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 . not fear,No one need fear whom God doth keep, By day or night;Then lay thee down in slumber deep, Till morning light. O little child, thou needst not wake, Though round thy bed Arc dangers Saviour care of thee will take, For he is st
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 . not fear,No one need fear whom God doth keep, By day or night;Then lay thee down in slumber deep, Till morning light. O little child, thou needst not wake, Though round thy bed Arc dangers Saviour care of thee will take, For he is strong ;And angels watch thee, for his sake, The whole night long. O little child, lie still and rest; He sweetly sleeps Whom Jesus in the morning wake, how blest His child to be!Love every one, but love him best; He first iovad thee. O little child, when thou must die, Fear nothing, then, But say Amen To Gods command, and quiet lie In his kind hand,Till he shall say, Dear child, come fly To heavens bright land. Then, with thy angcl-wings quick grown Shalt thou ascend To meet thy the little child will own, Safe at his side !And thou shalt live before the throne, Because he died. It has been justly remarked, that The only way to be angry withoutsin, is to be angry at nothing but sin. THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETYS ALMANAC. 37 .. THE JAPANESE EMBASSY. Oxe of the most important events which occurred during the past yearwas the visit of the Japanese embassy to this country, it being the first ac-credited embassy ever sent out by the government of Japan to any nation. Japan was first made known to Europeans by Marco Polo, a Venetiantraveler, in 1298; but its European discovery is usually ascribed to threePortuguese sailors, who, in 1542, were driven by storms upon its shores. Itwas soon occupied by Portuguese merchants and missionaries, and up to theyear 1592, many thousands of the Japanese had become converts to Chris-iianity through their efforts. The conduct of
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