and why she was glad to see me? Then I will tell you. She divided her little store of books among her brothers and sisters, and sent them with this Elizabeth H- was a soldier's child. She had message-" Mind you all come to Jesus." suffered for a long time from hip-complaint, and Dear Lizzie learnt many texts of Scripture and was sent by a kind friend to the Adelaide Hospi-hymns during her long illness; for, dear children, tal, in the hope that she might there be cured, do you know that she was nearly ten months in through the good care which she would receive. the hospital. Was not that a long time to be The doctors thought that an operation would be necessary, in order to reach the seat of her disease, but delayed until Lizzie, as we always called her, would have strength enough, as they hoped, to bear it. You know that if one of your limbs a leg or an arm--had to be cut off, you might not have strength enough to bear it. Well, I was myself afraid that Lizzie might sink under the operation, and I felt very anxious about her precious, never-dying soul. When I first visited her, and spoke to her about eternal things, I found that she could not read. She had been brought up in great ignorance, having only heard that there was a God, but knowing nothing of Jesus, the Saviour. It was not pleasant to speak to this poor little girl about Jesus, for she did not care to hear of him. And, oh! would it not have been a very sad thing if she had died at this time? for she would have died in her sins, and could not have gone to heaven, where Jesus is; but God, in His great mercy, spared her. In my anxiety, I asked some Christian friends to pray that God would awaken this poor dying child to a sense of her sin, and lead her to feel her need of a Saviour. But before I show you how He heard and answered their prayers, I must tell you that the doctors changed their opinion, and said that, as Lizzie could not recover, an operation would be useless. I was one day speaking to Lizzie of the Saviour's love, when she exclaimed, "Oh! I am such a sinner. I never saw it before. Oh, what shall I do?" She wept bitterly. I told her of Jesus having died for sinners, but this gave her no comfort, as she could not believe it was for hier. The distress of her soul continued for some days; and then "the entrance" of the truth, under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, so enlightened the understanding of this dear child, that she saw that Jesus had indeed borne her sins away, and that she was accepted in him. "My sins are down in the grave of Jesus-gone for ever," was a constant expression of hers from this time. Doctor," said she to the gentleman who attended her, "you needn't be afraid to tell me I'm dying, for I'll go to Jesus. I'm not afraid now." Her mother was one day crying at the bedside, and said, "Oh, darling, I wish you were coming home with me!" when Lizzie replied, "I don't want to go home with you; I'd rather go to Jesus; but, mind you come to Him." sick? Indeed it was; but for more than seven months she knew Jesus, and loved Him as her Saviour, and He kept her soul in "perfect peace." She said sometimes to me, "I think I'll go to Jesus soon." But He was pleased to keep her waiting longer. And now, shall I tell you how Lizzie died? Three days before her death, she was in much pain and weariness, and I sang with the children, beside her bed, that sweet hymn "We go the way that leads to God— CHORUS: "We're going home, we're going home; I shall not soon forget her sweet, happy face, as she seemed to forget all her pain and weariness while singing "We're going home, to die no more." "Are you sure you are 'going home, to die no more'?" I asked, "Oh, yes; I'm going to see Jesus; He took my sins away." The day on which she went home, "to die no more," she called the children around her bed, and said, "I'm going away from you to Jesus. I knew nothing when I came here, but now I know Jesus. Mind you come to him.” The kind chaplain of the hospital, with a number of the children, sang around her bed one of her favourite hymns "I think when I hear that sweet story of old, When they had sung the hymn, the chaplain asked Lizzie could she repeat another, when she immediately began "Here's a message of love When her voice, which had been growing very weak, ceased, and she was gone to be with her blessed Saviour, "For ever in that happy place." And now, dear children, wont you come to Jesus too, and trust in Him as your Saviour, that you may be happy now, and that, if sickness and death come to you, you may not fear, but may know that you are "going home, to die no more"? Wont you receive "the message of love," which tells you Jesus has borne the punishment of sin for poor sinners such as you are? Oh, that the Lord may open your little hearts by His Holy Spirit, and make you happy in the knowledge of His love, for Jesus' sake!-Dublin Tract. Christ's Promise. SOME NOME time ago a gentleman was addressing a school. He began by repeating that verse, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up." Then he asked, "For what purpose was the Son of man lifted up?" After a very brief pause, two voices, one from the boys' side, the other from the girls' side, distinctly repeated, "That whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The little girl and boy who answered were brother and sister, and were both born blind. The reply so sweetly given by those dear children reminded him of a little girl, of whom he then told the children. She was seven years of age when she died in his arms. She had pleaded, most affectionately and fervently, with her little hands clasped, and her eyes fixed on heaven, that very passage; only, in her childish simplicity, she had turned it into promise. "Oh, Jesus!" she said, "you did promise me-you did promise MAN'S intention is to glorify himself, God's object is to glorify Christ. "God is love;" that is, not merely "loving," but He is love. Angels learn the grace of God in us, though not the subjects of grace themselves. Angels earnestly study the grace of God; which things the angels desire to look into." How much more should we who are saved by grace! headed-up in Christ; but men are seeking blessAll blessings, in heaven and in earth, are to be ing apart from Christ. The world gave its money for Jesus, that it might kill Him. Jesus gave His blood for the world, that He might save it. Now ready, bound in stiff covers, cloth back, price 1s. 6d., postage free, "THE EVANGELIST" FOR 1865. Ir is suggested that this is a very valuable book for Lending Libraries, News Rooms, Mechanics' Institutions, for the edification of Christians, and many very striking and general circulation, containing much precious Truth appeals to the unconverted. LONDON: WILLIAM YAPP, 70, WELBECK STREET, "No," I said, "you don't believe that word in that verse-that word which says, ‘hath everlasting life;' you have not believed that, on believing, you have everlasting life." That was the thing he had never believed. He afterwards "I could not sleep all night, and the words are ever ringing in my ears, 'He that believeth hath everlasting life;' and again, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.' BEFORE I come, beloved friends, to the other point-that is, a present salvation, will you ask this question? "Am I a subject of this salvation?" Am I addressing an unconverted one, conscious he is unsaved, or one unconscious of his lost condition? Thou wilt have to see it one day, and if thou dost not soon, it will be too late, and thou wilt die without hope. O mayHe that hath the Son hath life.' And now the God give you to see how you may have salvation! May the thoughtful, inquiring mind be given to very many of you now! God grant that the solemn question may be in your hearts, Am I sared? Have I ever been quickened by His Spirit to see this salvation? Have I received this salvation? Am I experimentally a subject of it? If you can take the place of one that needs it, if you can take the place of a sinner that deserves condemnation and hell, there is salvation for you; you may have a present salva tion. When a young minister of Ventnor came to me, I saw he was just hanging on a hope, believing that if he died he would be saved, that he could hardly be lost, because God had said, the Lord Jesus Christ died for sinners, yet not knowing that he was saved. I am confident there are hundreds of people hanging on Christ who will be saved, though they do not intelligently know it. I dare say many of you feel that if you were to die, you have little else than a mere hope; somehow or other you feel you will not be lost; and your first exclamation in the glory of heaven will be, "I hardly expected all this!" power of that young minister is this, he takes God at His own word; he believes God; God has assured him that salvation is his, that it is said "he that believeth is saved," and "he that hath the Son hath life." It is ours, but not ours yet in hand. I may say of an earthly territory, it is mine, I have the field, but not the harvest of years to come. Well, I have the crown, but not all the glistening glory that will beam from that crown; I havẻ Christ, but I don't know what He is in heaven; I have blessed companions, those blessed joint-heirs with me and Christ, but I don't know one millionth part of the abundant gladness and glory I should have with them; I have rank, but I don't know what it is; I have a crown, but don't know the gems that stud it. Ah! we don't know what we have. I believe in a present salvation, but have not it, that is to say, as Paul says, "Now is our salvation nearer" (not nearer as to meetness); "giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet for the inheritance of the saints in light." Not nearer as to our rank, for "now are we the sons of God," but nearer to the realization of the glory. "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him in glory," of which glory we may say, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard," the honour, the power, the beauty of the glory we shall have in immediate association with Him. God made Christ When I spoke on those words in the fifth of John to that young minister, and said, "You have heard the words of Jesus, and you believe in Him that sent Jesus?" he looked at me in wonder, and said, "Why, sir, I believe all that blessed Book of "the Son of man,"-gives Him everything as God. Registered for Transmission Abroad.] Son of man; all things are put into His hands, Time is that He might by a side way, as it were, give | feel I ought to love, ought to be grateful." We everything to us, in virtue of our association with awaken up in wonder when we see God can Him; we are joint-heirs with Him, and all save such sinners as we. things are ours. Oh, what a salvation that gives us this! 'Tis a boundless land of wealth unknown! I cannot even speak to you of it; I am but a finger that points to it, and say, great is this salvation, with resurrection! the glorified body! everlasting adoption into God's family! everlasting glory in association with Jesus! being Has not He given you something to shew you a king, priest, joint-heir, a son all in it! What a salvation! I fail to disclose its greatness, fulness and glory! But now let me come to the practical application of it. I want you to have the joy, the peace of being saved. And I conclude as I commenced. passing; in a little time the garment you wear will be changed for the funeral shroud, that body of yours may soon become the prey of the worm, of corruption's power. May my God give the dead among you to live! the necessity of this salvation? Have you not had some difficulty, some sorrow, some bereavement? Are you as young as you were? Are you not as "the last rose of summer," with your companions shattered around you? Are you not saying, "If I don't soon get something I shall Travelling the other day I saw one of the most soon have nothing; I am a poor pilgrim and beautiful woods in its autumnal shades, but there stranger; I am nothing, I have nothing." How was one tree there whose branches were naked, I love the name He gives to Himself,-“ I am it had no foliage, and bowed not to the breeze. the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob," Ah! there is nothing so manifest as death in-I am the God of the pilgrim-the God of the the midst of a scene of life. You, my dear stranger. I delight to feel I am a pilgrim. Oh, hearer, who are here an unsaved, an unmoved the salvation, the peace one gets, the glory one soul, you are like that tree, as having your place anticipates, takes one away from everything else, like a barren tree, in the midst of the luxuriance and makes one a pilgrim here! It is enough of the garden of the Lord's time of awakening to hear Him say, I am the God of Abraham, the and refreshing. Oh! I beseech you, if you are God of the pilgrim! conscious of being unsaved now, cry unto God from this moment, "My Father, my God, from this time I will take Thee, Thou hast everything I want." And now let me add this," If that salvation is for a sinner, I take it as a sinner; and if it is a present salvation, I take it as a present joy and May the Lord bless you! May God bless rest. "I am a sinner, I am dead, I am cold." I you! don't care what you are, God is the salvation of such. If you could only make out you had all the iniquity, the crime, all the vice concentrated in you that every lost soul had when on earth, I could only point you to the cross of Christ, and shew you that if you were a million times worse, you would only deserve to take "the cup of wrath," and the cup of wrath was taken on the cross. Oh, come to Him to-day! Let the vilest come! let the guiltiest come! let the oldest sinner come! let such as have had no hope come! come to Him now! come to Jesus! "Let not conscience make you linger, Nor of fitness fondly dream; All the fitness He requireth Is to feel your need of Him." Put out your hands, and take this salvation. It is a present salvation, a present rest, a present joy, a present life. It is a blessed thing to have salvation! much in present possession and enjoyment-more in reserve. We are in the state of minority, but we shall soon be of age. Take it all. It is yours by taking it, it is yours by believing. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." I know what you would say, "I think I cannot be saved, I want something, I am nothing; I "The love of God is not purchased for us by the blood of Christ. That love springs up spontaneously from the foundation of His own heart and nature, even as sin spontaneously springs up in our hearts and natures." A dying lady." She opened its pages, read, and continued to read for hours. The book, for six years forgotten, was read with all earnestness; light dawned in upon her soul; the despised Nazarene stood before her as a rejected Saviour. "I will go to the man again who gave me the book," thought she, and learn from him its meaning." No sooner said than done. She sought out the man of God, who still worked at his post. The Lord opened her heart, as He did Lydia's, and in a short time she received Christ with joy; and now she counted everything but loss in comparison with the unsearchable riches of Christ. The Torn Hymn. FEW years ago a Jewish lady knocked at the door of a servant of the gospel, who dwelt in a German town. The object of her coming was one of benevolence. The minister was busy, and his wife received the Jewess. In the course of a short conversation she discovered her hostile sentiments towards the true faith, as well as her ignorance of its doctrines. Presently the minister entered, and began solemnly and faithfully to speak of the gospel of Christ. The Jewish lady boldly confessed her hatred to the doctrine of the despised Nazarene, and contemp-With boldness she confessed her faith, endured tuously rejected all other except the Jewish faith. As she was about to go away, the faithful servant of the Lord gave her a Bible, with the earnest request that she would read it, and doubtless he prayed that the holy truths of God's word would soften the heart of the proud Israelite, till at last she might confess Christ the Saviour, the hope of glory. She accepted the Bible, but the request was disregarded. The Bible was laid aside, and considered as quite a useless article ; the dust of days, months, and years, collected on its sacred, unopened leaves; but the eye of the God of Abraham watched over the Jewish lady, and He thought of her with love. trials and opposition, the loss of possessions and friends. She was baptized, and became a happy member of the Church of God. "Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?” 66 BROADCAST thy seed! Although some portion may be found Or when it comes, some pestilent air LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL DOING; FAINT NOT." Six years after our friend's visit to the clergyman, she went out one morning to make a purchase in a neighbouring shop. When she came home, and was looking at the articles she had bought, her eyes fell upon the lines of an old hymn in which the things were wrapped up. FOR IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP, IF WE She read, and felt interested in it. The poetry was about a young lady, a portion of whose history was related: it told of a sin into which she had fallen, and of the misery which ensued. "I will try to get the rest of this poetry," thought the Jewess, "so that I may learn the "Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou end of this poor young lady." She went back to the shop, and among the torn paper the 66 Thou Drewest Near." saidst, Fear not."-LAM. iii. 57. IT is in the day of sorrow, when the eyes are dimmed with tears, that the comforts of God are precious. O how sweet is the voice of Jesus then! Let there be only a calling upon Him; let the eye be turned to Him; the heart be poured out before Him, Jesus has been a man of sorrows. He was acquainted with grief. remainder which she wanted was found, and given to her for a trifle. She hastened home, eager to learn the end of the story. But how little she had expected such an end! She not only read of the misery of the young lady, but also of the way by which she was led to Christ, and how in His atoning love she found peace and "He knows what sore temptations mean." forgiveness. Finally, her happy end was described, and how simple faith in a crucified He is now exalted. All power is His. Able to Redeemer had illumined her hour of death. succour; able to bless; able to revive-to sus"Christ!" said the Jewish lady to herself; "have tain. There is no power like His power; no I not once before spoken of this Christ?" Sud- mercy like His mercy; no help like His help. denly she recollected her visit to the servant of He is a very present help in trouble. Blessed God, his earnest request resounded in her ears, Jesus, may thy saints ever remember thee! -she remembered his present so long neglected.."Thou drewest near in the day that I called "I will fetch the book which will tell me more upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not." about this Christ who gave peace and joy to the |