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Day
19
Month
April
Year
1878
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Public Domain
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O plodding life ! crowdcd so full Oí eartkly toil and care I The body's daily need rpceivea The ñrst and Jaat concern, and lea vee No rooin for Jesús thero 1 O bupy hr.iin I by niglit and day Working with DftuÓppQ raro Problema of worldly Ion or gain, Thinking till thmigkt hcooineu a pain ; No rooiu for Jetub tliere. O throbbiug bfnrt ' po quick to foel Id otbore' woos a sharc, Yet human loven oach power onthrall, And eordid trcasTirf b flll it all ; No room for JeeuB thoro. O Blnful potil ! thiiR to debaso The boiiiR God doíh epare I Blood-bought, thou art no more thiiie owii ; Heart, brain, Ufe, are ITn alone; Lcet noon the bitter d.iy rhall como When vatn vill be tby prnyer To find in JeBUs' heart a placo ; Forevcr closed the door of grace, Thou'lt gain no entrance thfro. -New Yurk Chrixtian Advocate. Tiike Down Your Uible And hunt up the following: 1. Wlio was the flist drankard ? Gen. ix., 20, 21. 2. Wlio took tho first temperance pledge? Judgcs xiii., 13,14. 3. Who first pledged himself ? Daniel i., 8. 4. Was lio auy wiser thereby ? Daniel i., 15,20. I 5. Can a drunkard inherit the kingdom of heaven ? I. Cor., vi., 9, 10. 6. Where was the. first temperance society held ? .Ter. xxxv. , 6, 8. 7. Wliat blessing did God pronounce apon the first temperance society ? Jer. xxxv., 18, 19. 8. ís temperance a vice? Gal. v., 23. 9. Whenisita virtue? II. Pet. i., 5 7. Formation of Churacter. If you ever watched an ioicle as it formed, you would have noticed how it iroze one drop at a time until it was a f oot long or more. If the water was clean the icicle remained clear, and it sparkled brightly in the sun; but if the water was sightly muddy the icicle looked foul, and its beauty was Bpoiled. Just so our characters are formed. One little thought or feeling at a time adds its influence. If every thought be pure and right, the soul will bo bright and lovely, and will sparkle with happiness; but, if there be thoughts and feelings impure and wrong, tb e mind will be soiled, the charactér depraved and darkened, and there will be final deforraity and wretchedness. How important, then, that we should be on our guard against every evil impulse and desire ! The Ma.arine. Thero are only two copies of the Mazarine Bible in America, and only six in the -world. Two years ago two copies werc sold at auction in London in the same sale, and one, printed upon paper, brought $14,000 goid; the other, on vellum, brought 820,000. Usually a vellum copy of nny work brings fonr oí flve times as much as a paper one ; bnt the history of the Mazarine Bible raises the value of the paper copies relatively to those on vellum. Gnttenberg printed tho ñrst copies in 1455, nnd all these were on paper ; in 1456 Faust got posBession of the types, and his editiou was partly on vellum. These, consequently, are not so complete or original. One of tho American copies is owned in Hartford, Conn. JU ie one of the genuino Guttenberg prints, and is a marvel of the printer's work. lts equal could not be made to-day. Abraham' Frayers. The first full-length prayer is Abrabam's touching plea in behalf of Sodom (Gen. xviii., 22, 23). Seein it tbe characteristics of accoptable prayers: A Binner feels he is "but dust aDd ashes," deserving angcr," not favor. The sinner stands before God, believing in the promised Savior - no other warrant. The sinner f uil of fnith, that ík, resting wholly on Meesiah, is "the friend of God. " God meets him, and staye to hear what hc bas to say. This believing sinner yearns over perishing souls. He perseveringly urges requeste in behalf of the perisbing. Then we flud (xix., 27-29) he looked after his prayers and found resulta. Men of faith, oh, be men of prayer ! A world perishing. Our country needs it. The churches of Christ need it. The Jews need it. The heathen need it. Sonie at your very door need it. And surely there wouki be resuits. The Traylns l.ittlc Cripple. I once knew a little cripple who lay npon her death-bed. She had given heiself to God, and was distreseed only becauso she could not labor for Him actively among tbe lost. Her clergyman visited her, and, hearing her complaint, told her that there from her sick bed she could offtr prayers for those whom she wished to see turning to God. He I advised her to write the names down, and then pray earnestly; aud then he went away aud thought of the subject no more. Soon a feeling of great religious interest sprung up in the village, and the ehurches were crowded nightly. The little cripple heard of the progress of the revival, and inquired anxiously for the namee of the saved. A few weeks later she died, and among a roll of papers that was found uüder ner little pillow was one bearing the names of fiftysix persons, every one of whom had in the revival been converted. By each name was a cross, by which the poor crippled saint had checked off the names of the converts as they had been

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