up to this moment as you are, if you will seek the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him while he is near; if you will as a wicked man forsake your ways, and as an unrighteous man your thoughts, and return unto the Lord, he will have mercy upon you, and our God will abundantly pardon you. Yes, yes, my fellow-sinner, begin at once; go upon your knees, confess your sins, plead the blood of Jesus with the Father, for the pardon of all thy sins, seek the gift of the Holy Spirit to sanctify thy nature, and make thee meet for heaven, renounce self, trust in Jesus, fly" to the hope set before you in the gospel," and then to you, even you, I say,

"IT WILL ALL END IN MERCY."

Why art thou grieving, if to the Lord
Still thou art cleaving, keeping his word,
Art thou not dying daily at best?
Will not all sighing soon be at rest?
Ever to cheer thee on to thine end
Jesus is near thee, He is thy friend.

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Has he not sought thee, once far astray?
Has he not brought thee still on thy way
Foes might assail thee, fears might oppress,
When did he fail thee in thy distress?
Why art thou grieving, if to the Lord
Still thou art cleaving, keeping his word?

A STIMULUS

"Consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works" (Heb. x. 24.)

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BELOVED reader, we live in peculiar times, and should exercise peculiar vigilance. We greatly need power-the power of God. This alone can convert the sinner, quicken the saint, and revive the church. God is willing to give it, but He will have us feel our need of it, believe his promise, and earnestly plead for it. waits to be gracious. United, believing prayer would do wonders. Many professors do not feel this. Do you? The design of these lines is to stir such up. Will you, before you read, go upon your knees for five minutes, plead with God for his blessing, tuen rise and read as under God's eye? Read, and lay it upon thy conence having done so, carry out the admotion.

INDUCEMENTS TO ATTEND THE PRAYER

MEETING.

1. Would you avert the jungments deserved by our guilty land, and which, perhaps, like thunder-clouds hang over it? Go to the prayer-meeting, and plead with God for it.

2. Would you draw down blessings upon the world, the church, your family, and your own soul? Go to the prayermeeting, and plead with God for them.

3. Would you help to revive the church, and cause it to flourish, increase, and grow? Go to the prayer-meeting, and plead with God for a revival?

4. Would you encourage your pastor, and render his ministry powerful, unctious, and efficient? Go to the prayermeeting, and plead with God for him."

5. Would you comfort, assist, and stimulate your fellow-members? Go to the prayer-meeting, and plead with God for them, and with them.

6. Would you be useful to souls, to sinners in their conversion, backsliders in their restoration, and saints in their edifi

cation? Go to the prayer-meeting, and plead with God for them.

7. Would you resist and conquer Satan, both as a seducer and an accuser? Go to the prayer-meeting, and plead with God against him.

8. Would you rise above business while in it, and live above the world while passing through it? Go to the prayer-meeting, and plead with God for his blessing upon it ?

9. Would you stimulate and make a good impression upon dull, heavy, sleepy professors? Let them see you go regularly to the prayer-meeting, and there plead with God for them.

10. Would you see the word of God made effectual in the conversion of many sinners to Christ? Then, go to the prayermeeting, and plead with God that it may have free course and be glorified.

11. Would you be happy in your own soul, enjoying the testimony of an honest conscience, and a Divine blessing on the means of grace? Go to the prayer-meeting, and plead with God for others.

12. Would you please God, and obtain the testimony that Enoch, did? Then, go to the prayer-meeting, and by earnest

prayer, hearty praises, and co-operation with the saints, honour Him whose grace has distinguished you from those around you.

QUESTIONS TO THOSE WHO NEGLECT PRAYER-MEETINGS.

1. Are you always better employed? If not, can it be right in you to be absent yourself?

2. Do you get more good to your own soul, and do more good to others, by staying away? If not, can you be acting wisely ?

3. Does your own conscience justify you, or have you not sometimes a difficulty in keeping it quiet on the subject?

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4. Will a death-hed commend your present course, or will then look upon your neglect of prayer-meetings with pleasure, think you?

5 Does not your pastor suffer by your neglect? Does it not hurt his feelings, cool his zeal, and hinder his useful. ness ?

6. Are not your fellow-members in the