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Ia God a poreon"? Has he location" "Is he imrosent in the world"? Yet we are not satisfied with the replies that come to us. They booked away beyond space, and saw the Intalte enthroned in glory and clothed
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he roves his soul to praise him, "Bloss the Lord, U my anal" Then he looks farther afield, and seas that God's mercy has been vouchsafed to his nation, and this tou calls forth gratitude. Hia nation is & part of himself. But the mind is not hommed in by earth. Ho looks beyond, and scos the worlds hidden from niortal eye and, addressing their inhabitants, ho exclains Bless the Lord pe his angels, that excel in strength." But the grand ent thought of all is that the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to ever TELEPHONES 358 and 38 K. lasting."
This is really the burden of the sim, and to make this the more emphatic ho dwells upon the trassitay character of human life. So the text suggests first the failty of buman life. We are formed out of the dust, as the writer of Genesis states, Beautiful things are made from dust and from the "clay of the valley." The Chiacse have made vases that have fetched their worth in gold. Some, made by Western artists, are very baautiful but very fragile. A blow, a fall, and all the work is undone, and they are valusless. So does this suggest the frailty of our bist. human life. We are beautiful
But a blow, fall, a breath of minsa, a
HEAT BY
short period of extreme hardship, and our Electric Kettles beauty is gone, and we are wrecks. The
text suggests the brevity of human life.
As for man his days are as grass. As the Electric Radiators
flower of the field su he lourisheth, for tho
wind passeth over och it
and the thereof knoweth no more." No motaphor could be more simple or As the Hovor of the more effective,
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the great historian, was talking to a friend
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preacher know HANDSOME ELECTRIC FITTINGS, FANCY SHADES.
A young minister when he left England last time, who was eloquent, and full of fire for the cause to had espoused, à few months ago the papers brought nows that he was geno. Lately the Church papers had been full of the life and death of one of the Ex-Presidenta, Thomas Cullagh. He lived to the age of 86. Yet even that acemed bat a day, when it is passed, or when we compare it with the Everlast- ing life of the Eternal." So teach us to number our days that we may apply our beirts to wisdom. The text tells us that God's marey is everlasting. This is the thought the Psalmist wished to accen- tuste. It is one of abounding comfort in
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is the thought that the Psalm illust rates. But it should be remembered, that this merry is towards them that fear him,"
The congregation stood there that evening, and cold testify to God's merey None of the members of the Church had been taken away, during the year. Nay, it was possible for most of those present to càntire their thoughts on a adore restricted circle still. Most of them as families could my the santé thing Therefore it was right that they too should bless the Lord. But there was another hought I was easy to review the past year, and it would be natural to be unbappy We contemplated our many failures. Geda moray is ever asting.
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THE
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