wider circle of Christian friends, they would prosecute the several departments of the work on behalf of our countrymen in India with renewed energy and persevering effort. The income of the Society for the past year was £1675 14s., of which £414, 11s. 5d. was contributed in England, £1070, 3s. 3d. in Scotland, and about £170 in India; and the expenditure was £1259, 15s. 10d. On the motion of the Rev. Dr. Andrew Thomson, seconded by Mr. Inglis, the report and the proposed change of organisation and name of the Society were adopted, and office-bearers appointed for the current year-Lord Polwarth being re-elected to the position of president. For the Young. CHILDREN'S SCRIPTURE UNION. PORTIONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 15, 1880. MY Y dear young friends, in your reading for to-day you will find in the 13th verse that Paul confesses himself ready, not only to be bound, but to die for the name of his Master, the Lord Jesus. How different from some of the professed disciples of this same Lord at the present time! We are called upon to show Jesus in our daily walk and conversation, and when I see people or young Christians going on from day to day, meeting with those who know not Christ, and yet never speaking of Him who gave His life to save them from death, I am ashamed of such Christians, for they are too cowardly to confess their Master they are ashamed of Him! It was not so with young Eustace he loved his Saviour absorbingly, and that was the secret of his love for others. When you read Paul's avowal to die, if needs be, for his Lord, it means that he would risk his own life in bringing souls to the knowledge of their Saviour: Eustace was like the great Apostle of the Gentiles in this respect he would gladly die for Christ. Eustace Conway was a young printer, and in the office where he was employed was another youth named John Gray. They worked amiably together for some time, when Eustace discovered that his friend of the workshop was entirely careless about his soul. Lovingly Eustace entreated him to give heed to the words of eternal life which he constantly read to him; often he prayed with him that the Holy Spirit might enter into his sinful soul, convicting it of its evil, and its need of a Saviour, but all to no purpose, John Gray was resolved to go his own way, and that way was down-down--just the way of many careless youths, until it reached perdition. When words, and tears and prayers, had alike failed, Eustace was silent. He could do no more, it must be left now for the seed he had endeavoured to sow in John Gray's heart, to abide the time he felt sure was not far off when his friend should be compelled to surrender his rebellious spirit. One day Eustace was carrying a bundle of print from the machine, One day --it was a sermon, and the text heading the paper was in the words of Jesus: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John xv. 13). John Gray saw the words as Eustace stopped to speak to him : "What an idea! Fancy anybody giving his life for another! I like mine too well to do that sort of thing for any one," said John. "Yet," answered Eustace, "One has done it for you, and you are not worthy to be called His friend. Oh, John, I would willingly die to save you from yourself and to bring you to know Christ!" Nothing more was said, but John, silenced, thought over the matter. He said to himself:-"I quite believe Eustace meant what he said--he is so real that he acts up to all his professions. Still, I should not like to try him." And John went on with his work, still despising Eustace's Saviour and murdering his own soul. A week after this, in his dinner hour, John got playing with the silent machinery; he put it in motion, and by some means dislodged from its true position an immense iron beam. Eustace saw the danger,-John was trying to avert what he knew must be a catastrophe, but with resistless force the rollers turned, and if their weight touched the displaced beam he must be crushed beneath it. Eustace sprang from his bench, crying:-"Give place! I am safe for Eternity-You are not: Remember Jesus and"but the rollers turned round, and his voice was silent, for he was underneath the beam, crushed to death; but John was saved! Yes, he gave his life for his friend, and so strongly was the reality of the sacrifice and its motive impressed upon the heart of John Gray, that he did "remember Jesus." He did not hesitate one hour, but there, by the mangled body of his late friend, he resolved to follow Him who had been Eustace's Friend so long. Seeking, he found; and finding, he lived and lives a life of such Christian humility and virtue that he is a pattern to all around him. Boys and girls, if you have not found Christ, seek Him now, He is by your side watching you, waiting for you, wanting you! Is it easy to refuse His request when He says, "My son, give me thy heart?" And if you are His do not forget to show it. Act it, speak it, think it— Christ in all, and your life will be a living sermon on the truth of your religion. We are not all privileged like Paul, like Eustace, to die for Christ, let us then seek His help that we may live for Him. MARGARET B. GERDS. REQUESTS FOR PRAYER. "And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him."-1 JOHN v. 15. Prayer is requested— For the conversion of three brothers and a sister. Two medical men. 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He regarded himself only as a faithful dog, hunting after the stray sheep of the Master's flock, and endeavouring to bring into the fold those Christless souls who were wandering over the devil's commons. 66 A young clergyman says that he once overtook Uncle John Vassar on the road (in Duchess County), and made some inquiry as to the residence of a friend. Uncle John gave him the information, and then promptly inquired, 'My young friend, are you a Christian?" The ministerial brother told him that he hoped he was. A few words more passed, and Vassar pushed on, remarking that "he was in a hurry to look up some sheep." When the clergyman reached his friend's house, he told them that he had met a crazy man on the road, who was hunting after sheep. The family laughed heartily, and said, "Why, that was John Vassar, our Duchess County missionary, and the sheep that he is in search of are the Lord's." the one thing needful. But would that the Lord would John Vassar owed a great deal to his fresh, racy way of Of all Brother Vassar's ubiquitous career of Christian labour, no part was more memorable and glorious than bis labours in our Union armies. His visits to the tents and hospitals were a perfect Godsend to our boys in blue. If he could do nothing else, he could always sing to them, for he was a walking hymn-book. Our country is filled with racy anecdotes about Johnny Vassar as the missionary of Duchess County, as the col porteur over the prairies of Illinois, as the loving labourer in the Union camps, and as the instructor of negro freedmen clear down to Florida. He was really one of the most remarkable men our American Church has yet produced. I never talked with him ten minutes without feeling the electric spark of his piety. His delightful biography (by Rev. T. E. Vassar), and just issued from the American Tract Society in New York, will receive a warm welcome, and will be an inspiration to many a pastor and many a prayer meeting. As I have read this suggestive soul-stirring narrative of what one "shepherd's dog" could do in looking after the stray sheep, I have been more than ever impressed with the prodigious power of godly laymen. Say what we will, there are not one-tenth part as many ordained ministers as the immense field demands. There are a hundred things which we ministers cannot do; and unless the million or more servants of Christ outside of the pulpit do these needful things, then this generation of souls will be the awful losers. John Vassar supplied the "missing link "between the pulpit and the people. His was genuine soul-hunting and soul-winning work. He absolutely did more positive service for the Master than some evangelists who peregrinate the land addressing crowded auditories. He dwelt with individuals, and that is the key-note of permanent success. Why do not thousands of other laymen and women enact the blessed part of "shepherds' dogs," like John Vassar? Even if they do not turn colporteurs, why can they not lay hold of the unconverted around them, and, with fervent "pull them out of the fire?" We fear that the sad, prayer, honest reason is that they do not love their Lord, and do not yearn for the salvation of souls, as that grand old man did who was laid last winter in his grave beside the Hudson. His last word was "Hallelujah!" It was the first note in his song of glory, for having turned many to righteousness. The old "shepherd's dog" will find his rescued sheep before Immanuel's throne. Scripture Texts for the Week. SABBATH, May 16.-"No man taketh my life from me."-JOHN x. 18. "He who gives life to us, gave up His own life for us; He did not sell, let, or lend His life, but He gave it. Giving is the argument of a free disposition. He was offered, because He would be offered; no violence could pull Him from the bosom of His Father, but His own mercy. He cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills." "C. T. MONDAY, May 17.-"I lay it down of myself."JOHN X. 18. "The loss of Christ's life was necessary, yet it was also voluntary. Therefore it is said, 'He gave up the ghost.' In spite of all the world, He might have kept His soul within His body, but He would not. The world should have been burnt to cinders, and all creatures on earth dissolved unto their original dust before He could have been enforced. Man could not take away His life, therefore He gave it."—ADAMS. TUESDAY, May 18.-"I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."-JOHN x. 18. "The Jews thought they had Jesus in their power, but Jesus opens to them another aspect of the matter in spite of their seeming independence. Christ shows that they were only passive instruments of His own will. His death He fore-announces as that of a voluntary selfsacrifice for the salvation of the world."-HENGSTENBERG. WEDNESDAY, May 19.-"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."JOHN XV, 13. "Christ's love to us made Him willing to become our Redeemer. The incarnation qualified Him for the work, and at His death He paid the price, redeeming us by His blood. He died as the shepherd for his flock, as the husband for his bride, as the head for the body."-J. SMITH. THURSDAY, May 20.-"Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot unto God."— HEB. ix. 14. "Our Lord was the true Paschal Lamb, He Himself was both the sacrifice and the priest who offered it. His body and soul were not a typical but a real sacrifice. Nor was this sacrifice typically, but really efficacious. His divinity both qualified and authorised Him to officiate in this manner. How wonderful is this love of the Son of God to poor sinful men."--CLAUDE. FRIDAY, May 21.-" Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood."-Rom. iii. 25. "The sacrifice of Himself which Christ offered unto God, God accepted of as a full and complete atonement for the guilt of an elect world. No doubt, God the Father might have refused a substitution, and insisted upon the very letter of the law-that the soul which sinned should die. However, He is willing to accept of a substitution, and the Son is willing to substitute Himself, and says, 'Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.' Accordingly, He came and suffered in their room, and the pleasure of the Lord prospered in His hand to such a degree, that the Lord is now willing for His sake, to be reconciled to sinners, and to restore them into a state of favour and fellowship with Himself. Thus, mercy and truth meet together, righteousness and peace kiss each other."" BOSTON. SATURDAY, May 22.-" And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."-PHIL. ii. 8. "When I survey the wondrous cross And pour contempt on all my pride. Save in the cross of Christ my Lord. That were an offering far too small; Demands my heart, my life, my all!" CONTENTMENT makes a believer rich, while plenty leaves the sinner poor. THE disciple need not go abroad to find and do his work; it comes to him where he stands. Neither is he to count himself to have failed because immediate and large results are not noted. The individual is only one atom in the great aggregate of the common force. The power and office of the single drop in the ocean is not easy to ascertain, but all the same it has an office and power. The impact and influence of the single disciple upon life may seem infinitesimally small, but it is none the less real. It is vastly important that men should feel the value of individual faithfulness, and see to it that their thread in the great fabric lacks nothing in substance and colour.-Golden Rule. |