"HE WAS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE." Our God is faithful to His people. He always keeps His word. He never disappoints their hope. He exhorts and encourages them to be faithful too. This was spoken to the Angel, or Messenger, or Pastor of the church ; such should be faithful in preaching the word, in watching for souls, in suffering for Christ, and in seeking by all means to promote the prosperity, peace, and holiness of the flock. It includes the people. Believers should be faithful: faithful to the truth, holding it fast, striving for it, spreading it in every direction; faithful to conscience, listening to its dictates, obser ving its warnings, and obeying its demands; faithful to their profession, maintaining it, adorning it, and endeavouring to make it answer the end designed in it; faithful to God, believing His word, doing His will, and suffering in His cause; faithful to sinners, warning them of danger, giving them the word of life, and leading them to Jesus; faithful to saints, reproving their sins, soothing their sorrows, and supplying their needs. "Be thou faithful unto death." If it expose you to death, be faithful: a crown of life is the reward. Until removed by death, persevere; then hear the Master call, "Come up hither."

For Meditation:
Saviour, help me by Thy power,
Withstand temptation's deadly hour;
Give me fortitude and faith,
O make me faithful unto death!