CHRISTIAN 5 BERALp. ------ -- wants of your class in view. _ In do is not all, but w hat wTe are is studying any part of the Bible, the great point.. It Is a blessed study it in its relations to other thing to be “ in the Lord,” for those parts—e. g., the lesson on " The who live in the Lord are sure to Pharisees and Sadducees Silenced ” “ die in the Lord.’’ Not io be in ___js an event in the last week of the Lord is the source of all terror, Christ’s earthly mi h i stry>^~dâ4-the Wicentratioa-of-i C otton , in Christian Standard. and of eternal wroe. In the Lord, or not in the Lord—that is tie Jesus. question ; and that Is the question of the hour—of the moment. Mind Jesus! How does-the very word and heart are in healthy action and overflow with sweetness, and light and love” arid life; fl Hin gthe atr in full strength, and the great question of eternity is "inrftittvfewT’ with odors, like precious ointment poured forth ; irradiating the mind and ripe ofl decision. Solemn be yond utterahce is the hour. God with a glory of truths in which no calls to repentance and to faith. fear can live, soothing the wounds ......... , „ . of the heart with s ial,n 'tgHag^^*"1» the sharpest anguish into delicious to it makes an hovlr solemh. When peace, shedding through the soul a death comes, its shadow preceding cordial of immortal strength. Jesus! it, stills to unconsciousness and in­ the answer to all our doubts, the sensibility; there is no call from God then ; tile solemh hour is past; spring--of «11 our hopes, the charm the issues of eternity are already, omnipotent against all our foes, the remedy of all our weakness, the decided.— Christian Index. supply of all our wants, the fulness of all our desires. Jesus ' at the —- mention of whose ns me every k nee shall bow and every tongue confess Jesus' our power—Jesus! our righteousness, our sanctification, our redemption—Jesus ! our elder ■r---. brother, our blessed Lord and Re­ deemer. Thy name is the most transporting theme of the church, as they sing going up from the val­ ley of tears to their home on the mount of God : Thy name shall ever be the richest chord in the harmony of heaven, where the angels and re­ deemed unite their exulting, ador­ ing songs around the throne of God. Jesus ' Thou only canst interpret thy own name, and thou hast done it by thy works on earth, and thy glory at the right band of the Father.—D r . B ethune , in Church and Home. The Solemn Hour. The present hour is always the solemn hour; the past has ceased to exist, the future is out of reach. The present is within our control; the past and future are not Responsibility is fastened to the moment. To meet its demands is joy and peace, and is laying up eternal treasure ; to disregard them is awful indeed, and is laying up wrath without end for the future. It is a glorious thing to do right even in the smallest matter ; it is a dreadful thing to do wrong, for in wrong-doing there are no small matters. Who can lie guilty of an infraction of G.od’s holy law, and look his Maker in the face and say it is a small matter ? But what we open-faced smile reflects the glory of the Lord, making him an ever­ present help to those in trouble. The modest violet is beautiful, but the sun-flower is equally as modest, in as much as it forgets itself en- 13,000 Card Tracts I before God. Oh, teaeh the chil­ dren to trim their lights and to grow “ upward arid onward;” little star flowers from the beginning There arc none too small to twin- •Go44hUjeak like angels, If. we cannot preach like Paul, We can stand as golden flowers, Pointing out the way for all.” W ork , in Pacific. ------- « • • . —- . If our Lord were on garth to daj > would he not find practices in many Don’t imagine that I am going of our churches quite as objectiona- " over the ffuWfers,' for thewhich he one of w’hieh I write is a human summarily broke up in the temple being of a very quiet turn of mind.. at Jerusalem ? The shows and She is one of thSse dear, good theatricals, winch some of ,oui bodies, w’ho alw’ays have a sunny churches tolerate anti sustain, seem smile or a word of cheer for their to us utterly inappropriate, if not fellow-creatures She keeps her sacraligious. A house that has been face turned heavenward and stt^ sacredly devoted to the service and over the petty annoyances of every­ worship of God should not be pro day life without a frown. She failed by vain shows and foolish sends oht little rays of brightness plays. Much of the sanctity that about her till it is impossible to re­ should alw’ays pertain to the house main in the shadow while she is of God has been dissipated by prac­ near. Then she is always scatter­ tices of questionable propriety any ing seeds of kindness and spreading where, but especially objectionable cool leaves of sympathy over in the place of worship. Let us re­ troubled hearts. Drawing freely gard God’s house as a holy place, from the " fountain of grace,” she and keep it free from anything that lets the overflow drop upon us in can offend the mast devout worship­ refreshing showers: a gentle pat er.— Ex. ter, patter from the Holy Book. How are you living now ? The When that great day comes in which W’e are all to be “ changed,” question is not, how do you propose W’e feel that she will require so to live to-morrow, or at some future little change we cannot fail to know day ? Most men could undoubted her at once Transplanted from ly answer the latter question sat earth to heaven she will try to find isfactorily. There are very fe>v a place to grow where she may, if who do not propose to take up the? possible, cast a gleam of IigTiTupon duties-of. life and perforin them those less fortunate than herself faithfully and well some time, but God Wess our Sun-flower, may she too many are postponing duties long be spared as a beacon light to which they know ought to be per­ warn weaiy souls from the paths of formed, and deferring a mode of life which they know they ought to sin. We would impress the Christian friends, mothers, sisters, lead. Sunday -school teachers, let us culti­ thought thut such delay is fraught vate more sun-flowers. They are with a two fold evil; that it is sad­ a power for good in the world. ly abbreviating service that ought Their warmth invites the cold- to be rendered to One who has done hearted ; their glow' calls the dark­ unspeakable things for you, and ened sinner fror.i his retreat; their every day’s delay is making it more A Sun-Flower. 1 probable that the most important work of life will never be done. Let these words ring through the soul, " Now’ is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. • Domestic Journal. A new edition" of rJfffOO CftFn tracts has been received. They are free to those w’ho are unable to buy but who will circulate them. The first object of this fund is the free distribution of tracts in desti* trite fieklsr The sects..spend thou* sands of dollars each year in such work. When will we wake up to its importance. Evidences of the value of these tracts multiply daily. Weak churches can use them with profit. Evangelists should go well supplied. Destitute fields should be thickly sow’n with them. They will be sold at fifty cents per hun­ dred, post-paid, to those who w’ish to aid the fund by buying. There are five kinds on hand. If you are unable to buv do not hesitate to * send for all ypu can use. Contri­ butions are needed, w’ho will re­ spond ? Send smalFsuiris11Ï post­ age stamps. Brethren, help I J. W. H igbee , Trustee.- Christian Suwer Tract Fund, Madisonville, Ky. Strange how Christians differ in their manner of working for them­ selves and fgr the Lord ! On week­ days, they cannot rise too early to perform their own labor, no exer­ tion is too great to serve their own interests, but let Sabbath morning come, and it is wonderful how w’eary they are. They cannot rise early; really they need rest, so the morning hours are spent in sleep. They rise late, breakfast late, and are late at the house of the Lord, losing the first part of the services, thus detracting interest from the whole. Js not serving the Lord more important than our own in­ terests ? While w’e have six days in which to perform our owm labor, should w’e not cheerfully spend the seventh in serving God, and should not our interest exceed that which we manifest about earthly things? —Ex. For every good deed of ours, the world w’ill be the better always. And perhap» no day doea a man walk down a street cheerfully, and like a child of God, without some passengers being brightened by his face, and, unknowingly to himself, catching from its look a something of religion, and sometimes, not im­ possibly, w hat just saves him from some wrong action.— Ex.