Sabbath Reading

bat whicb ho dreadcd han come to pase! o ,. . I : m -.-.i, !■ f on tin.' augry k. 'itb p&ssion&tti fftcés and fliifUiinpr eyes 'he people are fOioutirifi thcir huiiRry cries- 'bey wil have liis Jife, they will beat him down, bey wlll give the apofclle the niartyr's cruwn. Bat Paul stands bravo, and doei nol fear, e the lying accunerfi nvo prfinig uear. [is ïioiirt is kept in n doey repoBe b hi body wlivinksfrom the cruel bloWfl ; 'he Lord in wlth him, lic mnkes bim ftrong Vi' gave him in prieon a ruiduight BODg. The yeïlB are increaBin, " Aay with liim ;" 'J'hcy baateu hiui up tlio ptaircae diiu ; ïïut he waite a ïnomeut, The ery they raise Maken hiin th.nk of the formcr da; k, When thi-y lmated the Mas ter he lovedaway With the Baino wild cry whicb they ralscd today. i With liim ho Buffers! Paul's face is brigbt, For the memory bringfl him a happy li(?ht ; Witb uudauiitod conrago ho bees tho crod, And does notcare for the voices loud ; Ho liftB bi haud, he will givo thera yet Vord8 of Hiui they will not forg;t. Oh won der fut Maater 1 A thonght of Thee Wil! comfort Thy chiïdren wbere'er they bo ; Wc take Thy wor is to our hearts to-day ; We tread a lighted and pletutant way. j ; ii t if Horruw ehould come Thou wilt mako ua ut ron g, For Thou art with us the wholo life long. - Marianne Farninyha m. I Will Not Fail Thee, Nor Forsako Thee. Josli. i., .'.. Eartbly friends inay íail us, auil fail us when we most need thcni. But he that putteth his tru8t in tbo Lord shall be safe. God promised Joshua that He would not fail him, and lie never did. He tried him. He allowed others to try him. He made him pray. He nllowed him to fear. But he never failed him in any struggle, but gave him occasion and grace to appeal to Israel and say, "Ye know in your hearts, and in all your souls, that not oue thing hath failed of all good things which the Lord your God spake conoerning yon; all are come to pasa unto yon, and not one thing hath failed thereof." Well, whatGod saidto Joshna, he now says to us. He will not forsake us, therefore let ns boldly say, " I will not fear what man can do unto me. " If God will not fail, no matter who does. Ií God will not forsake us, we can do without the presence or help of any of His creatures. But God will not failtis, therefore let usrejoicoiaHis name. - Tlev. James Smith. A Chilcl Lnoklng tor lts Lolt Mother. A little chile!, whose mother was dying, was taken away to live with some friends, because it was thought she did iiot understand what death is. All the while the ehild wanted to go home and sec her mother. At last, when the funeral was over, and she was taken home, she rannll over the honse, searching the sitting-room, the pnrlor, the library, and the bedrooms. She went from one end of the house to the other, and, when she could not find her mother, she wished to be taken back to where they bronght her from. Home had lost its attractions for the child when her mother was not thcre. My friends, the great attraction in heaven will not be the pearly gates, the golden strects, nor its choir of angels, but it will be Christ. Heaven would be no heaven if Ohrist wero not there. But we know that He is at the right hand of the Father, nnd these oyes shall gaze on him by-and-by; and we shall be satisfied when we awake with his likeness. - Moody's Anecdotes by McC'lure. A Typograplilcal Crime If one book must be singled out and doomed never to receive recent typographical treatment, it should have been aóy other rather than this. I should like to see what would be the effect of giving it a fair chance. I believe it would bo rcacl if it were made readable. We onght to havo ouo cdition of it without marginal references and without foot-notes - unless in the rare cases where these are absolutely necessary. Where the italicized words are necessary to a completo and idiomatic rendering they should be printed in plaiu lloman; where not thus necessary, they shouid be dropped. Instead of verses we shonld havo poragraphs, and all figures or other indications of the verses abolished. Conversation should be printed in broken paragraphs, with quotation marks, just as in a novel. Poetrytshould be printed as poetry. Instead of being crowded into one volume, the book should be in four or five moderate duodécimo volumes, with large type and good paper, so that it could be at once held without tiring the nrm and read without straining the cyes. Finally, this book should have a good analytical index. A oumbrous concordance is not au index, and does not serve the purpose of one. If presented in such a form, tbc Bible might be eujoyed as literatnre and perhaps bptter uuderstood as a divine authority. - Sunday A fiernoon. What, Are Vo at Home? Strolling around among some members who live on the snburbs of our towu I found two boys playing marbles. The boys play a different game now from what I used to play. We had a ring, with a big marble in the center, and to plump that out from taw was to win the game. Now they had a straight line, with two marbles and " play for keeps." I always stop to talk with boys, and I stopped to have a chat wit'.: these. I told them how we used to play, and they told me how they play now. "Weli,"said I, "boys, you don't play for keeps, do you ?" One of thora out his eyes at me in a moment, and said, " Ain't yon Joe Hooper's pa?" "YeB," smd Í, "but how did you know it ?" ■ " You can 't get him to ply ior keeps. He says it's gambling, and that hispa says so." I was gratiflel to hear such a good account of one of niy boys from a strangev for it is not always so. But that boy's rerognition of me through my little son set me to thinking. He is not at all like me in person, but when I began to denounce a certain game as sin the intnition of that strange boy led him to know me as the father of his playmate. Isn't it often the case that onr children are but reprints, a kind of pocket edition of ourselves? As they sit around the flreside and hear us talking ; as they ask us questions and receive, sometimos, an inconsiderate answer ; as they watcti our in-door life, when we are not on gaard, and draw their inferences, are we not holding a most solcmn position, and unconsciously giving tone, and taste, and character to those who, of all others, ought to concern us most? You are rich, your children muy inherit yonr riches. You are poor, bnt your children may be rich. Yon are talented, and your children may inherit your talents. But you cannot convey to them by will your educatiou, or your principies, or your religión. These are to be improísod tipon them, not by one act, but by the constant, persevering eiTorts of your daily life. Bnt under "the grace of God" they may become, and they will become, what wo most desiro them, and in nine cases out of ten will be reprints of ourselves. Let us learn, then, to "show piety at home. -