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FRIENDLY VISITOR:

PUBLISHED IN

MONTHLY NUMBERS,

DURING THE YEAR

1841.

BY

THE REV. W. CARUS WILSON, M. A.

RECTOR OF WHITTINGTON,

AND PERPETUAL CURATE OF CASTERTON.

VOL. XXIII.

"Much good may be done this way to considerable numbers at once in an acceptable manner, at a trifling expense."-ARCHBISHOP SECKER.

KIRKBY LONSDALE:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY A. FOSTER.

Of whom may be had single numbers to make sets complete.

SOLD BY L. AND G. SEELEY, FLEET STREET, LONDON;
AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

The profits are devoted to charitable purposes.

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Annual receipts of Missionary, Bible, Education, and Tract Societies

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FRIENDLY VISITOR.

No. 268.]

JANUARY, 1841.

[VOL. 23.

1841.

These figures are rather strange, It must be some time before it will come, as a matter of course, to write them or read them as the year in which we live and move. But the year has come, and, strange as it strikes the eye or the ear, this is 1841!

Days of

1840-weeks-months-where are ye fled? It seems such a brief period since the name was as strange to speak or hear as the name of the year now passing. But ye are gone-all gone and the days of 1840 and the days beyond the flood are in the same tomb-the sepulchre of ages. Well, the past is of use only as a lesson for the future-a lesson of example or admonition-and he is wise who studies time gone by, that he may learn the better to improve the time that is still to come.

I know the opening of the year is usually regarded as a season of special mirthfulness; but it is a season fitted to call up solemn thoughts; and he is careless who closes one year and enters on another without thinking of the progress he is making through time to eternity. It is a solemn thought, that three hundred and sixty-five days are numbered with those that are gone for ever. How many of them are worse than lost-misspent-misimproved-abused. Each one of them has made an indelible impression on the tablet of the heart, for good or evil, and in the day of reckoning will stand up separately, and accuse or excuse us for the manner in which they have been passed. How great the sum of the knowledge of God's word that we might have laid up! Had we read but six chapters each day, we should have read the Holy Scriptures through twice during the year. How much more we should know of the Bible had we thus studied it than

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