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MISSIONARY. NEWS.
"Thy Kingdom Come."

A Father Fallen Asleep.

THE oldest missionary in Ceylon-probably the oldest Protestant missionary at work in connection with any denomination-has ceased from his labours. The Rev. D. J. Gogerly, of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, passed away, having just completed the seventieth year of his age, and the forty-fourth of his almost uninter rupted residence in Ceylon.

Hindu Newspapers on the Bible.

THE Bengali newspapers seem to be becoming most liberal in their views. The Sajjona Rajana, advocating the introduction of the Bible into Government schools, describes it, in remarkable language as coming from a heathen, as "the best and the most excellent of all English books; and there is not its like in the English language. As every joint of the sugar-cane, from the root to the top, is full of sweetness, so every page of the Bible is fraught with the most precious instructions. A portion of that book would yield to you more of sound morality than a thousand other treatises on the same subject. In short, if any person studies the English language with a view to gain wisdom, there is not another book which is more worthy of being read than the Bible."-News of the Churches.

A Hindu Missionary Society.

SOME of the wealthy native bankers of Benares, annoyed at the bold earnestness of modern missionaries,-forcing, as it were, Christianity on them in their very homes and temples, have resolved to originate a rival missionary society for the propagation and defence of Hinduism.— Khair Khwah I Hind..

Dec. 6.

SATURDAY NIGHT.

A TEXT FOR OUR TEACHER.

December 1862.

Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well; for so I am.-John xiii. 13.

13. I will bless thee,-and thou shalt be a blessing.-Gen. xii. 2.

20. And now, Lord, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant. -1 Chron. xvii. 26.

27. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.-2 Thess. ii. 16, 17.

BOOKS.

MISSIONARY GLEANINGS. London: Religious Tract Society. 32mo, 128 pages. Many woodcuts. Price Sixpence. Among the many little books intended to interest the young in missionary work, we do not know one more full at once of interest and instruction than this old favourite. It was one of the earliest compiled, and contains some of the most remarkable facts gathered from the history of Christian missions in all parts of the word. It is as full as it can hold of the dearly loved "stories and pictures."

"WHO WOULD READ THE BIBLE?" London: Monthly Tract Society, Red Lion Square. 24mo, 16 pages. Price One Penny.

A father's wise answer to this foolish question of a thoughtless child. This tract has less sparkle than some others of the series, but none of them is more full of instruction and kind counsel,-the "sound speech which cannot be condemned."

CHOOSE WELL.

OH, dead in sin!

Wilt thou still choose to die
The death of deaths eternally?
Dost thou not feel the groan
Of the eternal tomb?

Oh, dead to life!

Wilt thou the life from heaven
Reject? the life so freely given;
Wilt thou choose sin and tears
Through everlasting years?

Oh, dead to Christ!

Wilt thou despise the love

Of Him who stooped from joy above,
To shame on earth for thee,
That He might set thee free?

Oh, dead to God!

Wilt thou not seek his face?

Wilt thou not turn and own the grace!
Wilt thou not take the heaven

So freely to thee given?

-Dr. H. Bonar.

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Come pe to the waters, and he that hath no money."

(ISAIAH Ivi. 1.)

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