intends and perfects by His providential intervention and sanctifying grace, and the work which angels watch with loving, earnest interest, can never be a commonplace, wearisome thing, to an earnest and right-minded Christian.

Biography may awaken interest under more than one aspect. It may rivet the attention of the reader by a rapid succession of strange and startling incidents, or it may attract him by its resemblance to his own individual experience. If his own feelings and pursuits, his trials and difficulties, his dangers and escapes, his aspirations and resolutions are re-produced in life-like vividness before his mental eye, he will be conscious of an interest not less intense than that with which he hears a story, novel indeed, but with which he has nothing in common of similitude or sympathy.

It may be that some young persons will read this brief sketch of Eliza Harris with the feelings here described. "As face answereth to face," when presented with her portrait, they will catch the reflection of their own, and be struck with the identity of the course which they are pursuing, with the path which she, for

a while, so eagerly traversed.

And having

come with her to the point at which her steps were arrested, may they be induced to pause and turn with her, and to bear her company in the less frequented, but safe and narrow way!

III.

The Narrow Way.

"I heard the voice of Jesus say,
'Come unto me and rest;

Lay down, thou weary one, lay down
Thy head upon my breast.'

I came to Jesus, as I was,

Weary, and worn, and sad;

I found in Him a resting-place,
And He has made me glad.

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"I heard the voice of Jesus say,
'I am this dark world's Light.
Come unto me- -thy morn shall rise,
And all thy day be bright.'
I came to Jesus, and I found
In Him my Star, my Sun,
And in that light of life I'll walk

Till travelling days are done."

HORATIUS BONAR, D.D.