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their great Deliverer! They rejected God (1 Sam. viii. 7), and then requested Him to save their king. We should be quite sure that the thing we desire will be to our advantage before we rejoice in having it, for we, like them, may rejoice in that which God has given us in His anger, and which will ultimately be a source of sorrow to us (Hos. xiii. 9-11). Our own way may prove our ruin.]

6. Our enemies may be numerous and strong, but, if God is on our side, He is greater than all who can come against us. He can cause the weakest and most humble means used to result in the most decided success, as in the case of Jonathan, Gideon, David, and others whose trust was in Him; and all who thus prove His power to save may, with Jonah, exclaim, "Salvation is of the Lord."

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[Believing that the "Bible Questions prove to be an interesting exercise to many of our young friends, we propose to continue them through the next year, and to give prizes to those who send the best answers. All who have sent replies this year are requested to give their name and address in full with their next answers.— ED.]

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Phœbe means "shining, pure.”

YOUR name, dear girl, they say
Means pure and shining light;
Then may your earthly way

Be pure, serene, and bright;
And you yourself a joy be found,
A sunbeam shedding light around.
Yet sunbeams die away,

And sink, eclipsed by night;
We, too, like them decay,

And disappear from sight:
Life's longest day is quickly passed,
And night comes rapidly at last.

Then has a brighter light
Arisen in your soul?

A day that knows no night
While endless ages roll;
Whose dawn is "grace," whose noon-
tide ray

Is endless "glory's" perfect day?

By nature you were found
Where evil-doers dwell;
In sable fetters bound,

And loving darkness well :

You shrank from God's all-piercing

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THE EDITOR'S CLOSING ADDRESS.

Then may your joy increase

In His most precious love,
Till all your conflicts cease

In perfect bliss above,
And all-transparent, pure, and bright,
You shine in Jesus' endless light.
HEPHZIBAH.

THE EDITOR'S CLOSING ADDRESS TO HIS YOUNG FRIENDS.

EAR YOUNG FRIENDS,-In presenting you with our last bundle of gleanings for 1881, we again desire to assure you of the deep interest we feel in your moral and spiritual welfare, which we hope still to seek. We trust that the blessing of the Lord will so accompany our humble efforts that the result will prove we have not laboured in vain. We do not seek to make you Christians, for God alone can give you new heart, and without it all profession is but a vain show. But, while we do not try to persuade you to adopt a mere form of godliness, as a substitute for regeneration, we are anxious to lay before you from time to time those great truths connected with the new birth, namely, repentance for sin and faith in the Lord Jesus; for all who do not experience this good work in their heart are out of the secret of salvation, and are strangers to the peace of God. Oh, that the Holy Spirit may give those of you who do not know the Lord a true knowledge of your sinful state, and of the redeeming work and blood of Jesus Christ, who came to seek and save lost sinners!

We believe that thousands have highly appreciated the contents of the GLEANER hitherto, and we hope, with the Lord's help, to make it still more a general favourite among the young.

Our past

endeavours to give suitable illustrations, as well as instructive reading, have, we believe, given great satisfaction, and we hope that, in the future, we shall be so supported by the general sympathy of the friends of the young that we shall be able

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to make the GLEANER more attractive even than it is at the present; and that the sale of the SOWER will still be greatly increased.

We trust that all our readers will try and procure some additional subscribers; and, as the yearly volumes of SOWER and GLEANER are got up in a very neat and attractive style, we hope that each subscriber will try and recommend them among their friends for Christmas and New Year's presents. We are having a great quantity bound, hoping that even the large sale we had last year will be exceeded this season. The Almanack, too, will be found a very useful accompaniment, as it contains a List of Scripture Lessons, as well as a text of Scripture for each day, and it is beautifully illustrated.

The expense incurred in getting up our Magazines is very considerable, therefore we hope our friends will try so to help us as to secure us against pecuniary loss.

And now, dear readers, may the Lord bless you each and all, and may He so own and prosper the labours of our hands that we may have to say," "The Lord hath done great things for us.' THE EDITOR.

BIBLE SUBJECTS FOR EACH SUNDAY IN DECEMBER. Dec. 4. Commit to memory I Thes. iv. 16. Dec. 11. Commit to memory Phil. iii. 9. Dec. 18. Commit to memory Eph. iv. 31. Dec. 25. Commit to memory Luke ii. II.

WHEN the complete translation of the Bible reached Mangai, an aged Christian, in a large assembly, lifted up his newlygotten treasure, and exclaimed, "This is my resolve the dust shall never cover my new Bible, the moths shall never eat it, the mildew shall never rot it, my light! my joy !" None can be Christ-like who undervalue the Scriptures.

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