as the sorrows and joys of the present state. Nor can the most experienced Christian tell what paths the Lord may choose in which to lead His own to the rest which He hath prepared for them. It becomes him, therefore, to be "clothed upon" with patience, boldness, and cheerfulness.

The town of Hadley, in Suffolk, had been the residence of Dr. Taylor, and there his enemies determined that He should suffer. He was burnt for his adhesion to the Protestant faith during the reign of Queen Mary. When he drew near to the place of his martyrdom, he was asked how he felt. "Never better," said he, "for now I know that I am almost at home." Looking over the meadow between him and the stake, he said, "Only two stiles more to get over, and I am at my Father's house!" This lesson he had learned from his Master.

CALM on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit! rest thee now!

E'en while with ours thy footsteps trod
His seal was on thy brow.

XXI.

Rest from Sorrow.

"THE LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve."—ISAIAH xiv. 3.

"GOD shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."-REVELATION XXI. 4.

THE baby wept ;

The mother took it from the nurse's arms
And soothed its grief, and still'd its vain alarms;
And baby slept.

Again it weeps;

And God doth take it from the mother's arms,
From present pain, and future unknown harms;
And baby sleeps.

unto My Father, and your Father, and t My God, and your God." Believer there is a voice here which speaks, an asks, whether you trust in that one wor of your great Redeemer, or are trying, i ways which He has forbidden, to wor out your own Salvation? Will you no rather rest on His all-sufficiency? A one writer has said, "Christ is resting and will not you, too, rest? Can you add ought to that which He thought s perfect? Is He, the one Almight Saviour, reposing in His Sabbatic rest and must you go on working for salva tion? For shame, troubled and tempest tossed ones! truly ye are disquietin yourselves in vain, go and REST." go and ponder those blessed words, “I is finished."

It is finished!-O what pleasure

Do those gracious words afford;
Heavenly blessings without measure,
Flow to us from Christ the Lord!

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TWENTY-FIRST DAY.

NOTHING is there harder to learn, and

there is nothing we have more need to be taught, than to judge aright concerning God's dealings with us. When He suffers affliction to visit us, or when He gives us rest from sorrow, let us learn to know and acknowledge the folly and perverseness of our own ways, and the goodness and wisdom of the Lord's ways. The path through which He leads the pilgrim is the "valley of the shadow of death." It is through this gloomy place that many of His weeping children are called to pass. For it is not meant by this valley the dark way leading to the dissolution of body and soul. It is that "much tribulation" through which every believer is journeying. But dark as the way is at present, this sorrow is to be relieved by a bright ray of sunshine ere long. Hope, smiling, sees behind the