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blessed Saviour calls every one of us to come unto him and be saved. "Come unto me," says he, "all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. To the devotees of the place, these words seemed to contain something very sweet. The labours and the difficulties they underwent, the trials and hadships they had to overcome with a view to get the burden of their sins removed, were known to them only. He who spoke these comforting words, they felt, must be a loving and a gracious Saviour. This was altogether a noble opportunity. Would that we had angels' tongues, and seraphs' hearts, to glorify the precious name of our Redeemer in the midst of the heathen.-V. T. Paramasiven.

BURMAH.

Progress among the Karens.

MR THOMAS, of the Karen department of the Henthada mission, writes,-"There has been no year in which our efforts have been crowned with greater success. Karen preachers have been established in nine different places, in five of which new places we have been permitted to plant churches of the living God. Our prospects in this department were never so cheering. We hear of many new places still, where the people are ready to receive the gospel. Connected with this mission are fiftyfour out stations, forty-five churches, one thousand five hundred church members. One hundred and fifty have been baptized this year. There are sixty native preachers, of whom four are ordained." He says also:-" Pious English officers are doing a great work in Rangoon. Prayer and conference meetings are carried on by officers and soldiers, quite independently of the missionaries. The prayer-meeting is an institution of some of those regiments. Nor are these meetings carried on in a lifeless, formal manner. Far from it. There are in this country British officers who would compare favourably with many American ministers and lay brethren, by their earnest, faithful dealing with sinners of all ranks. A great change this from the state of things common in the early days of the Serampore missionaries. May the work thus spread until all know the Lord."

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READ atttentively Isaiah xliv. 9-21. There you will find a full account of idol-making. This wonderful chapter has convinced many an idolater of the senseless character of his idol worship.

The following instance, mentioned in the Quarterly Token occurred in Sierra Leone. A native convert belonging to a distant tribe, expressed himself as follows

"Master, those words you spoke last night struck me much. When you preached you read Isaiah xliv., and explained. You showed how my country people stand.

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I said to myself, Who tells him all this? He has never been in my.country. I am sure that the Bible is God's word; for man cannot put all those things there, because he does not see them. When I was in my own country, I lived with a man who made idols. the bush to teach me to make them. tree. He takes the country axe, and tree. He makes a God. And he takes the leaves and that which was left, and gives them me to carry home. When we came home we made a fire, and all the people came and sat round the fire. Then they cooked and ate. When they had done eating, the man took the leaves of the tree and burned them in the fire, and then all the people stood round the fire, and clapped their hands, and said, 'Aha! aha!' Master, when that verse about feeding on ashes was read, I can't tell you what I felt. I was struck again, for they take the ashes and make medicine, which they give to the sick. You have seen some of it. It looks like dirt. They carry it round their neck, and they eat it sometimes. You see, master, our countrypeople feed upon ashes. For true, the Bible is God's word."

THE WORTH OF A LIFE.

WHO can tell how much a single human life is worth, even though it be only the short life of earth! How the world has been moved to try to find Sir John Franklin, frozen and perishing far up among the eternal ice of the north. Four millions of money have been expended, and many lives lost, in the vain search. Sir John was not a young man; but, I suppose, if it were known that he still lives, and his life could be saved, and he brought back again, by a ship loaded with gold, the money would be raised and sent.

If so much would be done to save a life, how much more should be done to save a soul!-Juvenile Missionary Herald.

NOTES IN LONDON.-TWO DEATH-BEDS.

ST. GILES'S, LONDON.-As I was one day following my daily calling I was asked to go and visit two poor fallen young women who were dying. I was asked into the room, and after a little conversation with them, I read and prayed. One had heard me preach in the open air a few days previously, and then the Lord convinced her of sin. Not only were the sufferings of her body great, but she was in a most dreadful state of soul, and was continually crying out vehemently, "Lord, have mercy upon me!" I again prayed the Lord to save her soul from going down to the pit; and He inclined unto me and heard my cry, and brought her up out of the pit and out of the miry clay, and put a new song in her mouth"Now I have found a Friend,

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The change of her countenance was of a most interesting character. Those dull, gloomy features, brought down to the grave at so early an age, were changed into a smile by the assurance of all her sins being pardoned through faith in the blood of her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The short time of peace allowed her between that and death seemed occupied with this one thought, "Jesus is mine." She only lived about half an hour after finding peace in forgiveness, and then fell asleep with the words on her lips, "Jesus is mine."

The end of the other was fearfully different, and it would have melted the heart of the most hardened, could they but have seen that poor dying one who was so soon to close her eyes in death, and have heard her heartrending cries: "It is no use your conversing with me; God won't forgive." I told her that God was willing to forgive all who came unto him through Jesus, and I referred her to the woman of Samaria and Rahab the harlot; but it was all in vain, and she screamed out most dreadfully, and pulled her hair out of her head in her agony of soul, and said, "I have rejected the counsel my dear father and mother gave me; and not only that, but I have rejected the counsel of God against my own soul;" and thus she died, crying out, "I am lost! I am lost!I am damned! I am damned!"

T. H.

WHICH WAY DOES THE TREE LEAN.

"IF the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be (Eccles. xi. 3). There is a solemn meaning in this illustration. The tree will not only lie as it falls, it will also fall as it leans. And the great question which every one ought to bring home to his own bosom, without a moment's delay, is this,-What is the inclination of my soul? Does it, with all its affections, lean toward God, or away from Him?-J. J. Gurney.

ONE DAY BEFORE DEATH.

RABBI ELIEZER said, "Turn to God one day before death." His disciples said, "How can a man know the day of his death?" He answered them, "Therefore turn to God to-day. Perhaps you may die to-morrow; thus every day will be employed in turning.".

SATURDAY NIGHT.

A TEXT FOR OUR TEACHER.

November 1861.

Nov. 2. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. -Matt. xxii. 9.

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Do ye look on things after the outward appearance ?-2 Cor. x. 7.

16. Let us not be desirous of vain-glory.-Gal.

iii. 26.

23. Even Christ pleased not himself.-Rom. XV. 3.

30. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.-1 Cor. xvi. 13.

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