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BIBLE QUESTIONS.

know that the hour has come for them to depart." "These men," said the chief, turning to his attendants, "must have ten lives. When they are so fearless of death, there must be something in immortality."

'This was the last menace made, and, from that time, the way to the hearts of the people seemed to be opened up. The experiences of Mr Moffat. however, very much resemble those of the first Apostle to the Gentiles. His perils and his trials were both frequent and various. Sometimes he passed the night in a bed of sand; at one time he was at the point of death from drinking poisoned water; and more than once he was confronted with lions, tigers, and serpents, or was face to face with men more savage, more bloodthirsty, and more treacherous than they. One example will suffice to show the dangers to which, in this respect, he was continually exposed. "In one of my early journeys," he says, "I had a providential escape from an African tiger and a serpent. I had left the waggons and had wandered to a distance among the

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coppice and the grassy openings in quest of I had a small double-barrelled gun on my shoulder, which was loaded with a ball and small shot; an antelope passed, at which I fired, and slowly followed the course it took. After advancing a short distance, I saw a tiger-cat staring at me between the forked branches of a tree, behind which his long spotted body was concealed, twisting and turning his tail like a cat just going to spring on its prey. This I knew was a critical moment, not having a shot of ball in my gun. I moved about as if in search of something in the grass, taking care to retreat at the same time. After getting, as I thought, a suitable distance to turn my back, I moved somewhat more quickly, but in my anxiety to escape what was behind, I did not see what was before, until startled by treading upon a large cobra de capello serpent, asleep on the grass. It instantly twirled its body round my leg, on which I had nothing but a thin pair of trousers, when I leaped from the spot, dragging the venemous and enraged reptile after me; and while in the act of throwing itself into a position to bite, without turning round, I threw my piece over my shoulder and shot it. Taking it by the tail, I brought it to my people at the waggons, who, on examining the bags of poison, asserted that had the creature bitten I could never have reached the waggons. The serpent was six feet long."'

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Memory text-Isaiah 65. 24. Psalm 65. 3.

Aug. 11. LUKE 5. 1-11.

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BIBLE QUESTIONS. HREE Prizes are offered for the largest number of correct answers, to be awarded in December 1872.

The following are the conditions.

1. Competitors not to be above fifteen years of age. 2. The answers honestly to be the work of the young persons competing from month to month.

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

36. Name two verses from Paul's epistles, each of which contains the Christian law of courtesy towards one another?

37. On what occasion do the words of Jesus show that He is grieved when the common courtesies of life are neglected?

38. What reason is given in an epistle to enforce the duty of hospitality?

39. Which verse of another epistle tells us what spirit we must avoid when we show hospitality?

40. What question, put by Jesus, shows that Christians ought to excel others in whatsoever things are lovely and of good report?

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2 Singing for Jesus, our Master and Friend,
Telling His love and His marvellous grace,-
Love from eternity, love to the end,
Love for the loveless, the sinful and base.

3 Singing for Jesus, and trying to win

Many to love Him, and join in the song;
Calling the weary and wandering in,
Rolling the chorus of gladness along.
4 Singing for Jesus, our Life and our Light;
Singing for Him as we press to the mark,

Paisley: J. AND R. PARLANE.

Singing for Him when the morning is bright.
Singing, still singing, for Him in the dark!

5 Singing for Jesus, our Shepherd and Guide,
Singing for gladness of heart that He gives,
Singing for wonder and praise that He died,
Singing for blessing and joy that He lives!

6 Singing for Jesus, oh singing with joy;
Thus will we praise Him, and tell out His love,
Till He shall call us to brighter employ,
Singing for Jesus for ever above.

London: HOULSTON AND SONS, Paternoster Buildings.

The DAYSPRING can be had, post free, from the Publishers, as follows:

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THE VOICES OF THE BROOK.

HOW long little Alice has been

absent! said her mother, as she looked along the road that stretched in front of a neat little cottage, whose wall was adorned with honeysuckle and with climbing roses. Alice, a little girl of ten, had, along with the other scholars, obtained from her teacher a half-holiday, and after assisting in putting matters to rights at home, had asked permission to have a run in the woods; and taking with her a little basket, had assured her mother that she would bring it home with her filled with no end of blackberries. When three hours had elapsed, Alice made her appearance, her cheeks glowing with health, her eyes sparkling with delight, and her basket filled to the brim with luscious blackberries.

While the mug of milk and the sweet home-baked bread were being partaken of, Alice gave her mother an account of the day's excursion. After she had half filled her basket she had felt rather tired, and had sat down at the side of a little running brook, where she had fallen into a half dreamy state, in which she thought she heard the brook speak, and as she listened she could make out words, and then sentences, and at last the brook sung to her this song. Looking into the dreamy blue eyes of the child, you could have no hesitation in saying that Alice was such an one as would see and hear things that other children would have passed by. This, as Alice told it, was the song:

'Onward and onward for ever I flow,
On to the river where stately ships go,
On through the green wood, and meadows so fair,
Where the bee-laden clover has scented the air.

Black-eyed Robin Red-breast brings his 'Jenny' along,

Makes my waters his mirror, and pays me in song;

While, sportive and merry, the long summer day The troutlets leap up like bairnies at play.

The sweet-scented violets, and modest spring flowers

Come hither for water to sprinkle their bowers; The blackberry peers with his bead-like eye Far down to the depths where white peebles lie.

Knowest thou, wee Alice, another fair stream,
Fairer than I, where the golden sunbeam
Never sinks into night, but shines ever and ever
On the beautiful waters of God's own river?

The streets of the city are all of pure gold,
The pavement of sapphire, its glories untold;
And myriad harpers stand on its banks,
Hymning to Jesus, in sweet song their thanks.
And thousands of children, all robed in white,
Walk by the stream in the fair sunlight;
Their song Alleluia, and Christ's smile their
heaven-'

' and then,' said little Alice, 'the singing came to an end, and I could only make out such words as these, "purl--purl-purl— home-Alice-home."

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THE LORD'S DAY.

there was no harm in it, because the Sabbath was only intended for the Jews. He said that his papa had told him so, and that it was done away with when Jesus came, just like the Jewish sacrifices.'

I am very sorry to hear that any boy in school with you should talk so, Georgie, dear; but what did you say to him?'

'I said I was quite sure that my papa did not believe that, and that he would not go any excursion on Sabbath, because he says it is a great sin to make people work at their ordinary employments on that holy day.'

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But, mamma, though I know that what papa says is right, I do not know how we can prove from the Bible that the Sabbath was not done away with like the Jewish sacrifices. I would like to learn how we can know this.'

'I will try to show you that, and I think Johnnie could help you to find it out. He knows how we can be sure that the Sabbath was made for all mankind as well as for the Jews.'

'Yes, mamma, I know that,' said Johnnie. 'The Sabbath could not be made only for the Jews, for there were no Jews in the world when "God blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." It was on the very first day after Adam and Eve were created, when they dwelt with God holy and happy.'

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'But, mamma, sacrifices were offered almost from the beginning, and yet they were done away.'

'That is quite true, Georgie. Sacrifices were appointed when sin entered into the world, to teach man that sin deserves death, and to point to the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world; and you kuow why they were for ever done away."

'O, yes; it was because Christ Jesus had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever. The sacrifices offered before were only types of

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His one great sacrifice. Is the Sabbath a type, mamma?'

The Sabbath is not a type of Christ, but it is often looked upon as a beautiful type or emblem of heaven. Its holy rest and blessed employments are a shadow of the perfect rest and joyful worship of the heavenly world—

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Day of all the week the best,
Emblem of eternal rest."

'If the Sabbath is a type of heaven, when do you think it will be done away, Georgie?

'I think it will only be when we get to heaven, mamma, for then the everlasting Sabbath will have come.'

'And can you tell me, Johnnie, where we find the command to keep the Sabbath holy? Is it only among the precepts concerning Jewish rites and ceremonies given by Moses?'

'O no, mamma; it is the fourth commandment-one of the ten commandments which God spake amid thunder and lightning at Mount Sinai, and which He afterwards wrote with His own finger on two tables of stone.'

'Yes; the place which the Sabbath law occupies in the very midst of the ten commandments, which Christ came to establish as the rule of His kingdom, shows that it is for all time. Jesus died because we had broken these commandments, and He sends the Holy Spirit to write them anew, not on tables of stone, but on the hearts of His own people.'

'But the Jews said that Jesus did not keep the Sabbath. Did He not, mamma?' said Georgie.

'Jesus always kept the Sabbath holy. No one ever kept it as he did; but He did not keep the foolish traditions which the Pharisees had added to the fourth commandment. Several times they found fault with Jesus for healing on the Sabbath, and He explained to them that to do so was a work of mercy, like pulling a sheep out of a pit into which it had fallen on the Sabbath day. We may be quite sure that Jesus never worked as a carpenter, or went a

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