CONTENTS. Fretfulness under Trial, 64. Fuller, Thomas, Extracts fruin, 407. Afflictions, The Believer's—his Prospects, the Influence of Happiness, apparent, 61 2. the une upon the other, and the State of Mind requisite Harvest, The, is Past. By the Rev. Thomas D. Nicholson, wick, 518. D.D., Glasgow, 37, 73, 145, 505, 589. Hear the Word of the Lord, 323. Aim Higb, 612. Heaven and Hell, 515. Heaven, Our Friends in, 600. Heavenly Country, The, to be kept in View. A Sermon. By the Rev. J. G. Pike, Derby, 241. Henry, Matthew, Sentences from, 576. Bible, The (Translated from the German of Krummacher), Hints for Daily Practice, 18. Bible, The, Right Way to Read the. By the Rev. James Households, Unholy, 556. I will Mock when your fear cometh, 588. Bible, The, How to Read with Profit, 433, 445. Ignorance, The Errors of, 540. Impartiality, The Divine, 549. Impenitent, Warning to the, 60. Calling, The Christian's, 348. Change, A, for the Worse, 551. Jesus, The Friend of sinners, but the Enemy of Sin, 469. Judgments, God's, and their Due Etheci. A Sermon on the Huntly, 373. Liber ality, False, 451. Christ, The Love of. By the late Res. R. M. M'Cheyne, Life's Pendulum, 576. Christ, The Love of, 336. Lovely, The Altogether, 120. Choose ? Which would you, 144. Church? Do you go Regularly to, 24. Man, The Upright and Perfect, 253, 265. Master and Servant. By the Rev. A. Thomson, Edinburgh, 292, 309. Conquerors, We are more than. By the Rev. R. M'Cheyne, MINISTERS, For. Conscience, A Good, Two Reasons for Getting, 444. Convictions, Trifling with, 95. Outline of an Address to an Associationof Ministers, By J. Pye Smith, D.D., London. A Minister's Time, 588. Words for Ministers, 276, 586. Death, Welcome, 191. Ministry, The Evangelical—the Mission, the Trials, and the Claims of. By the Rev. W. M. Bunting, London, 85, 97. Death, ls, Really to be Feared ? 443. :)eceive not your own Souls, 312. Mother, Advices to a, 143. Mother's Faich and Love, 156. Mourner, a Page for the, 433. Ear, Sins cf the, 557. Nature, The Serinons and Songs of (Translated from the German of Tholuck), 337. Nature and Grace. By the Rev. J. R. Anderson, Glasgow, Eternity-Oh Eternity, 23. Negative Religion, 226. Panting Soul, The. By the late Rev. R. M. M'Cheyne, 385. PARENTS, FOR Their Apathy as regards the Souls of their Children, 11. How to Teach a Child Sincerity, 36. A Good Mother, 12. Foster, Jobn, Extracts from the Journal of, 437. Advice to Mothers, 143. Parental Responsibility, 162. Wicked, The Hope of the, Hopeless, 108. Worldlings, Associating with, 396. Year, The Old, and the New. By James Buchanan, D.D., A Word to Parents. By the Rev. D, Landsborough, Love your Children, but Wisely, 324. Parental Pity-Filial Faithfulness, 545. Parting," " It is a, Not a Loss, 264. Poor, Remembering the. By the Rev. James Begg, Edin- Poor, Considerations for the Christian, 601. Prayer. By the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, Watton, Herts, 13. Prayer, The value of, Fairbairn, Allanton, 327, 399. Prayers, The Fault of many, 432. luck), 421. Delay (abridged from Richard Baxter), 179. Religion, On making, our Business, 431. Religion, Rules for making, our Business, 517. Religious, You Lose Nothing by being, 563, Repentance. By the Rev. David King, D.D., Glasgow, 121. Resolves, Feltham's, Extracts from, 396, Resurrection, The Annual, 239. Rules, Three Golden. By the Rev. Robert Macdonald, Blair. gowrie, 301, the Rev R. Macdonald, Blairgowrie, 157. Satan, Cunning of, 432. sons, York, 229. " Sleep, I, but my Heart Waketh." By the Rev. R. M. Sorrow, The, not to be Repented of, 370. D.D., Manchester, 193. Spring, A Drink from the, 455. Temple, the Pinnacles of the, 324. Travellers, Rules for Visitors and, 240. Unbeliever, The, in a State of Condemnation. A Sermon, by the late Henry Duncan, D.D., Ruthwell, 109. THEOLOGY AND SCRIPTURE EXPOSITION AND Believers, The Power of, to do Greater Things than Christ. 568. Burmese Customs Illustrative of Scripture. By John Kitto, ; Christ's not knowing the Day and Hour of his Coming. By the Rev. P. Fairbairn, Salton, 231, Chronological Curiosities of scripture, 415. David, the Man after God's own Heart, 586. Disease, Connection between Bodily, and Sin, 141. Egypt, The Monuments and Hieroglyphics of, Illustrative of Scripture and its Evidences. By James Taylor, 1 D.D., Glasgow, 20, 44, 52, 63, 151, 307. Error, Reasons why, is Permitted, 574. 113. ings of Jewish and Heathen Historians, 76. Jerusalem during the Feasts. 318 John Baptist--His Message to Christ, 462. Jonas, The Sign of the Prophet, 2:2. Labourers, The, in the Vineyard, 438 Malachi, The Times and Writings of, 284. Malachi, The Predictions of, 362. Miracles, The Argument from, 492. Misquotations, Popular, of Scripture, 546. Pray? Ought a Wicked Man to, 563. Providence, Objections to the Doctrine of a Divine, Con. Punishment, Evidences of Endless, 498. CHURCH HISTORY, PRINCIPLES AND POLITY. Evangelism-Ritualism-Rationalism, 389. Greek Church, The. By the Rev. Andrew Thomson, B.A., Edinburgh, la1, 153, 249, 9611. Jews, The, a People Scattered, 36. Jews, The, Sufferings of the, 403, Reformers, The, Before the Reformation. By the Rev. 2. John Wicliffe, 162, 289. 485, Wesleyan Methodism, Notes on. By Dr. J. B. Bennett, 1. Its Rise and Progress, 79, ICA. 2. Its Doctrines and Devotional Services, 116. POPERY AND PROTESTANTISM. Infidelity, the Union of, and Popery. By the Rev. J. G. Lorimer, Glasgow, 254, 268. Inquisition, Memorials of the. By the Rev. W. K. Tweedie, Edinburgh, 318, 342, 353, 366, 350, 391. Italy, Letters from, 201. Jesuit, The Young Woman and the, 271. Jesuits, Sir Edward Coke's Opinion of the, 24. Madeira, The first Native Protestant Church in-its Rise, Sufferings, and Overthrow, 554. 427, 457. Romanism and Hinduism Compared, 605. Superstition-fear of a Curse, 480. Backslider, Recovery of a, 177. Battle, God a Defence in, 478. Bible, The, and a Death-bed, 43. Bible, A Mortal Sin to Read the, 396. Brand, A, Plucked from the Fire, 42. Children, Religious Revival among, 178. Children, Leading, to God, 5-8. Cottager's Death, The Poor, 119. Father's Grave, My. By Rev. J. D, Ford, Manchester, 222 Female Profligate, Repentance of a, 199. Forgive, Precept and Example, 71. Fragments from a Minister's Day-Book :- 1. The Infidel, 103. 5. A Three Years' Wound, 187. Girl, The Little, and the Rain, 347. Grandmother, My, 190. Jane, Blind ; or the Gain of Godliness with Contentment, Leaf, A, from Life's Day-Book, 196. Love thy Neighbour as Thyself, 264 Martyrs, The Forty, of Sebaste, 46.. Missionary, Recollections of a, 461. Mother's, A, Faith and Love, 156. Mother's, A, Prayer answered, 452. Muckle Kate, a Tradition of Loehcarron, 577. BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL NARRATIVE. Progress. By the Rev. J. A. Wylie, 16, 56, 182. Bunyan, His Indictment and Examination, 283. Cecil, Richard, The Mother of, 334. son, Sanquhar, 296. Luther in the Pulpit, 281. Luther's One Idea, 125. Memoir of, 302 Fairbairn, Allanton, 496. Praise from the Scammering Tongue, 487. Prayer-Meeting on Horseback, 599. Revival Incident, A. By the Rev. Octavius Winslow, Sabbath School Teacher, The Delaying, 324. Sabbath Scholar's, The, Reward, 316. Sailor's Life, Anxieties of the, 442. Scott, Sir Walter, and Wilberforce, 48. Shepherd, The, and the Lamb, 95. Silvio Pellico, and the Bible in Italy, 567. Socialist Teacher, Conversion of a, 176. Christian Union, 397. Extracts from Francis Quarles, 18. Morning Hymn for a Little Child, 12. Lines Written after a Sleepless Night during Sickness, 96. Why should I wish to Die ? 114. Heaven Opening on the Sight, 149 The Nest among the Graves, 151. A Departed Child to its Parents, 174. To the Lily of the Valley, 210. My Spirit Thirsts for Thee, 234. Jesus, Justice, and the Sinner, 282, How wilt thou do in the Swellings of Jordan? 300. He standeth at the Door and Knocketh, 330. O Saviour! I do this for Thee, 355. dc Evening Time it shall be Light, 475. The Reaper and the Flowers, 486. Wisdom contrasted with Knowledge, 534. Baptism of an Insant at its Mother's Funeral, 582. Arran, by the Rev. D. Landsborough, Saltcoats, 160, 187. Bethesda, The Pool of. By J, Kitto, D.D., 184. Jerusalem, The Approach to, 5. Olives, The Mount of. By Rev.J. T. Headley, New York, Palestine, Condition of the Labouring Classes in. By John Affliction, Moslem and Christian, Compared. By J. Kitto, Astræa, or the New Planet, and the Harmony of the Solar System. By Sir David Brewster, 100. Bible, Annals of the English, 316, 358. Ciliogrades and Sea-Weed. By the Rev. D. Landsborough, Death-knell, The, in the Country, 148. Execution of two Young Men, Reflections on the, 214. Hand, Proofs of Design in its Structure ? 51. Infidelity, Illustrations of, in the Life and Correspondence of David Hume, By the Rev. J. G. Lorimer, Glasgow, 339, 356, 411, 447, 476, 501, 578, 595, 602. Interments. By J. Kitto, D.D., 288. Medusa, By the Res, D. Landsborough, Saltcoats, 91. Psalmody, The Origin of Metrical, 395. Sabbath, The Political Economy of the, 587. Sabbath, The, at Rome, New Orleans, and in Germany, 575. Sabbath Railway Travelling, Objections to, 614. POETRY. Sheffield, 7. “The Word of the Lord endureth for ever,” and bettering to the intelligent believer. “How we ought to study it with all the earnestness sweet are thy words unto my taste; yea, sweeter of those who feel that there is nothing ephe-than honey to my mouth! Through thy premeral or insignificant in it. We sometimes cepts I get understanding : therefore I hate feel a sadness in reading the clever works of every false way.” worldly men—their witty paragraphs and bril. To some the Bible is uninteresting and unliant essays, and sometimes their eloquent and profitable, because they read too fast. Amongst laborious treatises on themes of transient in the insects which subsist on the sweet sap of terest. The talent squandered on them is like flowers, there are two very different classes. an Arabesque painting on the walls of a snow One is remarkable for its imposing plumage, temple—exquisite while the fragile structure which shows in the sunbeams like the dust of lasts, but as soon as the melting weather comes, gems; and as you watch its jaunty gyrations only destined to give a vermilion tint to its over the fields, and its minuet dance from trickling decay. The words of the Bible may flower to flower, you cannot help admiring its not so glare and dazzle, at first glance, as some graceful activity, for it is plainly getting over words lavished on fugacious topics; but their a great deal of ground. But, in the same field worth is their substratum. They are graven there is another worker, whose brown vest and with a diamond on the rock for ever, and ex. business-like straight-forward flight may not press the same truths which we shall hereafter have arrested your eye. His fluttering neighread on the adamant of eternity. Man's bour darts down here and there, and sips elethoughts perish, but the truths of God will gantly wherever he can find a drop of ready never pass away; and this permanency of the nectar; but this dingy plodder makes a point Bible's contents should impart a solemnity and of alighting everywhere, and wherever he purpose-like earnestness to its perusal. alights he either finds honey or makes it. If But not only are the contents of the Bible the flower-cup be deep, he goes down to the permanent—to those whose taste is true, they bottom; if its dragon-mouth be shut, he thrusts are attractive and pleasant. The right know. its lips asunder; and if the nectary be peculiar ledge of cod—the plan of redemption, in its or reco econdite, he explores all about till he discontrivance, in its accomplishment, and its covers it, and then having ascertained the God-manifesting and soul-renovating develop- knack of it, joyful as one who has found great ments—the true history and future prospects spoil, he sings his way down into its luscious reof our human family, with all the Bible's re cesses. His rival, of the painted velvet wing, sources for making the individual holy and bas no patience for such dull and long-winded happy-render it a book as satisfactory to the details. But what is the end? Why, the one thoughtful inquirer as it is healthful and heart- died last October along with the flowers; the No. 1.-* |