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PRIZE ESSAYS.

He has gone before us into the beautiful land to prepare the many mansions for us. He is there, waiting for us, ready to give us His own most sweet and gracious welcome to His own fair country, as soon as our feet have crossed the river.

Will you fear to go where Jesus has gone before? Will you fear to go where He is?

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What does the word 'ever' point out? 1 Pet.
1. 4. 2 Pet. 1. 11. John 10. 28.
What persons were taken to heaven without
dying? Gen. 5. 24. 2 Kings 2. 11.

Sept. 14.-THE CHRISTIAN IN THE WORLD. 1 Tim. 6. 6-16. Memory verses: 9-12. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Golden Text.
You know you must die. You

know that even little children die who are
much younger than you. And very likely
you do not like to think about dying. I do
not think you need think at all about lying
cold and dead and being put in the grave.
When that does come, it will not matter to
you in the least. If Jesus is your Saviour,
if He takes away your sins, death will only
be like being carried in a minute across a
narrow stream, and meeting the loving and
glorious One on the other side, where He
is gone over before. Nay, rather, He will
come and fetch you Himself into the
'pleasant land,' and He will cause you to
inherit' it, so that it will be your own land,
your own beautiful and holy and glorious
home for ever.

'Praying for His children,
In that blessed place,
Calling them to glory,
Sending them His grace;

'His bright home preparing,
Little ones, for you;
Jesus ever liveth,

Ever loveth too.'

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John 17. 16.

What is it, to be of the world? Psa. 17. 14.
Eph. 2. 2, 3, 12.

What gods do they that are of the world

worship? 1 Tim. 6. 10; 5. 6. Phil. 3. 19. Who alone can draw men's hearts away from earthly things? John 12. 32. Mat. 4. 19-22. Luke 19. 5, 8.

By what stronger love does Jesus expel the love
of the world from the heart? Mat. 6. 20, 21.
Col. 3. 2. Phil. 3. 20. Ruth 1. 16.
How does the believer use the things of this
world? 1 Tim. 6. 18. 1 Cor. 7. 31. Heb.
13. 16.

Sept. 21.-THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN.
Titus 3. 1-9. Memory verses: 1-5.
Golden Text. Render therefore unto
Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's;
and unto God the things that are
God's.

Who was Cæsar?

Mat. 22. 17-21.
What is our duty to civil rulers?

Rom. 13. 4-7.

Mat. 22. 21.

Titus 3. 1.

What is our duty to God? Mat. 22. 37; 4. 10; 10. 37-39.

When must the Lord's people refuse to obey civil rulers? Acts 4. 19, 20. Heb. 11. 23. Dan. 3. 16-18; 6. 10.

Sept. 28.-Review, or Lesson selected by the School.

PRIZE ESSAYS.

THREE Prizes are offered for the Best Essays on the following subject:

'What evidence have we that the Bible is the inspired Word of God?'

The competitors must not be above 15 years of age. The Essays not to exceed in length three pages of the 'Dayspring'; and the MSS., accompanied with a sealed envelope, giving the name and address of the competitor, must be addressed to the Rev. JOHN KAY, 2 Cumin Place, Edinburgh, and reach him not later than the 29th of Nov., 1879.

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'GO TO SLEEP,'

THE BIBLE.

'Go to sleep, Carlo, you naughty dog,'

said Flora, as she fondled her little favourite, and lectured him on his duty, as if there were as much wisdom in his black, bushy head, as in her own. Perhaps, indeed, there was, only he had a different way of expressing his thoughts, and Flora did not always quite understand his meaning. If it is true that we only thoroughly know those whom we love, then, I am quite sure Flora might well know Carlo, for dearly she loved him; and her run in the garden, or her walk through the summer fields, would have felt solitary indeed, had he not been her companion.

On this special morning, they had had a long ramble together, and Carlo had very nearly got his young mistress into trouble, by barking at some sheep on the road, and so calling down the displeasure of the shepherd. Then when fairly out of harm's way, as Flora believed, he had the boldness to challenge a great big dog to single fight, and the little girl's heart beat quick as she saw a huge paw ready to come down on her pet. But happily the warrior was of a generous disposition, and would have scorned to take advantage of such a weak foe, so he allowed the thoughtless little pair to continue their journey in peace, so far as he was concerned; but it was not till Flora had reached the garden gate, and closed it behind them both, that she felt quite secure.

Then, throwing off her bonnet, she set herself to teach Carlo better manners, as she said, for he still seemed inclined for more fun. Go to sleep,' she repeated. 'I am sure you may well rest now, and be thankful you are home. Where would you have been, if that great dog had not had pity on you? and what should I have done without you, you dear, delightful, mischievous, little thing! Ah, Carlo, I see quite well conscience won't allow you to sleep, and it is no wonder. You are thinking of those poor harmless sheep you wished to worry; you know you were wrong; you are feeling just as I did last Tuesday when I was angry with George, and struck him.

And there are other naughty things I have done, Carlo, that sometimes come into my mind when the room is dark, and just before I fall asleep. If conscience is keeping you awake, I shall not grudge it. Mamma said it was well for us to be kept a little wakeful, when that small voice was speaking; we should be more likely to remember and not do the same again. You'll try too, Carlo, and be a better little dog next time, won't you? so go to sleep, now: you and I are tired.'

FIR

THE BIBLE.

K.

By a young Contributor now deceased. IRST of all, What is the Bible? The Book. What book? And why, when the world is so full of books, that in civilized countries we see them lying about in almost every house we enter, should there be one singled out and set apart from all the rest, and by tacit consent allowed to be the Book? Why, because the value of a book is in its authorship, and the author of this Book is God. And because other writings are but the work of created men, while this is penned by the Creator Himself, therefore the Bible stands above all other books. In it God tells us, so far as we may understand, who and what He is, and to what purpose He has created us. He tries to make us see that His thoughts to us were always thoughts of love and mercy, though we rebelled against all His loving-kindness, and persistently grieved His Holy Spirit. He tells of the great climax, when the Son of Glory left the light of His Father's presence, to walk on earth in darkness and the shadow of death, despised, rejected, and finally slain by men, that through His death their great sin might be blotted out and forgiven.

At first, for a long time, there was no Bible; that is, no written record of God's dealings with men. Job was probably the first who, being a holy man of God, was inspired by the Spirit to narrate his own history-shewing the strife between the will of God and that of man, and how, in all things, we must bow submissively,

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Specimen of Tyndale's first Testament.

Midian, Moses found this manuscript of the old patriarch, and preserved it, together with his own five books, now called the Pentateuch. Then came the historical,

Latterly, on the return from the Babylonian captivity, it was the custom to read them every Sabbath, and some other days, in the synagogues, for the instruction of the

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