On Prince Edward Island the infinitely higher touch-stone of actual revelation itself. "But now we have a more sure word of prophecy to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a light shining in a dark place, even until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts." This writ¬ ten word is, therefore, most emphatically our only infallible rule because it, and it alone, is divine, and from its clearly recorded decisions there can posi¬ tively be no subsequent appeal; and here in this present connection if anywhere those decisions are abundantly plain. Itself evidently admits of no officiating sacerdotal order whatever under the New Testament dispensation, no complex ritualistic forms or ceremonies, no vain oblations, no sacrificial performance of the mass, no prescribed vestments, no mitered cardinals, no archbishops or popes, no prelatic sacerdotalism of any description whatever, to dictate imperiously to the true Christian Church, or in any other improper way to lord it over God 's own chosen heritage. No, but in diametrical oppo¬ sition to all this it plainly and positively assures us that the Lord Jesus Christ himself, that Great Shep¬ herd of the sheep, and sole " High Priest of our profession," did himself long since, "in the fulness of time" even eighteen hundred years ago, in his own Sovereign love and mercy, and by one grand and unaided act of his own, "for of the people there was none with Him," by one ever adorable, supreme, mighty, final, all-sufficient sacrifice of himself for¬ ever make an end of sin, "forever perfected all them 207