CONTENTS.

SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME.

Joseph L. Chester, Esq.

THE TEMPEST STILLED.

Rev. I. Gilborne, LL. D.

THE FALL OF BABYLON.

Timothy Bigelow, A. M.

MOSES SMITING THE ROCK.

HEAVEN'S LESSON.

Mrs. L. H. Sigourney

Rev. N. L. Frothingham, D. D. . . Boston

JESUS CHRIST, THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOREVER.

Philadelphia.

Rev. C. C. Vanarsdale, D. D..
DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN.

Rev. M. A. De Wolf Howe, D. D.
CONSOLATION FOR MORTALITY.
W. Cullen Bryant, Esq.

THE YOUTHFUL SAVIOUR IN THE TEMPLE.

Rev. S. H. Cox, D. D.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia.

Boston

LAZARUS.

BLIND BARTIMEUS.

Rev. S. B. Howe, D. D.

ELIJAH IN THE DESERT.

Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson .

JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES.

Rev. W. H. Furness, D. D.

THE HEART'S SONG.

Rev. A. C. Cox

MOSES SEEING THE INVISIBLE.

Rev. Joseph H. Jones, D. D.

JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSETH BY.

Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.

JESUS AT THE WELL OF SAMARIA.

Rev. James Flint, D. D.

PROPHECIES OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON.

Rev. A. Alexander, D. D.

Rev. C. C. Vanarsdale, D. D.

ILLUSTRATIONS,

ENGRAVED ON STEEL.

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME. OVERBECK.

"SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME

UNTO ME."

BY JOSEPH L. CHESTER, ESQ.

ABOVE me hangs a Picture-one that Art
And Genius have combined, with rare success,
To make a master-piece. No common soul,
In idle dreaming, fancied the design;
But Inspiration, with her secret spell,

Sat by the Artist's side, and on his hand

Her finger press'd, that, when his pencil moved O'er the fair page, its lines were her's-not his: CHRIST With His crown of thorns and broken reed! How rare a Face! The thoughtless passer stands Transfixed, as that meek, mournful eye meets his, And sees no longer Art's elaborate work,

But CHRIST Himself, as on that mournful day

He bore the scourge, and drank the mingled draught. How o'er my vision pass the varied scenes