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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
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and of eternal wroe. In the Lord,
or not in the Lord—that is tie
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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.
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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-
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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-
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the youngest face. Are we not all
“ children of light ?” The full-
grown sun flower'doCs not bloom in
a night—ah I no; the little one
first, always? Turn
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schools into sun-flower gardens.
“ If we cinnot s;>eak like angels,
If. we cannot preach like Paul,
We can stand as golden flowers,
Pointing out the way for all.”
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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
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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
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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.