was a carrier), ' when I found myself with broken heart, crying, 'O Lord, save my child! O Lord, save my child!' I was lost to all the bustle around me, but crying, 'O Lord, save my child!' All at once I came to myself, and I thought, 'Why I am praying; this is prayer!' And, in a moment I thought, If this is prayer, then I can pray, I may pray, and if I may pray for my child, I may pray for myself.' And at that moment I commenced earnestly crying to God to have mercy on my poor soul; and I hope I may say He has heard my prayer. At any rate, I have never been able to live without prayer since."

We could only ask, "Is not this a brand plucked from the burning ?" And does not God even now, even here, make use of the mouths of babes ? "We thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth; for so it seemeth good in Thy sight." OLD DADDY TELLTALE.

BIBLE ENIGMA.

ONE who believed not till he saw;
The son of her who typified the law;
A babe who wept when help was nigh;
A priest from sudden grief did die;
A prophet who of Christ foretold;
A mount most terrible in days of old;
One in his arms the infant Saviour took;
A hill where Saul did after David look;
A servant who from home did stray;

One who her father's gods did take away;

A place where one did books and cloak convey. These initials, when aright combined,

Will form a text that we should keep in mind. E. COBB.

MEDITATIONS UPON THE PEEP OF DAY.
I OFT, though it be peep of day, don't know
Whether 'tis night, whether 'tis day or no;
I fancy that I see a little light,

But cannot yet distinguish day from night.
I hope, I doubt, but steady yet I be not,
I am not at a point, the sun I see not;

Thus 'tis with such who grace but now possessed,
They know not yet if they be cursed or blessed.
JOHN BUNYAN.

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LUKE ii. 13: "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying "-here we next have a copy of the anthem, though we cannot guess at the music; had the music been given, ungodly performers would have, ere now, endeavoured to entertain the ungodly hosts in theatres and tea-gardens with a mimicry of the heavenly choir. The words of the anthem are, 66 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this

thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us." As they attended Him at His birth so we find them at His temptation. See Matt. iv. 11: "Then the devil leaveth Him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto Him." I said they were filled with wonder at the mighty works of His creation, and also filled with wonder in beholding His wisdom. But now they behold something infinitely greater; they behold their loved and adored Lord subject to the insults of Satan, who hurled at Him a fiery "if" about His very Sonship; who tempted Him to presumption, to murmuring, and lo, beyond all this, even to self-destruction. They behold Him who gives them their heaven and supplies their bliss-who seats them on their exalted hills, and who chose them to an eternal standing-while sinning angels fell, they see Him, I say, who created all things, a poor Man"-ay, so poor, that even the foxes were better off, and the birds of the air better supplied than He. They see Him, too, in the Garden (for Paul tells us He "was seen of angels")-yes, in the Garden-sweating great drops of blood, bearing the wrath of His offended Father; they behold His poverty, and witness the insults to which He is subjected; they attend Him in His midnight supplications, and behold His sacred 'head filled with dew, and His locks with the drops of the night," and they ask the question, Why is this? Yea, they know it; they had previously been informed that it should "please the Father to bruise Him". -to make His soul an offering for sin; and they beheld Him pour out His soul unto death, and saw Him numbered with the transgressors. Could we ask an angel, Why is all this?" our celestial informant would say, "This is love." They attended Him to Golgotha, but not

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now to comfort, not now to minister to Him as heretofore. He is forsaken! Hear His cry, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" All forsook Him, and to holy angels the Father said in effect, "Stand back." The Shepherd was smitten, but soon He dies! The work is done; it is finished, and in the new tomb the Imperial Captive lies; a guard of ungodly soldiers are watching the sealed stone. But here again we see the active angels, for on the third day Нe arises, and all His people virtually rise too, and a solitary woman, one Mary, was early at the sepulchre while it was yet dark. "Yea," said the Emmaus travellers, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; and when they found not His body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that He was alive." One thing remarkable, too, is the way in which the angels spoke: "He is not here; for He is risen, as He said." I lay an emphasis on the words "as He said." Yes, they forget nothing He says; forgetfulness is the result and effect of sin; but they are sinless, and their memory is stored with every fact connected with the creation and with man's redemption-everything their eyes have seen or their ears heard.

Again, angels are ever looking over the Church and noting every event; and their joy is greater than we can possibly describe when a sinner is made to repent. 'Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth" (Luke xv. 10). And when He comes for His saints, angels will form a part of His retinue, as you will find in Matt. xvi. 27: "For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every man according to his works.”

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most faithfully will they do the work assigned them; chap. xiii. 49: The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just." "The harvest is the end of the world,* and the reapers are the angels." Oh, little gleaners, what a wondrous sight will that be, "when the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him: then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory and before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats: and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left." We are not telling you some strange tale that may be true or may not be true, for "these are the true sayings of God." Hear another testimony from the pen of an inspired apostle: "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power." Oh, what a punishment! Everlasting destruction!" Oh that the little readers, and the larger ones too, of the LITTLE GLEANER might be accounted worthy to escape that dire punishment! And the apostle continues, "when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe" (2 Thess. i. 7—10).

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As I have just very briefly given you a few Bible references to the ministry of angels, a subject which is always sweet to my soul, I will now give you the brief narrative of poor little Charlie, for such I am informed was his name.

"Age"
"in Greek.