LONDON: SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS. CONTENTS. • 167 . Page 71 258 Best maternal care, the . 333 220 162 Burning of lights in places of Cheerful and afflictive sounds 128 Christian and the Turk, the 91 Christian Scriver's thoughts : Infirmities The colporteur and priest 53 Christians, quarrels amongst 219 Come up hither 48 262 Deed, a good, louder than a 72 50 78 117 253 Page 169 Fog, the 325 52 111, 138, 223 “God's blessing on the dance" 73 75, 132, 191 128 207 154 106 74 199 137 121 348 135 291 109 Miser, the 29 Most beautiful things in the 187 113 Our mercies :-Speech 298 303 304 . . . · 106 . . . . 276 208, 272 • 289 · 164 nees, the Parent and child, sympathy Tract anecdotes, etc. : 97 Perseverance prevailing . 165 Piedmontese martyr, the 337 The sick boy . 285 Give and scatter tracts SO4 “Quench not the Spirit” 59 Tracts at fairs Railway and the sabbath 335 Trust in God Rev. Henry Blunt, letter from Warmth for the cold . Secret faults 277 Shall we travel on the sabbath? 100 What is in Christ Shepherd church in the Pyre- What Christ has done for souls 32 ready ?” 211 Word of God, power of the 6 344 POETRY. Three regrets, the : Complaints of the poor 360 102 Contented prisoner, the 196 Books to children and ser- Wasted flowers, the vants Wave, the 140 I do not want your books 83 What must it be to be there! 111 . . 84 . WATCHING FOR THE DAWN. The daily morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb was commanded to the Jews, as related in Exodus xxix. 38, 39. “ Two lambs of the first year day by day continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even,” etc. The time of offering the early sacrifice was the dawn of morning, soon after the first streaks of light were distinctly It was the office of one of the attendant priests to ascertain the proper time. For this purpose, during the continuance of the temple of Jerusalem, the appointed priest regularly went up to the top of the building to watch for the dawn, and when he saw it he called out, “ It is day !” The presiding priest then asked, " Is the heaven bright up to seen. JANUARY, 1848. B |