THE EVENING SACRIFICE.
Calm is the hallowed hour!
And calm the sacred joy our spirits know,
When we approach to that Eternal Power,
Before whose footstool thus we love to bow.

Lowly we bend the knee
Before that God whose arms the world uphold,
His worship sacred, and his service free,
His mercy boundless, and his love untold.

Then earth, how vain thy toys!
How short and momentary all thy bliss!
How frail, how transient, all thy boasted joys!
How sad thy happiest hours compared with this!

Saviour of sinners, hear!
Beam on our souls with thy divinest light;
Implant within our hearts thy holy fear,
And guide our loitering, wandering, footsteps right.

DAILY TEXTS FOR JANUARY, 1840.
Morning.

Evening.
W 1 Ps. 16. 10

Luke 1. 50
TH 2 Deut. 10. 18 John 15. 5
F 3 Is. 66. 19

John 16. 28
S 4 Ps. 119.93

Acts 16, 31 2nd Sunday after Christmas 5 Amos 9. 11, 12 Luke 2. 40 Epiphany 6 Ps. 138. 2

Luke 2. 30-32 Tu 7 ls. 44. 5

John 8. 26 8 Ps. 104. 29

Matt. 22. 14 Th 9 2 Kings 1. 13 Acts 10. 38 F 10 Ex. 15. 17

Matt. 10. 8 S 11 Ps. 105. 8

Acts 2. 42 1st Sunday after Epiphany 12 Ps. 86. 6

Luke 15. 20
M 13 Jer. 32. 27

John 1. 18
Tu 14 Ps. 89. 28

John 3. 36
W 15 Is. 26. 12

Luke ). 52
Tu 16 Num. 11. 23 Jobn 14. 30
F 17 Deut. 4. 9

Luke 8. 2, 3 S 18 Ps. 119. 128

John 1.1 2nd Sunday after Epiphany 19 Ps. 130. 5 Acts 26. 17, 18 M 20 Lam. 3. 22

Luke 14. 22 TU 21 Prov. 17. 3

Matt. 15. 13
W 22 Joshua 1.8

Acts 20. 32
TH 23 1s. 62. 4

Luke 5. 27, 28
F 24 Is. 40. 10

Lake 24. 27 S 25 Ps. 119. 46

Luke 8. 48 3rd Sunday after Epiphany 26 Hosea 14.5 Matt. 20.8

M 27 Ezek. 34. 30 Matt. 4. 3
TU 28 Ps. 122. 6

Matt. 3. 15
W 29 Ex. 33. 13

Acts 15. 10
Ti 30 Ezek. 33. Il

Luke 3.4
F 31 Deut. 2. 7

John 16. 15

CONTENTS.

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Account of a poor doornich, or Russian porter

25 Address to those who have resigned themselves to God

188 Anecdote Anecdote of a soldier

78 Anecdote of Dr. Johnson

203 Anecdote of the observance of the Sabbath Awful visitation

110 “ Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with gaod” Blessed effects of the Gospel

45 Blessings of a National Establishment

29 Broken finger-post

168 Christian's hope

194 Confession of guilt and helplessness

154 Confidence in God

150 Daily texts

16-32-48-64–80-96-112_128_144-160-176-206 Death of a Christian soldier

3 Devotedness

152 Doers of the word

187 Ecclesiastes xi. 1.

26 Empty pews

8 Encouragement to tract distributors

91 Extracts

63-107 Extracts from the life of Mrs. Harriet Winslow

44 Extract of a letter from Mr. Simeon to Mr. East

143 Fervency in prayer

104 First chapter of Isaiah

126 Form of prayer for the conversion of the world

57 Good books

59 Heart in ruins

153 Hebrews xiii. 16.

97-117 Hints for Christians

24 Intemperance in London

200 I shan't miss it”.

93 " I should not be missed”

155 66 Is it I ?”

142 " It shall be paid him again".

77 Lady Powerscourt to a friend who had lost her husband

167 Letter of the Rev. Henry Venn

49-65 Letter on Sabbath travelling

109 Letter to the Editor

196 Life and death of a nursery-maid

10 Life viewed from the borders of the grave

180 Love of Church

42 Martyrs in Madagascar

90 Memoir of D, E.

113 Memoir of Mr. Joseph Wopfie Need of mercy

148 Negro's prayer

30 Never too old to learn

201 Noble resistance to temptation

202 Observance of the Sabbath

76 Old convert's widow

33 Old sailor who would not break the Sabbath

46 Pious servant

24 Pleasing discovery

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POETRY: -Vanity of worldly pleasures

Uncertainty of life
Unpublished hymn
The love of Christ
Shall I not drink it ?
Philippians i. 23
A district visitor's recollections
Indecision
From Erskine's Gospel Sonnets
The triumph of death
To a friend under sickness
“ Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves"
Lines on Mr. Christopher Durham
Hymn to the Redeemer
The retrospect
The effects of nourished sin
The labourer's noon-day bymn

The evening sacrifice
Poor quarryman
Power of the Cross
Prayer (On)
Precious thought
Reluctant devotions
Repentance (On)
Retirement from the world
'Rich and poor
River of death
Sabbath (On the)
Sabbath (The)
Salt of the earth
Scraps
Short account of a poor collier
Sin-burdened Abyssinian
South Sea Islands
The Spirit of Christ is a spirit of prayer
Thorns among wheat
Three facts for infidels
Timely assistance of the Holy Spirit of God
True story of a poor man that did much good
Way to prosper
Wounded soldier

30 31 46 47 64 79 94 95 110 111 127 158 175 203 204 205 206 56 62 22 78 74 81 157 185 184 85 17

161 45-203

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199 145 165 169 124 102 36 76

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