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ova lord, ova faith, oy PUSH."—IPHSSIAVS 17:6. tutt «r uia oow be told in the mJjpHare." Aud with folded wings M bated breath the angel aaed: from the remarkable sermon j3,« preached last Sunday, I fear that ■me one has been telling yoa the JMHr that is spread all over the Jsaasnitj $ bat I assure you i have psys denied it, and have done •jdfeg to circulate it."’ What ia *e inquired, before we were ■*** •* *** Have 1 stolen a horse f jfcksd a pocket f or committed ‘l** 01 * 6 * “Well, no," was the *»tto I* answer. “h ia—well—ah—hem Bp •* Umt yea, or rather that w«, Bjjfebj admire each other—aud— ^—fell, that is alL” But never, iesNoah eauit out of the ark, was lipooT, maltreated’ publk—togeth- * with the much abused Mr. and >«. “They Say,” so wilfully ana "Hmente<l; as it transpired that peaceful, and no the dead or living the soul, and th God and man, th* things that laavt tag the roafrsaitm that “tkia ia the Word of God * aa that tame oM Bible hao mightily done. Add after ever} oppression ia made, which tree aoisooa cad extort or demand, the spiritual truths of that Book will •dill shine, a goWen chain, linking and height of the rumor was ^ ep under the angels wings. 4 searching sermon, truly, to find » * that had been so securely hidden. Sneral months now elapsed, and fcmpjKwed that the sermon and its y* aealed up against the *!*f®ent day, wheu we received a ’•ttfrom a minister, a holy and good ?■* *b° lives in a distant place, older than the writer of tbeae Mtidea, be kindly offered aa ***> advice, which was as kindly g**- At last, with a solemnity *®auot: the chamber of death, he “There is one thing that 1 would **»li«oed before this, but was "•aw of ofleoding yoo, knowing l d, *po»iUod at times to be mat ami which curtained by death, and drrwdlt |allied by UntdfUjjr tHM fflMjp bntftun, agitate and oppress the inquiring spirit They cat only ta- 1 love yoa, my dear child, in the love of the Divine Master, whe on abased Himself by love! O, what a weight of love, since U canned so setoirishtaf a fell—from bcaven to earth, from God to man! There fed beaatifel passage la the imitation of Ohrtat— 14 Love to be unknown.* Let Christ's Owr herd says the old doth asat he pat away with the ohf garment, ae maiming beat therewith, and m the old age of the Christian fetus la happily with the olden eternity. God Himself given the peamder, with long life will I satisfy Mm and thaw knowledge of the kind of delight afforded by the experience of earthly conception may be inadequate, and yet) ao fer as it can reach, it may be an aaaaagd m atina to tha ratift And so, in like manner, with tha beautiful fat aoaneiy. Ik would be feUy to attempt to describe the de- taBa of heareolj aoeoeiy, fast the gmral idea stand* soffidantiy oat to justify belief. The mo*t glorious bunts of harmony that ever thrilled aad quivered throagh tha beam of Handel, the pealing triumphs of “Halleluiah Chorus" the -»—t— •# v “ v *a^ r garwAmg ■Batches of Mosarty tha gorgeous sonatas of Beethoven, the almeat speaking melodies of Mandalashoo, and all tha exqufeita eomaaptkww of tha moat gifted masters, may he only feigt aad far-off echoes of the grand- er perfonnaooea abovej yet aa echoes they bring down something of heav- ealy muaie to the ooooeptiooa of men oa earthy aad make oa yearn aad bead before the thought, “if them loving aad nerving God aad thus obtaining it, that there la ao much through the wilderavae to that Nebo oa iU border; let thorn stand there and look awhile aa the goodly load hevotid. *«mI thru vwlri an their arxif wewrjg w w>* jy ee si^^ww7*au ■ late the haada of a meat memfui God aad Saviour, aad tha body to ‘t, so 1 have feU a delicacy in ****<* it.” After mm* eoomtl aad conjectures, we ftaaUy ^rtauied that the sermon alluded w *s the one that baa just appear ^ TM only thiag “terrific* about 'r»* *• ferrifee dallaeea. \2 » P^Mral visit to a Tha cry, “who wffl show oa any good r Ls net answered, because the quoatioaoni ask aot bod, beading tha diriae raply, aad taktig Him ta be the aapraaae wwtfoe of their aapi- hope tt wffl be happier thaa the laet, fer ia that I do aot remember one happy dag.* And Gibbon, lu hie “Decline aad Fatt,*«aperU the fol lowing esafeasioa of the Kaliph Ab- 1 u \*m |m “I have BOW reignod ftfty yean, in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies,