression likewise, and many a solemn thought is suggested by it; and turning the analogy to our eternal destiny, with and by the letter and the spirit of the revealed word, Faith tells us, as Nature's own foreshadowing, that we too must be rooted and grounded in Christ.

Just so it is with typical transformations of the insect world. The multitudinous and beautiful processes of Nature are a Book, of which these wondrous transformations might be called the engravings. Here, also, Faith takes the impression, and tells us

that as from the worm and chrysalis to the butterfly, there is no death, but only a change into brighter, more etherial, and joyous life, so for our joyous resurrection it is also requisite that there be a power and principle, a law and spirit of Life, uninterrupted, unbroken, everlasting, of which Death is but the sleeping change, a sleep that there may be a change, a sleep in Jesus, because there is a life in Jesus, because, indeed, that was the life of life here in this mortal existence.

There is also a more general Type in the processes of Spring, to which it may be well to advert, before considering the Types of Summer; and that is the indestructibleness of all things that are destined for a resurrection, and the certainty of their reappearance. The vast and irrepressible energy of vegetative life, from secresy and darkness, is profoundly instructive. In the moral world there is not only this principle, that that which hath already been is to be, but there is the recorded announcement, that GOD REQUIRETH THAT WHICH IS PAST. That is a great sentence; nothing can remain in the tomb, under that; whatever thing is buried, at whatever depth, will some time burst its cerements. Out of the infinite deep of the past, God calleth it up. It may have been shrouded beneath the involutions of a pást eternity; but, sunk in whatever sepulchre of the abyss, it is to be raised again. It is all one as if it were but yesterday. Its resurrection may be ever so fearful to the soul; yet the united wishes, efforts, and prayers of all the inhabitants of the globe could not prevent it; could not keep one fact, or thought, or transaction of the past, down in the prison of the past, not to come up again. This very fact, that it hath already been, is the security that it is to be.

The Lord of the Resurrection saith, in one place in the gospel,

that nothing was ever kept secret, but that it should come abroad. An extraordinary emphasis, and security of openness, is in the very intention of secresy; that intention has a greater germinating power, than the determination before-hand of the widest notoriety. No man ever put a secret in its coffin, or shot it down, with whatever leaden weights, to whatever depths in the sea of darkness, but there was, in this very movement, the greatest of all possible certainties that it should come forth. This very thing, this quality of secresy now, or in the past, is the very insurance of publicity; this label, private, this seal secret, constitutes the certainty of being made known. A man who thinks his deeds are done in darkness, in putting into them that very quality of secresy, and upon them that very admonition of darkness, that injunction of reserve, is marking them for the light. Just so, the bare fact that a thing hath already been, is enough to render it sure for being again. To be of the past, is to be of the future. Say of a thing that hath any moral meaning or connexion, It has been, or, It is, and you say, It shall be.

For God requireth that which is past. All things are to come up again; they are to come up for judgment. Ten thousand thousand things, thoughts, and myriads of transactions, have passed without judgment, without pause; passed indifferently, passed carelessly, passed as the beasts pass. They may have fled as an arrow cuts the air, and leaves no trace; but they have gone with innumerable connections, associations, reflections of meaning from and upon, and intricate moral developments and dependencies. They may have passed without note, without arrest, without judgment. But they are all to come up, for God shall make them manifest. They are neither lost, nor mistaken, nor disregarded, nor forgotten. They may have been as the flashes of

lightning in their swiftness, and no more copy or catalogue of them kept by man, than of the number and forms of the sunbeams or the dew-drops. But they may have been deeper in their meaning, broader in their development, and more important in their consequences, than any flash of lightning ever was or shall be. And as they have been, again they are to be. There is nothing gone out of God's universe, nothing exempt from the law of resurrection and re-examination. A wandering thought, a wild, winged word may be as important for arrest and investigation, in some moral aspect, as a rolling world.

Nor are they to come up merely for judgment; they are to come up again also for life. In a solemn sense they are to be lived over again. They are to come up as seed comes up in harvest; and in the eternal world they may again be sown for renewed consequences. They are to come up as elements of character. Men have been, through all the past, and are now, every where putting into the furrows of their being, hiding beneath the soil, and covering with invigorating mould, the germs of what they are to be, to do, or to suffer, hereafter. They are germs of indestructible activity and power. They are habits and elements whose roots strike here, but whose life and fruits are to fill eternity. Men write their future in their present, not only because God keeps the record of their past, and requireth it, and will judge it, but because God hath made their present time their spring-time; and present character, character between the cradle and the grave, determines the eternal character. So all things are to come up, as elements of joy or grief, peace or strife, bliss or misery, comfort or disappointment. Thoughts, things, words, feelings, experiences, knowledges, forms

of discipline, losses, adversities, trials, blessings, enjoyments, opportunities, privileges, neglects, omissions, prayers, efforts, struggles, failures, successes;-all things are to come up; in themselves for judgment, in their consequences for existence, for experience, for the life of life, or the life of death, for life in life, or life in death, forever! For God requireth it. He sees that which is present, but he requireth that which is past. He hath set our iniquities before him, our secret sins in the light of his countenance.