Year: 1862

Il v.
/, and the invitations to IL, which YOU will see
put up at Isa- iv. /, 2, and by John at wi. 81,
are wonderfully inviting TO the poor and
needy.


The house has only one door, and it was
some time before i saw the door at John x. 9.


NV permanent address will now be Cor.
5, 1; but if You call any day at Heb. iv. is,
YOU will meet me and many others. We are
daily in the habit of meeting there


If YOU call attend to what the servant says
at Luke xiv 22, and you may depend upon
what the servants SAYS.


aSThe February number of the PhilobiJlion
contains, among other curious literary exhu-
nations, the Select Sentences of Sextius the
Pythagorean," translated by Thomas Taylor.
Some of these sentences will suggest passages
in Scripture, and others are quite original.
We extract few:


You have in yourself something similar to
God, and therefore use yourself as the temple
of God, on account Of that which in YOU re-
sembles God.


Ask those things of God which it is worthy
of God TO bestow.


Ask those things of God which you cannot
receive from man.


You should not ask of divinity that which,
when you have obtain, you will not perpetu-
ally possess. l|l


Esteem nothing to be precious which bad
man may take from you. Ta


Use lying as poison.


When you preside over men, remember
that divinity also presides over YOU -


Think that your body is the garment of
your soul; and therefore preserve it pure


He honors God in the best manner who
renders his intellect as much as possible SINH
lar to God.


THE ARABS GIFT.-A poor Arab was
travelling in the desert, when he met with a
spring of clear, sweet sparkling water Ac-
customed as he was to brackish wells, to his
simple mind it appeared that such water as
this was worthy of monarch; and filling his
leathern bottle from the spring, he determined
to 90 and present it to the caliph himself


The poor mar travelled considerable dis
tance before he reached the presence of his
sovereign, and laid his humble at his feet.
The caliphdid not dispise the little gift brought
to him with so much trouble. He ordered
some of the water to be poured into cup,
drank it, and thanking the Arab with smile,
ordered him to be presented with reward.


The courtiers around pressed forward, eager
to taste of the wonderful water but to the
surprise of all, the caliph forbade them to
touch even single drop.


After the poor Arab had quilted the royal
presence with a light and joyful heart, the
caliph turned to his courtiers, and thus ex-
planned the motives of his conduct:


"During the travels of the Arab" said he,
"the water in this leathern bottle had become
impure and distasteful. But it was an offer
ing of love, and as such | have received it
with pleasure. But | well knew, that had /
suffered another to partake of it, he would not
have concealed his disgust and therefore i
forbade you to touch the draught, lest the
heart of the poor man should have been
wounded"


All that sinners can present to their King,
is like the water brought by the Arab, though
like him, we may fancy it worthy the accept
ance of our Lord. But He will not reject
He will not despise the little offering of love
and faith; for He hath promised that even a
cup of cold water given in the name of dis
ciple shall in no wise lose its reward.


MANY A SLIP 'TwIxT THE Cur AND THE
LP.-This well known saving was supposed
to take its origin from one of Penelope's WOO
er's being shot as he was going to drink. But
1t arose, an old author has it thus: "a king
of Thrace had planted vineyard, when one
of his slaves, whom he had much oppressed in
that very work, prophesied that he (the king)
should never taste the wine produced by it.
The king disregarded the prophecy, and when,
at an entertainment, he held the cup full OF
his own wine, he sent for his slave, and asked
him, insultingly, what he thought of his proph-
ecy now? The slave only answered, There's
many slip between the cup and the lip.
Scarcely had he spoken, when news was
brought that large bear was laying his vine-
yard waste. The king arose in fury, at
tackled the bear, and was killed without ever
tasting the wine"