young friend, who was watching her in her dying hours, she said: 'Oh, Emma, if I had not a hope beyond the grave, what should I do now?" Life was now rapidly ebbing away, and articulation became difficult and indistinct; but now and then a few words were caught, revealing the calm and composed state of her mind, as she neared "the margin of the river." How solemn the stillness and the scene at this moment! A step more, and the boundary is past, the rest is gained, and the awfully grand and glorious sight of incarnate Deity bursts upon the astonished and enhanced vision of the immortal mind of one 66 new born to God!" Well might such a one sing at that supreme moment :—

"Jesus, the vision of Thy face Hath overpowering charms;

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Scarce shall I feel death's cold embrace,
If Christ be in my arms.

'Then, while ye hear my heart-strings break,

How sweet my minutes roll!

A mortal paleness on my cheek,

And glory in my soul!"

Her soul was wait

The moment of her departure was now at hand, for all things were now ready. ing, angels were watching, and the mansion prepared for a new and eternal inhabitant awaited her arrival in glory. As the dying one asked to be slightly raised in bed, she distinctly uttered," Happy! happy!! happy!!!" These were her last words, and she gave up the ghost. "Absent from the body, to be present with the Lord." Thus terminated the earthly career of Elizabeth Topham, aged twenty-three years, who died on March 7th, 1872. The dear departed was a most loving and dutiful daughter, a faithful friend, a consistent Christian, and an exemplary member of the Church. Peace be to her memory! Dear reader, will your

end be thus? The Lord grant it to reader and

writer, for Jesu's sake! Amen.

WAKE, echo, wake to utter, and again

Re-utter this all-important query.

Dear reader, will your end of life be thus ?

Shall you have ground to raise your dying voice,
And cry, entranced, Happy! Happy! Happy?
You, who are gay and giddy worldlings,

You, too, whose souls' self-righteous webs can trust,
Or hope for heaven on any ground but grace—
Oh, were you summoned now to meet your God,
You'd find your wretched robe is filthy rags!

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'Tekel, thou'rt weighed, and wanting thou art found," Would be the stamp of heaven upon your brow.

You who are made to mourn and sigh for sin-
To quit the world, with all its cheating charms,
Casting, with glad disdain, your rags aside,
Have fled for refuge to yon bleeding tree,
And there have found a peace the world knows not;
There, washed from guilty stains, in Jesu's blood,
And clad, through precious faith, in Jesu's robe,
Have bow'd your willing neck His yoke to bear,
You, loved with dateless love, have cause to sing,
In life and death, Happy! Happy! Happy!

ED.

ENIGMA.

Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recom pense, saith the Lord. And again, the Lord shall judge His people.”—HEB. x. 30.

DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,-Every word of God is pure (Prov. xxx. 5), and every one of His righteous judgments endureth for ever (Psalm cxix. 160). "Hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?" (Num. xxiii. 19).

Certain painful trials which befel me some ten

or twelve years ago (when I was not older than many who read these pages), and which were received as Fatherly chastisements for my heartdepartures from the living God, led me to take especial notice of the Scripture history of an individual who subsequently became a mighty nation. His posterity, assuming the prerogative of the Almighty, avenged themselves of an early wrong for which God had chastened His own people, and thereby brought upon themselves heavy denunciations of wrath, and awful threatenings of impending ruin. I shall not, however, point out the highly poetic and deeply pathetic language in which one of the prophets in particular descants upon the Lord's controversy with these enemies of His chosen nation, into whose hands should be put the cup of trembling taken out of the hand of those upon whom they had exercised such varied cruelties (Isaiah li. 22, 23); but, with the kind permission of your dear Editor, shall request some one of you to favour your fellowgleaners with a Scriptural account of the matter, and append thereto answers to the three questions following:

Of whom were both parties typical?

Of what was the adversaries' destruction a type? What lesson may we learn from this history? That much soul-profit may result from your searchings of the Word is the earnest prayer of your true friend, THE WRITER.

[A Prize will be given to the writer of the best answer to the above.]

BIBLE SUBJECTS FOR EACH SUNDAY IN OCTOBER.

182. Oct. 6. Find Texts on jewels, used figura

tively.

183. Oct. 13. Find Texts on clothing, used figura

tively.

184. Oct. 20. Find Texts on earthen vessels, used figuratively.

185. Oct. 27. Texts on evergreens, used figuratively.

ANSWER TO BIBLE ENIGMA (Page 288.)
HUMAN.

YOUR enigma being easy, Sir, to guess,
No doubt will meet with very good success;
For, as I read, the thought came to my mind,
Human, indeed, 'tis true, are all mankind.
Yet One there is all others doth excel,
Where Human and Divine together dwell;
He's fairer far than all the sons of men ;
His life, so pure, it never knew a stain.
He ransomed millions from a direful fall,
Wrought out a robe enough to cover all ;
Hiding for ever their reproach and shame,
Imprints His likeness, calls them by His name.
Takes them unto Himself, His chosen bride;
Becomes their Surety; then for them He died.
O matchless, unexampled love,

Sinners made meet to dwell with Christ above!

Hezekiah, Isaiah xxxviii.

U zzah, 2 Samuel vi. 6.

Michael, 2 Samuel iii. 14.
A sa, 1 Kings xv. 13.
Nahum-Human.

Е. Совв.

OR, WHAT GOOD ONE CAN DO.

BEFORE the negro slaves in the West Indies were set free, a regiment of soldiers was stationed near to one of the plantations cultivated by the slaves. One of the soldiers had often seen a slave pass by, and one day called to him, and said, "Ned, I will teach you to read."

"Oh, massa," said the slave, me too much pleased to learn read" (meaning, he should be delighted to learn).

M