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largely and more willingly for the cause of Christ, than you did? We have told you of sad spiritual darkness and distress in our own and in foreign lands;—we have tried to interest you in what is doing to relieve all this terrible woe. Do you feel your heart sorrowing, as did the heart of the Lord Jesus, over the woes of others, and does your yearning spirit send forth an outstretched arm to help the helpless? Perhaps not. Well then, soon will the time for helping be all over! This month will not seal up the passing year before the opportunities of multitudes, and perhaps of some who read these lines, will be for ever gone! And, oh! how sad to awake suddenly from the dream,—the solemn, the momentous day-dream of life,-and find you had all the while been trifling away your opportunities-living just for self, self, SELF! Then comes the account at the dread tribunal! and the sentence: ""Depart! I was an hungered and ye gave Me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave Me no drink!" You lived for SELF, you cared not for Me or My poor ones on the earth. Depart!'

Dear readers, shall we not hope better things of many of you? Oh! learn to reckon it your highest privilege and honour to sorrow and to suffer with Christ; to labour for Him; and, in your sphere, and according to your ability, out of a really deeply earnest heart, to make known throughout the wide world the glories and the riches of His highly exalted name!

And now, our fervent prayer for you all will ever be, that you may receive abundantly and abidingly of the riches of God's pardoning and sanctifying grace, and that you may know the things that are freely given to you of God, believing, as we do, that all who have thus freely received, will feel inwardly constrained freely to give.

END OF VOL. V.

PATON AND RITCHIE, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

THE

JUVENILE MISSIONARY RECORD

AND

Sabbath Scholars' Magazine

IN CONNEXION WITH

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise."
MATTHEW Xxi. 16,

VOL. VI.-NEW SERIES.

PATON AND RITCHIE, EDINBURGH.

MDCCCLVII.

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