The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . - and busiest week of yourlife and find golden opportunities, which, gathered, might at least make a wholesheaf for the Lords garner. It is the stray opportunities and the stray privilegeswhich, taken up and bound together and beaten out, will at last fill you withabounding joy. There are a tew moments left w^orth the gleaning, Now^ Ruth, to the field !May each one have a measure full and running over ! O 3ou gle
The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . - and busiest week of yourlife and find golden opportunities, which, gathered, might at least make a wholesheaf for the Lords garner. It is the stray opportunities and the stray privilegeswhich, taken up and bound together and beaten out, will at last fill you withabounding joy. There are a tew moments left w^orth the gleaning, Now^ Ruth, to the field !May each one have a measure full and running over ! O 3ou gleaners, to thefield ! And if there be in your household an aged one or a sick relative that isnot strong enough to come forth and toil in this field, then let Ruth take home tofeeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning: He that goeth forth and weepeth, bear-ing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaveswith him. May the Lord God of Ruth and Naomi be our portion forever ! ©I^je 33^1wje; crt ffi^rje^bjontjeni^.. SORROW SENT TO QUICKEN OUR APPRECIATION. [he brigands of Jerusalem had done their work. It wasalmost sundown, and Jesus was dying. Persons in cruci-fixion often lingered on from day to day—crying, begging,cursing; but Christ had been exhausted by years of mal-treatment. Pillowless, poorly fed, flogged—as bent overand tied to a low post. His bare back w^as inflamed with thescourges, intersticed with pieces of lead and bone—and now forwhole hours the weight of His body hung on delicate tendons,and, according to custom, a violent stroke under the arm-pits hadbeen given by the executioner. Dizzy, swooning, nauseated,feverish—a world of agony is compressed in the two words, Ithirst ! O skies of Judea, let a drop of rain strike His burningtongue. O world, with rolling rivers and sparkling lakes, andsparkling fountains, give Jesus something to drink. If there isany pity in earth or heaven, or hell, let it now be demonstratedin behalf of this
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