raised his hand upright, and said several times, 'Happy, happy!' Some of his words could not be clearly understood, the voice being paralyzed.

On Friday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, he opened his eyes once more, and finding all his children around him, he held out his hand to his eldest son, and said, 'Learn of Him, who is meek and lowly. Take his yoke upon you,' &c. Then taking the hand of his youngest son, he said, 'Get wisdom, get understanding.' He then kissed all his children most affectionately, and said, 'Strength equal to the day,' and, with a smile upon his countenance, looked upwards. A niece came from London to see him; he knew her, and sent his dying love to her mother. He again closed his eyes, and slept until Saturday morning, when his lips again moved, but we could not understand him, which grieved us. Thus he continued, the breathing becoming shorter and shorter, until Sunday morning, July 13th, 1884, when about a quarter to four he opened his eyes, and, looking upwards with a heavenly smile, said, with his last breath, 'It is well!' and his redeemed spirit joined that favoured throng,

'Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths never end.'

We each felt our desire was granted, in that our much-loved parent was able to speak, with his last breath, of the Lord's goodness to him. Thus passed away a most affectionate and kind, but faithful and decided father. May our last end be like his.

H. H.

COMMUNION WITH GOD.-I know there are heights and lengths in communion with God, to which many of his dear children are admitted, which are far beyond my present attainments. But this rather encourages me than otherwise, for they (even the very best of them) were once as poor as myself, and have nothing now any more than I, that they can call their own, and he who has done so much for them, is rich enough to do as much for me. The fountain of grace, though ever flowing, is ever full, and as the sun shines as easily and as powerful on ten thousand as upon a single person, so the Sun of righteousness enlightens and comforts all his children with one single glance of his love; I desire to praise his name for what he has already shewn me, and to hope in his mercy that I shall yet see greater things than these.-NEWTON.

DESPISE NOT THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.

GOD's beginning of great works is small. What could be said of a poor woman's throwing of a stool at the man who did first read the new service-book in Edinburgh? It was not looked at as any eminent passage of divine providence; yet it grew till it came up to armies of men, the shaking of three kingdoms, the sound of the trumpet, the voice of alarm, the lifting up of the Lord's standard, destruction upon destruction, garments rolled in blood, and goeth on in strength, that the vengeance of the Lord and the vengeance of his temple may pursue the land of graven images, and awake the kings of the earth to rise in battle against the great whore of Babylon, that the Jews may return to their Messiah, and Israel and Judah ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, weeping as they go that the forces of the Gentiles and the kingdoms of the world may become the kingdoms of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ. And this act of a despised woman was one of the first steps of Omnipotency; God then began to open the mouth of the vial of his wrath, to let out a little drop of vengeance upon the seat of the beast, and ever since the right arm of the Lord awakening, hath been in action, and in a growing battle against all that worshipped the beast, and received his mark on their right hand and their forehead; and who knoweth but Christ is in the act of conquering, to create a new thing on the earth, and subdue the people to himself? Omnipotency can derive a sea, a world of noble and glorious works, from as small a fountain as a straw, a ram-horn; yea, a jaw-bone of a dead ass. God can put forth omnipotency, in all its flowers and golden branches of overpowering and incomparable excellences, upon mere nothing: the wind is an empty, unsolid thing, the sea a fluid and soft and ebbing creature; yet the wind is God's chariot, he rideth on it, and the sea his walk, his paths are in great waters.-S. RUTHERFORD.

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