THE BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCER.

REGISTER OF THOUGHTS AND EVENTS.

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how_that_the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us, their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again.—Acts, xiii. 32, 33.

CHRIST THE WAY.

ESUS, my all, to heaven is gone;
He that I place my hopes upon;
His track I see; and I'll pursue
The narrow way, till Him I view.
This is the way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found it not;
My grief, my burden, long have been
Because I could not cease from sin.
The more I strove against its power,
I sinned and stumbled but the more;
Till late I heard my Saviour say,
"Come hither, soul! for I'm the way!"
Lo glad I come; and Thou, dear Lamb,
Shalt take me to Thee, as I am:
Nothing but sin I Thee can give :
Yet help me, and Thy praise I'll live.

REFLECTIONS.

Cannick.

THE purity of moral habits is, I am afraid, of very little use to a man, unless it is accompanied by that degree of firmness which enables him to act up to what he may think right, in spite of solicitations to the contrary. Very few young men have the power of negation in any great degree at first. It increases with the increase of confidence, and with the experience of those inconveniences which result from the absence of this virtue.-SYDNEY SMITH.

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him.— PROVERBS, xxiv. 24.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.-I. CORINTHIANS, xv. 20.

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WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION.

BEST for the toiling hand,

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Rest for the anxious brow,
Rest for the weary, way-worn feet,
Rest from all labour now;

Rest for the fevered brain,

Rest for the throbbing eye;

Through these parched lips of thine no more
Shall pass the moan or sigh.

Soon shall the trump of God

Give out the welcome sound,
That shakes thy silent chamber-walls,
And breaks the turf-sealed ground.
Ye dwellers in the dust,

Awake! come forth and sing!
Sharp has your frost of winter been,
But bright shall be your spring.

'Twas sown in weakness here,

"Twill then be raised in power;

That which was sown an earthly seed
Shall rise a heavenly flower.

REFLECTIONS.

Bonar.

ND as patience and humility are maintained, he will endow us with a larger portion of intellectual vision, compared to that day-star from above, until the fulness of light, even the Sun of Righteousness his elf, shall arise as with healing in his wings; when we shall not only see and understand, but the Scripture balm shall be applied to the healing of our souls.— GRIMSHAW,

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because

THE BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCER.

REGISTER OF THOUGHTS AND EVENTS.

THE BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCER.

REGISTER OF THOUGHTS AND EVENTS.