Marsden is a first-rate man, worthy of the utmost confidence, a man to be seized upon. To this they gladly consented, and the re-suit proved the wisdom of the arrangement.
THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL
THE PEARL OF PATIENCE
Firstly, we are bidden to be patient, and it is not an unheard of virtue — “ Ye have heard of the patience of Job. Ye have heard of the patience of Job,” that is, the patience of a greatly tried man.
HOLY ARITHMETIC
We have had several detailed accounts of the services at the Tabernacle conducted by Messrs. In health, you have sent thrilling words of cheer to the afflicted disciples of the Lamb all round the globe.
UNDER HIS SHADOW
As the people of God we are always under the protection of the Most High. The third view of the one subject is, — THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS — a precious word.
CONDENSATION OF THE REPORT FOR 1879.*
Surely this must redound to the praise and glory of the Lord .Jesus, whose we are and whom we serve. The following letters are fair samples of the spirit in which the favor is sought, and the warm. About eighteen hundred of the members were present to tea, and a much larger number aSsembled afterwards.
There are 103 of our scholars who are members of the church, of whom 42 have joined during the past year. Charlesworth’s series of Services of Song we can heartily commend to the notice of all choirs who wish to utilize their abilities for the spread of the gospel, and the assistance of works of benevolence. The evangelist attributes the success of the services to the prayerful and zealous efforts of the Christians in the place for some weeks before his visit.
You are aware, I suppose, that the weekly sermon is read by two-thirds of the Portestants in Ulster.
OUR SABBATH SERVICES IN THE HOTEL
Did he not himself say, ‘ Lo, I am with you to the end of the ages. We are pleased to call attention to The Missionary Herald and the Juvenile Missionary Herald, of the Baptist Missionary Society. Cumming is leaving New Burner to take the oversight of the church at Bury St.
For awhile silence reigned in the little room, broken only by the crackling of the oak-log burning on the hearth. The case of the widow might have been ours, and our children might have been in the same plight as hers. Beware of the net of the flatterer, and the bait of the maker of compliments.
We delight more to recollect that it was one of the headquarters of Protestantism in the dark days of persecution. About twenty-five of the agents will be brought up from their respective districts, and. Fullerton, will, we trust, lead to the quickening of the churches in the district, and to the salvation of souls.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
SPURGEON
A degree of running down in spirit may be purely physical and arise out of the evaporation of our youthful vigor. Nothing can maintain us in the freshness of our beginnings but the daily anointing of the Spirit. After secret backsliding comes a sin which is publicly reported, and men cry, “Shame!” Yet it is not that one sin, but the general state of the man’s heart which is the saddest part of it.
Did you ever notice in Calvin’s Commentaries that there is no exposition of the Book of Revelation. That is the truth of the case, and he tries to cover it up with this nonsense. His best plan is to give at once, and so end the pain of the extraction.
The style and manner have been painful, and the length of the discourse has made the agony a protracted one.
A JOURNEY TO MENTONE WITH MR
But on and on she goes.” We have felt ready to open our mouth, and let her draw all our teeth set, the, if she would but leave off talking. She had nothing to say and she said that nothing at extreme length, with marvellous energy, and with unwearied repetition. We have turned our head, we have shut our eyes, we have wished we had gun-cotton in our ears and dynamite in our brain; but our wishes did!not deliver us, we were given over to the tormentor, and must abide the fulfillment of our sentence.
When the operation has been over we have sometimes asked ourselves what we have done to deserve such a punishment, and with every desire to make a fall confession of our faults, we have not been able to discover anything which deserved so severe a torment under the present rule of mercy. At the second sight of the operator we have fled, feeling that it would be worth while to go a mile round, or leap over hedge and ditch, rather than again experience “a continual tooth-drawing.” Moral.
SPURGEON
It seemed to give us an exquisitely lovely picture of the child of God exposed to unusual trial. The beauty of the olive is of such a peculiar character that it is alomst impossible to destroy it. So is it with the Christian of whom the olive is one of the most instructive types.
The bills of quantities are in the hands of the builders, and before this magazine is issued we believe that the lowest tender will be accepted, and the work commenced. Tyson was taken away before she could fulfill her promise to build one of the houses;. Very few ports of the world were unrepresented, while captains, officers, and missionaries helped to fill the first gallery.
Who dare estimate the outcome of this effort for the extension of the Redeemer’s kingdom.
NOTES
One of the passengers in the steamship American, which foundered off the African coast, was our student, Mr. CONFERENCE — The sixteenth Annual Conference of the Pastors’ College Association commenced on Monday afternoon, April 19, by a well-attended prayer-meet-ing at the College. The accounts of the Assurance Community showed that the payments for the year had been (pounds)85, and the receipts (pounds)75 11s.
At the soiree at the Orphanage in the evening some of the boys recited and sang. In the evening the annual meeting of the subscribers and friends was held at the College, under the able chairmanship of J. Walter (Liverpool) read one on “The unused energy of the church, and how to utilize it”; and Pastor F.
Mark, 10:47: ‘ The healing of the blind man.’ My anticipations of the preacher were more than realized.
REVIEW OF OUR WORK
STRANGE NOISES IN NEW HOUSES
Walking through the town this morning, we were deeply affected by the sight of the burden on the head of a poor Mentonese woman. From the wall of the old town we had a magnificent view of the snow-clad mountains of the Maritime Alps. While we have been writing our steed has been rushing along, and here we are at the end of the first stage of our journey,.
George Palmer, M.P., will lay the memorial stone of the Reading House of the Girls’ Orphan. 3, the Annual Meeting of the GREEN WALK MISSION was held in the Tabernacle Lecture-Hall. Whiteside has been accepted by the committee of the Home Mission for work in Athlone, and Mr.
Just in the midst of the meetings unusual solemnity was given to the services by the arrival of tidings of the death of the absent Pastor, Brother Chas.
PASTORS’ COLLEGE, METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE
STOCKWELL ORPHANAGE
SWEET FRUIT FROM A THORNY TREE
When storms are out a low bush or narrow caves may shelter a sparrow, while a larger bird must bear the beat of the rain and the wind. When nought remains but the clinging of a weeping child who grasps his Father’s hand, nought but the smiting on the breast of the publican who cries “God be merciful to me a sinner,” nought but the last resolve,. Then should we come forth like the sun from the chambers of the east, all the brighter for the night’s chill darkness, while about us would be the dew of the Spirit, and the freshness of a new dawning.
My Lord, vouchsafe it for the sake of the many to whom these hands must yet break the bread of life. To those who are teachers of others this is of the first importance, for none can bear with the infirmities of others if they have not been made compassionate, and filled with a fellow-feeling for the faint and the trembling. The keys of men’s hearts hang up in the narrow chamber of suffering, and he who has not been there can scarcely know the art of opening the recesses of the soul.
We value the powers of locomotion after tossing long upon a bed from which we cannot rise, the open air is sweet after the confinement of the chamber, food is relished when appetite returns, and in all respects the time of recovery is one of marked enjoyment.
THERE’S SUNLIGHT AT THE CROSS.”
It is a hollow cry intended to subserve the purpose of the sheep-stealers, who can prey best on scattered flocks. We will do anything for love and peace except sacrifice truth, and disregard the will of the divine Lord. The day on which the stones of the Reading and Liverpool Houses of the Stockwell Orphanage were laid turned out to be one of the wettest order.
29, about 300 friends gathered in the College Lecture Hall, by invitation of the Tabernacle Sun-day-school Young Christians’ Association, to listen to “Illustrations of Old-fashioned Singing,” by a select choir. Readers of The Sword and the Trowel.” They could not be acknowledged by letter, as there was no address sent with them. The Editor of the French monthly, L’Echo de la Verite, writes that the translations of our sermons recently published in France have been much valued.
One of the members of our congregation writes that she was converted under our ministry, and at once commenced to send the sermons to her friends.
CLOSING THE YEAR
