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there is a cry for pardon in this life God will be sure to hear that cry. But, reader, if you would not be thus shut up in this prison-house of spiritual gloom, if you would not have its iron bars wear out your spirit, oh! take care of the first approach to spiritual declension; beware how you become unwatchful; beware how you allow self to assume the ascendancy ; beware how you sin against spiritual light.

And these are warnings needful for those who are beginning the Christian course, lest the world be too strong for their infant virtue, lest the light of God, which is yet in its beginning in their mind, be put out, or covered over (as it were) by the power of the world. Oh, young reader, think of the dangers of drawing back! Think of the dangers, after having put your hand to the gospel plough, of looking back to that world whence you came. "Remember Lot's wife."

The next vision is the Anticipation of Judgment. Many have dreamt of this. It is rather a singular fact, that almost everybody, perhaps, now reading this magazine, if they could recall the past, could describe some dream of the judgment. It is exceedingly common to have such dreams; and we think very naturally, for these reasons-that at night conscience is more awake and active than during the day, and reason and the will are not present to control; so that when conscience has begun to arouse itself from its day's slumber, and to walk about the chambers of the soul, and to speak of sin and of the doom of sin, and to draw out before the soul the threatenings of God's law, the imagination follows conscience, and gives an actual form and a visible shape to all that conscience has spoken of. So, where conscience has been describing scenes, imagination pictures those scenes, and where conscience has been reading out of God's Book the threatenings of His wrath, imagination looks forward, and pierces through the gloom that hides the world's scenes from our minds, and pictures to us the

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great white throne, the open books, and all the terrible sublimities of approaching judgment.

But that judgment-day is no dream after all! A morning is coming, and will soon break upon the world—a morning in which the soul shall awaken, not from the slumber of a night, but, it may be, from the slumber of a life, and awakening from that life's slumber shall gaze upon the scenes of the second judgment, shall look with dazzled eye upon that appalling panorama which shall then pass slowly and fearfully before the soul, and shall acknowledge that it is no dream. Ah! it will be no dream, reader, when you and I stand before God to be judgedwhen the archangel's trumpet shall summon us from our graves, to appear before that great white throne. You may dream of it now; but you will have to realize it then. You must meet me there. I must meet you all there. Oh! how solemn that meeting! Now we may wake up and say, "It was all a dream;" but then, the awakening will be only to realize its terribleness more fully-to awake from imaginary to real horrors. There will be no escaping the wrath

to come.

Let us, then, as Christians, think of the judgmentday. It is well to think of it. It is well for us to consider how we are to stand there, what account we shall render, how we shall be able to give up our stewardships-how I will be able to give up my reckoning, as a Christian writer, and how you will be able to give up your account, according to the different states in life to which God has been pleased to call you. Parents, how will you give your account to God then? Have you acted rightly in your stewardship? Have you brought your children to Him? Have you nursed them for the skies? And so according to the various relationships which you may occupy-how will you give in your account at the judgment-day?

And oh my young readers, who are setting out, like Christian, in life, keep that in view-"I must give account to God." Bring everything to that. It will chasten your moments of pleasure. It will give urgency to your prayers. It will make you circumspect in your daily calling. It will exercise a salutary and solemnizing influence over your whole life. You "must give account to God." Think of it in your closets. Think of it in your families. Think of it in your social circles. Think of it in your business. Think of it in your friendships. Think of it in all your correspondence. Think of it in all your conversation. Think of it as you are walking in the streets. Oh! think of it as you lay down this book. Think, "I must give account to God," and then, by God's blessing, there will be a safeguard in that reflection. You will fear to go into some scenes, you will shrink from being found in some sorts of company; there will be a chastening influence exercised over your actions and your words, if you only let that thought constantly abide in your breast"I must give account to God."

And you who are not Christians-you who have made no practical confession of the Christian faithyou who, if you have "a name to live," are yet spiritually "dead"—you, also, "must give an account to God." You must give an account of the appeals which heavenly love has made to your souls-of all the warnings, as well as of all the invitations, which the gospel has addressed to your minds; you must give account of all the preaching to which you have listened-you must give account of having read this very paper. Words of eternal importance have been sounded in your hearing. You have heard of the Saviour's love, the power of the Saviour's grace, your need of an interest in that precious Redeemer; and you must give account of this. The judgment is approaching. I must meet you there, and you must

meet me there. I must meet you, to say that "I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God," and I must give my testimony either for you or against you-for you, as having listened to and believed the words spoken to you, so as to turn to Christ-or against you, as having listened to, and disbelieved, or forgotten the words, and so reckoned yourselves" unworthy of everlasting life."

God grant, reader, that when we thus meet, it may be with joy, and not with grief-that when the awful scenes of the judgment break upon our astonished gaze, we may then be able to realize our interest in Christ, and feel all the fulness of value which those words contain-" There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the" works of the law, but are led by "the Spirit " of God, and are, therefore, "the sons of God.""

W. M. W.

THE BIBLE IN EVERY LAND.

THE YOUNG COLPORTEUR.

WE have much pleasure in presenting to our readers a copy of an interesting report, received from Master Edward Schauffler, of his distributions of New Testaments amongst the soldiers of the reserved French corps, encamped on the heights on the European side of the Bosphorus. He distributed not less than 907 French and German New Testaments, and that in a very short space of time. This young honorary Colporteur is about fifteen or sixteen years old, and a much younger brother of his accompanied him, to aid in carrying the Scriptures. His elder brother, now on his way to England and America, distributed New Testaments amongst the sick at the hospital of Koulolee, and amongst the French at the

military forges at the village of Kouron-Chesmé. We have much pleasure in recording such youthful exertions for the propagation of the word of God, that young and old may follow the example, and go and do likewise in the world's great encampment.

COPY OF A REPORT OF MASTER E. W. SCHAUFFLER.

"In the early part of April, a French camp was established on the heights near Constantinople, consisting of from 20,000 to 25,000 men, forming an army of reserve to the allied armies now besieging Sebastopol. A great portion of these troops came directly from Africa, and were consequently entirely destitute of New Testaments, or good reading of any kind. Other regiments, although they had embarked directly from Lyons or Toulon, were but partially supplied. My first attempt to introduce anything to read amongst them was with the American Tract Society's tracts.

"These were gladly received by the men, and the idea of supplying them with Testaments was thus suggested. Being encouraged in this attempt by Mr. Barker, Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, I put myself in possession of a supply of Testaments, and commenced doing what little I could by way of scattering the word of life among this mighty host. The pursuance of my studies and other duties did not leave me much time to devote to this work. One or two afternoons in the week was all I could devote to it, and then I only took what copies I could carry in a carpet-bag.

"The encouragement I met with among the men was very great. They appeared very anxious to get Testaments; and, when my stock was out, would crowd around, handing me their names, so as to be remembered at my next visit. I was surprised to find how many of the men were Germans by birth. There being no more German Testaments of the American

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