etittopnaVintr, THE EXPERIENCE OF A YOUNG MAN. "WHAT A FOOL I HAVE SEEN TO REJECT JESUS SO LONG." BY REV. EDWARD PAYSI HAMMOND In looking over some papers, a few days since, I found a most interesting letter received last spring from a young man in :New Jersey, who has found out that he has been most unwise to reject Christ all his life. I cannot but believe that this story of conversion will be pro ductive of good. Paul loved to relate the manner in which he, a proud Pharisee, was led as a penitent believer to the foot of Calvary. When, at the command of Festus, he was arraigned before King Agrippa, he made little use of his acute reasoning poWers and stores of logic, but he related the manner in which he had been led to see that he had all his life been rejecting Christ, in such winning tones, that this haughty, worldly king, saw the reality of the great and blessed change which, by the renewing power of the Holy Spirit, he had experienced through his new birth in Christ, and was compelled to exclaim, " almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." It is my most earnest prayer that some of the thousands of readers of the AMERI CAN PRESBYTERIAN in the army, who are so nobly striving to quell rebellion and to maintain the sanctity of law, may be led to see that they have broken GOD'S commands, which are "holy, and just, and good." And, what is far worse, that they, like this young man, have all their lives long been rejecting the Lord Jesus who has given himself a ransom for us. I feel it my duty to write you my experience, hoping that my simple story may be the means of awakening in some poor sinner's - heart a loVe for Jesus, That it may do, so, is my most earnest prayer. J. was attracted to your. meetings in the : First Baptist Church merely out of curiosity, as I would have gone to .a theatre to see some new star, or to the Opera to hear some new prima donna. I first took a seat, with my wife, in the gallery, near the stairs, thinking that per haps I would not like the performance and I would be handy to get out. I was deeply interested in the dis course, which was simple, plain. truths, and I could understand them, and all that was said appeared to apply to my case. After the sermon, I remained, and was much amused at looking down at the inquirers and the different 'ministers and Christians, as they went about speaking to different ones; and I re marked to my wife that we had better go, as most of the ministers knew me, and if they saw me, they would be coming up and speaking to me, and I did not want any of them buzzing about me. As I WaS . attentively watching the proceedings down stairs, some one tapped me on the shoulder; I looked up, and a young Christian friend of mine was standing there. I shook- hands with him, and he asked me how I was ? I said; " pretty well." He said, " you mean, perhaps, that you are well in body ?" I said, ' certainly." He then said " how is it in reference to your soul's welfare ?" I told him that I had not given that matter much attention. He asked me if it was not time I was thinking about the matter ? I told him, perhaps it was. After few mare kind words, he left. I went home feeling pretty badly. The next clay I felt worse, and during the day I tried several times to get rid of my bad feelings, by cracking some joke, or taking a drink. But it was of no use, as that only made me feel worse. The next evening I did not get to the church till after the singing. Meeting had commenced, and I walked right up the middle aisle and took a seat. I began to realize that I was a poor sinner, and I felt miserable. Several ministers and Christians talked to me, yourself among the number, and one or two wished me to, go home and pray; but I did not promise to, and I did not. The next evening I had an engagement of a political nature, and all the time that I spent at the meeting I felt miserable. I was forced to reply in a debate that was before the meeting, and I got up and utterly failed in my attempt. I sat down ashamed of myself, and called on some one to take my place, and I got excused,. not to go home ; no, but to go to the inquiry-meeting. As soon as I entered the church, I sought out Dr. Fish, and told him I wished hini to get my wife, and wished him to pray with us. Just then you extended an invita tion to all those that wished prayer ,to mime to a given part of the house. I got my wife and we took a front seat. You made a few remarks, and then asked us us all to get down on our knees: hesitated a second, as I never had been on my knees that I could recollect; but I got down and repeated aloud the prayer after you, and when you were through and went on with your prayer, still prayed with you. I started for home, feeling miserable, and when I came to the last crossing, I was agitating in my mind how I should get up the curb-stone, it seemed as if I never. had such a load to carry. As soon as I reached my room, I told my wife I must get down and pray. We did so, and my prayer was that Jesus would take me just as I was, a poor miserable sinner. I soon as -I laid my head on my pillow, .it seemed as if I could hear them singing "'Como to Jesus just now," and " Happy day, happy day." I went to sleep in that frame of mind. When I awoke the next morning, I cannot describe what my feelings were ; I was entirely a different man. It was quite early. The first thing I thought of doing was to pray. I told my wife so. She said it was too early to get up. I told her I did not care how early it was, I must get up and pray. We did so, and when I sat down to the break fast table, I asked a blessing. I can assure you that 'I have had more pleasure in one hour's time than I had in all my life time before, and I have often thought what a fool I have been to to reject Jesus so long. I thank Jesus daily that you came to Newark and pointed me to my Saviour, who has par doned my sins and made me happy. I now love to be in the prayer-meetings and among Christians, and engaged in all good works. From your Christian friend, It is now eight months since this let ter was written. Yesterday came an other letter from this same young man. And I have reason to know, from others, that every word of this last letter is true. I give an extract, in the hope that it may encourage some young man to believe that God is able to help those who give themselves up to Christ, to live consistent and devoted.lives. I remember that Dr. Mark Hopkins, of Williams College, once told the students of two men who were convers ing of the evidence of their hope in the Lord Jesus. When the first was asked how he knew he was a Christian, his answer was : " Because I have hold of Christ." "But," said the other ; " what will you do if the devil cuts your hands?" This staggered him. " Well," said he, " how do you know that you are a Christian ?" "Oh !" he replied, " CHRIST lIAS HOLD OF ALE; and the devil can't cut his hands off!" So, my dear young man, if you will but come and believe in Him who suffered .untold agonies on Calvary's cross for you, saying: "Just as I am—Thou wilt receive,;: Wilt welcome, pardon cleanse, relieve, Because thy promise f believe, 0, Lamb of God, I come! "Just as I am—Thy love unknown, Has broken 'every barrier down. Now, to be thine, yea, Thine alone, 0, Lamb of God, I come I" you will then hear the loving, com passionate Saviour's words : I .WILL NEVER LEAVE THEE." Heb. xiii. 5. Just read this second letter, and see if this young man does not seem to be one of those " Who are kept, by the power of God, through faith unto salvation ?" 1 Pet. i. 5. You, too, dear young man, may be one of that number, if you will but "flea from the wrath to come," to Jesus, the only refuge from the righteous displeas ure of a holy God, who hates sin more than suffering. - • If it had not been for the outpouting of the Spirit last spring in this city, per haps I still would have been_ travelling the downward path to hell. But, thanks to a kind Providence, I can say, to-day, that I am a Christian. You, perhaps, may say, " How ado you know you are a Christian ?" I can soon tell you. I love those things that I used to hate, and hate those that I used to love. I love the prayer-meetings and the society of Christians. lam superintendent of a mission schoOl, and the Lord is blessing that school. It is situated some two miles from my . house ; but I am always there, rain or shine, and always feel re freshed after the duties of the school - are performed. It is'a pleasant duty, dear brother! Only think of the gay, careless --- being engaged in such a work as this! Most certainly the Lord has been good to me. I am also connected with the "Young Men's Christian Union," which is accomplishing much, and, I think, doing a great work, in holding meetings and distributing tracts and books. So you see from this that lam not idle. I feel that I wish to be doing something for Jesus all the time. I feel that I am growing in grace, and that I have more and more every day to thank the Lord for. I remain; Your affec. brother, I have often seen the writer of these letters standing up, with two thousand others, and singing, with a joyful heart, " The Lord has pardoned all my sin, That's the news! I feel the witness now within, That's, etc. And since he took my sins away, And taught me how to watch and pray, I'm happy now from day to day: That's the news; that's the news." Oh! that every unsaved reader might heed, before it is forever too late, the entreaty, "And Christ the Lord can save you now, That's the news Your sinful hearts he can renew, That's, etc. Thia.moment, if for sin you grieve, This moment, if you do believe, A full acquittal you'll receive: That's the news; that's the news I" A NEW EnrrioN, the Fifth, of Kurtz's celebrated work : The Bible and Astro nomy, appeared in Berlin late last year. It is somewhat abbreviated and popular ized as compared with the fourth edition. Late theories upon the duration and sig nificance of the six days of creation, broached in the intervals between these two latest editions (seven years) are not noticed and Kurtz maintains his so-called " Restitution Theory," according to which the six days are a brief summariz ing repetition of the great geological pro cesses of countless preceding ages, then brought to a close. . THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1865 FROM OUR, CORRESPONDING EDITOR. IMPROVEMENTS AT LE ROY The Presbyterian Church in this place was never, we judge, in a more prosper ous condition than at the present time. They are united and happy under the faithful ministery of Rev. C. C. Kimball, and are devising " liberal things;" both as an indication of present prosperity, and a like warrant for the future In the first place, an old debt of near two thousand dollars is in process of li quidatiOn. The subscription for that purpose lacked but one hundred and fifty dollars of the desired amount more than a week ago. We judge, from t 1.4 man ner in which the people are taking hold of it, that- it is all cleared off by this time. And in the next place, they are moving for an organ. About siA hun dred dollars have already been secured for this purpose. And to this it nay be added, that at the last communion! (first Sabbath of March) nine personsi were received to the church ;. four by l,etter, and five on profession of faith. I The spirit or the church is buoyant and hope ful. Every thins , indicates true - pros perity. THAT HORSE AND BUGGY. It was a happy thought of a dying girl. Her pastor had been unceasing, tender and thoughtful in his attentions. He was often at her bedside ; he bad read to her from the Holy Scriptures; he had knelt and commended her to God in fervent prayer. She had leaned uponi his counsels, was strengthened by his prayers, and was grateful for his coming, as she lay, week after week and month after month, wasting away, and looking for the slow but sure approach of the grim destroyer. And she was not un mindful of the _ fact that it cost him a weary walk of some four or-five miles every time he came to see her ; for she lived at a considerable distance from the parsonage, and as yet then minister was not provided with horse and carriage for such services. As the end was evidently drawing near, the dying girl called, her father to her side, and asked what portion would be falling to her,or how much he could give , her; if she were `well,-anCjust start ing out in life. The answer covered some two or three hundred dollars. She further asked if her father would be wil ling to buy with that amount, a horse and buggy and robe, and present them to her dear pastoP, as a reward for his faithful attentions, and to enable him more easily to visit other sick ones. The request was cheerfully granted ; and now our excellent friend; Rev. T. D. Hunt, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Waterville, is handsomely equipped for his pastoral rounds. RAILWAY LITERARY UNION Rev. Yates Hickey has ceased from his connection with the American Tract Society, at New York, and has in view another project bearing the above desig nation. A bill is now pending in the Legislature of this State to charter an institution, to be called the " American Railway Literary Union," with head quarters at New York and Chicago ; the object of which is to scatter proper read ing upon all the lines of travel, in the States and• British Provinces. The hope is to get such control of the lines of travel, by contract, that improper read ing matter may be excluded, and that which is unobjectionable, both secular and religious, alone be offered for sale. Good men are named as corporators in the bill, and the object aimed at is plainly one worthy of all praise ; but all the friends of improper reading, those interested in the poorer class of novels, so many of which are now offered in cars and steamers, will rally against such an enactment. They call it monopoly, abridging the liberty of the press, and the like. We only fear that they will be too successful in their opposition. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY Rev. Dr. Daggett, has now, been twenty years pastor of the church in Canandaigua—was settled there in January, 1845, and on the return of that anniverary, preached a. sermon appropri. ate to the occasion. His thoughtful people regarded it as a fit time for add ing five hundred dollars to his salary. That is money well bestowed and well deserved. GOING WEST We fear the Presbyterian Church in Penn Yan are about to lose their es teemed pastor, Rev. Frederick Starr, Jr. Indeed, we understand he has given them notice that he is going West, to act, We believe, as Financial Agent of the Lake Forest University, near Chi rr - cao. Mr. Starr has made warm friends at Penn Yan, where he has been settled some three or four years ; he has made himself particularly useful and popular among the young people, by whom he will be much missed, and who will try hard to keep him where he is ; but he has peculiar qualifications for the post he is now called to fill. We understand he still retains his position as Financial Agent for Auburn Seminary, and is to spend his summers in this region, look ing after its interests. A SECOND VISIT The good people of Sweden recently called on their pastor, Rev. J. C. Taylor, and made a handsome donation, of which due notice was given at the time. But they enjoyed that visit so well they were inclined to try again ; so on the 9th inst. they crowded the parsonage a second time, and left some seventy-five dollars as a token of their good will. AN OLD MAN Alexander Milliner, of whoße eAlieme age we made some notice a year ago, died on Monday last, at Adams Basin, twelve miles west of this city, at the age of one hundred and five years. He was a drummer boy in Washington's body guard in the Revolution. He was mar ried in 1800, at forty years of age ; lived with his wife sixty-two years, when she died, at eighty-two years of age. He leaves seven children, forty-three grand children, and seventeen great grand children. His funeral was attended in this city yesterday ; old men attended him to his last resting-place, the pall bearers being from among the oldest cit izens of the place. 4 CALL._ Rev. C. B. Gardner, of Clarkson, has received and accepted. a call to the Presbyterian Church of Cuba, and is soon to remove to his new field of labor. OUR FLOODS It -is conceded, we believe, by all, that our winter has been one of more than usual severity, both in re spect to the long continued and steady cold, and the great abundance of snow ; but Spring is at last coming, and all seem to be glad of it, except as it comes with such \ a. mighty rush as not a little to dis turb some of our plans and arrangements. The warm suns of a few days, and a few showers are giving us the largest floods which we have had for thirty years ; so that railroad tracks in every direction are more or less submerged. Bridges are carried away, and, as we write, the regular trains on the New York Central and Erie roads are all stopped. We trust the embargo will soon be removed, if not, this letter will hardly meet the eyes of our readers at the time intended; and so we will write no more upon this uncertainty. C. P. B. ROCHESTER, March 17, 1865. JOTTINGS-FROM A PARISH JOURNAL NO. V. " HE'S DRAFTED, AND' F HE GOES, THE LORD WILL TAKE CARE OF ME." Some twelve years ago, a sober lad who had received a very moderate education in a rural parish in the county of L--, emi grated to America. He carried the lessons which had been instilled into his young mind by an humble, now sainted mother, with him. The first week after he arrived he hired two sitting in Dr. B.'s church, and at the next ensuing communion he handed in his certificate, and was duly received into fellowship.- He soon found employment in Mr. W.'s store, as a por ter, in which he was retained until the last draft, respected and esteemed by his employers as an honest, faithful servant, attending to his duties during the week and his Sabbath 'privileges on th - e Lord's day. Five years ago he`gave his hand_ and heart to a member Of - tlfe same church, then living at service with a respectable American family in Spruce sfreet, Philadelphia. The thrifty, honest couple lived in the enjoyment of all the happiness which God sees fit to bestow on those who walk in his commandments blamelessly. The war broke out, and he was urged to enlist, but declined. Again and again he was importuned to become a volunteer, but his attachment to his wife, his em ployers (who were remarkably kind to him), and, above all, to his church, in duced him to resist every appeal. Fi nally the draft cable, and it Tell to his lot to serve the country to which he had taken the oath of allegiance. The thought of leaving his happy home and exchang ing the felicities of domestic bliss for the camp was very trying. The pastor of the church to which he belonged, called to pay a visit of condolence, and found him not at home. Before engaging in prayer with his excellent wife, he opened a conversation upon the subject of the draft, and the pending separation between the happy, pious couple. " I was sorry to hear that your husbandwas drafted," said the pastor. "Yes, it is very hard to part," replied the humble Christian woman, . " after living five years and more so happy together ; but it comes in the course of Providence, and we should not complain. Perhaps we have been too happy, and thought too much of each other, and the Lord has seen fit to separate us to try our faith." 'You husband is naturalized ?" said the pastor. " Oh, yes, sir; he felt that it was his duty to become a citizen. His employers and all his American acquain tances were so kind to him, that he be lieved it would be wrong for him not to become a citizen. And if the country that gave him the means of life needed his service, and his life too, he thought he must give it." " Won't he try.to get a substitute ?' " replied the pastor. " No, no, he'll never -do that. He prayed over the matter, and asked the Lord to direct. him, and if he saw it right to call him, he resolved to go. And I advised him to that course. The Lord did call him, and the Lord can preserve him in the field as well as in the house." " But are you not afraid that he may fall in the field ?" " Yes, yes, I'm afraid 3 but he's drafted, and if he goes, the Lord will take care of me." " I am delighted," said the pastor, ".with' your faith ; and would only say, fear not, for thy Maker is thy husband, the Lord of Hosts is his name." It is truly refreshing. to find such in stances of child-like confidence in God ; and while it must be owned, with deep regret, that there may be many in the ranks who have never sought either the guidance of God when entering, or his protection when in the field, still it is to be hoped there are not a few who have entered the army with as deep a sense of duty as they have ever approached a communion table. In the ease thus cited, we have, it may be presumed, one of a large class of humble Christians, men of unpretending and unostentatious piety, who are serving God and their country with their whole hearts, and who are encouraged, yea strengthened, in their deeds of daring, by the prayers of their wives and Christian friends at home. In the Camp of Distribution, at Arling ton Heights, on the Bth of November, 1864, the following jottings were made in a delegate's journal: B— H—, of Wisconsin, aged 35, a native of that State ; has been married twelve years— has a vvife and four living children—was induced to enter the service as a volun teer Hard work parting from wife and family. Had no sense of religion till he came to the-camp. Wife a member of the Presbyterian church—a praying wo man. She spent several nights in prayer, when he made up his mind to go to the army, though he enlisted at a tavern when half tipsy. 'Under a sermon in the Chapel of the Christian Commission be was impressed, convictions deepened, he became more and more concerned. At last his ease became desperate. After several days of dreadful agony of soul, he found peace with God, and united with the church. He received the Lord's Supper at the soldiers' communion and was rejoicing in Christ Jesus when the delegate left the camp. On reporting the glorious news to his praying wife, she wrote him a letter, which deserves to be printed in letters of gold and distribu ted in every regiment in the service. The document seems almost like inspi ration. " Saddened," she says, "by the frolic that led you to enlist, I am now glad dened by the joyful news that this was the Lord's way of bringing you to Him self. I.often prayed you to stay. I now pray you to go. Little did I think that the Lord had prepared a new heart for you before you should enter the field. And now, my dearest Ben, I shall not fail to pray, morning, noon, and night, that the Lord will preserve you in the day of battle, and bring you safely back to us when the war is over. But, if you fall in the service of our country, you fall in the service of the great Captain of your salvation, and He will be a hus band to me and a father to our dear chil dren." Seldom does it fall to the lot of the Christian minister to find such instances of piety and strong faith in the wives of patriotic soldiers. This, however, may be accounted for, in some cases, by the peculiar material of which the United States army is composed. The spirit of Christian patriotism has pervaded the country. In every city, town, village, indeed, in every family, this spirit is rife. - Hence it is that multitudes of Christian men have gone into > the ranks from a stern sense of duty, as in the case of the first instance cited in this article. Then, again, many ungodly men have, while influenced by drink and an irreligious companionship, rushed into the army without any proper motive. These have been followed by.the prayers of God's people, both among their own friends and others, whilst the Christian Commission has, under God, been following the camp with all its evangelical appliances. And as God's own means are used in faith and accompanied by prayer, many are brought to Christ, who have never given their salvation a single thought. They are doing their duty just as the Philip plan jailor was doing his, without any regard to the glory of Christ or welfare of the country ; and the voice of prayer, or the song of praise, or,the counsels of Christian philanthropy, or, it may be, the roar of the cannon and the clang of drums, like the thundering of the earth quake which shook the prison, arouse and alarm the careless and the ungodly, and they are plucked like brands from the fire. In such cases, and we bless God that there -are not a few of them, we have a signal incentive to duty. Let us not give up even runaways. Onesimus was a runaway, but the Lord watched him, and sought and caught him in Rome. Poor Ben, from Wisconsin, was literally a runaway ; but he was pursued, not by the cry of vengeance, but by the prayer of faith, and the Lord, too, followed him, and caught him in the rendezvous of Distribution, on the heights of Arlington, and sent him forward to the front where, if alive, he now is, a brave soldier of the cross. The latter of the cases thus introduced also brings to view a very precious truth in connection . with the economy of grace. It certainly proves that God's mysterious providence is always made subservient to his purposes. Doubtless he who plans, because he knows, the end and the beginning, so rules and overawes even the very folly, as well as the wrath of man, and makes it praise him. In the whole career of poor Ben, prior to his conversion, we see and hear of nothing but sin and folly. As he said himself, "For the last ten years of my life I not only hated religion, but made a mock of sin." Yet it seems that the Lord loved him, and had planned his salvation. But he had also planned a singular chain of Divine providence by which he should bring him . into the kingdom of grace, and in doing so make it apparent that he owned the prayers of a godly wife, and the preaching of the glorious gospel — as subservient instrumen talities in the fulfilment of his divine purposes with regard to this monument of saving mercy. A PETIT, OP CHALMERS PIRSONITIS. DEAR BROTHER MEARS :—I notice in my PRESBYTERIAN, of March 2d, an ar ticle from Blackwood's Magazine under the above caption, by a writer who claims to have " solved" the "problem" re specting the cause of this disease. The solution given may do very well for the locality of the writer, but I doubt whether it will accord with the experience of Americans. That there is a difficulty of the vocal organs prevalent, particularly among clergymen of a certain class, is but too evident. Its cause and cure we all desire to learn. I differ from the writer you quote with respect to the cause, at least so far as this country is concerned. We all know that there is a tendency to bronchial af fections with thousands who are not public speakers. Our experience in the present war has shown bronchitis to be , very prevalent. Hundreds of young men who had no profession, have died of this disease in the army, many of whom might not have suffered any serious in convenience from it for years, had not the peculiar experiences and exposures of camp life developed it. In those thus predisposed, the habits of the ministry tend more strongly to develope this dis ease, than those of any other class except the soldier. This tendency to disease of the vocal organs and throat we find among all classes—among males and females—the young as well as the mature and old. The modern scourge, diphtheria, which so desolates our homes, leaves its mementoes in many a sore throat and impaired vocal powers. These chronic throat diseases are of most frequent occurrence with persons of sedentary life, and without doubt exhibit their severest types in a clergyman. This is certainly to be accounted for in some way by their habits, and yet I do not think the cause given a sufficient one, and for two reasons, viz We need but to look back to our child hood's days and call to mind those self denying good men who used to ride or walk the circuit and preach at the " school house" to assure ourselves that unnatu ralness of voice cannot be the cause! What can be more " unnatural" than the tone in which those itinerant laborers preached the Gospel? There was noth ing natural in it. Not a word was spoken in the voice they would use on any other theme, and yet these men were never afflicted with this prevalent " par sonitis." It is, therefore, clear that un naturalness is not all—not the only pro , ducing cause. My second reason is : The men who are thus afflicted are not those who have adopted an unnatural tone in preaching. In this country, at least, those who do preach in such a " tone" to the greatest excess, are, as a rule, free from the other affliction. They are our best, our strong est, our most- effective men who are its victims ; men who preach Jesus Christ with all the energies of an earnest soul ; men who are for the most part natural in their delivery—as natural, at least, as the one habit now to be noticed will admit of. What, then is the cause of this affliction so peculiar to clergymen ? I would not be wiser than my fathers are, but from a brief experience in the work of the ministry, and no small ob servation among ministers, I am led to conclude that we owe it to the pen! The confinement of the study and the position at the " study table" are unfavorable for the chest and vocal organs. Then on the Sabbath the minister goes into his pulpit with a heart full of his theme, but depending on his manuscript for the "form of sound words," by which he will set forth Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The effsrt to read keeps the head thrown forward beyond its natural position in speaking, thus cramping the vocal organs and preventing their free action. The preacher would win souls to Christ. Pathos, deep emotion and strong passion are struggling for utterance, while the very position of the head and chest ab solutely forbid the free natural use of either the muscular powers 'used in speaking, or of the organs of speech. Such a violation of nature's self must produce irritation and disease. I am hence led to conclude that the " cure" is to be found in the freedom of unwritten discourse. My own experience has taught me that I can speak longer, and with greater ease, when standing in a natural position, than in the best position I can have in reading. Poor light, small windows and stained glass greatly aggra vate this diffictilty: It is moreover true, I" think, that those who are happily exempt from this m2 l .ady—those classes of the profession which it has not reached, are those whose habit is not to speak from a manuscript. I am aware that this solution brings up another question grave and practical —one upon which much is being said and written, but of which I will not venture to speak. I hope our fathers in the ministry' who may have tested by years of labor the comparative benefits of un written and written discourse will give to your columns, and through them to us who are younger in the work, the results of their observation and experience as bearing on this point. E. B. M. So long as you see one star in tilt . , sky, the sun is no risen. So long as one leak &dmits the water, the ship is not safe; so long as one sin reigns in a.man's heart, and is practiced in his life, Jesus is neither his Saviour nor his King. Boaz did not- give Ruth a quantity of corn' at once, but kept her gleaning. That is the best charity which so relieves an other'a poverty as to still continue their industry_
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