showy, repetitionary, laborious, and lengthy tunes, still too much clung to, were to give place to the sweet, easy, melodious compositions of the Clifton Tune Book. It is painful to hear a choir left to sing alone, as is often the case from the difficult character of the tunes, instead of the united voices of all the gathered worshippers going up to God in one volume of melody, unhindered by hard strugglings for breath, and not broken in upon by showy solos and vain repetitions. ANSWER TO BIBLE ENIGMA.-PAGE 352. "THOU SHALT DIE" (Isa. xxxviii. 1). Tiberias (John vi. 1); Hareth (1 Sam. xxii. 5); Onesimus (Phil. 10-12; Üzzah (2 Sam. vi. 7); Saul (1 Sam. x. 1); Hedge (Job i. 10); Abel (man, Gen. iv. 2; place, 1 Sam. vi. 18); Leah (Gen. xxix. 17); Tares (Matt. xiii. 25-30); Daniel (Dan. ii. 35); Isaac (father-in-law to Leah) (Gen. xxix. 23); Ephesus (Ephesians). THE prophet Isaiah once went to a king, Hezekiah his name, heavy tidings to bring. "O king!" he begins; "I've a message to give, Unto you the Lord says, Thou shalt die, and not live.' Sore distressed, Hezekiah turns round to the wallHe has learned in distress on his Saviour to callAnd now in deep anguish of spirit he says, "Let me live, O my God, nor cut short my days." True prayer such as his God will never despise; Dear reader, He heard Hezekiah's deep sighs. In mercy He listened to him; then He says, "E'en now will I add fifteen years to thy days." Dear reader, there's worth indeed in true prayer; Have you gone to His throne, and left your griefs there? But, oh! do remember, and over it think, If you die without Jesus, to hell you will sink. ROSA, aged 16 years. W. H. & L. Collingridge, Printers, London. |