. Brethren's Almanac (1876). ty-five years of age when he IJ )mmenced his studies in polite literature; yet he lecame one of the greatest masters of the Tucan ialects, Dante and Petrach being the other two. Sir Henry Spelraan neglected the sciences in his Y outh, but commenced the study of them when he 11 as between fifty and sixty years of age. After y lis he became the most learned antiquarian lawyer. Old Age without Religion. ]()1« Alas! for him who grows old without growing -ise, and to whom the future world does not set up Iier gates, when he is excluded by the present. The ord deals so g
. Brethren's Almanac (1876). ty-five years of age when he IJ )mmenced his studies in polite literature; yet he lecame one of the greatest masters of the Tucan ialects, Dante and Petrach being the other two. Sir Henry Spelraan neglected the sciences in his Y outh, but commenced the study of them when he 11 as between fifty and sixty years of age. After y lis he became the most learned antiquarian lawyer. Old Age without Religion. ]()1« Alas! for him who grows old without growing -ise, and to whom the future world does not set up Iier gates, when he is excluded by the present. The ord deals so graciously with us in the decline f life that it is a shame to turn a deaf ear to the Bsson which he gives. The eye becomes dim, the ar dull, the tongue falters, the feet totter, all the enses refuse to do their office, and from every side esounds the call, Set thy house in order, for the fen arm of thy pilgrimage is at hand. The playmates of youth, the fellow laborers die\.y, ay, and take the road before us. Old age is like. some quiet chamber, in which, disconnected withthe visible world, we cau prepare in silence for theworld that is unseen.— Tholuck. Dr. Hursts Outline History of the Churchgivis the following population in the creeds of theworld; Christianity, 407,000,000; Buddhism,340,000,000; Mohammedenism, 200,000,000 jBrahminism, 175,000 000; Confucianism, 80,000,-000; Judaism, 7,000 OOO; all other forms of reli-gious belief, 174,000,000. Of the Christiau popu-lations of the world, l3l 007,449 are assigned toProtestanism, 200,339,390 to Romin Catholicism,and 76,390,940 to Oriental churches^ In the NewWorld, comprising North and South America, theRoman Catholics are m the majority, having 50, of population, to 36,936,800 of Protest-ants.—Peterson! s Journal J Oct.^ 1875. At a certain time, not long since, at an excitingrevival, during a furious handshaking by the preach-er, a brother, who chanced to be there was interroga-ted, well, brother, doyow love the Lo
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