DR. The Heavens Opened. I see the heavens opened.” A Crs "HEN had been preaching a rous- and the people could "hey resolved to do as men 12s would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain preacher of righ kill him. The only way man was to knock the breath out of him. So they rushed Stephen of the gates of the city, +, and whoop, and bellow him to the cliff, as was 1 they wanted to take Having brought JF Hi, Serinon, not . 1 stand It, sometin COUSIIeSS to silence this they pusii- ef i he had fallen and seeing that they stone atten began 131 dead, him i him : ILE RAIN OF MISSILES, clambers up on his knees } is hands, while the blood his temples to his cheeks, { from lie ground; and then, | LIKES LWo prayers his murderers. HIS garments, one LAWay and fell YO 1 yor aay { u cliimt now to what 1 1t was rigl v ImMoments moment + same postu to Keep » wealth may ll, and painti and works gazing, as i Would TRANSFIGURED FAC} 3 ng to join their « onship, and the years and the d with such tedium that they break your wart, and viper of pain, and ow, and bereavement keeps gnawing at vitals, still stand, gazing into heaven You f they have changed since ye hem last, You wonder if they would recognize your now, changed as it been with trouble, You wonder if, amid the myriad delights they have, they care as much for you as they used to when they gave you a helping hand and put their shoulder under your bur- lens, You wonder if they look any older; and sometimes, in the evening- tide, when the house is all quiet, you wonder if you should call them by their first name if they would not answer; and perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no one but God and yourself are there you dis. tinctly call their names, and listen, and sit gazing into heaven, 11. Pass on now, and see Stephen, HN pan- LVS gO RO - your like Ste- en, vou worl- {a ier i Saw face 80 LOOKING UPON CHRIST, My text says he saw the Son of man at the right hand of God. Just how Christ looked in this world, just how He looks in heaven, we cannot say, A writer in the time of Christ says, de- scribing the Saviour’s personal appear- ance, that He had blue eyes and light ure; but I suppose it was all guess- work, Lhe painters of the different ages have tried to imagine the fea- tures of Christ, and put them upon ean ras; but we will have to wait until with our own eyes we see Him and with our own ears we can hear Him, bearing Hin now. Christ on Him and hear ¢ and hear that unl earth, vou will never se in heaven. SR VOU Bee HERE HE IS Lamb of God, Can you not Then pray to God to take scales off your eyes. Look that try to look that way. His voice down vou this day the blindest, to the deafest saving: “Look unto Me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for and there none LE Proclamation of universal emancipa~ slaves, Proclamation of un- amnesty for all rebels, LOOK Yahi tha Behold Lie way to Comes i am (rod, is else, on for all gathered his table: George I. entertained ords of England at a banquet; Napol- mn 111. welcomed the Czar of Russia he ] of Turkey to his feast; Germany was glad to , Greorge Bancroft, sit at his table; i