the faithfulness of her God, and felt that she would go to Jesus just His unerring love and wisdom in as she was, with all her sin and the way He had led her. . guilt, and, laying them on Him,

“Has God forgotten to be gra- call Him her Saviour, and God her cious ? ” she exclaimed in anguish reconciled Father. With a humble, of spirit. “Has He cast me off for yet gladdened heart, Miss Cever?” She was aroused from her retired to her room that night. sad reverie by a hand laid upon The dark cloud had passed away, her shoulder; and looking up, saw and all was light within. The one of her pupils, a young lady of Master had rebuked the fears and about seventeen, standing by her. discouragement of His servant “ Can you talk to me a little while, when ready to faint. In the hour Miss CM ," she said, “ now all of her despair He had graciously the girls are quietly in their rooms? bestowed a signal of His favour and I cannot go to bed, feeling so rest- presence, and cheered her with the less and unhappy as I do now. assurance that her labour was not Since last Sunday, when you talked in vain; that, lo! He was with to us so seriously, I have had no her always. peace. I feel that I am a sinner in The remembrance of that eventhe sight of God, and I want to be ing, with its fears so suddenly disreconciled to Him. I want to love pelled, remained with Miss Cand follow Christ; will you tell me through the remainder of her life. how?" One silent prayer of And even when in future years thanksgiving, one supplication for storms again gathered, and clouds divine help, and then Miss C- , and mystery enveloped her path, with gentle and loving words, her faith failed not. It continued, pointed the anxious girl to the cross enabling her unwaveringly to trust of Christ, to faith in His atoning the faithfulness of her God, until sacrifice, as the only means of her sun set in a halo of glory, and salvation and happiness.

| she went to be with Him who, She spoke from a full heart, with though unseen, had been ever near, all the fervour and simplicity of guiding and guarding her to her intense love for her Saviour, and rest at home in His presence for for the souls of her fellow-creatures. ever. Loving, earnest, toiling And by degrees light dawned upou Christian, thus is He with thee! the troubled, eager listener, and she

"NO DODGING!”. Passing down a street one day I saw two boys at play near a heap of earth, around which they seemed to be chasing each other. I heard one of them call to the other while settling the preliminaries of their

sport:

" No going anywhere only round here, and no dodging!” Their game was to be a test of speed and endurance, and not of cunning and dodging.

If a man " strive for the masteries" he is not crowned "except he strive lawfully." Mapy a man entering upon or following the course of the Christian life needs to hear the words, “ No going away from round here, and no dodging ?” He has his line of life laid out before

him. He must not veer or change from it. He must be sincere, tru e faithful, firm.

There are men who talk boldly when danger is far off, but who "dodge” when enemies are at hand. When swelling words are in order, their mouths are full of them ; but when responsibility must be incurred they shun reproach, and frame some excuse to avoid standing for the right or taking a decided position on any important question.

No course is more utterly suicidal for a Christian man than this. You stand at the parting of ways. You know the right, but with the right may come poverty, loss, and reproach; and you shrink from the sacrifice involved. You think, “ What will this man say, and that man say? If I take my position in accordance with my convictions of duty I shall alienate a friend, I shall exasperate a foe,-I will avoid the responsibility." .

But do you ever consider, my friend, that when you have done all that, and think you have escaped the evil you fear, you have by that act written yourself a coward in the minds of those whose friendship is worth most to you? They have weighed you in the balances and found you wanting. They may esteem your talents, they may acknowledge your abilities, but they set you down as a man who cannot be trusted in an emergency; as a man who is not true to his convictions as the needle to the pole ; as a man who is glad to be right when right becomes proper and profitable; but who, shrinking from Christ's cross, puts away the glorious crown.

The safest thing that a man can do is to stand for the right under all circumstances and at all times. In the prevalence of right is our only personal protection. Those who wrong others to-day will wrong us tomorrow. Our rights are not secure while the rights of others are in danger. Men who will use others unfairly will use us in a similar manner. Our only security lies in absolute, steadfast adherence to right; and if we thus stand firm and faithful at our posts, true to our convictions and true to our God, we shall find in the end that the straight way is the shortest; that the right way is the safest; and that the man that makes God his friend need not stop to reckon who are his foes.

“ TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH.”

TH' Eternal God, the Mighty One, the Just,
In whom alone the righteous put their trust;

Who lived to die,

Then rose on high
For ever more to live,
And gifts to all, e'en the rebellious, give;

'Tis He who speaks ; let every one draw near
To what He says, and lend th' attentive ear ;

We all must fight

Who dwell in light,
And trusting in His power,
We all may conquer in the trying hour.

To him that overcometh in the strife
He'll give the fruit from off the tree of life;

That tree which grows

To heal all woes ;
It thrives not on earth's sod,
But blooms within the Paradise of God.

And he that overcometh (every one
Who trusteth in his God may overcome)

The second death,

The eternal death,
Shall have no power to touch :
The Lord bath set His signet upon such.

And he that overcometh soon shall own
The hidden manna and the pure white stone,

With name thereon;

A name which none Save he who bears it knows; A secret name which God, his God, bestows.

And he that overcometh, saith our God,
Shall rule the nations with an iron rod;

The morning star

That shines afar
Shall unto him be given,
And an eternal dwelling-place in heaven.

And he that overcometh, dressed in white, Shall stand before the Lord in glory bright;

By Him be blest,

By Him confest, As one who's washed in blood, And reconciled through Jesus Christ to God.

And he that overcometh-this His word--
I'll make a pillar in the house of God.

There by My side

He shall abide, And never go away, But bear My name, and always with Me stay.

To him that overcometh shall be given
To sit upon the throne of God in heaven.

. And all who strive

In heaven to live
Through Christ may overcome,
And dwell with Him in His eternal home.

Now he that hath an ear, let him take heed,
And for himself the words of Jesus read :

Now is the time,

Th' accepted time.
Let him to Christ draw near

And find peace, safety, joy, salvation there.
Chilworth.

TRUST.
I CANNOT see, with my emall human sight,
Why God should lead this way or that for me;
I only know He saith, “ Child, follow me.”

But I can trust.
· I know not why my path should be at times
So straitly hedged, so strangely barred before;
I only know God could keep wide the door.

But I can trust.
I find no answer, often, when beset
With questions fierce and subtle on my way,
And often have but strength to faintly pray.

But I can trust.
I often wonder, as with trembling hand
I cast the seed along the furrowed ground,
If ripened fruit for God will there be found.

But I can trust.
I cannot know why suddenly the storm
Should rage so fiercely round me in its wrath :
But this I know, God watches all my path

And I can trust.
I may not draw aside the mystic veil
That hides the unknown future from my sight;
Nor know if for me waits the dark or light;

But I can trust.
I have no power to look across the tide,
To see while here the land beyond the river;
But this I know, I shall be God's for ever;

So I can trust.

NEWS OF THE CHURCHES. A new chapel has been opened ministry of the Rev. T. Breewood. at Newbridge-on-Wye, Radnorshire. -A new chapel has been opened --New Sunday - school buildings in Grosvenor-park-road, Chester, have been opened in connection for the ministry of the Rev. W. with the church at Shoreham-by- Durban, B.A. - The foundation. Sea, of which the Rev. C. D. Crouch stone of a new chapel has been laid is the minister.-The foundation- at Richmond, Surrey, for the minstone of a new chapel has been laid istry of the Rev. J. H. Cooke.at Walthamstow, Essex, for the The memorial - stone of a new

chapel has been laid at Hutton | Rev. J. Berryman, of the church Cranswick, near Driffield, Yorkshire, at Grangetown, Cardiff. under the care of the Rev. C. Wel. ton, minister of the church at Drif. The following reports of MINISfield.--The memorial-stone of a new TERIAL CHANGES have reached us school-chapel has been laid at Hele, since the preparation of our last Devon, in connection with the issue :-The Rev. J. Lyne, of the church at Torquay, under the care Metropolitan Tabernacle College, of the Rev. E. Edwards. — The to Chenies, Bucks; the Rev. J. G. chapel in Chatsworth-road, Lower Raws, of Kimbolton, Hunts, to Norwood, Surrey, under the care Ulverston, Lancashire; the Rev. of the Rev. W. F. Gooch, has been J. W. Gardner, of Witney, to re-opened after alterations and en- Upper and Lower Stratton, Swinlargement.--The memorial - stones don, Bucks; the Rev. W. Sexton, of new school buildings, &c., have of the Metropolitan Tabernacle been laid in connection with the College, to Salem Chapel, Boston, church in Dover-street, Leicester.— Lincolnshire ; the Rev. G. D. The memorial-stones of a new Hooper, of Gunnersbury, to Henchapel have been laid at Pont- don; the Rev, J. Knox, of Glasgow, newydd, near Newport, Monmouth- to Lochgilphead; the Rev. W. shire, for the church of which the Chambers, of the Metropolitan Rev. T. Cocker is the minister.— Tabernacle College, to Little ParisThe memorial-stone of a new chapel, street, London ; the Rev. H. W. for the ministry of the Rev. T. Child, of Wyndham-road, CamberDowding, has been Jaid at Prim. well, to Sudbury, Suffolk; the Rev. rose-hill, Huddersfield.—The foun- J. E. Roberts, of Llangollen College, dation-stone of a new chapel, to be to Tyleis Town, Ferndale; the Rev. built under the auspices of the H. E. Crofts, of Rawdon College, London Baptist Association, have to Kelsoe ; the Rev. J. A. Price, been laid at Haven-green, Ealing. of Maesteg, to Carmarthen-road, * -The foundation-stone of a new Swansea ; the Rev. J. N. Rootham, chapel, for the ministry of the Rev. of Stourbridge, Worcestershire, to C. D. Crouch, has been laid at Barnstaple, Devon. The Rev. G. H. Shoreham, Sussex.-A new chapel Davies has resigned the pastorate has been opened at Lockerley, of the church at Abingdon, BerkHampshire.

shire ; the Rev. J. Wilkins, of the

church at Maidenhead, Berks, with THE Rev. R. D. Brown, late of the intention of going to America; Darlington, has been publicly recog. the Rev. W. H. Hooper, of the nised as the pastor of the church in church at Walthamstow, Essex; Rochdale-road, Bury; the Rev. C. the Rev. F. Johnson, formerly of B. Williams, of the church at Oak- Pontypool College, of the church at ham, Rutland; the Rev. R. R. St. Helier's, Jersey; the Rev. S. Finch, of the church at East Finch- Hodges, formerly of Jamaica, of ley, London; the Rev. F. J. the church at Stow-in-the-Wold, Steward, late of the Metropolitan Gloucestershire. Tabernacle College, of the church in Castle-street, Calne, Wilts ; the WE regret to announce the death Rev. J. Harrington, of the church of the Rev. J. Russell, of. Trinity at Boscombe, Bournemouth; the Chapel, Bradford ; also of the Rev. Rev. J. Pugh, of the church at D. Ĝee, late of Desborough, NorthStratford-on-Avon; the Rev. H. T. amptonshire; also of the Rev. G. Peach, of the church at Rugby; the Bragg, of Glastonbury, Somerset.