Year: 1877


when sometimes after hours of mist and rain,


And clouds low-hanging DER the shadowed


earth,


sudden glory flashes on the pane,


And, like little child that laughs IN mirth,
The worn world lights her face with smiles


again,


Ana sings a goodnight song with sweet re-


We question whence the change, and where


its birth;


Then far and near we see the ruby dye
OF sunset sPlendor over ali the sky:


The lifted clouds are touched with royal hue
To-morrow's heaven will stretch a field of


blue=


Yet less tomorrow wins US than to o-night
So sweet it is when evening brings us light!


One OF the prettiest pieces of naivete that
ever came to our notice was the remark of
Dr. Inggis, missionary in POLYNESIA, who
says of the natives: at is far easier to get
them te pray. sing bymns, hear sermons,
and read the Scriptures than to be truthful


onest and unselfiSh.


The pilgrimages to Rome to celebrate the
papal Jubilee, it is said will be very numer-
Gus. As many as 10000 are expected to be
in that city in June. The Swiss pilgrims
will be under the supervision of national
committee A French company will leave
Lyons May 10. There will be a pilgrimage
from Brazil and one from Canada; none has
yet been definitely announced from the


nited states.


p ncipal Tullock, I'm an article on the
''Prog of Religious Thought in Scot
land" says: 'The current of free thought
is running deep and sure in all the churches,
even within softened and exclusive pre-
cincts, where it makes no noise at all. 1t
will make its way TO the light by and by,
from all quarters of the ecclesiastical hori-
zon; and the church which will have most
chance may possibly not be any of the pres
ent organizations, but q church more excel
lent-6ecause at once Inore liberal and cath
olic-than any of those now existing"


Edward Maitland, the English radical
writer seems to hold the remarkable opinion
that in his England and Islam" he added a
new book to the Bible. 1t is advertised as
"a new revelation" and in a new preface,
added to a second edition, the writer says
The production of this book was accompan-
led by phenomena of such a character as to
leave no doubt on the minds of the writer
and those others who witnessed them that il
contains 8 revelation from the spiritual
world, which is destined to constitute it one
of the worlds Bibles. Written under the
control of spirit claiming TO be the same.
that spoke through the prophets of the Old
and New Testaments," etc, etc


How very dear to memory are some quiet
hours of which the world takes no motel To
outward seeming they have been very in
eventful. Nothing happened TO set the day
in which they came to us apart from other
days. Yet we know that they are different,
and were full of a strange. sweet charm. for
the world forgetting. by the world forgot, I'VE
entered into the courts of the King. Jesus
revealed Himself to our worshipping souls.
And though we are not able to explain just
what the revelation was. it was as real to our
experience as the entering into our room of
a friend, as the voice in our ear of q brother.
1t may seem to those who are in the full tide
of earth's warfare and work that our quiet
hours are dull, but we know that they are
gilded with the sunlight of the better land.


A joint convention of delegates from the
"Milbodistp and Methodist Protestant