Nay, the whole creation groaneth, and travail- boy who had falsely accused him, the punish- You may ask, what effect this gracious eth in pain together until now. If man was as ment of whose sin he had been bearing. act of the innocent boy had upon the real he once was still he could not be happy in a Now can this circumstance fail to remind offender? Why, something like the effect us of the position the blessed Lord Jesus produced upon every one who believes in the world like this. Everything is spoiled in this willingly took upon himself, when he made name and grace of the Lord Jesus. Part of world, you may read it in every relationship himself an offering for sin. Think, sinner, its effect we have seen-Confession and true of life. From the time of Abel's murder to think who He was, and what He bore. You contrition, just as every poor prodigal who the time men put forth their hands and killed think what did that poor boy suffer in his comes to himself says, "I have sinned against the Prince of peace, from thence to the pre- mind, when bearing the punishment of an- heaven, and in thy sight, and am NO MORE sent moment, what a field of blood and carn- other? To be made sin for another, this wORTHY to be called Thy Son." Another age has this world presented! Do the families makes the suffering the more acute. Think point, and that an important one, is when of Adam live together in unity and love? of Jesus' sinless soul being counted, judged, the real offender confessed his sin, and was What cuts and gashes are everywhere seen-and condemned as a sinner. The finer the frankly forgiven by the one against whom he "Nation against nation; kingdom against nature the keener will be the anguish, which sinned, would it have been just to have kingdom," and seducers waxing worse and such will suffer when bearing things which punished him for the offence, when the innoworse. Even with you, dear reader, it may such nature abhors, and bearing it as the cent boy had faithfully atoned for the injury? be that you are not what once you were. It reward due to others. What nature could be | And is it not in this way that God can freely may be you are like the poor prodigal; one so fine, and whose feelings were so tender pardon, not only your offence, but your unstep after another has brought you into positive and acute as those of the Lord Jesus. It numbered offences, dear reader? Yes, the misery. You can remember a time when it was the anguish of soul, in prospect of being precious "blood of Christ cleanseth from ALL was different with you. Unlike him, perhaps reckoned as a sinner, that covered his sacred sin.' If we confess our sins, He is faithful outwardly you may be one that has risen in body with a sweat of blood, and made Him and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse the world-as to temporal circumstances, cry," Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass us from ALL unrighteousness." And the grace whether or not, let me ask you what is the from me; nevertheless not my will but thine He showed once, he is ready to show now, to condition of your soul? Are you more or be done." His bodily sufferings were little the vilest and most wicked sinner that lives. less in love with the heavenly and divine? in comparison with the agony that he endured He will never be more ready to pardon and Is your conscience tender as once it was? when His soul was made an offering for save than now, at the very moment you read Has the word of God as many charms as it sin. All through his suffering, "He opened this. HE WAITS to be gracious. Thus it once had? Do you sin with less remorse not his mouth," except to answer the cry of behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from than you did once? if so, ponder your sad a poor dying sinner by His side, or to breathe the dead the third day, and that repentance state one moment, unwelcome as it is, mea- words of consolation or forgiveness to others. and remission of sins should be preached in sure your present condition by the standard His name, among all nations, beginning at of God's word, and take heed to your ways, Jerusalem." (LUKE xxiv. 46 47.) turn you at God's reproof-POOR BACKSLIDER where are you? Shall we proceed with our narrative? The scholars have but just kneeled down, when one boy has put his teeth to the seat, and deliberately scooped a large piece out of it, and then moves a long distance from the boy next him, and when the school rises, goes direct to the superintendent, and tells him that the other boy had done this act. The boy is overcome at the falseness of the charge, and was unable to reply; besides it seemed plain that he must have done it, for it was just where he was kneeling. He could only cry, which helped to confirm the charge, and he had to hear the sentence that he must leave the school. ness This was compassion like a God, But when suffering under the hand of You, my reader, marvel at the wickedness of this act, and we might marvel more if we did not know the character of the human heart, that the thoughts of man's heart are only evil, (GEN. vi. 5,) that there is none that doeth good. God charges you with sins, the sentence of which must be separation for We have seen the falsely accused boy ever from his presence. He says he will happily finish his task, and in the joy of it judge the world, and judge it in righteous- goes to his former place, and no sooner has what excuse will you then make? he regained it, than his eyes met the eyes of Will you plead your partial goodness? your the boy whose sin had caused him all this amiability? your not being as other men? toil and pain. Often during his banishment, But the word says you are like other men-a he had thought of him, and more than once sinner; that your righteousness is as filthy thought when he met him, would "give him, rags; that if you had "done your duty" you what he deserved," but was rebuked by the would still be an unprofitable servant. The thought, the Bible says, "Love your enemies." answer is clear-sin was your own act-you Now as he looked at him, pity kindled in his consented to the many scars and scratches which now deface your soul, and God must be clear when He judges, and just when He condemns. Let us look for a moment at the innocent sufferer-sobbing, he leaves the school. Two little sisters accompany him home, and try to cheer him, with "never mind, brother, it will all come right," but the poor boy is almost broken hearted. There is a message sent him, that if he would learn a certain task he should be received into the school again; and this he gladly resolves to do. The next Sunday comes, but his task is not finished; he sent to ask the superintendent for another week to learn it-this was granted-and in his little closet he asked the Lord to help him to learn his task. Joyfully he went one morning to awake his sisters to hear him say it, and on Sunday he repeated his task before the whole school, and in the presence of the very heart, and his hand reached down to his So much grace and kindness will produce reconciliation and everlasting friendship between an offending sinner and an offended God. Even after the act we have been considering in this gracious boy, the two boys were the best friends ever after. Mercy and truth had met together; righteousness and peace had kissed each other. Now, dear reader, by the dignity of Christ's person; by the greatness of His compassion; by His amazing suffering; by His bloody sweat; by His crown of thorns; by the value of the blood of His cross; by the virtue of His death; and by the triumphs of His resurrection; and by the gifts of pardon, peace, and eternal life; by the Holy Spirit promised to all who believe in Him; and by the glory of His second coming, I say, Poor Sinner! be THE FATAL DECISION. R. M. Me Cheyne hearing concerning a friend, that she had said, "she was determined to keep by the world," penned the following lines on her melancholy decision. SHE has chosen the world and its paltry crowd; She has chosen the world and its endless shroud! She has chosen the world with its misnamed And her aim is far from the harbour true. When the storm descends from an angry sky, What joys are the part of them who believe; Her smile is a lie, there's a sting in her mirth! Come leave the dreams of this transient night, Read Joshua xxiv. 15. 1 Kings, xviii. 21. Matt. vi 19; xxiv. 33,34. Mark viii.36,37. Luke ix. 25, 20;.xvi. 19-31. 1 Cor. vii. 31. Winning Souls. (An Extract.) I is wonderful how simple a thing is often the immediate occasion of bringing about that amazing inward revolution which we call the conversion of a soul to God, as if God still vindicated his sovereignty in this greatest of his works, to show his servants that the excellency of the power is altogether of God, and not of men. Dr. J. W. Alexander once related to the writer the following incident:-He had been doing some business in a store, and as he was passing out, a youth, whom he knew-one of the clerks, if we remember aright-was standing in the door. Dr. Alexander, as he passed out, touched him on the shoulder and said, "My dear , you ought to be with us." The "winged word" found its way to the heart of the youth, and he was soon after "with them" who are on their way to the better country. Christian Courage. "ON board a man-of-war, there was a mid him. All earthly relations and friendships the blood of Jesus; so when most dead, cold, are shadows, and but shadows, of the firm hard, insensible, let us glory in the God of our relationship in which Jesus stands to those salvation. "In GoD is my salvation, and my who trust Him. He is what they represent glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge is in God." (Psalm 1xii. 7.) Mark that, only. It is of very little use moralizing on sorrowing brother or sister in Christ. Perthe uncertainty of life, the fickleness of haps you have really been living upon your friends, &c., unless we do directly, and in evidences, your marks, and signs, and graces, faith, turn to Jesus himself, and, begging of and those are all gone now, but Jesus is not Him to take away all that now makes it hard gone. He is "the same yesterday, to-day, and to say, "Thy will be done," really trust Him. for ever." "Behold GoD is my salvation; I So long as we indulge in the folly and sin of will trust and not be afraid: for the Lord thinking how such and such a sorrow or dis-Jehovah is my strength and my song; He appointment might have been averted by a also is become my salvation." (Isa. xii. 2.) different conduct on my part, or on that of another, just so long do we practically close the door against the incoming of those consolations which God, the God of comfort, is shipman, who, in spite of the ridicule of his so ready, so forward to bestow upon those companions, was in the habit of kneeling in who learn to submit. I know well enough prayer at his berth. This was such an unusual how hard the lesson of submission is to learn. practice, that the other middies resolved to I know well enough that to submit, and to put it down; so they watched him, and the A venerable pastor was once lying on his say we submit, are widely different; but when moment he knelt, he encountered a volley of death-bed. A boy of his congregation hap-through many and many a crushed hope, and caps and shoes. This was repeated again, pening to pass by his house, stopped to crossed plan, we are, at length, brought to and again; but still the midshipman perseinquire how he was. The dying man saw bow to God, He comes in, and gives us to vered in his devotions. At last one of the him through the half-open door of the room prove what His loving kindness is. Severe is superior officers informed the commander of in which he lay, and beckoned him to his the struggle often, and full, full of the deepest the ship, who summoned the whole of the bedside. "David," said he, "did you ever anguish; but when the victory is gained, and midshipmen; and, calling the persecuted one close with the Lord Jesus by faith as your the heart under the kind subduing hand of to the front, asked him to state his grievance. Saviour? Many a time I've done it in that God, says, "Thy will be done," it is over! The lad said, frankly, he had no complaint to little room," pointing to his study opposite. Not that one is, therefore, insensible to pain make. His commander said, he knew he had That circumstance happened more than sixty and sorrow, but one is sensible of the reality good cause for complaint, and told him to years ago. The "boy" spoken of recently of the support which He gives, who says not speak out: but the praying midshipman per died, at a good old age, after a Christian life in mockery, "Come unto me, all ye that labour sisted in stating he had nothing to complain of no common spirituality and devotedness, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." of. The commander then dismissed them, at protracted through that long period. We It is very important in deep sorrow, from the same time signifying that he knew how whatever cause, not to be craving so for con- matters stood, and trusted that there would solation, but rather that it may please God to be no more of it. That evening the middy show us to ourselves, to discover to us hidden knelt in prayer as usual; but without expeiniquity, and make manifest to us wherein we riencing the smallest annoyance. may for a length of time, have been living engaged, he heard footsteps quietly approachpractically "without God," been making the ing, and was expecting some disagreeable creature our prop, instead of Him. When interruption; but, to his surprise, a middy, God says to us. "Be still, and know that I am the youngest on board, knelt down by his side. God," He would have us understand, not Shortly afterwards, came another, and another, simply that He is GOD, whose will is to be till fourteen of his companions under the insubmitted to, but that He is God, and not fluence of his noble example, were kneeling beside him. have now before us a letter, written shortly before his death, warm with expressions of Christian faith and hope. He is now, we doubt not, with that Saviour to whom those few words of his dying pastor directed him so long ago. While so This was told in a certain company, and Mr. -, who was there, saw that the gentleman who was sitting next to him was much affected by it. The cause of this was explained when the gentleman whispered to him, That lad is my son, and I have only now for the first time heard of it."" We once knew of a man who had joined the church during a preacher's absence in Europe. He had been before a very hardened and careless man. The first time the preacher met him, after returning, he congratulated him on the happy change. How often, alas! do we act as though "Shall I tell we. you," said the man, "what were the means of we ourselves had the arrangement of events, it? The last time you met me in the street and then, when bitter disappointment lays us before you went away, you spoke some earnest down, we begin to quarrel with God. The words to me on the subject of religion. They good Lord help us to submit ourselves to did not make much impression on me, as Him, and be content that He should have nothing ever had done. But as we parted His own way with us, a way which always you took my hand and said, 'My dear sir, you results in blessing to His children,-in raising have a soul that is worth saving.' That word in their esteem the value of God's remedy for left me no rest within till I felt that my soul man's sore malady, the "sovereign balm for The Ways of Jesus with His Disciples. was saved through faith in Jesus. The course every wound"-Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, - whose of my life, and the objects that interested me precious blood has opened the way for us into NOTHING can explain the ways of Christ most, have been wholly changed from that the Holiest; opened it now, and keeps it with His disciples, but divine, sovereign love. day to this." open. Blessed be God for the leave which From everlasting His heart was set upon He gives us to come now into His presence them. He came to seek and to save that by the blood of Jesus (Heb. x. 19), and which was lost. They were the Father's gift that when most dark and hard in our own hearts; and we have to remember that the Be sure that He who does wisely and well, present and temporary effect of deep sorrow can make up for all He takes away, or is often to make it appear to us as though withholds. Jesus is the friend of the friend- the heavens over us were brass, and that our less, the companion of the solitary, the helper prayers were barred access to God, or, perof those who have no helper. (Psalm 1xxii. haps, that we cannot pray at all,-even then 12.) You know that the way to gain a friend is the way equally free, equally open; for it is to make a friend, that is, by confiding in was not my prayer that opened the way, but Words of Comfort for tried to Him, were eternally chosen in Him, and perverse and v. 4, is omitted by all the modern editors of His heart from them-" Whom He loved Thoughts on the Epistle to the Romans. CHAP. viii., to v. 11. Ver. 3. "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh." This is evidently the law of Moses, its failure being summed up in this pregnant sentence, "weak through the flesh." Not weak in itself, but in the agent it had to deal with. It could do nothing for man, because of man's flesh. Law and sinful flesh cannot assort. "God, flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful There is nothing more beautiful in Scripture than the way in which God comes in when man is ruined. (comp. Gal. iv. 4, 5. Eph. ii. 4, 5.) The statement here is, that God condemned sin our sin-in the person of His Son made in our likeness, and having undertaken sacrificially to be a sin-offering (epi άuaerías). We perceive that the condemnation took place on the cross, not before. The death of Christ was God's righteous condemnation of man's sin. Ver. 4. "That the righteousness (dukaupa) of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." With this view, that the law's requirments might be fulfilled in us. We at once discern the difference between the man in chap. vii. and the man here. We left him helpless, but now that he is set on new ground,—all his judgWe are now in the full tide of Christian con-ment gone,-and "the law of the spirit of life sciousness. We are in Christ (v. 1,) and Christ is in us (v. 10). The chapter may append on to the fifth, for the sixth and seventh are, to a certain degree, parenthetic; the one being our deliverance from sin as a master, and the other our divorce from law as a husband. The two great features which were wanting in the latter chapter, were Christ and the Holy Ghost-the one as our risen life, the other as the power of it down here. In this chapter, both appear, with Sonship also. We may divide it into three parts, as at v. 17th, which completes the history of the divine life in man with its attendant results, as to practice from v. 18 to 25, which gives the history of our connection with the ings of creation, subjected at the fall, and which will be released at the manifestation of the sons of God: and from v. 26 to the end, God for us, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with a grand climax, that nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. groan have their mind (v. 6), and each their endone "death," the other "life and peace." Ver. 7. "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God," &c. The apostle speaks of the unrenewed mind as being, in itself, incapable of any thing but enmity against God. No one in this state can please God (v. 9). "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be the Spirit of God dwell in you." If a man has the indwelling Spirit, he is not in the fleshin his old carnal state-any longer. Although indwell him, he is not in flesh, but in spiritthe flesh be there, yet if the Spirit of God he has a new nature. The indwelling of the Spirit determines his condition. "Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Consideration is needed to distin He in guish in this chap., and in other places, be- walk. 66 Ver. 10. "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin," &c. There are difficulties attending the explanation of this passage. The body is dead because of sin," in Christ" communicated to him, the demands depends, with the remainder of the verse, of the law are in course of fulfilment, not by, upon Christ being in you. "If Christ be in but in Him, because "love is the fulfilling of you, the body," &c. It can hardly be death, the law." It is not that we are under law as therefore, in that sense alone, in which every a covenant, it is not that its infringement is sinner is dead; and if it had been the great any longer, by necessity, death; but being truth of our being dead with Christ, probably recognized as "holy, just, and good," love the verb árovýσko would have been used inbour." Doubtless, the true Christian reaches meaning to be, that the body, although Christ fulfils it, for "love worketh no ill to his neigh- stead of the adjective veκpós. I should judge the higher than the fulfilment of law, for he has be in us, is still dead because of sin, and has, Christ for his example, but the example of therefore, at present, no portion--the spirit Christ would include the law. "Who walk not only being living, because of righteousness after the flesh, but after the Spirit." We brought in by Christ; yet Christ being in us, come now into what was wanting in chap. vii., He, according to the following verse, will not namely, power. The power for walk down terminate His work until He has also quickhere is the Spirit. The spirit of life in Christened the body. The verse is needed as introhath made me free; and the Spirit, too, ductory to the declaration, that the resurrection strengthens the man. But we should note, of the Christian, as it is at a different time, that the clause under consideration does not so it is upon a different principle to that of set one thinking how much or how little we the resurrection of the ungodly. walk (a suitable field, indeed, under certain Ver. 11. "But if the Spirit of Him who limits of most profitable meditation), for the raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, idea is here not so much the quantity, so to He that raised up Christ from the dead shall speak, of walk, as the theory of it; so that also quicken your mortal bodies by (some we might explain the verse as a fact, and say, copies read because of') His Spirit that "that the righteousness of the law might be dwelleth in you." This is a great truth. The fulfilled in us; those, namely, whose walk is operation of the Holy Ghost already in you, provided for in the power of the Spirit. It will not conclude until He has quickened your is characteristic of believers that they walk mortal bodies. In other words, the life of according to the Spirit. The right under- which we are now possessed within, will also standing of this verse furnishes a clue to the be ours bodily, at the first resurrection, by significancy of the place which the Holy virtue of the same power which has quickGhost occupies in the dispensation. The man ened us, and now indwells us. Both are in chap. vii. was a direct failure, because of connected-the life within and the future relaw. The man in this chap. is a direct suc-surrection-with the raising of Christ from cess, because of the Spirit, who is given that the dead; and the principle is accordingly the righteousness of the law might be ful-different from that of a general resurrection. It depends upon the present indwelling of the Holy Ghost; what follows, sets forth the necessary results, as to practice, of this-our position in Christ. Ver. 1. "There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." The preposition "in" has a marked influence throughout the early verses. Paul thanks God through Jesus Christ at the end of chap. vii., for He is the procuring cause of all deliverance and blessing, but now he puts us in Him, as thus being out of the condemnation of the old Adam. The word is taken up filled. from chap. v., "the judgment was by one to Ver. 5. "For they that are after the flesh condemnation." This freedom from con- do mind the things of the flesh," &c. The demnation is applicable to us now. The latter same thoughts are pursued. There are but clause of the verse, which rightly appears in two conditions, the carnal and spiritual; each (To be continued.) Gleanings for the Poung. Jesus Died for me on the Cross. LITTLE Clara had good health until the age of five years; but then she began to decline, and, to the sorrow of her parents, the marks of disease were plainly seen, Clara had early learned to read; and, as she was at last quite confined to bed, her books, such as the "Pilgrim's Progress," and her little Bible, which, with some small books, were daily laid on the snow-white bed, became her constant companions, and afforded her mind much comfort, support, and pleasure. Her affliction was borne with great meekness and patience. It pleased God that she should lie on her sick-bed for six years. It was pleasant to be in her company, and to see how she submitted to her heavenly Father's will. She knew she should never recover, though it was probable, from the nature of her complaint, she might remain in suffering for several years. Clara found much delight in spiritual things, and in the sweetest manner would tell how she loved Jesus, and why she loved Him. "I love Him with my whole heart," she said, "and I long to see Him, and be with Him in heaven." One day I said to her, " Then Clara, you think you will be with Jesus when you die, and that you will certainly go to heaven?" "Oh yes," she replied. "Why?" I asked. "Because Jesus died for me upon the cross. I feel He does, and that He is with me in my affliction, for He has said, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.' (Mark x. 14.) So I love Him, and know He loves me, and that when I die and leave this world, I shall go to Him in heaven; and oh! will not that be happiness!" He loves me. Most of her talk was about the salvation of her soul through Christ Jesus. As she thought that her time on earth would be short, she would smile and say, "Then shall I be for ever with the Lord." (1 Thess. iv. 17.) It was quite plain that the work of grace was begun in her tender mind by the Holy Spirit. She gave the evidence of a renewed heart. the measure of other parts of the body, and whom she loved so dearly, next sent for a One forenoon I went to Clara's cottage to that there was no forgiveness, no salvation in these. When she had tried these prayers for three long years, the thought struck her that perhaps all this sorrow of mind was a punishAware that her stay with them would be ment for having left the faith of her fathers, now very short, she turned to the family col- and become a Mohammedan. She set out lected about her bed, and in a calm, gentle directly in search of a Brahmin or Hindoo voice, fondly said, "Good bye, dear mother; priest, and entreated him to receive her back good bye, dear father; good bye, dear brother into the Hindoo church. How do you think and sisters; farewell all; I shall soon be at the Brahmin answered her? He cursed her home-soon with Jesus, whom I love. Come, in the name of his god. She told him how Lord Jesus, and take me." For a little while unhappy she was, and how long she had she closed her eyes, but her thoughts were suffered, and begged him to pity her, but he sweetly occupied; then suddenly she opened would not listen. She offered him a large her eyes again, gave a fond look on her sum of money, and then he was ready to do mother, and said, "And now, mother, I am any thing; so she put herself under his going." She paused a moment or two, raised direction, and went again and again. He her wasted arm, and gently waving her little told her to take an offering of flowers and hand, said, "And so happy," and immedi- fruit, morning and evening, to a certain godately her spirit departed into the bosom of dess who was some way off, and once a week that Saviour whom she loved, and to the to offer a kid of the goats as a bloody heavenly home where she now dwells with sacrifice. all those who have gone before, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.-Child's Companion. Hindoo Girl Seeking Jesus. In India the people have a language of flowers. Each flower means something; and when you go into a temple, and see the flowers which have been laid on the altar, you may often tell what petitions have been offered. The flowers she brought as her offering signified a bleeding heart. Oh, there was One who would not have refused such an offering! He only could have healed her broken heart, but she knew him not. For a long, long time, did she carry flowers and fruit, morning and evening; and once a week offer a kid of the goats, and sprinkle the blood on herself and on the altar. But she found that "the blood of goats could not take away her sin;" and very often she cried out in her deep distress, “Oh I shall die, and what shall I do if I die without obtaining salvation?" At last she became ill. Her mistress with deep sorrow watched her beloved companion sinking into an early grave. But one day, as she up as a Mohammedan too. Thus she lived sat alone in her room, thinking and longing, till she was sixteen years old, and then all at and weeping, as her custom was, a beggar once it came into her mind, she knew not came to the door and asked alms. Her heart how, or why, that she was a sinner, and was so full that I suppose she spoke of what needed salvation. She was in great distress she wanted to all whom she met, in hopes of mind, and went to her kind mistress for that some might guide her. She began talkcomfort, but she could not tell her of a ing to the beggar, and used a word which Saviour. All the lady could do was to try to means salvation. The man started and said, amuse her, and make her forget her trouble; "I think I have heard that word before." Clara scarcely grew at all after her fifth she hired rope-dancers, jugglers, serpent- "Where? oh! where have you heard it?" year. At the age of eleven, she did not look charmers, and tried all the sports of which she eagerly asked. "Tell me where I can more than six years old; whilst, owing to her the natives of India are fond, to give her find that which I want, and for which I am complaint, she was besides, wasted to a mere pleasure; these were of no use, and the little dying; I shall soon die, and oh, what shall I skeleton, except the appearance of her face, girl remained as miserable as ever. Her do if I die without obtaining salvation?" which, although very pale, did not waste in mistress, deeply grieved at the distress of one The man told her the name of a charitable When this little girl was stolen from her father, she was too young to have learned his religion. The lady who bought her was a "She never gives me any trouble," said her mother to me one day; "she is a sweet, gentle child, and is so truly thankful for any little attention paid her, that it is good to do anything for her. She seldom either alludes to her sufferings; not even, if possible, during the time that her poor little back is attended Mohammedan, and she brought the little girl to, though I know the dressing of it causes her sometimes much agony; we can see it in her looks when she does not speak one word about her wounds" How different was this to the manner of some children, whom even but a little suffering makes very cross, and who can bear no affliction without a good deal of crossness to others. institution, where once a week two thousand poor natives were supplied with rice, and before the rice was given out, some Christian teacher used to speak to them. "I have heard it there," he said, "and they tell of one Jesus Christ who can give salvation." "Oh! where is he? Take me to him." The man cared nothing about this salvation himself. He thought she was mad, and he was going away, but she would not suffer him to go till he had given an answer; she dreaded lest she should miss that prize which now seemed almost within her reach. "Well," he said, "I can tell you of a man who will lead you to Jesus," and he directed her to that part of the town where Narraput Christian lived. Who was Narraput Christian? He was once a rich and proud Brahmin, but he had given up all his riches and honours as becomes a humble disciple of Jesus, and he was now an assistant missionary and preacher to his countrymen. This was the man of whom the beggar spoke. EVER AND NEVER. On the blessed Lamb of God; Hide thee from the Crucified. He invites thee so to do; He will surely help thee through. In thy every act and word; Of the day of glory near; Death-bed Sayings. 66 by whom we escape from death," were the last words of Luther. "Thou, Lord, bruisest me, but I am abundantly satisfied, since it is from thy hand," was one of the last expressions which suffering extorted from Calvin; and "Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death," rang forth from the lips of the dying Knox. Some one reminded the dying Rutherford of his labours as a minister, when he eagerly exclaimed, "I disclaim all that; the post I would be at is redemption and forgiveness through blood..... O for a well-tuned harp!" "I am assured of God's mercy to me through Jesus Christ. O how I long to die and be with my Saviour!" was among the last expressions of the Earl of Rochester-a brand plucked from the burning. "Oh, I thank Him! I thank Him! the Lord teach you how to die," were the last words of Richard Baxter. Brainerd, when his noble soul was just on the wing for eternity, was heard whispering forth the words, "I shall soon be in glory; soon be with God and his angels." The clouds were all scattered now; and in the case of that pre-eminent saint, men were allowed to "Mark with what triumph holy men expire, 66 John Holland was an old Puritan minister, who died two hundred and fifty years ago. Little is known of him, except what relates to his death-bed. Perceiving that he was near his end, he said: Come, O come; death approaches. Let us gather some flowers to comfort this hour." He requested that the him. eighth chapter of Romans might be read to "WHAT art thou, Death? I am not afraid of thee. Thou art a vanquished enemy, through The Hindoo girl gave the beggar a trifle, the blood of the Cross," were the last words and that very evening she set out in search of of one. "Oh, what a sun shall I see toNarraput Christian, the man who would lead morrow-the glorious Sun of Righteousness. And catch the rapture of their parting breath." her to Jesus. She went from house to house, ...There, there, Lord Jesus, come!" were "Brother, I am as happy as a king," was the those of another. "Glory, glory-happy, exclamation of Whitefield, on the eve of and inquired of every one she met, "Where happy, happy!" was the last articulate utter-death, and amid severe, incessant pain. "BeNarraput Christian, the man who would lead ance of a third. Valley-shadow-home-lieve a dying man," said Dr. Johnson, as her to Jesus, lived?" but no one would tell Jesus-peace-" these were the last syllables death approached, "there is no salvation but her. They all knew, but they were worship- pronounced on earth by a fourth. "Into thy in the sacrifice of the Lamb of God." The pers of idols, and they did not choose to tell hand I commit my spirit; Jesus, thou Son of last sentence which John Howard perhaps her. It grew late and dark, and she began David, have mercy on me!" were the words ever traced on paper was, "O that Christ may to be afraid of being seen out at that hour. embodying the self-renunciation of another. be magnified in me, either by life or death!" Her heart was nearly broken, for she thought "Now, I have done with all earthly things," she must return as she came, and die without was the calm expression with which another salvation. She was just turning to go home,"languished into life." "Now, O Lord, come when she saw a man walking along the road. to my help, and be thou greatly, greatly gloriShe thought she would try once more, so she fied in me," was the hymn that died away asked him the same question, "Where Narra- on the closing lips of another. "Christ has put Christian lived, the man who would lead her to Jesus?" To her great joy, he pointed her to the house, and when she reached it, she met Narraput himself coming out at the door. She fell at his feet in tears, and wringing her hands in anguish, she asked, "Are you Narraput Christian, the man who can lead me to Jesus! Oh! take me to Him; I shall die, and what shall I do if I die without obtaining salvation?" Narraput finger on the thirty-eighth verse." He was sunshine." “Sunshine?" said he; "nay, did not receive her as the Hindoo priest had obeyed. "Now, God be with you, my chil- my Saviour's shine! Now, farewell world— done; he raised her kindly from the ground, dren; I have breakfasted with you, and shall welcome, heaven. The day-star from on high and led her into the house, where his family sup with my Lord Jesus Christ this night" hath visited my heart. Oh, speak when I am were met at their evening meal. "My dear and he immediately expired. "More praise gone, and preach it at my funeral," God dealyoung friend," he said, "sit down and tell still! O help me to praise Him! I have no- eth familiarly with men.' In such transports She told him her history, and as thing else to do. I have done with prayer, words, after repeating the declaration, that His last soon as she had done, she rose and said, and all other earthly ordinances," were among "God doth and will deal familiarly with man," "Now sir, take me to Jesus. You know the last words of John Janeway. Robert were these; "And now, thou fiery chariot, where He is. Oh! take me to Him." Ah! Fleming said, when near his close-"Though that camest down to fetch up Elijah, carry me if Jesus had been on earth, how willingly I have not been able to apply myself to God, would he have received the poor wanderer. She thought He was on earth, and that she might go at once; but Narraput knew that though He was not here, He was just as able to pity and welcome her from His mercythrone in heaven; so he only said, "Let us pray." All knelt down, and as he prayed, the poor Hindoo girl felt that she had found that which she had so long wanted. me all." appeared to me a hundred-yea, a thousand 66 He has applied himself to me; and some of his soul soared toward heaven. to my happy home. And all ye blessed angels, who attended the soul of Lazarus to bring it to heaven, bear me, oh bear me to the bosom of my best beloved! Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus."-Christian Treasury. BOOKS RECEIVED. The Mother's Magazine, for December, 1861, 2d. |