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human heart). How the Devil must chuckle at his success when he gets a fellow to think himself something wonderful because he can dress in scarlet or blue, and have a sword by his side and a feather in his hat; and when he says to him (and the poor fool believes it), "Your hands are far too delicate to be soiled by the counter and the shop;" and then whispers to himself, "Keep them for blood-human blood!"-Binney.

3717. MIND, and troubles. When I am assailed with heavy tribulations I rush out among my pigs, rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds

Luther.

3711. MERCY, Provision for. Abraham Lin coln's doorkeeper had standing orders from him, that no matter how great might be the throng, if either senators or representatives had to wait, or to be turned away without an audience, he must see, before the day closed, every messenger who came to him with a petition for the saving of life.-Little's Historical Lights. 3712. MERCY, Recalling. One of the most affect-on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.— ing things I ever saw in my life was in the Church of the " 'Succouring" Virgin-that is, of Mary, the Succourer. It was, I believe, in one of the French cities. The whole church was filled with tablets. Here was one of an officer, for three days' deliverance, on such, and such, and such dates. It was a little marble slab let into the wall, inscribed with letters of gold. On inquiring and comparing dates, I found it was during the battle of Inkerman, at a time when the French army were in great danger. The man had been preserved; and when he came back he put up in this church this tablet, recalling the mercy of God in sparing his life. Another inscription was: "My babe was sick; I called to the Virgin. She heard me; and my child lives." There was the tablet that celebrated that event. And I could not read these inscriptions without having tears fall from my eyes like drops from a spice-bush when shaken in a dewy morning.-Beecher.

3713. MESSENGER, Test of. A woman once brought John Wesley a "remonstrance from the Lord, for laying up treasures, taking his ease, and caring little but for eating and drinking. "God knows me better," said Wesley; "and had He sent you, it would have been with a more proper message."

3714. MESSIAH, Christ the. At a solemn disputation which was held at Venice, in the last century, between a Jew and a Christian, the Christian strongly argued from Daniel's prophecy of the seventy weeks, that Jesus was the Messiah whom the Jews had long expected, from the predictions of their prophets. The learned rabbi who presided at this disputation was so forcibly struck by the argument that he put an end to the business by saying, "Let us shut up our Bibles, for if we proceed in the examination of this prophecy it will make us all become Christians."-Bishop Watson.

3715. METHODS, The two. A plain, honest Christian, on being called by a profligate worldling "a Methodist," replied, "Sir, whether you are aware of it or not, you are equally a Methodist with myself." "How? how?" rejoined the scoffer, with many oaths. "Pray be calm," said the other; "there are but two methods-the method of salvation and the method of damnation. In one of these you certainly are; in which I leave with you to decide." The scoffer was silenced.- Whitecross.

3716. MILITARY, ambition of. None knows how much villainy lodges in this little retired room (the

3718. MIND, Change of. Dr. Lawson's call to Selkirk had been singularly cordial. One individual only was opposed to it. During a pastoral visitation at this person's house he entered into conversation with him in an easy and friendly style. His mildness, however, was not reciprocated, the individual seeking every opportunity to find fault with him. He had consented, after some solicitation, to partake of tea with the family. At the conclusion the ungracious host accused his young pastor of uttering a falsehood. "I am not aware of having committed so grave a misdemeanour," said the minister. "Yes, you have; for, when I asked you to stay and take tea with us, you replied that you would not, and yet you have done both; is not this telling a lie?" "You must have read the story," answered Dr. Lawson, "of the angels in Sodom, who, when Lot pressed them to enter his house and lodge with him during the night, refused, and said, 'Nay; but we will abide in the street all night;' and, instead of doing so, when Lot pressed them much, 'They turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.' Now, do you suppose that these angels told a lie?" "No; they only changed their minds." "And so I, too, have just changed my mind, and have remained to partake of your fare." The upbraider was undone.-Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D.

3719. MIND, Charms of. Miss Reynolds had toasted Goldsmith as the ugliest man of her acquaintance. Shortly after the appearance of "The Traveller" Dr. Johnson read it aloud from beginning to end in her presence. "Well," exclaimed she, when he had finished, "I never more shall think Dr. Goldsmith ugly."-Washington Irving.

3720. MIND, fully made [up. Turning over a volume of valuable autographs, I came across the bold, manly signature of my old friend of many years, Dwight L. Moody. Underneath was his favourite text, which he calls up in an emergencyas Napoleon used to call up Ney at critical times when he wanted some hard fighting done. The text is Isaiah i. 7: "For the Lord God will help me. Therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint; and I know that I shall not be ashamed."-Cuyler.

3721. MIND, influence upon the body. "Your pulse," said the doctor, "is in greater disorder than it should be from the degree of fever you have. Is your mind at ease?" "No, it is not," was Gold

smith's melancholy answer. They are the last words we hear him utter in this melancholy world.—Life's Last Hours.

3722. MIND, keep it well employed. The mind of man is like a mill, which will grind whatever you put into it, whether it be husk or wheat. The Devil is very eager to have his turn at this mill, and to employ it for grinding the husk of vain thoughts. Keep the wheat of the Word in the mind.- Williams, of Wern.

3723. MIND, not to be left untilled. Thelwall thought it very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it should have come to years of discretion and be able to choose for itself. I showed him my garden, and told him it was my botanical garden. "How so?" said he ; "it is covered with weeds." "Oh," I replied, "that is only because it has not yet come to its age of discretion and choice. The weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow, and I thought it unfair in me to prejudice the soil towards roses and straw berries. Coleridge's Table Talk.

3724. MIND, should be clear of idle habits. In a certain chamber which I saw at Beaulieu, in the New Forest, a cobweb is never seen. It is a large lumber-room, and is never swept; yet no spider ever defiles it with the emblems of neglect. It is roofed with chestnut, and for some reason I know not what-spiders will not come near that wood by the year together. The same thing was mentioned to me in the corridors of Winchester School; I was told, "No spiders ever come here." Our minds should be equally clear of idle habits.-Spurgeon.

3725. MIND, standard of the man. Dr. Watts was remarkable for the vivacity of his conversational powers, which he nevertheless exercised with great modesty. Being one day in the company of some friends, he overheard a stranger say, "What, is that the great Dr. Watts ?" The Doctor, who was of low stature, turning to the gentleman from whom the exclamation of surprise had emanated, goodhumouredly repeated the following appropriate verse from one of his lyric poems :—

"Were I so tall to reach the Pole,

Or mete the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul;
The mind's the standard of the man."

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ander was once conversing with a successful mer3729. MINISTER, Duties of. Dr. Lindsay Alexchant. The merchant said to him, "If it is a fair question, what do you get?" He told him. "Well," he answered, "is that all you get? And what do you do for that?" "In the first place," said Mr. Alexander, "I compose and write what would be fully two pretty thick octavo volumes-about as much as any literary man, bending over his pen, thinks of doing, and more than some do, in a year; in the next place, I have to do as much speaking every week as a lawyer at the bar in good practice; then, in the third place, to do as much visiting as a surgeon in average practice would do; and, in the next place, I think I write as many letters as many of you great merchants do." The merchant replied, "Well, they may say as much as they please about ministers getting too much for their work, but none of us would do half your work for four times your pay.'

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3730. MINISTER, Going to hear. A lady who was present at the Lord's Supper, where the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine was assisting, was much impressed by his discourse. She went again the next Sabbath to hear him. But she felt none of those strong impressions she experienced on the former occasion. Wondering at this, she called on Mr. Erskine, and stating the case, asked what might be the reason of such a difference in her feelings. He replied, "Madame, the reason is this-last Sabbath you went to hear Jesus Christ; but to-day you have come to hear Ebenezer Erskine."

3726. MINISTER, A faithful. The inhabitants of the city of Thesus, being besieged by the Athe3731. MINISTER, of death. A story is told of nians, made a law that whosoever would motion a a soldier who was condemned to be shot, but after peace to be concluded with the enemy should die sentence a pardon was granted, not to be produced the death. Their city began to be distressed and till the last moment. No one was to know anything the people to perish with the sword and famine. about it except the commander. Accordingly the Hegetorides, a citizen, pitying the estate of his culprit was led to the appointed spot. His coffin was country, took a halter about his neck, came to the on the grass beside a new-cut grave; the firing party judgment-place, and spake-"My masters, deal with was drawn up, with instructions that when the comme as you will; but in any case make peace with mander waved his handkerchief they were to dethe Athenians, that my country may be saved by spatch their victim. The eyes of the doomed man my death!" My case is like this man's. I know were bandaged, and he knelt down before the flashnot my danger in these things. I see you, my dearing row of muskets pointed at his heart. The eyes and native countrymen, perish-it pitieth me. come with a rope about my neck to save you. How soever it goeth with me, I labour that you may have the gospel preached among you. Though it cost my life, I think it well bestowed!- John Penry (Welsh Martyr, 1588).

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of the firing party were fixed on the commander for the signal, and he put his hand into his breast to draw forth the pardon. In his confusion he drew forth his handkerchief; on the instant the hoarse rattle of the muskets woke the echoes, the curling smoke filled the air, and the soldier lay a bleeding corpse prone on the ground beside the new-made 3727. MINISTER, A faithful. An eminent minis- grave. Think of the remorse of the commander at

his fatal error! Even such must be the result and such the remorse of that minister who forgets his theme in his anxiety about himself. He may be the appointed herald of pardon, but the actual minister of death.

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3732. MINISTER, Humility in. The Rev. S. Pearce, being one week-day evening in London, asked a friend where he could hear a good sermon. Two places were mentioned. "Well," said he, "tell me the characters of the preachers, that I may choose." "Mr. D-," said his friend, "exhibits the orator, and is much admired for his pulpit eloquence.' "And what is the other?" "Why, I hardly know what to say of Mr. C- ; he always throws himself in the background, and you see his Master only." "That's the man for me, then," said the amiable Pearce; "let us go and hear him." 3733. MINISTER, Prayer for unconverted. The Rev. Solomon Stoddard, the predecessor of the farfamed President Edwards, was engaged by his people on an emergency. They soon found themselves disappointed, for he gave no indications of a renewed and serious mind. In this difficulty their resource was prayer. They agreed to set apart a day for special fasting and prayer, in reference to their pastor. Many of the persons meeting for this purpose had necessarily to pass the door of the minister. Mr. Stoddard hailed a plain man whom he knew, and addressed him, "What is all this? What is doing to-day?" The reply was, "The people, sir, are all meeting to pray for your conversion." It sank into his heart. He exclaimed to himself, "Then it is time I prayed for myself!" He was not seen that day. He was seeking in solitude what they were asking in company; and, "while they were yet speaking," they were heard and answered. The pastor gave unquestionable evidence of the change; he laboured amongst a beloved and devoted people for nearly half a century, and was, for that period, deservedly ranked among the most able and useful

of Christian ministers.

3734. MINISTER, Praying for. One of the greenest spots upon earth was the parish of St. Peter's, Dundee, when the lovely M'Cheyne was its pastor. He thus records in his diary the spirit of prayer which prevailed among his people :-"Many prayer-meetings were formed, some of which were strictly private, and others, conducted by persons of some Christian experience, were open to persons under concern at one another's houses. At the time of my return from the mission to the Jews I found thirty-nine such meetings held weekly in connection with the congregation.

3735. MINISTER, Unconverted. Dr. Chalmers became a preacher, alas! before he became a Christian. It is said that after his first settlement, and when botany had proved to him an all-engrossing pursuit, he was followed one Sunday morning by his beadle, and reminded of the fact he had forgotten, that it was the hour for public worship. Dr. Chalmers hastened into the pulpit, and as he took off his hat the flowers he had been culling fell out upon his face, exhibiting the evident indications of the manner in which he had been just engaged. After his settlement at Kilinany his preaching ran mainly upon moral proprieties, and he was ignorant of the great peculiarities which the gospel enshrines and discovers Here, however,

it pleased God to meet with him, and for the rest of his ministry few men could have been more faithful to central truth than he.

3736. MINISTERIAL duties, unfulfilled. I heard of a Bishop of England that went on visitation. And as it was the custom when the Bishop should come to be rung into the town, the great bell's clapper was fallen down, the tyall was broken, so that the Bishop could not be rung into the town. There was a great matter made of this, and the chiefs of the parish were much blamed for it in the visitation. The Bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended. They made their answers, and excused themselves as well as they could. "It was a chance," said they, "that the clapper brake, and we could not get it mended by-and-by; we must tarry till we can have it done; it shall be amended as shortly as may be." Among the others there was one wiser than the rest, and he comes up to the Bishop. "Why," my lord," said he, "doth your lordship make so great a matter of the bell that lacketh his clapper? Here is a bell," said he, and pointed to the pulpit, "that hath lacked a clapper this twenty years. We have a parson that fetcheth out of this benefice fifty pound (equal to £750) every year, but we never see him."-Latimer.

8737. MINISTERIAL success, Secret of.

An

old man who kept a toll-bar, being asked by a traveller how a clergyman who lived in the neighbourhood was getting on, "He must get on," was the reply; "for he lays at sin as if he were knocking down an ox."

3738. MINISTERS, Apparent fervour of some. It is applicable to some ministers what is observed of the carbuncle. By its colour, lustre, and fiery sparklings it seems to be actually on fire, but has only the name and appearance of it.—Dr. William Bates.

3739. MINISTERS, Dangers of. An old Christian of Elberfeld was in the habit of making various notes in the margin of his Bible. Thus by our Lord's question, "Where are the nine?" he had written the following words:-"I will tell thee, Lord Jesus; they have remained with the priests." Well, ministers cannot always prevent people from stopping with them instead of pushing on towards Christ, but all their endeavour and desire should surely be to lead the souls away from men, even unto Christ Himself.-Pastor Funcke.

3740. MINISTERS, how do they live? I wonder whether some of the people who come to hear Christ's servants ever ask themselves the question, "How do these ministers live and pay their way?" "I thought they preached for souls," said one of these spiritual mendicants to Mr. Spurgeon, who required an able and intelligent preacher for the munificent sum of £60 a year. "So they do," replied the famous preacher; "but they would need some thousands of souls of your size to keep them from starving."-Henry Varley.

3741. MINISTERS, must put away morose habits. At the Synod of Moscow, held by King Goutran A.D. 585, bishops were forbidden to keep dogs in their houses, or birds of prey, lest the poor should be bit by these animals instead of being fed. Should not all ministers be equally concerned to

chase away all morose habits, angry tempers, and repulsive manners, which might discourage the approach of inquiring souls who desire to know of us the way of salvation?

3742. MINISTERS, must remember the ignorant. When I preach I sink myself deep down. I regard neither doctors nor magistrates, of whom are here in this church above forty; but I have an eye to the multitude of young people, children, and servants, of whom are more than two thousand. I preach to those, directing myself to them that have need thereof. Will not the rest hear me? The door stands open unto them; they may begone.-Luther.

3743. MINISTERS, must remember the ignorant. The great bell of Moscow is too large to be hung; the question arises, What was the use of making it? Some preachers are so learned that they cannot make themselves understood, or else cannot bring their minds to preach plain gospel sermons; here, too, the same question might be asked.-Spurgeon. 3744. MINISTERS, need extra grace. I was in Cologne on a very rainy day, and I was looking out for similes and metaphors, as I generally am; but I had nothing on earth to look at in the square of the city but an old pump, and what kind of a simile I could make out of it I could not tell. All traffic seemed suspended, it rained so hard; but I noticed a woman come to the pump with a bucket. Presently I noticed a man come in with a bucket; nay, he came with a yoke and two buckets. As I kept on writing and looking out every now and then, I saw the same friend with the often-buckets and

blue blouse coming to the same pump again. In the course of the morning I think I saw him a dozen times. I thought to myself, "Ah, you do not fetch water for your own house, I am persuaded: you are a water-carrier; you fetch water for lots of people, and that is why you come oftener than any body else." Now, there was a meaning in that at once to my soul, that, inasmuch that I had not only to go to Christ for myself, but had been made a water-carrier to carry the water of everlasting life to others, I must come a great deal oftener than anybody else.-Spurgeon.

3745. MINISTERS, Pay of. Ministers are not as well paid as cricket-players, and for a good reason-religion is not the national game. The utmost a minister can say is what the farmer said of his cow when grazing on the bare top of a lofty hill, "If she has a poor pasture, she has a fine prospect."-Dr. Macfadyen.

3746. MINISTERS, Payment of. It must be remembered as among the anomalies of Welsh religious life, that it combines an insatiable appetite for sermons with a marvellous disregard for the temporal comfort of the preacher. On one occasion a woman said to Mr. Evans, as he came out of the pulpit, "Well, Christmas Evans, we are back with your stipend; but I hope you will be paid at the Resurrection. You have given us a wonderful sermon." "Yes, yes," was his quick reply; "no doubt of that; but what am I to do till I get there? And there is the old white mare that carries me what will she do? For her there will be no Resurrection. But what will you do? What reward will you get for your unfaithfulness at the Resurrection? It's hard, but I shall get on at the Resurrection; but you, who got on so well in the

world, may change places with me at the Resurrection."-Life of Christmas Evans.

3747. MINISTERS, Petrified. At Antwerp Fair, among many curiosities advertised by huge paintings and big drums, I observed a booth containing "a great wonder," to be seen for a penny a head; it was a petrified man. I did not expend the amount required for admission, for I had seen so many petrified men for nothing, both in and out of the pulpit-lifeless, careless, destitute of common sense, and altogether inert, though occupied with the weightiest business which man could undertake.Spurgeon.

3748. MINISTERS, should be picked men. It is said of the Egyptians that they chose their priests from the most learned of their philosophers, and then they esteemed their priests so highly that they chose their kings from them. We require to have for God's ministers the pick of all the Christian host; such men, indeed, that if the nation wanted kings they could not do better than elevate them to the throne.-Spurgeon.

3749. MINISTRY, and degrees. A young man who was torn between his friends and his conscience once wrote to Whitefield, his spiritual father, on the subject of taking a degree before he commenced preaching, when that noble man replied, "The highest degree on earth is to be a mobbed, stoned, pelted Methodist preacher;-you may die with the blood of souls on you before you get a degree ;—go and preach the gospel."-Denton.

said Betterton, the tragedian, to a bishop who was 3750. MINISTRY, and reality. "My lord," conversing with him on the different effects produced by acting and preaching, "the stage would We players speak of things imaginary as though soon be deserted if the actors spoke like preachers. they were real, and too many of the clergy speak of things real as though they were imaginary."

3751. MINISTRY, Call to. A good Methodist elder was listening to a young mechanic, who thought he had a call to give up his shop and go to preaching. "I feel," said the young ardent, "that I have a call to preach." Hast thou noticed whether people seem "I have always noticed that a true call of the Lord may be known by this, that people have a call to

to have a call to hear thee?" said the shrewd old man.

hear thee."-Denton.

3752. MINISTRY, Difficulties of. Writing in those early times from the then West, a man said, "Send us a minister who can swim." The question that. The reply came, "The last man we had, in was asked, what was meant by such a request as order to keep an appointment, had to cross a fierce, rushing stream, and he was drowned in the attempt. Send us a man who can swim."-Talmage.

3753. MINISTRY, Difficulties of. It was by suffering (he was laid aside for two years from active duties) he was being prepared for the work of his life. Long after, in the busy Canonbury days, Dr. Raleigh mentioned to one of his deacons the reluc tance he felt when he saw it his duty to point out to young men who aspired to the office of the ministry the difficulties and trials of the vocation. come here," he said, "and they see the place crowded; they hear me preach, and it all seems easy and natural; and straightway they get a desire to do

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the same.

Ah! they little know what it has cost | the Word of God which moved the people so, The me to attain to this!"-Life of Dr. Raleigh.

3754. MINISTRY, ended. We have heard of a clergyman, now departed, who, during a lengthened ministry, had maintained a most respectable name as a steward of God's mysteries. He was seized with a serious illness. A brother in the ministry, who frequently was at his bedside, found him now, as the realities of eternity began to come very near, in not a little spiritual darkness. Text after text of the Word was quoted; but still no light. At last, one morning early, as the brother, who had left him the night before in this state, returned to the sickchamber, he was saluted by a voice of gladness. "Now," said the joyful man, "all is well." The window of the room looked out to the street, where there were passing at the time many of the people to their work. The clergyman looked at themthey were part of his own flock; his eyes filled with tears; his bowels were yearning over them, and he exclaimed, "Now I could preach!" His former preaching he did not deem preaching at all. But his course was ended. He never rose from that bed.-How to Preach.

3755. MINISTRY, Faithfulness in. The old coloured preacher was wise in his generation who absolutely refused to preach on the sin of robbing hen-roosts, because it always produced a coldness in the congregation to preach on such matters. One of the foremost ministers in our Church made himself so obnoxious to the gospel-hungry soul of one of the legal lights of his congregation, by preaching frequently on the duty of Christian giving, that he drove him to complain mournfully, "We want a minister who will preach the gospel!"

3756. MINISTRY, how it should be carried on. Passing through the chambers of the factory at Sèvres, we observed an artist drawing a picture upon a vase. We watched him for several minutes, but he appeared to be quite unconscious of our observation. Parties of visitors passed through the room, glanced at his work more or less hurriedly, and made remarks; but he, as a deaf man, heard not, and as a dead man regarded not. Why should he? Had he not royal work on hand? What mattered to him the approbation or the criticism of passers-by? They did not get between him and the light, and therefore they were no hindrance, though they certainly were no help. "Well," thought we, "after this fashion should we devote our heart and soul to the ministry which we have received. This one thing I do."Clerical Library.

3757. MINISTRY, Love of. I know the solitary vale in my native land which was ransacked and spoiled by a troop of murderous horsemen, which the people bore patiently until their godly minister was driven with the rest of the spoil; and I know well the proud eminence, the northern barrier of the valley, whereon the people, shrouded in the mists of the morning, gathered themselves to the rescue of the beloved man; and when the cloud rolled its skirts from around the ministers of Heaven's vengeance, there they stood, to dispute it with the armed and embattled chivalry of hell, and broke them in their godly wrath as the potsherd is broken in pieces, and in their fury dashed the horse and his rider into the abyss which yawned beneath to receive the sons of Belial. It was not the man but

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Word of God was very precious to their souls. For I have seen in the same valley the close amphitheatre of rocks, where they were seen to sit shrouded in twilight, with the stream rushing amongst their feet, to listen to their pastor's voice, their only earthly possession, which truly they would not part with, and see suffocated with a burning brand, but preferred rather to die. And the Lord delivered their enemies into their hands and saved their beloved preacher. Edward Irving.

3758. MINISTRY, may be short yet precious. The less than one year's ministry of the Rev. Thomas Spencer, who was drowned while bathing in the Mersey, is still remembered after the lapse of more than half a century. Its tragic termination made its memory more widely and lastingly known. Immediately before leaving his home for bathing he had repeated the hymn beginning with the words, "God moves in a mysterious way."-Spencer Pearsall.

3759. MINISTRY, not to be judged by its popularity. John Foster was wont to say that he was never asked twice to occupy the same pulpit; yet who will deny that John Foster was an able minister of the New Testament?-Dr. Parker.

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3760. MINISTRY, of love. For the purpose of writing out his sermons, Brousson (a proscribed Huguenot preacher) carried about with him a small board which he called his "Wilderness Table." With this placed upon his knees, he wrote the sermons, for the most part in woods and caves. copied out seventeen of these sermons, which he sent to Louis XIV., to show him that what he preached in the deserts contained nothing but the pure Word of God, and that he only exhorted the people to obey God and to give glory to Him. . . . One would have expected that, under the bitter persecutions which Brousson had suffered during so many years, they would have been full of denunciation; on the contrary, they were only full of love. His words were only burning when he censured his hearers for not remaining faithful to their Church and to their God.-Smiles.

3761. MINISTRY, Preparation for. Among the early Waldenses a requisite for ordination, we are told, was, that the candidate be able to repeat from memory the four Gospels, together with all the Epistles and the Book of Psalms. Would that the same rule were enforced elsewhere to-day! There might be fewer ordinations, but there would be better preachers of the Word of God.-H. L. Hastings.

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3762. MINISTRY, Requirements of. about to lose our minister here, in a large congregation and a beautiful church. From what I hear, the people will be very reasonable if the right candidate appears. We would like a man as eloquent as Rev. Dr. Taylor, as spiritual as Dr. John Hall, a little like Moody and Beecher, and somewhat like Jonathan Edwards. One side aisle of the church believes in the Catechism, and the other aisle does not. Down the middle aisle they believe in a minister who can fill up the gallery. If you know of any man like this, who has married an unscriptural angel (because feminine), won't you tell the man about our church-particularly if his fatherin-law is wealthy ?-American.

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