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mortal sight! We may at any moment be summoned from time into eternity. What then? Death shall fix our destiny for ever. We require not to wait for this. till the judgment-day. The next step, the next hour, and we may hear these words pronounced from the throne of eternal justice, and the issues involved in them irreversibly fixed: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." death will find us, so will the judgment-day. The latter may be far off, the former is near-at our very doors. If death will find us righteous and holy, that will be our character for ever; on the other hand, to be out of Christ at death, is to be out of Him and away from Him, world without end. These are solemn thoughts. We will soon have done with this world, its business, pleasures, and sorrows. What next? Results must follow us into eternity. As we sow here, so shall we reap in the unseen world. What are we sowing now? To the flesh? Then we must reap corruption. To the spirit? Then the harvest will be life everlasting.

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THIS Selection of SACRED SONGS has been made with great care. It comprises most of the old favourite Hymns, and furnishes not a few which are not so well known as, owing to their merits, they are likely to become. Though specially adapted to the Young, the Selection contains a few that are equally suited to those of riper years.

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NOW READY.

AT PLAY:

A STORY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.

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"When the cat's away the mice will play."

Mice at Play'; or, Some other Babies, very like Helen's, only more so, is said to be a better story, of the same kind as 'Helen's Babies,'

we.

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