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Gospel. He was profoundly moved, and began to turn the pages in order to get some comfort in the depression that had settled upon him. The first passage his eye fell on was Rom. iii. 25, Whom God set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. Immediately light broke on his mind ; he received strength to believe, and the full beams of the Sun of Righteousness shone upon him. In a moment, he says, I believed and I received the gospel. Two similar instances may be added. Augustine found rest through the child s chant, Tolle, lege ; Tolle, lege, which led him to read Rom. xiii. 13, 14. Hedley Vicars, in November, 1851, was idly turning the leaves of a Bible when the verse The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin woke him up to new life. He closed the book. If this be true for me, henceforth I will live, by the grace of God, as a man should live who has been washed in the blood of Christ.

��Hymn 203. Break Thou the bread of life.

MARY ANN LATHBURY.

A Study Song for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, written in the summer of 1880.

Miss Lathbury was born at Manchester, Ontario County, New York, 1841, and lives in New York. She has contributed articles and verse to current religious periodicals. She founded the Look-up Legion,&quot; based on four rules which form the motto of the Harry Wadsworth Club in Edward Everett H ale s Ten Times One is Ten

Look up, and not down ; Look forward, and not back ; Look out, and not in, And lend a hand.

To these Mr. Hale adds In His name.

The story was intended to show the possible extension of personal influence where people live faithfully, unselfishly, and hopefully. If one person influenced ten others to a good action, and each of those influenced ten others, and so on, the whole world might be reformed and ennobled. Five hundred Harry Wadsworth Clubs had sprung up within twenty years after

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