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BIBLE QUESTIONS.

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and expected. She was getting on SO nicely, and beginning to be quite bright and merry. Some weeks ago she began to grow weak and thin, in a way which I have often seen famine children go off. should at once have had but little hope of her, had it not been that I knew she was specially such a child of prayer, and that God had raised her up, seemingly, in answer to prayer from an equally weak state. I did all I could for her; but when I found she could not have all the particular attention she required, I sent her to the Hospital at Calcutta. About a week after I went over to see her, and heard she had died the previous day. It was a very great disappointment to me to find she was dead, and I am sure it will be also to her kind English sisters. But He who does all things well has so ordered it, and He knows far better than we do what is the best means for furthering His kingdom. We had hoped that little Pooree might be one who should live to become a teacher to her poor heathen countrywomen, and be the means of bringing many to the Saviour. But He has seen fit to take her, while still a little one, to her Saviour's bosom.

'I will choose a new little one as her successor, and tell you all about the child, for I hope you will like one in her stead.

Koreman is well, and getting on nicely. You shall have a specimen of her writing before long. I scarcely ever have any fault to find with her. I know her English friends will pray for her, that she may be early one of the lambs of the Saviour's flock. I have not yet given her Bible into her own keeping, and Pooree's is unused, so it will do for her successor.

I am working in the midst of many trials and disappointments, and much need the prayers of Christian friends; but I do indeed praise God for His many blessings also.'

May we not write over our l sister's grave:

'He sent from above,

He took me,

H. J. NEELE.

little Indian

He drew me out of many waters.'

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HREE Prizes, in each of the two divisions, are offered for the largest number of correct answers. The Prizes to be awarded in December 1873.

The following are the conditions:

1. In the first, or Junior division, the questions for which will be printed first in order; competitors not to be above thirteen years of age.

2. In the second, or Senior division, competitors not to be above eighteen years of age: and in both divisions the answers must be honestly the work of the individuals competing.

3. All answers to be addressed, not later than the 18th of each month, to the Rev. JOHN KAY, Greenbank Cottage, Coatbridge.

As a matter of convenience and economy the answers may be written on post cards. Be careful in all cases to give the name and address of the competitor.

JUNIOR DIVISION.

16. Which commandment is pre-eminently Christ's commandment, and obedience to it the mark by which His people are known?

17. Who prayed for union among believers in order that the world might be converted?

18. What two emblems are used in one psalm to describe the blessedness of union among believers ?

SENIOR DIVISION.

16. Give an expression in three words which describes a characteristic of the early church; it occurs seven times in the Acts of the Apostles?

17. Give four consecutive verses of an epistle in which seven reasons are given why the church should be united?

18. In which verse of an epistle are three questions asked to show the folly of division

in the church of Christ?

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IN APRIL 'DAYSPRING.'

JUNIOR DIVISION.

(7) Zechariah viii. 5; (8) Matthew xi. 16, 17; (9) Proverbs xx. 11.

SENIOR DIVISION.

(7) Psalm xc. 14; (8) Ecclesiastes xi. 9; (9) 1 Timothy v. 6.

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For a Course of Lessons on the Old and New Testaments. Parts I. & II. Old Testament, and Parts I. & II. Gospels. 1d. each.

PAISLEY: J. AND R. PARLANE.

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2 Yet a little while we linger,
Ere we reach our journey's end;
Yet a little while to labour,

Ere the evening shades descend;
Then we'll lay us down to slumber,
But the night will soon be o'er;
In the bright, the bright for ever,
We shall wake to sleep no more.

Pasley: J. AND R. PARLANE.

London:

3 O the bliss of life eternal!

O the long unbroken rest!
In the golden fields of pleasure,
In the region of the blest:
But, to see our dear Redeemer,
And before His throne to fall,

There to hear His gracious welcome

Will be sweeter far than all.

OULSTON AND SONS, Paternoster Buildings.

The DAYSPRING can be had, post free, from the Publishers, as follows:
7 copies for 4d., or 12 copies monthly, for one year, 68.

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SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.

has often been in my mind to put together a few sentences in reference to the Bible Questions that appear month by month in the Dayspring.'

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It is very cheering to find in connection with the answers, abundant evidence of the conscientiousness of some of the competitors. One of the youngest last year (who has enrolled herself for this year in the junior side) sent her answers with notes which were exceedingly pleasant, for here and there in the answers came such words as these: 'Mamma helped me with this question; or, Mamma told me the book, and I found the chapter and verse.' Was not that highly honourable and Godpleasing? I confess that when I read the little one's notes it made me sometimes say, thank God, here is the promise of one other honest, truthful nature being added to those who are striving to destroy the works of him who is the father of lies.

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There came to me one day, from a town in England, a letter containing answers. They were not all correct, but they had evidently been carefully thought over, and earnestly looked for. Along with the answers came a tiny little note, stating that the writer had been for a long time an invalid confined to her sofa, with a spinal disease; that a lady had left her one day a copy of the Dayspring,' and that her eye had alighted on the Bible Questions. The endeavour to find the answers helped to wile away for her many weary hours. As one of the contributors to the 'Dayspring' resided in the neighbourhood, she was requested to visit Kate, and try to cheer her. It was a labour of love most willingly undertaken, and most promptly executed; and so the Bible Questions resulted in our making the acquaintance of a most interesting child, whose answers come as regularly as the month comes.

What do you think? A gentleman, who has been a clergyman for twenty-seven years, told me the other day that he tries the Dayspring Questions.' Of course he is too old to enter the list as a com

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petitor, but he says it is excellent Sabbath evening work, and leads him to know and love his Bible more than ever. He also added that he looks at the answers as they come out, and feels sometimes a little humbled to discover, that although he had been a competitor he would not have got the full number of marks!

HOME LESSONS FOR THE LORD'S DAY.

THE THREEFOLD CORD.

WILLIE and I have learned two

answers in the Catechism to-day, mamma; the fifth one is so very short and easy that we learned the sixth one too.'

'That was right; you will understand these two best by taking them together.'

'The first one is as plain as it can be, mamma; it is, There is but One only, the living and true God."'

That is a truth which seems very plain to you, Katie, because you have been brought up in a Christian land, and taught it from your infancy; and yet, it is a truth which the most learned men in the world could not discover without the Bible. Even the wisest philosophers, historians, and orators of ancient Greece and Rome had no idea of the One Living and True God. The Greeks believed in so many gods, that lest there might be some one of the numerous deities which they had neglected to worship, they made a temple to the unkown god. At the present time the Hindoos, Chinese, and Burmese worship thousands of gods. Excepting in some small spots where the gospel is known, these nations have no idea of One Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable. How thankful should we be, that

"We were not born, as thousands are,
Where God was never known;
And taught to pray a useless prayer
To blocks of wood and stone."

Do you remember, Willie, how Elijah showed the worshippers of Baal that there is only one living and true God?'

That was at mount Carmel, mamma. Elijah made them prepare a sacrifice, and

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pray to their god to send fire to consume it; but, though they cried to Baal the whole day, no fire came. Then Elijah laid his sacrifice on the Lord's altar, and whenever he prayed fire came down and consumed it. "And the people said, The Lord, He is the God; the Lord, He is the God."

And what was the duty Elijah taught the people from this truth? You will find it, Katie, in 1 Kings xviii. 21.'

'And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow Him,' &c.

'Let me hear you answer the next question, Willie. How many persons are

there in the Godhead?'

There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

How can there be three persons and only one God, mamma? I do not understand it at all.'

That is a truth which no one in this world can understand. It is one of the mysteries, or secret wonders, which God has made known to us in His Word. In 'The Pilgrim's Progress,' John Bunyan tells us that when Christiana and her sons were in the house Beautiful, Prudence asked one of the boys, 'What do you do when you meet with places therein (in the Bible) that you do not understand?" And his answer is a very beautiful one. You might read it, Willie.'

I think God is wiser than I. I pray also that He will please to let me know all therein that He knows will be for my good.'

'A very good man-a friend of the poet Cowper-wrote in a letter, that he often felt thankful that there were mysteries in the Bible. He said there were so many things in the world around that he could not understand, that had he been able to understand everything in the Bible he could not have believed that it had come from the same God who made the world.' 'What things in the world did he mean, mamma?'

'A great many things. You know that

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you have a soul, but you do not understand how it is united to your body; you know that you were once a little baby, but you cannot understand how you grew to be so tall as you are now; you know that plants grow from small seeds, but you do not know how. The wisest men in the world cannot explain to us what life is; and when we are so very ignorant of the things around us, surely we should believe what God has told us in His Word even when we cannot understand. Do you know, Willie, where the Bible tells us that all the three persons in the Godhead were employed in making the world?'

The first verse of the first chapter of Genesis says, "God created; the second verse says, "The Spirit of God," &c.; and in the twenty-sixth verse we read, "God said, Let us make man.'

'And many texts tell us that the Son of God made the world (John i. 3). In Proverbs viii. 22-30 we read of the joy which the Son of God had with the Father before the earth was created. But it is the work of redemption which shows us most clearly the three persons of the Godhead. Tell me, Harry, who so loved the world that He sent His own Son to be our Redeemer?'

Our Father in heaven.'

And who became man for us, obeyed the law which we had disobeyed, and bore the punishment of our sins in His own body on the cross?'

'Jesus the Son of God, our Saviour.'

'And who teaches sinners to understand and believe the Bible, leads them to Jesus, and so makes them children of God, Maggie dear?'

'It is the Holy Spirit, mamma.'

'Can you tell me in whose name we are baptized?'

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Three One God.'

'The truth that the three Divine persons are One God, is what is called the doctrine of the Trinity; and it is this glorious doctrine which secures the salvation of every one who believes in Jesus. A Christian lady, shortly before her death,

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