And the moon was at the full also, and through the windows came the broad silver beams, glinting up from the crusted snow, until the apartment was lit almost as in the day. Long after the hour of usual slumber, a lady passing found him wide awake, and asked him why he was not sleeping. "Oh, they don't have any night here!" he answered. DCXI. The Cypress-tree of Ceylon. Rev. xxii. 2. "The tree of life: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." IBN BATUTA, the celebrated Mussulman traveller of the fourteenth century, speaks of a cypress-tree in Ceylon, universally held sacred by the natives, the leaves of which were said to fall only at certain intervals, and he who had the happiness to find and eat one of them was restored, at once, to youth and vigour. The traveller saw several venerable jogees or saints, sitting silent and motionless under the tree, patiently awaiting the falling of a leaf. DCXII. A Full Reward. REV. xxii. 12. "Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be." A MILITARY gentleman once said to an excellent old minister in the North of Scotland, who was becoming infirm, "Why, if I had power over the pension list, I would actually have you put on half-pay for your long and faithful services." He replied, "Ah, my friend, your master may put you off with half-pay, but my Master will not serve me so meanly; He will give me full pay. Through grace I expect a full reward." DCXIII. Taking. REV. xxii. 17. "Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely." A LADY in Glasgow came to Mr. Moody and said, “Mr. Moody, you are always saying, 'Take, take!' Is there any place in the Bible where it says, 'Take,' or is it only a word you use? I have been looking in the Bible for it, but cannot find it." "Why," he said, "the Bible is sealed with it it is almost the last word in the Bible. 'And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely!'" Well," she said, “I never saw that before. that all I have to do?" "Yes; the Bible says so." she took it just there. Is And DCXIV. A Lesson from a Pump. REV. xxii. 17. "The water of life." I WAS in Cologne on a very rainy day, and I was looking out for similes and metaphors, as I generally am, but I had nothing on earth to look at in the Square of the city but an old pump, and what kind of a simile I could make out of it I could not tell. All traffic seemed suspended, it rained so hard; but I noticed a woman come to the pump with a bucket. Presently I noticed a man come in with a bucket, nay, he came with a yoke and two buckets. As I kept on writing and looking out every now and then, I saw the same friend with the often-buckets and blue blouse coming to the same pump again. In the course of the morning I think I saw him a dozen times. I thought to myself, "Ah, you do not fetch water for your own house, I am persuaded; you are a water-carrier; you fetch water for lots of people, and that is why you come oftener than anybody else." Now, there was a meaning in that at once to my soul, that, inasmuch that I had not only to go to Christ for myself, but had been made a water-carrier to carry the water of everlasting life to others, I must come a great deal oftener than anybody else. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Able to Save to the Uttermost, 311. Aches so, 40. Advice, A Landlady's, 212. Almost Saved-but Lost, 159. Angels Unawares, 322. Answer, The Lord's, 136. Applause, The Sparks of, 188. Autobiography, Every Man's, 375. Book of Record, The, 375. Brethren, All We are, 353. Cancelled and Nailed Up, 263. Castaway, A Devil's, 93. Cereus, The Night-flowering, 125. Charity, 279. Charity, A Wrong Sort of, 51. Christ, The Divinity of, 359. Christ's Martyrs in Antioch, 204. Christian, The Polemical and the Christian World Unmasked, The, Christian's Protector, The, 304. Clergyman's Life, What Dr. John- Clock, The Striking of a, 192. Cloud, The Murky, 361. Commandment, The Eleventh, 127. Companion, An Affectionate, 196. Confessing the Lord Jesus, 187. Confessor, A Faithful, 155. Confidence, 177. Conflict, The Internal, 229. Conscience, An Evil, 317. Conscience Sake, For, 193, 254. Consolations of God, The, 346. Conversion, A Captain's, 272. Convert, One, Wins another, 108. Creature, A New, 219. Crimean War, An Episode of the, Devil's Service, No Profit in the, Diamonds, The Princess's, 39- Distinction, Earthly, in View of Doer of the Word, A, 325. Doubter Comforted, A, 34. Driving the Cattle to Market, 212. Duty, Do your, 75. Faith, 318. Faith, According to your, 107. Faith, The Simplicity of, 328. Father, Then you Have a, 87. Fountain, The Cleansing, 350. Fruits from a Sunday Class, 217. Funeral Procession, A, 314. Gate, The Strait, 30. Gift, An Aged Woman's, 102. Give before I can Pray, I must, 149. Give Thyself wholly to them, Giver, A Cheerful, 223. Givers, Two and their Rewards, Giving, The Blessedness of, 155. Glory, The Hope of, 261. God Forgiving and Forgetting, God Loveth a Cheerful Giver, God our Best Friend, 171. God, Trembling to Meet, 216. God's Love, The Mystery of, 185. God's Praise, Learning to Sing, God's Providence, 341. God's Readiness to Forgive, 239. God's Word, The Power of, 307. Grace in every Heart, 87. with, 165. |