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THE CHILD-HEROINE OF NEW BRUNSWICK. We have read a touching incident about three little children, who, last autumn, late in the season, wandered alone in a dreary region of New Brunswick. The sun had already sunk in the west, and the gloom of evening was spreading itself over the surrounding country. The night came onContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

INTRODUCTION. True prayer is the language of an earnest soul breathing after God, and a knowledge of his will. The praying spirit is a search for the presence of God, and a continued craving for a conscious blessing from Him. “ Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication.”Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

PREFATORY NOTE. It is needless to say much by way of preface to this book. It will speak for itself. From the writer’s stand-point, none but those “given over to hardness of heart” can read these “Touching Incidents” without having their souls wondrously stirred within them; and none but the willfully unbelieving can say, inContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to PrayerShaw, S. B.”

When Israel knew not where to go,God made the fiery pillar glow;By night, by day, above the campIt led the way – their guiding lamp;Such is Thy Holy Word to meIn day of dark perplexity.When devious paths before me spread,And all invite my foot to treadI hear Thy voice behind me say –“Believing soul, thisContinue reading ““THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.””

Dark was the night, the wind was high,The way by mortals never trod;For God had made the channel dry,When faithful Moses stretched the rod. The raging waves on either handStood like a massy tott’ring wall,And on the heaven-defended bandRefused to let the waters fall. With anxious footsteps, Israel trodThe depths of that mysterious way;Cheered byContinue reading “Robert Murray M’Cheyne “THEY SING THE SONG OF MOSES””