“All Power is given unto Me in Heaven The Streams, 472 Correspondence, The, of Leaven. What is meant by Leavening the Alloa Society and Portrait of Sweden- "Pray ye that your Flight be not in America, 547 The Last Words of David, 49 Apocalypse Revealed, 489 “ Thou hast the dew of thy Youth,” 369 Atonement, 184 Why Seek Ye the Living among the Auxiliary New Church Missionary and Birmingham, 90, 188, 237, 281, 352, Cares of the World, The, 392 454, 498, 550, 597 Correspondences of the Bible - The Blackburn, 454 Critical Examination, A, of the “Science Bourné, 353 of Correspondence” or System of Bib. Bradford, 44, 281 lical Interpretation Promulgated by Brisbane, 186, 399 British and Foreign Bible Society, 277 Daily Reading of the Sacred Scriptures, Bristol, 44, 91, 354 Delusions and Errors of Sweden Ruilen trocities, 494 Hell and Heaven, 84 Cares of the World, 490, 541 Changes in Religious Opinion, 183 Jesus in the Midst, 36 Children's Services, 278 Observations on Mr. Gladstone's Pam- Christian Union, 182 Church of the Future, 492 Conference Meetings, 447 Congregational Ministrý, 233 Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy Congregational Union, 541 Consolation to the Bereaved, 231 Religion and Science, 179, 226 Derby, 139 Documents concerning Swedenborg, 38 Swedenborg, Emanuel, 345 Edinburgh, 139 - The Four Primary Doctrines, 347 General Convention, 398 Tremadoc Sermons, 345 Good Friday and Easter Monday at Kensington, 286 Giles, Rev. Chauncey, 278 Grimsby, 234 Handbill Tracts, 451 the late Rev. James Keene, 152 Heywood, 188, 282 Hull, 239, 551 Inauguration of the W. Bruce, 391 Italian Mission, 450 Italy, 137 Jersey, 139 Progress of the Doctrines of the New Lincolnshire New Church Association, Religion and Morality, 397 Liverpool, 46, 91, 190, 286, 354, 499, Rendell, Rev. E. D., Testimonial to, 186 London-Argyle Square, 46, 92, 140, Religious Intolerance, 185 London-Buttesland Street, 92, 354 Rev. Chauncey Giles, 278 Rev. E. D. Rendell, 40 London-Camden Road, 47, 141, 404, Revivalism, 37, 136, 232 London-Devonshire Street, 142 Roman Catholicism, 86 Scandinavian Mission, 88, 235 London—Palace Gardens, 99, 286, 404 Scotland, 42, 497 Scotland-Annual Meeting of the Scot- Longton, 500 tish Association of the New Church, 595 Manchester and Salford Missionary Sexton, Dr., 355, 592 Manchester and Salford New Church Smith, Mr. G. H., Ordination of, 545 Printing and Tract Society, 280 Snodland, 553 Middlesborough, 500 Spiritism, 492 Spiritualism and the New Church, 350 Ministers of the New Church, Portraits Stockport, 191 Students' and Ministers' Aid Fund, Missionary Operations in Yorkshire, 41 Sunday-school Union, 236, 401 National Missionary Institution, 234, Sustentation Fund, 446, 494 Nature's Revelations of Character, 136 Sweden, 452 New Church College, 137, 545 Swedenborg and the New Church, The New Church in Denmark and Sweden, Westminster Review on, 592 Swedenborg Society, 87, 187, 279, 495, New Church Literature, 397, 489 New Church Works, Presentations of, Swedenborg's House, Purchase of, 136 Swedenborg's Psychology, 134, 181 Swedenborg's Visions of other Worlds, Opinions of Literary Men respecting Tafel, Rev. Dr., 594 Ordination of Mr. G. H. Smith, 545 Te Deum, 39 Testimonial to Rev. E. D. Rendell, Père Hyacinthe and Swedenborg, 493 186, 279 Ultramontanism, 87 Portraits of the Ministers of the New United Prayer Meetings, 542 Presentations of New Church Works, Wesley and Swedenborg, 592 Professed Holiness, 136 Yorkshire Missionary and Colportage Births. Obituaries Mrs. Alfred Braby, 191 Mrs. John Batey, 288 Mr. John Berry, 408 Mrs. William Spear, 191 Mrs. Gibson, 240 Mr. Francis Morrish Eyles to Miss Mrs. Hannah Lynn, 144 Mr. Arthur C. Gee to Miss Evelina Mr. William Mawson, 504 Mr. Joseph Hartley to Miss Emily Mr. George Bent Ollivant, 191 Mr. Robert Angus Jackson to Miss Mr. William Burns Pilkington, 556 Mr. John Johnson to Miss Elizabeth Mrs. Thos. Presland, 192 Mrs. John Purnell, 48 Mr. F. Skelton, 406 Mr. William Henry leake to Miss Mary Mrs. Dinah Tomlinson, 144 can go this “ “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” -PSALM xc. 12. Knowing the frailty of our mortal tenement of the flesh, and knowing too that under the most favourable circumstances of health our sojourn must be brief in this lower world, it is extremely natural for us to count the passing years, to regard with peculiar feelings the end of one and the commencement of another year; and, with mingled regret and hope, with alternating depression and elatedness, literally to “number our days." We feel that we have a journey to go, that life is a way, and that we are wayfarers. We know that we way ” but once, and that we can not return a single step. The passing years are therefore like measured road-marks—they remind us of the retreating period of cradled infancy, and of the apparently more rapid oncoming of decrepid age and final dissolution. Yet there are comparatively few who reach the threescore years and ten which the Psalmist declares to be the days of the years of the life of man, or the fourscore which, while they indicate strength, are yet labour and sorrow. In the great majority of cases the allotted span of existence is very brief indeed, and in the comparatively rarer cases in which what is called “a good old age” is arrived at—what are 70, 80, and even 100 years in the march of time, in the progression of events which are measured by the never-ceasing alternations of day and night, and the natural seasons ? The gulf of the past, the illimitable futurewhat is man, or even whole generations of men, in comparison with these? If we look back, we know that countless millions of human A beings have hurried through a brief career and passed away from the stage of natural life. If we venture to look into the future, we are equally certain of the brevity of what is called the term of life; we can have no reasonable doubt that myriads will come and go as they have come and gone-some taken away in infancy, like the scarcelyformed buds of the sweet flowers, which expectant love watches over, some in early youth, when the mental powers and the heart's dispositions are gradually unfolding themselves and giving some indications of the future man, some in primer life, when the fruits of manhood -of manly aims and energies—are given forth and wear the impress of the internal or angelic quality of life. But it is not in early youth that the mind occupies itself in any serious reflection either on the brevity or the issues of life. In childhood and early youth the thoughts, affections, and purposes centre in the present, the past awakens no painful reflection, the future awakens no anxiety and thoughtful apprehension. Whatever be the pleasures or the pains of early life, they belong to the now. Even the "yesterday" and the “morrow" of childhood's thought are nothing but as they concern the now. For this reason, too, the impressions of joy and sorrow are equally fleeting-sweet joys and laughing delights they have, but then the memory of them is evanescent, they too have their little sorrows, crosses, vexations and tearful troubles, but they are soon forgotten. And very beautiful is the fact that it is sothere is time enough for deep reflection when the various mental faculties are matured, and the mind is free to determine and to act. There is time enough for earnest reflection, for thoughtful retrospection and grave anticipation, when the mind has realized the fact that life is full of responsibility, and that every day has its allotted duty. Then it is that we begin in the most literal sense to “number our days.” The poet Young has said, “We take no note of time but by its loss,” and it is only in more mature age that we even think of the loss of time. Then it is that we begin to count the days as they pass, apparently with more haste than before, and to regret that another day has been added to the number. Then it is that we contrast the span of days which we have measured with the vague uncertainty of the days we may be permitted to count. We contemplate our nearness to the grave by the lengthening track which memory traces behind us. To the thoughtful and reflective there are many circumstances which occur in their daily experience that, like silent monitors, remind them that this is but a transitory existencethat this world is not the final home of man, and that nothing is more |