Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB
[graphic][merged small][merged small]

to those who never have known anything better or more glorious! Like that traveller I come to you, and find you down in the dark mines of sin and death, and tell you of the Christian Sun, the Sun of Righteousness, that is shining about the path of all God's people; and tell you of its warmth, its light, and its beauty. It is a far brighter Sun than that which shines in our heavens. Oh that you, like the little boy, may never rest satisfied until you have seen this Sun, felt his warmth and love, and rested in his light!

MISSIONARY NOTES.
"Thy Kingdom Come.”

Madagascar-The Kindness of the King.

THE kindness of the king is unabated, and he has formally made over, by written documents, signed with his own hand, to the Native Protestant Christians and Missionaries connected with the London Missionary Society, the several sites for the Memorial Churches, and also different buildings for a Chief School, Hospital, Printing Office, &c., the claims of individuals, which were very reasonable, for their interest in these buildings, having been equitably discharged by Mr. Ellis on behalf of the society.

N

Hindu Women at Bangalore.

[ocr errors]

66

into

and D, two Hindu women, came to our house to-day. Leaving N- with Lydia, I took Dmy little room, and told her this was my private room where I read God's book and sought him in prayer. She said, "Your house is altogether delightful." Yes," I said, "God has given me every good thing;" and then I particularized my temporal mercies, and especially dwelt upon my greater spiritual ones, viz. :—the blessedness of sin being forgiven, of reconciliation to God, and of a happy future in prospect. She listened with interest, and I

said, "God is ready to impart all this to you also. He is showing you much mercy. He gave you the desire to learn to read, and sent me to teach you; and he will teach you to know himself, and will save you if you will give your mind to these things." She brightened and said, This alone has induced me to learn to read, that I may learn about God, and meditate on these things. You know we Hindu women have no use for reading, but my desire is strong to know about God." I inquired if she prayed to God. "Oh yes!" she said. "How do you pray?" "Just as you have told me. Are you not always telling us?" "Let me read you a prayer," I said. She assented to many parts as it was read, and I pressed all being presented in Christ's name, and for his sake. -Mrs. Sewell, L. M. Society.

Rarotonga.

THOUGH degraded and vicious in the extreme at the time of John Williams' first visit, under the power of the gospel it long since became the abode of peace and righte ousness. All the people of the island are now avowedly Christians, and the five churches include in their fellowship at least one third of the adult population. Many native teachers from this island, after having received an extended course of suitable training, have been instrumental in introducing the gospel to the benighted groups of Western Polynesia, where they have distinguished themselves by zeal and ability in the work of the Lord. -Missionary Chronicle.

BOOKS.

MAKE SURE OF IT. A Few Words to Young Men. By One of Themselves. London: The Book Society. 24mo, 24 pp. Price One Penny.

In the city of London, about a thousand souls pass into eternity every week. This is the death-bed story of one of them, a young man, who died aged twenty, worn out in the slavery of sin. When death knocked at his door, neither Bible nor Testament was to be found in his house. The "few words" are taught by means of a terrible illustration, "He is gone-but where?"

PEOPLE OF CONSEQUENCE. London: English Monthly Tract Society, Red Lion Square. 24mo, 16 pp. Price One Penny.

66 6

An interesting story, well fitted to show the sin and the silliness of the airs" which some young people, and older people too, give themselves. By nature we put self first: but when God's grace converts the heart, we learn to place God first, our neighbour as ourself, and ourself last.' The more this is done, the more happy we are ourselves, and the more we cause happiness to others."

THE LOST LAMB.

A LITTLE lamb was bleating
As we passed the meadow side;
It had wandered from its mother,
And it missed its faithful guide.

Other sheep were near it,
But it only looked for one,
For the nourishment it needed,
As it wandered sad and lone.

The mother heard its bleating,
And she ran with joyful haste
To restore the little wanderer

To its own sweet place of rest.
Take a lesson, dearest children,-
You know we love you true;
Keep near the gentle Shepherd,
Who is ever kind to you.

Be sorry when you grieve him,
And pray you never may
Be thoughtless little wanderers
From Christ, the Living Way.

EDINBURGH: T. NELSON AND SONS.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][graphic][subsumed][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

WENTY years after the ever-memorable Disruption, the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland met in the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, on Thursday, 21st May. The Rev. Dr. Guthrie, the Moderator of last year, preached the opening sermon from Mark xvi. 15, "Go ye therefore into all the

world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Dr. Guthrie began by showing that during the first centuries after the truth as it is in Jesus was known in this land, those who professed it had to contend against its enemies often to the death, and

« ZurückWeiter »