hope, charity. Occasional forces, inspiration, miracles, persecution. Faith includes hope and works by love. Cloud of witnesses. Sustaining power of faith. THE MINER OF POTOSI. Satan's seat, called "Snake Hollow." Empty barrels rolled after minister in the street. Card-playing on cabin-roof over minister preaching. Strange Sabbath procession. The miner bred a planter in Virginia. Liberates his servants. Merchant. Converted. Losses. Removal to the mines. Second experience. Trials. Triumphs.

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"Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I
thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord." Two classes-
bond and free. One class asks the question, Who shall de-
liver me, &c.? The other asks and answers it, "I thank God,"
&c. Difference. How it comes. Jesus a present Saviour to
the one.
Not to the other. THE CRIPPLE. His fall from a
frame. Spine injured and lower limbs paralysed. His con-
version. Earns his living by the needle. His loneliness. His
second experience and happiness. The disciples before Pen-
tecost and after Pentecost.

CHAPTER VI.

THE HARMONY.

DANGER, DUTY, AND DELIGHT, OR THE CUMULATIVE PROGRESS

AND CUMULATIVE POWER OF CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE,

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage."

"Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

Harmony of the law and the gospel. Their power combines. LEGH RICHMOND, the preacher without experience.

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CONTENTS.

Under conviction. Converted. FELIX NEFF. Advancing experience, not a chain:-like a tree, stronger as well as taller. Dr PAYSON. AN ORIENTAL PRINCE AND HIS CAPTIVE. As a captive—as a servant-as a son. Christian's power as a witness for Jesus. The weak strong one. Miss SUSAN ALLIBONE. The AGED YOUTHFUL ONE. At eighty, visits a whole town. A revival. At eighty-two, visits every house in another town. His faith. His works. Forty years of barrenness weighed against two of usefulness.

CHAPTER VII.

GATHERING POWER OF THE CHURCH FORESHADOWED,
Octogenarian and others, types of the whole Church of the
future. Time at hand. POPULARISATION. Knowledge.
Apprentices and school-boys. Watt, Fulton, Copernicus,
Newton. Servants and masters. Light our artist. Light-
ning our spokesman. Scene at Old South, Boston. Ear-
trumpets. New life froin words of Dudley Tyng. New life
from new consecration. Sunday-school teachers' meeting.
Parlour fireside. Parlour gathering. Young missionary.
Power of combination. Power of faith.
Saviour.

Power of a present

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THE WAY OF

CLOSING COUNSELS AND PARTING WORDS.
PROGRESS. DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES,
Must get beyond the watchman. Find Christ and hold Him.
In Christ and all will go well. Abide in Christ-how? As
we received Him. Humbly. All in all. FATHER A—.
"Burn the bridge!" Keeping the words of Christ.
structions to young converts.

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THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE.

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What it Is.

ABIDING UNION WITH JESUS.

"ABIDE IN ME."

"That mystic word of thine, O sovereign Lord,
Is all too pure, too high, too deep for me;
Weary with striving, and with longing faint,
I breathe it back again in prayer to Thee:
Abide in me- -o'ershadow by Thy love

Each half-form'd purpose, and dark thought of sin;
Quench ere it rise each selfish, low desire,
And keep my soul, as Thine, calm and divine.

As some rare perfume in vase of clay

Pervades it with a fragrance not its own

So, when Thou dwellest in a mortal soul,

All heaven's own sweetness seems around it thrown.
The soul alone, like a neglected harp,

Grows out of tune, and needs that Hand Divine,
Dwell Thou within it, tune and touch the chord,
Till every note and string shall answer Thine.
Abide in me: there have been moments pure,
When I have seen Thy face and felt Thy power;
Then evil lost its grasp, and passion hush'd
Own'd the divine enchantment of the hour-
These were but seasons beautiful and rare;
ABIDE in me-and they shall ever be;

I pray Thee now fulfil my earnest prayer,
Come and abide in me; and I in Thee."

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