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DR LIVINGSTONE'S REAPPEARANCE.

He left his country, home, and friends for this purpose. My dear readers, do you see any point of resemblance between the mission of Dr Livingstone and that of Jesus? Doubtless you will all know what our Saviour's mission was. He left heaven, with all its glories, and came to this wilderness of sin, to make an atonement for the sins of all mankind, and to open up a way whereby guilty man could approach God. Has he failed to execute his glorious mis sion? We answer, No! How do we know? By the revelations found in the Bible. Dr Livingstone has endured many hardships. What has helped him hitherto, and is helping him still, to bear them all, is just the knowledge that Jesus is with him. Jesus has said, "Lo I am with you always even to the end of the world." God is a faithful promiser. Dr Livingstone knew this, therefore he placed the fullest confidence and trust in God to be his God and Guide through the deserts of Africa. Dear readers, Jesus loves you; he will be with you; he died for you. Perhaps you will say why did he need to die for me? You know that you have sinned against God, broken his holy law. The penalty of breaking that law is death, and God could not look upon sin without punishing it. He was unwilling that we should be punished, therefore Jesus came and bore the penalty for us. Now, will you stand back from that dear Saviour who has done everything that required to be done whereby you might be saved? Give yourselves to Jesus just now, and you will be safe for time and for eternity.

E. & G.

"Great truths are often said in the fewest words." With a double vigilance we should watch our action, when we reflect that good and bad ones are never childless: and that, in both cases, the offsprings go beyond the parentevery good begetting a better, every bad a worse.

6. One of the books of the New Testament.

The initials will give the name of a precious stone worn by the high priest.

The initials will give the name of a distinguished patri

arch.

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THE CHILD AND THE DEW-DROPS.

And for the vile and guilty

Who choose the ways of Hell,
Our Saviour longs to save them
And doeth all things well.
The Father, Son, and Spirit
Have promised to relieve,
From sin and sin's pollution
All who on Christ believe.
Then since our God is gracious
To us, both day and night,
We'll praise and try to serve Him
By striving for the right.

Hawick, June, 1868.

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F.

THE CHILD AND THE DEW-DROPS.
"O FATHER, dear father, why pass they away,
The dew-drops that sparkled at dawning of day,
That glittered like stars by the light of the moon,
O why are those dew-drops dissolving so soon?
Does the sun in his wrath chase their brightness away,
As though nothing that's lovely might live for a day?
The moonlight has faded, the flowers still remain,
But the dew has dried out of their petals again."

"My child," said the father, "look up to the skies,
Behold yon bright rainbow, those beautiful dyes;
There there are the dew-drops in glory reset,
'Mid the jewels of heaven they are glittering yet.
Then are we not taught by each beautiful ray
To mourn not for beauty though fleeting away;
For though youth of its brightness and beauty be riven,
All that withers on earth blooms more brightly in heaven?"
Alas! for the father-how little knew he

The words he had spoken prophetic could be;

That the beautiful child, the bright star of his day,
Was e'en then like the dew-drops dissolving away.
O sad was the father, when lo! in the skies
The rainbow again spread its beauteous dyes;
And then he remembered the maxim he'd given,
And thought of his child and the dew-drops in heaven.

CARPENTER.

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DEEDS OF KINDNESS.

Dew-Drops for Spring Flowers.

DEEDS OF KINDNESS.

SUPPOSE the little cowslip should hang its golden cup,
And say, "I'm such a little flower I'd better not grow up;"
How many a weary traveller would miss its fragrant smell!
How many a little child would grieve to lose it from the dell!

Suppose the glist'ning dewdrop upon the grass should say,
"What can a little dewdrop do? I'd better roll away;"
The blade on which it rested, before the day was done,
Without a drop to moisten it, would wither in the sun.

Suppose the little breezes, upon a sunny day,

Should think themselves too small to cool the traveller on

his way;

Who would not miss the smallest and softest ones that blow, And think they made a great mistake if they were talking so?

How many deeds of kindness a little child may do, Although it has so little strength, and little wisdom too; It wants a loving spirit, much more than strength, to How many things a child may do for others by its love.

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