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lO tain tile principle of true of tlie most of our lives judged at the last. 4. Make the least of yc of your present enjoym little duties, and then, 1 the right." These are life. It is a happy fact money rich we can all b lion rt r* f /-?11 o ?-?? ?.1 ^ iivai i, \jl v. Iltll clV IV. 1 a ILL! L ncss which with content he so supremely happy conic into this rich poss Prayer: "Almighty G come so familiar with tl ent to it; may thy mei the tenderness of the liv by an unexpected revel sweet excitement, in w< elevation of soul which i service of others. Enric enlargement and penetr thv Church so to read know what Israel ought knows its duty, may it t calculation, and with t go forth under the bann? and Evangelist. Rochester, N. Y. "ROCK Burrington Coombe is frowning hill known as the height of 1,100 feet, the beautiful Mendip Ra of Blagdian church, of > for some time curate in s most picturesque and ror crag of mountain limes Kight down the center c fissure, wherein grow, lit arms of men in armor, s< flowers. Toplady was one da\ thunderstorm, from wh glen, between two mas While the storm raged i of this hymn, "Rock of i on the spot. Years after in the everlasting shelter Selected. Rob the world of thf it of its chart, robbed it < * Magna Charta?the bul it of that which has pi and the purest womanh has worked out its highe: which has made the CI lightened, the most pr the wealthiest, and the face of the earth.?Henr ' r THE PRESBYTERIA service; they are the make-up , and by them we shall be >ur little lacks ; make the most ents; do the best with your astly, "Trust in God and do the open secrets to a happy that while we can not all be c millionaires of mind and of ?f faith, possessing that godliment is great gain. May we as to learn Paul's secret and ession. iod, forbid that we should bctv goodness as to be indiffercy be a daily surprise; may ing and loving God amaze us ation. Thus may we live in ell-controlled rapture in that is the best preparation for the h us with all wisdom ; give us ation of understanding; help the signs of the times as to to do, and when thy Church I, otwO,, oil too 1 uiuu a ?v a v ail l^ai auu dClllMl he courage of righteousness, ers of God."?Christian Work OF AGES." a deep ravine in the grim and Black Down, which rises to and is the highest summit of nge. It is within an easy walk vhich Augustus Toplady was ole charge. The whole scene is nantic. At one point is a grand tone eighty feet in height. >f this mass of stone is a deep :e little children playing in the 3ft and delicate ferns and wild r overtaken by a tremendous ich he sought refuge in this sive piers of limestone rock, t inspired in his soul the idea \ges," which he wrote at once ward he died in full confidence of which he had thus sung.? ; Bible and you have robbed of its compass, robbed it of its wark of its liberties?robbed oduced the noblest manhood ood; robbed it of that which st civilization, robbed it of that iristian nations the most enogressive, the most humane, most powerful peoples on the y B. Williams. N OF THE SOUTH. HOW DO I KNOW TB GC By a I One day while reading question came up before rr had been printed in letters subject before me was th< Geneva and the nertinent < God to a visitor: Arc yor tion came to me as above to answer it to myself. Upon what am I depe there may have been or is self as to my life; upon things or upon any scrvit by speaking to others or Is there any resting upon ing for God to assure mj dcrful position as the "El examination be very searc I depending upon my own God? Upon what I can grace? Let me see what about it. First: "All men are cc David says, "Behold I wa cm rli/1 mi? /%/-?.- /*?. .??i? uiu HI Y iiiyj111vr 1 V.UHV.C1 written : "For there is nc doeth good and sinneth n So that according to Gc my position with all men shapen in iniquity. And by trying to do good be r as sinning not. In other that sin that God hates and am I engaged in the liopi myself of an incurable di upon what God says in F my lost condition? Let n First let me remember E] ye saved through faith an ;L. fj,? ?:f4- r-^ _e Id Lilt ^11 L U1 UUU, 1IUI Ul boast." And II Tim. i :g called us with a holy call works but according to I which was given us in CI began." And Titus 2 :i 1: bringcth salvation hath ap So it is written in the ' not because of any merit 1 my sinful, undone, far-frc of God in Jesus Christ re taking away my sin, and my unworthincss, only asl yield to the faith He puts myself to His guidance. ] of God to me, for there ne never of myself will there my Lord and Savior Jesi Now the question "for r been an acceptance of the on the cross, and a standi "the Lamb of God," by fa of God that all this was ; August n, igog. [AT I AM A CHILD OF )D? ?ayman. of the things of God, this ly eyes as though the words 1 of fire upon the page. The 2 life of Caesar Malan of question put by this child of i of God's elect? The qucsand caused me to sit down snding? Upon any fitness at the present time in myany sacrifice of temporal :e to God by testimony or by an upright moral life? any effort I may be makrself of enjoying that wonect of God?" Now let the hing and once for all. Am fitness or upon the Word of do or become or upon His t the Word of God says jnceivcd and born in sin." s shapen in iniquity and in ve me.' Ps. 51 :5. And it is 5t a just man 011 earth that > ot." Eccl. 7:20. >a s vvora i, wno must take i, was conceived in sin and never can by being just or eckoned by a righteous God words, I am infected with I the cure is not in me. Now eless task of trying to cure sease; or am I just resting [is Word as the remedy for le see what there is for me. i>h. 2:8: "For by grace are id that not of yourselves, it works lest any man should : "Who hath saved us and ling not according to our lis own purpose and grace irist Jesus before the world "For the grace of God that >pearcd to all men." /ord of God that I am saved whatever on my part, but in )m-God condition the grace ached me and saved me by now keeps me in spite of king me in the first place to > in me, and now to submit [t is an undeserved kindness ver was any worthiness and be any worthiness except in js Christ. ne to decide is: Hds there sacrifice Jesus made for mt ng, cleared of guilt in Him,, ith? Do I accept the Word \ work of grace for me and