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with the rank growths of warldly anxiety, wearing ont heart and brain in that hot pursuit of superfluities which is misnamed struggle for existence—what is the good of being a Christian if auch be in any considerablə degree the temper of one's life? In such a frame of mind we only absoure the light, instead of pass- ing it on. We make oursölves whollynafit totronsanit the world- winning summons "Come unte me and I will give you rest; iny yoke is easy." Maimon's burden is heavy, God wet, and too many go on hearing it, "uot accepting their deliverance" in Christ. There is an old prayer which Banyan said in his time | had gone rusty for want of use:--"Give

me not riches",

That was long ago, and 1 am afraid the rust is on it still. The ordinary habit and effort of: mankind keeps up a constant friction on this matter against the counsels of the sages, the precepts of the gospel, and the child instinct by which we call un God as Father. On the other hand, there are, happily, certain practical correctives, such as ihe moth.

the rust. and

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The unforeseeable event should that it amounts to is that one of The two objections worth cou- leave you almost bire, as might the hours most of us spend asleep sideration are the effect of the happen any day to any of you-after sunrise is spent awake change on the shipping com- well, would your citadel have before sunset if the Customs manity and the Chiness. baan stormed?

clock is pushed an hour forward mercantile marine captain writing Better the worm in your stuff next Monday week-which is the to-day covers the first-ships are than the canker in your heart; proposal before us. It has been too well practised in changing better rust on your riches than said that an hour's sleep before time to be confused by what is corrosion in your character. These midnight is worth two heure an innovation only to us. seem to be pretty much the altern-after-if that really is so we Chinese Reem to cause doubt in atives in life as we see it, and gain an hour under the new some minds." Ten miles from whoever would eater the Kingdom scheme.

Shanghai, or any other large city in China, one of the most difficult

The

of Heaven may thank God for First a great deal too much has every agency which works to beer said about the extra time it problems is: what is the right enforce upon our blindness will give for sports and pastimes. time? "Sun time is working and reluctance the

simple A correspondent in yesterday's time" sums up the great mass of bat slowly larut trath that paper even went so far as to any Chinese; the others in Shang- * mau's life consists not that the only argument was that hai adapt their time to the in the abundance of the things the theatre-goer would get to bed foreigner. which he possesses, and that a an hour earlier, ignoring the Toanyone who has experienced Christian's inheritance is one rather obvious fact that theatres the same scheme when it was put which is incorruptible and no are at a discount during the into effect in England, and the defiled and which fadeth not summer, and that rather than writer has, there is no question as away. These things are so, and being an advantage to the to its simplicity and value.

It

we know in our hearts that they theatre-goer, it would be a dawlad to stand the same kind of are so. "Yet we go on repeating back-for the later the hour the opposition that is directed against the daily fallacy that we cooler it is.

it here, practically all from theo- should know how much a man

we may

not be bam- into thinking that o'clock." In

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ia "worth" if we could see his The scheme suggested, patrists who claimed that "the bank account, and that is much brielly, is exactly the same as country could inore than just the popular when the ship's clock is altered boozled misuse of a word, for it reveals at sea. Everyone sets his ora 8 o'clock was the sordid misreading of life watch to the changed time, which England there was some excase which has made civilisation, so generally changed at night, for those who anticipated dire far, such a startling failure.and in the course of an hour or confusion-they hard never been Whatever

think two the incident is forgotten. In to sea and had never realised MICARONI, about such matters, there is no Shanghai the Customs and other that the clock and not the sun doubt at all what

|clocks will be changed, we shall is the arbiter of our time. Jesus Chris: thinks about them, and it correct our private clocks to agres, The question may come for- will never be well with the world and shall have forgotten the ward at to-day's British Chamber autil the men cease deriding and incident before we cease work in of Commerce meeting. If it denying in their practice, the the afternoon. This needs to be does, it is be hoped that con- truth to which perhaps they do emphasised, as the opinion has servatism will not stand in the lip homage. When great losses prevailed in certain cases that the way of saving an hour's daylight of means overtake Christian men clocks of Shanghai would be during our waking hours, in: their regrets are not so much for keeping different times. Such is stead of wasting it asleep. the loss itself as for having not the case. Those who remem

failed

to use wealth better,

when they had it.

ber the putting forward or back- "What ward of the ship's clock may also

remember how quickly the lost

I gave 1 have" said a wise man, What you put out to use or gained hour was forgotten.

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