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24 LUTHER,

When placed in any situation of trouble or peculiar danger, was accustomed to say, " Come, let us sing the 46th Psalm,-' God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble,' &e."

PLATO

Being told by a friend what seandalous stories his enemies had propagated concerning him, " I will live so," replied he, " that nobody shall believe them."

MISSIONARY ZEAL.

A blind girl brought to a clergyman thirty shillings for the missionary cause. You cannot afford to give so mueh," said he. " I ean afford it, sir, better perhaps than you imagine," replied she. " How so?"-" I am a basket maker, sır, and ean work as well in the dark as in the light. Now, I am sure that in the last winter it must have cost the other girls more than thirty shillings for candles to work by, which I have saved, and therefore hope you will take it for the missionaries."

It may trnly be said of the blind basket-maker, " She did what she could."

WAR.

" If Christian nations," says Mr. Soame Jenys, " were nations of Christians, all war would be impossible, and nnknown among them." We might then hope soon to see the day when war shall be made to cease, when swords should be beat into ploughshares, and spears into pruning-hooks. May God hasten the time !

DEI GRATIA.

An offieer, during an engagement, reecived a ball which struek him near his waistcoat poeket, where a piece of silver stopped the progress of the nearly spent ball. The eoin was slighty marked at the words " Dei Gratia." This providential cireumstanec deeply impressed his mind, and led him to read a traet, which his beloved and pious sister gave him on leaving his native land, entitled, " The Sin and Danger of Neglecting the Saviour." This tract it pleased God to bless to his eonversion ! The ways of God are wonderful, and in none more than in the salvation of sinners.

KNOWLEDGE UNSANCTIFIED.

A head full of knowledge, and a heart full of lusts, will sink the soul into the lowest hell.