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C7* Please remember all husiueos let ters should be addressed to Rev. A. K. RI DE, Columbia, ft C. *r '■ Hf Religious. Wandering* in the Old World. BY BEV. K. W. BOSWOKTtl. D.l>. MOIST SIXAI. This central group of summits lias its peculiarities which may interest mjr readers, tiud justify a little Air- tiler use of ray pen. y THE AWFTL STILL NEON ia one of them. Comnam conversa tion can lie heard a great distance. A loud call from the human voice rcvcrlnsttites among the cliffs and 'through the ravines like a dap of thornier in the forest. A preacher with a good voice and clear enuncia tion, addressing an audience lrom the cleft la-tween the two summit* of Hotel), could be hcaul, I doubt not, by top millions of people. 1 gave sjs-jj.iI attention on this |ioiiit, and do not speak without re (lev turn. This wonderful sileuve is the result iu part, no doubt, of the absence of the music which is made by the winds us they play among the trees, fry the waters as they murmur along their channels, liy the oirda us they soar and warble, and by men as they keep up the everlasting luun drum of life. In that desolate region these sounds are unknown. In the night- . the silence is awful, since the dark ness increases it* imprcanivciieaa. Of course when Israel was ri>caui(M-d in this vicinity, the din of huiiinu life diminished somewhat this still-' ness, lint enough of it remained to' render the blasts from the trump of God, ami the tbniiderings and earthijuakc and “the voice of words’’ fearful in the extreme, causing the inuhitmlc to tremble, anil Mows exceedingly to fear and quake. WATER HPHI.Ntm. It may surprise some of our rea ders to be informed that on ami •round this group of dark mountains are usually to lie found numerous spriugs of pure water. But such is the fact. The mountains are com posed mainly of red granite, from which pure water usually comes. Whether the water issniug from these vast masses of rock gushes up from deep fountains below, or first descends from the clouds and penetrates the cracks and crevices and rifts till it again reaches the surface, wc can not tell. This we know, that when there, March, 184KJ, we saw numerous springs of pure water gushing from the side* of the mountain. They were not copious nor strong, but gentle, limpid rills, whose sweet eool streams were very" refreshing. We tlrank from one on onr way up Jebel Musa. We saw another in the basin between the summits of the mountains. Within the Courent is an immense well sunk deep in the solid rock, from which an abundant supply of water was obtained at that time. But there was one other spring well suited to awaken special interest, and to attract special attention.— kroin the perpendicular front of Ho- reb on tho eastern portion, well down toward the base, through an orifleo i» the granite, issues a small stream of pure sweet water, and Hows into a basin at the foot of tho mountain. To this basin our camels were led to drink. From it the water-casks of our large caravan were filled when wc took our departure from this spot. It supplied the wants of our extensive camp while we remained here. It was, in fact, a copious well above ground. As I gazed upon that little cascade as it sprang from the open mouth of tiro immense mountain-rock, and glided no quietly down into its besntlAtl receptacle Mow, as I contemplated tt# nreessl bility tor a vast multitude encamped in the mUarent waddles, I could hardly resist the conviction that this spot was the Scene, and this fountain the identical result of the miracle (►crfontied by Moses, os recorded in Exodus, 17th chapter. Bure I am that it corresponds as to location and capacity with the historical record. Nor can I see any reason to doubt that that fountain, which the great prophet opened in 11 oreb at Jehovah’s command, should still remain ojien aud send forth its waters from the rock, except when tho in ternal waters sink too low to reach ita outlet. That miracle was wrought to meet n special exigency, the result of a season of extraordinary drought. It consisted in tapping, liy miraru lous (lower, the mountain low enough to reach its lowest reserves of water. Much more rational ia such a theory than the traditions of the Courent, which represents the scene of this miracle to tie a hop- bonJder in one of the ravines, some distance from the Horeb. On each side of this rock, which is about twelve or fifteen feet high, may be seen a row of marks, one above uuotber in nearly a straight line. These marks or gashes resemble those ou a log of wood from which n thin been removed by an axe. Rrtrlssting Levs j or the fas Jilt tit afiv. iKTiivs wrtvum.i The litragirmflmi of one who floats for months npon the bosom of the Mile, will fly farther ami fnstrr than any boat can still, far beyond the Pyramids, the shore of ancient Tbcbefi, the pnlma of Phil*#, nml the granite qBarrio* of Assouan, bis thought* eau not fail to go. Post I the mooutaiua of NuUa, and the ' A liy*siiiian plains, thousands of miles ' beyond the cataracts, w here the baf , fled ruyager must lay uaide Ids nor, his fancy will ascend the stream. He will be filled with wonder doily at the wealth giving, life prutfa. iug river, the highway of coiameree, the nurse of harvests, the inoUu-r of cities. Rat it will suggest s wonder | greater still. He will stand npon t the deck, and at the sight of all this tile und bounty, bis thoughts wlH hourly any, “What must the j snarer of this maguificeut river | he r The moantaiiHMU hosts where the Nil* la horn, where the uuaxplorvd Nyanaa lies—that vast, Mysterious, central region, hidden la tb* depths of the continent, the flashing snows of whose far off mountains liave alone been seen, U a wonder greater than the Nile. The abounding, beuifieent chip has : river, spreading fertility and besnty | They do along its shores, imoring a new aims not commence near the grnnuil bat 1 of life and verdure aeruss the desert much higher than the head of a man, leagues, is most w onderful iu whst too higti to ho ronr-la-d by a eauc iu it reveals. We both* ia Us stream, a man’s hand. Nor ilo they cqrati we feast onr eye* u|msi its fields and into tl... - — — - .. #* ** I.m^.11, . ft .a a a * a- into tlie rock; some of them hardly break it snrfaee, being but little more than a mark. The theory which makes this the scene and ves tige of that grand mirarle sceHis itbsurb to the last degree. graves ; but IU sweet, nuwuslmg waters speak to as of those far off equatorial lands, where it begins to flow. A vision of vast waters, uf the pomp uf untruihh*n forests, suit the splendor of unknown flowers, AB3VRD TCADITIOXO, however, arc eommon to that pagan church. Near the nark imru j tioned above, and near by, the monks i 1,k, "’ s will sliow* you, if you will, allow them, a siiuili irregular opeiihig iu the rocky surface, over which you j rises before our eye*. Then stretch iw iui m,t us, deep ia the bosom • meti ! l,K ‘ •’•mfluent, dimly diarovired across wlmse shores a* bn I man foot has ever journeyed—whose depths have been fathomed by* uoj 1 explorer’s line. Then- rises upon walk, ami declare that it cra.autuU-d j ,,ar ~" ht thr HU,,i " c fvrthrata.g the Kleuticni mould in which Aaron Hn*tog cast tin- golden call! Near tbit they IT*™ * i “' *" ,1 " ^ « lhr will point out the very spot on which trop1 "' Hft “f * ,M ' ir h,i *' U to Uri,w steal the recreant priest, while thej **• t>ir " a “ ua iufntimtod people performed the or ,,ow " ■*>" • gies of Egypt around the moltei. | atrenm-. Tires* things are a |«arable. Tin y Not far your attention to! ,0 '« <* «•» way in which we | should rise ftvui God's redemptive image of the sacred Apis, off they will rail ansther sjsit, ami solcinidv testify tliot there, even there the earth! T " rk **»•* ™-her tn-asures of his opened its granite crust nml swsi- "“ture yet umliariused ; from tlie lowed it|> Korah, Datliau and Ahi “lonement even, to tin- mu nr of the rain, with their families, forgetting atonement, to the great and living that- that awftil transaction took 4<°0- plai-e hundrtiis of miles from Mount' Tlie life, tlie passion, and tire Sinai. It would seem that these miracles have been grnii|M*d ill one locality, withont regard to their his tory, for the greater convenience of the monks, whose duty it ia to ex hibit, and of the travelers who may tie eager to see tlie very placon where they transpired^—JZies's Adnjcatr. A Pointsd Argument l)r. Musnn Gowl once asked a young scoffer, who was attacking Christianity on uecouut of tlie sins of some of ita professors: “Dkl .yon ever kin/c an npruur made because an iuftdel had gone astray from tho path of morality t" The young man ailmitted he bail not. “TIten, yon allow Christianity to be a holy religion, by expecting ita professor* to bo holy; tlins, by your seotUng, y ou jaiy it the highest coni pii incut in, your power." People are not sorjirised when they find a rejector of tlie Bible living in immorality; bat let them detect a man who professes to obey <it pursuing a siuful coarse, and forthwith, with sneers and scorn, they publish his “iuconsisteney.’’ IVhat a condemnation they thereby write against themselves 1 They see that Christianity requires purity of life in its adherents. They censure those who fail to conform to its requirements. Because of that fail ure, they excuse themselves from obeying it. Yet they know that it condemns the inconsistencies of pro fessors as strongly as they* do ’. Will tlie sins of disciples excuse tbeuiT Did the treachery of Judas lessen the guilt of the Jews and Homans w ho killed tlie Lord ! It is a tribute to the divinity of the Gospel, that it bus triumphed over the stubs which it has received flon its recruits. Nothing but God’s truth could have survived such treachery . But that does not jnstify either the man who tiros wouuds it in the house of ita friends, or the hitter enemy who makes it responsible for the wounds death of Jesus have been the won der aud the snug of tire rhureb from age to age; hut there is a wondcr greater still. Tliese Waters uf Mess iug should lead onr thought* still upwards, aud beyond, to God him seir—to bis grest nature of, love, to that boundless piety ami grace, to that original ami eternal merry Hi the Father’s heart, whose pulse it ia we feel iu every stream of 1‘rav- itlenee, and to nilcinpthai which itself owes its abonndiug and savage tide. “God gave bis only begotten Boa, that wboHocver believeth Hi him might not periaii, but have ever lasting life." IV*y tlid be seud that divine Saviour, with ail the wealth of blessing which he tieorst This is the answer, “God so lared the world." Ws think often of what God haa done,- what be is, ia a thought of eveu greater amaseweut aud joy. Upon the history of ltcdemidiou we often—none too often—dwell ; but the source of redemption, God’s own character, his own warm, over- flowing fatherly affection for us, bis guilty and uobuppy children—to this, lww often do our eontem|ila- tioua rise I A communion Benson is approach tag. We turn to the narrative of the betrayal, the passion, the agony and death of Christ. It ia well. There are occasions when the review of these familiar socnes, the heart be ing touched by the spirit, will kindle aud melt all the feelings into a flow of gratitude. But ia there not some thing higher and better still f Would it nut he well if we should pause sod Hfik, -Where duos this divine history take ita rite t This blood stained robe, this crown of thorns, this ex piring agony aud atoning death, these promises which ore my trope aud life to-day—from what source are they supplied I Hate my Uod moot lore / What affection has been brooding over mo ainefl mj life be- Ore right. RoMc* daily is the cleans lug, life giving stream; hat let the etnum rend on yonr thoughts’to the upper ocean when It was-bora; to yoar Father’s own iutrlnsie noble ness, his ow n great, kind uature, Us own apfipbmcous, imtcmal, exhaust- lea# love. Dwcll'upcftt UtU Orstltuds will Iffitl to turn to adoration at the thought. You will lose yoarmdf in the deep reeossea, the central regions of flod’s own kind and Iwautnoos nature. Tro|ireul growths and col on of love will move dimly, perbaiia, yet gloriously before yonr sight. In that air of ludrn fear and care dissolve. Childlike i-onfideuee and peace will grow with a new taxa rUnee. You lose yonr Ufa and will In that of your God of tore. There is something beyond the atonement, higher than all the his tory of redemption, it fa the God of redemption, your Fotker. Me demptioo itself was meant to reveal to you year Father, who fa bending over yon from the skies. God fa leva Dwelling in' yoar thoughts upon fata, yea will be reached by that comforting truth, that, after all yonr salvation fa from God’s lore to yoa, nut from yoar lore to him. Yoa will feel that he loves yoa not even brcaaap of (id barman* aud Calvary, bat that of Calvary and Ita gospel. Ilia eternal, self um«v ing love fa the source ami cause. Ib-Ampth*! It- «*clf, the whole life aud misaum of Christ is bat the overflow rf yoar Father’s love. Ia that be cranes, I ►ringing help to yoar soaL Does he lave yoa bevaase Jesus did! That would he l<> make the river parent of its unrein* lake, to make vast XyMixa the child of the lower Nile. Atuucmeot U hat thechsnuel through which crane* pouring do* n the tide of Ilearca'* great affretam. It Hi the Father's boarau. It tluxugb Christ, your jmjot soil, he girt* with deserts iwrehul and demL Tb* water that is yoar life rises in lb* highest he.n elm, in the inmost Inane of Hull These thoughts may be of greatest nsr to .sir hearts. IVtni we wsat fa a thought of God which shall make ns feel Unit he touches our ifnl at every point. The diarovery of his grest lore owe* m.vdo, we shall then foci that his lore en\clu|M aU mir lives. Tty soul has otlwr wauls thuu its wauls uf |>*nlou sn.1 re turning holiness. Them, are the greatest, tmt it has others stiU ; aud our apprweiatiou even of (rod’s pardoning mercies win be heighten ed—oar belief of them lie made more crailiaaoas and compirto—if we rise to a view of that God himself, whose very uatare fa to love, abase love is tin* overflow of his own eternal Fafa- crboinl, whose div roe delight it ia to love. In yoar boars of shame and self reproach, in yoar hours of weakness, under all lifo’s aorrowa, and strifes, and cares, in yoar I siurs ot passion and of sio, iu those hours when yoa fall, you need to remember the Path cr—him whom Christ revealed— ami to feel that over you b beading that (tatci-nol, patient, helpful love. Do not think God’s lore began wIm>o you first saw Christ's abate ment, or when yoa first Imgnn to pray. It was love which touched yonr blind eyes, which made yon see your Prieutl, aud which woke your heart to pray. Through faith aud pray er new intimacy shall spriug up Moreen yoa nml him; but how long be loved you bvforc one blade of faith appeared, before one w biiqier of your prayer was heard t It was not these which called forth hit love. Do fas mud# of the Bohara, by any beaaty of their own, invite and win the life gri tug Nile f Dkl sprouting blades and infant- palms sprijtg up from those death like wastes, and cry out to faroff fakes for moisture and for food 1 Na Those were sterile, hopeless, lifrles* tracts.— Down poured the generous river from its mighty reservoir*, because it delighted to come. It lay upon the desert, the very soil In Which the harvests strike their roots, and then watered them for ever with iu abundant and nutritious tide. God loves yoa for his own nature’s sake, lie who gave yon Christ, who gave yon y our first feeble faith and prayer, will uot forsake you now. “/ bare fared thee with as eeerlaatiof Iota."—Interior. which are inflicted. tj] gan, and T utmost knew it not f* The harmony with themselves of the characters described in Scripture is a proof that faewe character* really existed—an internal «vhh-ncc iu favor of the authenticity of tlie Bible. The Amt/fe very effectively Utiviam rhri#ii*n>> offaiimt certain improprie ties which aw likely to discourage young men from entering the mtnis- Uy: W« are sometimes asked, bow jruung men may be enoooragrd to outer fa* christfan ministry. We reply, briefly, that Jotlng men may be indirectly encouraged to enter the Christian ministry by being saved from the power of sentiments, ideas, and statements, whose natural ten deucy fa to discouragement. By judgment or aocuaotiou, peojde are wont to make light of, <lis|Mrage, or deprecate the work of the Christian ministry. And they may thus, eves aneouseioasly, reader this work uaatlraetive, obfaetiramble, or odious, to those who come under their inflneuoe. Ministers, tinmans, ebareh oflks-rs, sod all good people, should he rare fnl, by won! or art, never to lower, cheapen, or a*ske oflfonaive the work of the ministry. And they should take pains to Seay, refute, sad Maw aaxqr the caismay. so recklessly uttered, sad so foolishly spread, fast the children of minister* ami dearema have been, ore, or ora likely to be among the wont in the commauity. All facts and statistic* prove far raying talar ; and H baa scarcely a rare footing among the exceptants to trauma roudm-t. Two thuds uf all the tieat and must cmiaeat men in every worthy catting, ia Amanca, have denreadrri from noteworthy retigioas nes; and a majority of them ministers ami drarouo. s All pul proptu should take care that the ministerial office is not aa nereassiily brought into dirahra and bad repute by far errors, faults, mistakes, or drflnrarir* of some who have uufi>rt«iia|rl> bnaatr min isters, or ccssetl to be such. Now •ml then there fa uue whose eharar ter fa on wort by ; another, aim has mistaken bis preqirr ealliag; another, who, wlthoat 'mifih-k ut cause, has h ft his Marred dotka for those mure secular; ml another, a about charge, who fa waiting to be eai|doyed. These instanres are fcw Hi the com porioou, are cxcrptamal or are wei •Icutal to oar hnouuiity, and slusitd not hr tilled oat of their small proportions. All Christian psreata. including ropecfadly ministers ami their wives, should refrain from those remarks, stars, aad tokens of dfaratfafortioa, which, amid poverties, deufala re tro Its, aad difficulties, they sometime* indulge in, greatly to the prcjodicc and utjnry of minister* and their aocivd calling. All Christian (tropic shouhl make It manifest to all oliaerveta that they revere, honor amt love tb* work of the minister of Christ, sod the minister hiamrlf, above say other man, on account uf his sacred voca tion. At heart they commonly fieri thus i but they are "owwtimc* defi cient, or hindered, in the goodly ■bowing of it They shouhl. by wont and deed, declare the loinfaterV work to be, aud vindicate it as being, iu spit* uf itt arlf-deuud, ita |mrtia) ohsenrity, its noo-Ioenuivenous, nml ita frequisit lack of worldly excite ment ami trial, after all not oulv the most useful, bat the noblest, highest, most exalting, educating, enriching, and rafltoient, of ail oar divine or Iromuu callings. Pnaeh the Heart What ie it that gives to far charac ter of our Lord this extraordinary iu tensity, this heavenly blase of light, this pierviug glory t It fa the •rlf-rarmnirr of hfa will to the Father. And uwlera we can endeav or to copy that, we can not really be iu the Adi sense embassadors of Christ to reprearnt him to oar people. • • • If yon preach to yoar |>e«qde so as to reach their hearts, you must 1m toadied in heart yourself. If yoa would endeavor to touch others spiritual thiuga, yon must first hare learned them. • • • Tlie real power of yoar preaching moat depend ou this: that every doctrine that yon preach fa rooted in yourself, that “The loft of Christ oonabttinelh tfai n No (fiber Ibtoe so strong ax this eon lie brought to bear npon tho heart. low can lay ita com mauds npon na, and we will obey, because wc fed that the “law fa holy, and the commandment fa holy and Just and good.” lint after all, the lore of Christ will be far wore potent The soldier under the stem rule of military law marches up to his death at the cannon's mouth. But it ia not so modi Ufa obedience to the law that leads him forward. lie ia nerved by the example of those about him ; the rush of the battle carries him on. He can uot draw hack, for necessity fa laid ujrou him. He does not desire to face death; hot he has no alternative. Hut many a Christian martyr has gone to the stake with exceeding joy, con strained by the love of Christ. No material necessity has Item bud npon him, oulv the strong love iff bis Lord. Led by that lore he has calmly given himself U|I, snd through the fiery gate of martyrdom passed into eter nal prncr. “The love of Christ coastraiaeth us." It fa not a merely human love, strong as thi* often ia. It is a divine love, the lore of Christ manifested toward ns, and so producing love in os toward him. “We love him, Imnraac he first lovrd us." He footed this love ia his work. Tb* purpose to redeem man fa okl as eternity. The promise to redeem fa old as the fall. In the fuRncss uf time the Redeemer cofiies to earth, teaches, blesses, suffers, dies, rises, ascends bock into gtory- And now man haa a Mediator, lie is a Friend awl Brother, “touched with the fooling of onr infirmities." He fa fa* omnipotent Saviour “unto the Uttermost of >11 who come unto God by him." lie haa overcome the sharpness of death, aud opened the kingdom of Heaven unto all believ er*. He mantfi-st* hfa love in his eameti- /yisy aad tuetaiuing grate. Every Christian knows that day by day , as bis need is, fhi* grace is given to him. The world doubts tlw (act, or surer* at it. But to the Christian it fa a most bfesMcd reality. Tcnqtta lw* assails him, but Christ fa by, owl lie cranes off more than a conqueror. The cross that be ninst bear alter tlie Master seems too heavy to l« carried. Hut Christ has helped to bear tb* burden, and it has la-come light Borrow settles in dork clouds around him, the blinding storm of grief well nigh overs helms him ; but Christ has said to tb* storm, “Peace, be still,* and has pointed through the clouds to the dear light of eternal jay- -lira love of Christ coastmiaeth ns." It operates in the way uf mol ire. This love uf Christ reigning ia the soul, sway* it with a silent, unseen power, but a |*>wer that is irreafati ble, to all that fa good aud true aud holy. It takes hold ou that which is highest in the nature. It appeals to all the (rarest affections, to grati- tndc, to trust, to self almegstion, to entire devotion. It is like the wanu sunshine that, beaming upon the tree, stirs all the forces of life within it, till they send their influence to the outmost twigs, and the buds swell, and tlie leaves bnrst forth, aufl the fruit appears, und rounds at last into ripeness, fit for the use of man. This love operates too in the way of example. Christ has dene so much for ns; lias done it all so glad ly, shall we not follow his example, and do what little we can to show that we are grateful for his goodness, that to the extent of our ransomed powers we will cuter into his service! Hfa fits a free offering—so will oar service be. lifa was a constant, untiring effort to do good—so will oars be. Ilia was a life of aclfsacri- fioe,so will ours be. Thus we con fed the force of his example, and be led by it niito “glory and virtue." And thus the love of Christ, opera ting by motive aud example, wdl eoaetraia na, shut ua np to hfa ser- vioe. The current of our lives will flow in tike channel* of obedience. Bo thoroughly is the thought etp grafted In the human mind that salvation ia on tlie ground of onr works, that it is an uncommon thing to find persons suddenly aroused to a sense of the terrible mistake they have been under for years, in sap- posing that they would ultimately obtain salvation on the predominance ot their good works over the bad. Home time ago a person said to the writer, “I thought sir, tilt lately, that I had a great deal to do; bat now I see that it fa all done for me.* Bbe saw that Jesos by his death npon the cross had saved her. She, therefore, bad peace with God at once—rest of conscience, because she saw that God had settled the question of sin for her in Christ. Lately we heard of a person who was awakened to the need of salva tion making the inquiry, “What must I do first V It fa natural to na all to think so highly of ourselves as to judge that we can work oat a righteousness for ourselves sufficient ly pure to merit salvation. Bnt the Gospel speaks of an already accom plished work for the salvation of sin nere, in the cross of Christ; yes, for )iel]4ess, sinful persons at enmity with God, w hose minds are not sub ject to the law of God, neither in deed can he. Thus the Scripture presents it. Bo that God fa not now iui|»rovtag man in the flesh, mending up what sm has done, but,he pub lishes the fact that be hai^ accom plished salvation for the lost, that li» gives eternal life to whosoever be- Here* on the Irani Jesus Christ. Bo that if a person says, “What must I do first T" our answer fa, Yoa have nothing to do; for did it. did it «H. Iran*, long ago." Bow, then, to God’s verdict, that you are guilty before him, that you cau not make yourself fit for his holy presence, that yon are by nature a child of wrath, aud by practice a great transgressor in hfa sight. I say, bow to God’s troth about your self You will then see that yoa are weak, siuful, loot—yes, lost 1 incu rably had and LOOT! aud also that Jesus Christ the Hon of God came into the work! to save the lost, aud that he did accomplish eternal re demption for all those who believe ou his uame. The question, then, fa not what yon mast do first; but, have you believed on the Lord Jeans Christ 7 Have you accepted him aa your Saviour! Can you, do you, rest ia his finished work upon tho cross for yoar eternal salvation t Have you received God’s word m truth which testifies to the all- deauaing power of the blood of the cross, and which tells you that you tire now—yes sow, justified by hfa blood on believing f that by Christ “idl that believe are jnstifled from all things which they could not be justified by the law of Moses f* If so, you hare (ware w ith God, yoa are his child, yon deeire, from grateful love, to serve and honor Christ; and when lie comes, you w-itf be caught up to meet him in tlie air, and be with hHu and like him forever. ■ » “EihUch* praises to-the Irani, Ever be Hi* name adored ! Haflelqjah! He is worthy—praise His name !" •Thoc God Beest Mb.”—It fa a noble profession which Milton makes ler his travel* in early manhood, through Italy and France: “I again take God to witness, that in all these places where so many tilings ore con sidered lawful, I lived sound and un touched from all profligacy and vice, haring this thought perpetually with me, that, though I might escape the eyes of men, I certainly oonld not the eyes of God.” you not merely believe it as a state ment, but that it fa really a part of There will be many and aad failures, your own life that it makes a differ ence, and a real difference to yoa, that you behove it. If there be any troth yoo are setting forth of which it fa possible to say had It, been on true, I should hare beeu jaat the same aa I was, it woohl not have made any substantial difference to ray elrareotor, then, believe me, sueh • belief aa that is not oue which will enable you to press the troth npon yoar people.—Biefaof Trmpte. , A for we are only mortals; but the general tenor of the life will be right. The stream mey run iu on eddy now and then, or sweep iu a sudden curve, almost retracing its coarse, bat still it flows free ouwanl, gather ing new volume and strength, aud broadens at last into the calm, deep sea of eternal perfection. We mast tread tho Christian path, we must nerve our Lord and Master, not under the pressure of any neoeesitv Assist Yocr I’astoe.—1. By at tending the means of grace. ~ By a kind, appreciative recognition of hfa labors. X By yoar prayers. 4. By speaking kindly of him wherever yoa go. & By doing what yoa can to raise him above anxiety, ft. By iting yonr expectations to the ability God has given him. Paul may plant, ApoUos water, hatGod givetii the inereaoe.—Nafros- > o! Baptist. - , J.-- • ~*iV> Barbath Observance.—Have no a cridly talk on the Sabbath, net speaking thine mm word*; or world ly work, “not doing thine otm tcag.”