Work in the vineyard of Christ. Rest for the weary pilgrim

Fellow-Pilgrims Zionwards.

SUFFER not the length of the journey nor the roughness of the road to deter you from pressing onwards toward the Rest that remaineth. We live in an age that is active enough, and eminently capable of inspiring men with the idea of progress. But many are madly rushing after temporal good, only. "They mind earthly things." And in the midst of these, what danger there is that the earnest strivings of the soul after nobler joys should be hindered, or that the warmer feelings of love in the pilgrim's breast should speedily grow cool.

A few hints are given in these pages, with the prayerful hope of affording encouragement to the faithful followers of the Lord Jesus; and cheering the drooping hearts of those weary ones, who more than ever feel the need of repose from earthly toil.

Remember, with gratitude, that if perilous times should come-if the love of many should wax cold that the day of the Lord draweth nigh. This Man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land!"

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"SOME loved one's grave its shadow flings

O'er scenes once bright and fair,
And, clad in garniture of woe,
Thou often weepest there!
A seraph face with sweetest smile
Bends o'er thee in thy dreams,
Earth less attractive now appears

And heaven more home-like seems,
Soon parted ones shall meet again,
In mansions of the blest;
Arise, O Christian, and depart,
For This is not thy rest.'

"How evanescent are the joys

Which twine around thy path,

How quickly care and change must break
The circle round thy hearth!

How painful is the conflict now,
With earth, and self, and sin;
How weary art thou in this world,
Of all its strife and din!
Then hear, and joyfully obey
The call to thee addrest;
Arise, O pilgrim, and depart,
For, 'this is not thy rest.""

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