The American Tract Society's almanac for the year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1861 : being the first after bissextile, and until the fourth of July, the eighty-fifth year of the independence of the United States : calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and four parallels of latitude, adapted for use througout the country . LIFE—LONG LITE. It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk doth mako men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that nigh
The American Tract Society's almanac for the year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1861 : being the first after bissextile, and until the fourth of July, the eighty-fifth year of the independence of the United States : calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and four parallels of latitude, adapted for use througout the country . LIFE—LONG LITE. It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk doth mako men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night: It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions wo just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BenJoneon. Two Words. — A Christian brother, ascending the Mississippi in asteamboat, distributed tracts. He came to a group of gentlemen, one ofwhom was an infidel. He received the tract, folded it up, deliberately tookhis knife and cut it up, and said, There go your instrumentalities. Asmall piece of the tract lodged upon his coat, and he saw the words, Godand eternity. He tried the intoxicating cup and cards to divert his atten-tion, but still God and eternity rang in his ears, and he had no rest untilhe came to Christ. He is now preaching the faith that he once destroyed. Till: AMERICAN TUACT SOCIETYS ALMANAC. 25. THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGNMISSIONS. On a pleasant morning in the summer or autumn of 1807, Samuel J.^Mills,then a student of Williams College, Mass., invited Gordon Hall and JamesRichards, two of his fellow-students, to walk with him. lie led them to anunfrequented place in a distant meadow, where, beside a stack of hay, theyspent the day in fasting and prayer and conversing on the duty of missions tothe heathen. Mills was surprised to find that the subject which for at leastfive years had been on his mind, was not new to them ; their hearts, too, werealready fixed on engaging in such a work. In the spring of 1808
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