prehensible.

It is a clear infinity, the darkness

of the pure, unsearchable sea.-Ruskin.

CHRIST EVERYWHERE.

WHEN a native female Christian of India was

interrogated as to the state of her mind, she replied, "Happy! happy! I have Christ here," laying her hand on her Bengáli Bible; " and Christ here," pressing it to her heart; "and Christ there," pointing toward heaven.

EVENING-TIME.

ZECH. XIV. 7.

AT evening-time let there be light :-
Life's little day draws near its close;
Around me fall the shades of night,-

The night of death, the grave's repose.
To crown my joys, to end my woes,
At evening-time let there be light.

At evening-time let there be light :-

Stormy and dark hath been my day;

Yet rose the morn benignly bright,

Dews, birds, and flowers, cheered all the way.
O, for one sweet, one parting ray!

At evening-time let there be light.

At evening-time there shall be light,

For God hath said, "So let it be."
Fear, doubt, and anguish, take their flight,—
His glory now is risen on me!

Mine eyes shall his salvation see;—

'Tis evening-time, and there is light.

James Montgomery.

THE SINNER'S SAVIOUR.

KNEELING by the bed of an apparently dying saint, I said, "Well, sister, He has been precious to you; you can rejoice in his covenant mercies, and his past loving-kindnesses.” She put out her hand, and said, "Ah, sir, do not talk about them now; I want the sinner's Saviour as much now as ever. It is not a saint's Saviour I want; it is still a sinner's Saviour that I am in need of, for I am a sinner still."-Spurgeon.

MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER.

THE individuals of each race of lower animals, being not intended to hold among each other those relations of charity which are the privilege of humanity, are not adapted to each other's assistance, admiration, or support, by

differences of power and function. But the love of the human race is increased by their individual differences, and the unity of the creature made perfect by each having something to bestow and to receive; bound to the rest by a thousand various necessities and various gratitudes, humility in each rejoicing to admire in his fellow that which he finds not in himself, and each being in some respect the complement of his race. Ruskin.

THE BEAUTIFUL IN THE GOOD.

THERE is not any virtue the exercise of which, even momentarily, will not impress a new fairness on the features.-Ruskin.

SPIRITUAL BEAUTY.

THERE is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of the characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the

immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul, than of the fair and ruddy countenance of David.-Ruskin.

VANITY OF LIFE.

I HAVE seen all that society can show, and enjoyed all that wealth can give me, and I am satisfied that much is vanity, if not vexation of spirit.-Walter Scott.

SONG OF THE AGED.

"Now, also, when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. "-Ps. lxxi. 18.

WITH years oppressed, with sorrows worn,
Dejected, harassed, sick, forlorn,

To thee, O God, I pray;

To thee my withered hands arise;
To thee I lift my failing eyes;

O, cast me not away!

Thy mercy heard my infant prayer;
Thy love, with all a mother's care,

Sustained my childish days;

Thy goodness watched my ripening youth,
And formed my heart to love thy truth,

And filled my lips with praise.

DEATH OF JOHN FOSTER.

THE substantial peace which he had attained did not desert him in his dying hours. As he felt his strength gradually stealing away, he