not afraid to die?" "No." "You will see Him as He is?" "Oh, yes, my precious Jesus! Do, Lord, take me soon-but give me patience! I soon shall be with my dear Jesus. I soon shall reach the harbour. I have had these words: "This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.' Precious Jesus! O Lord, take me! Quite ready.' Oh, take me, or give me ease !" " 12 o'clock. "I hope before the next hour I shall be in glory. How long will His chariot wheels be? Come, Lord Jesus! August 18th. "When shall I your chorus join? Do come, dear Jesus-come quickly! When will He come? I have waited long: I hope I shall have patience. Victory! Victory! through the blood of the Lamb. Surely He is come to take me now. O Lord, do come! "Jesus can make a dying bed "Let Thy servant depart in peace! Take me! Endless pleasures dwell in Him." In the night previous to her death, she exclaimed (boldly), O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"" Frequently she said, "My precious Jesus, do come and take me!" Then, looking at us very anxiously, she said, "Why tarry His chariot wheels so long?" After labouring for breath, she said with a smile, "Surely He is coming to take me now." After this she lay very tranquil until the morning, when her happy spirit fled from its clay tenement to join the spirits of the just, and, like them, she is awaiting the redemption of her body from the tomb, where it rests, together with the sleeping dust of her two sisters, and also that of her dear godly mother, who has recently died in the Lord. They all sleep in one grave: they all died in faith: they each have union with Jesus, and will have part in the first resurrection. "With them numbered would I be, Brighton, July, 1872. JESSE ANSCOMBE. TEMPERANCE AN AID TO GOOD HEALTH. AT the annual meeting of the Streatham Temperance Society, held on Thursday, Feb. 29th, Stenton Eardley, B.A., Vicar of Immanuel Church, stated some striking facts respecting a Foresters' Lodge that holds its meetings in his school-room, I. In 1869 the lodge numbered 120 members, of whom twenty-two were teetotalers. The total amount paid to sick members during the year was £97. Of this sum, the share of the twenty-two teetotalers would have been £17_15s. 8d.; but the sum received by them was only £1 5s. II. In 1870 the lodge had 136 members, of whom twenty-five were teetotalers. The amount paid during that year to the sick was £91. If the teetotalers had been sick in the same proportion as the other members, they would have received £16 14s. 6d. The amount actually received by them was 14s. III. In 1871 the lodge contained 150 members, including forty-five teetotalers. The sick money. for the year amounted to £68. The proportion due to the forty-five teetotalers was £20 8s., but they (poor weakly fellows!) did not claim or receive one penny! The young should be brought up without stimulants. Young people in buoyant health need no stimulating, any more than young horses need spurring. We have known a whole family of drunkards who could trace their love of strong drink to a foolish mother who taught them the habit. "AS WE SOW WE REAP." USEFUL plants and evil weeds First the boy, and then the man : So a sinner may begin With a small desire to sin :- These, if grace does not prevent, From the heart of man proceed But where grace has taken root, From the heart the actions flow: Dear young friends, may grace abound: August 9th, 1872. W. W. EDITOR'S ADDRESS TO HIS YOUNG THE late harvest has made the present month in many places more truly the gleaning month than was the month just gone by. Ours, however, are gleaning months all the year round. We have sometimes feared we should find it difficult to go on picking up sufficient full plump ears to make a full bundle month after month through many years; but, by the mercy of God, we find the stubble still strewed with plenty, and, though feeble health and numerous occupations sometimes make the flesh weak, the spirit is as willing as ever to work on for the good of the rising race. We have never repented the commencing our little Magazine, but have many times felt to rejoice that such a work was ever laid upon our hearts. We have had many a day of uphill work, but have received, and continue to receive, so many testimonies of the blessing of God resting upon our pages, that our hands are by no means hanging down, which we hope will be evident by the contents of the present number. We feel we are working in the interests of the most important class of human beings. Dear young friends, you are to be soon the busy men and women in our land, and, if any thing in our pages should be the means of preventing you from being a curse instead of a blessing in England, it will be a mercy. Ritualism is, by its popish fopperies and erroneous teaching, bringing up thousands of young persons ready to help in heaving Popery once more on to the seat of pre-eminence in our favoured land. There are three evil things that find so much encouragement in our country, that it requires so little light to see the wrong of, that we sometimes fear our nation is being punished by a judicial blindness. Those three things are Popery (Ritualism), Infidelity (Rationalism), and War. The first bereaves men of the Bible and the right of private judgment, and then casts them down in feeble credulousness at the feet of theatrical priests; the second lifts human reason to that bad eminence where the Word of God is trampled under foot; and the third wastes the strength of the nation upon huge preparations for bloodshed; and from time to time these sharpened blades find a sheath in bleeding hearts. Take only the Bible for your guide in religion, and you will never help Popery. Reverence the Bible, and you will be really, what Infidelity falsely vaunts to be, rational: and do to men as you would be done by, and you would gladly hail the better way of settling differences between nations, than by the murderous sword, that has been adopted between America and England of late. If such a rational plan became universal, what a change for the better would be wrought upon the globe! But, dear young friends, it is not that you may be made valuable members of the nation that we seek so much as that you may, through the blessing of God upon the truth, be made wise unto salvation. We are born to die, and to die unregenerated by the Spirit of God is to die without any preparation for heaven. God blesses His truth to the regeneration of souls, and this makes us anxious to bring the truth of God before you. True, we remember you are young, and try to convey the truth in the pleasing form that the young most value; but, though we wrap the truth in the picture papers of striking narratives, &c., we do that chiefly for the sake of drawing your attention to what is hidden beneath those wrappers. We are glad to find so many of our friends using "Lessons of Truth," and speaking of their value for them. We have never done a work from which we hope greater fruit, even |