THE ATIONAL PREACHER AND VILLAGE PULPIT. Original-Monthly. FROM LIVING MINISTERS OF THE UNITED STATES. 4136. VOL. V. NEW SERIES ENLARGED. CONDUCTED BY REV. W. H. BIDWELL. New York: CONDUCTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. H. BIDWELL, 5 BEEKMAN ST. 1862. The Dying-Bed. Religion Practical. PAGE. PAGE. The Unexpected Visit. The Happy Island.. The Bible a Compass.. Prayer 186 Terse sentences from Jeremy Taylor 313 315 315 Gently glides the Stream of Time. 189 Not the Sinner, but Satan. Humiliation and Glory of Christ.. 316 216 190" Awake, Thou that Sleepest,' 316 317 216 Youth given to the World. 317 217 Where is Paradise?... 318 The Rebellious Prayer.. Christian Unity.. 219 The Alchemy of Grace. 339 Trials and Cares.. 220 Fulton Street Prayer-Meeting... 221 Have you Glorified God?. 339 340 Beware of Delay. Rev. H. W. Beecher's Experience. 221 Letter from a Pastor. 222 God's Right in us Acknowledged.. 341 341 240 Living to Die.... 342 Fulton Street Prayer-Meeting. 241 The Only Cordial.. 343 A Voice from India.. Power in Prayer. Time's Soliloquy Solemn Appeal to Christians.. A Call to Duty. 242 Make You a New Heart. 343 344 244 Look at the Preacher.. 344 345 246"There is but one Book,' 346 The Harvest Past. 248 Death Ministering to Life. 347 348 250 Small Sins... 348 251 Fulton Street Prayer-Meeting. 349 850 Demand of the Times on the Pulpit 252 Religion in the Army. Prayer. Time Enough Yet," Fulton Street Prayer-Meeting. 253 The Endless Rest. 312 351 352 352 352 375 376 BY REV. SAMUEL T. SPEAR, D.D., PASTOR OF THE SOUTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BROOKLYN, N. Y. "FOR dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."-GEN. 3: 19. "FOR what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."-JAMES 4: 14. MEETING you upon this the first Sabbath of the new year, and yielding to the suggestions of the hour, I have chosen the above Scriptures, as an appropriate basis for our present meditation. The first of these passages you will at once recognize as the language of God, pronouncing the decree of mortality upon our first parents, and through them upon the race. The second is the language of the same God, drawing a picture of the fleeting character of our present life. Both are suited to impress and profit a meditative mind. In each we find a fact which it is not the part of wisdom to ignore or forget. The theme of man as mortal and transient is, I am aware, quite familiar to your thoughts; the Christian pulpit is often reminding you of the truth on this sub |