capital and sworn enemy! "Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee." (Deut. xxxii. 18.) Ponder this expression of God and be confounded.
III. Your Lord and Sovereign will visit you to-day, in the Holy Eucharist, to take a fuller and more perfect possession of you; for although He does not stand in need of you, He wishes you to belong entirely to Him. " The Lord thy God, thou shalt adore, and Him only shalt thou serve." (Matt. iv. 10.) Renounce, therefore, every connection and league with the devil, the world, and the flesh. Present your heart to Him again, ask His pardon for your former disloyalty, and permit Him to dispose of you as He pleases in everything. In fine let it be your future care to please Him alone, in your every thought, word, and deed, for "no man can serve two masters."
CONVERSIONS AND CURES,
WROUGHT BY OUR SAVIOUR.
MONDAY.
Conversion of Magdalene. — I.
I. " And behold a woman in the city who was a sinner." (Luke vii. 37.) She was a sinner against the virtue of purity, although it be not specified, because, as the Apostle observes, the very name ought not to be pronounced among Christians, so odious is the vice in those, who pretend to virtue and sanctity. It is probable she heard our Lord preach; and being touched to the heart with repentance, she did not wait for the opportunity of time or place, but immediately " rushed into the banquet," as
