Humanity's Emblem... William Landels, D.D. Consummate Happiness.....Andrew R. Bonar, D.D. . Rev. U. R. Thomas. The Death of a Great Man.. Rev. Thomas J. Cole. The Grave's Conqueror. .Thomas Guthrie, D.]).. Thoughts on the last Battle, Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. The Ripe Christian Dying... Rev. C. II. Spurgeon. The Unavoidable Journey... Rev. John H. Macdonna.. The Aged Believer in Death, David Thomas, D.D.. Death and the Resurrection, Rev. Canon Hugh Stowell. The Warfare and Victory... Rev. George Clayton.. Hope for the Sleeping Dead, William Landels, D.D.. Thomas Guthrie, D.D.. MEMORIAL TRIBUTES. CHILDHOOD. GOD'S LOVE OF LITTLE CHILDREN. REV. T. GASQUOINE. It is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.-MATT. xviii: 14. GOD loves little children with tenderest, deepest, sweetest love. I. It is a love of utter unselfishness. It springs out of the eternal fountains of loving-kindness. They cannot know him, trust him or love him in return. II. God's love of little children is the love of delight in them. His delights are with the very youngest of them. He rejoices in the life of little children. III. His love is a love of compassion towards them. If all the promises show his care for the weak and the helpless and those exposed to danger, that care must be as sensitively towards little children. When Christ was upon the earth, his ways with children were full of tenderness. When his disciples were disputing who should be greatest, he took a child and set him in the midst. When his disciples would drive away mothers with their children, he took them in His arms and blessed them. The very providences of God which begird the lives of children show his tender compassion toward them. IV. God's love is the love of trust in the almost infinite capacities of children. That slightly knowing, fully trusting, fitfully loving little child is to become the intelligent companion of angels and adoring sprits before the throne of God. Surely it is not the will of your father, &c." A MOTHER'S SORROW. REV. A. S. ROBERTSON. Rachel weeping for her children. -MATT. ii: 18. THIS mother had been dead for centuries; but such a dreadful slaughter had been made of the children around her grave that she is represented as moved to tears in her tomb and is comfortless in her sorrow. Sin always causes tears, but the consideration of what Christ has done should always bring comfort. "They died for Adam sinned. They live for Jesus died." CONSIDER: I. The immediate cause of their being cut off-Christ's Incarnation-Matt. ii: 1-16. II. The only cause of their salvation-Redemption by Christ. Rev. xiv: 4. III. They were first fruits to God and the lamb-not John Baptist, nor Stephen-but the babes of Bethlehem. Rev. xiv: 4. IV. These are now lambs of the upper fold. In their mouth was no guilt. They were only babes two years and under-God's celestial family is increased by Herod's self-defeating massacre. If they were counted worthy to suffer shame for Jesus' name, they surely inherit the first fruit of the promised blessedness. V. We should keep these babes in remembrance. If the woman who poured ointment on Jesus' head has her memorial, surely babes whose lives were first sacrificed for Christ should not be forgotten. VI. How encouraging the thought, that none shall be forgotten, or be unrewarded by God who suffer for Christ, and how anxious should we be, to become as little. children. VII. How comforting to the bereaved are these truths. Weeping parents should rejoice that their children are without fault before the throne. In the innermost ranks. "Now, are they holy." VIII. Regard them as "first fruits" of a glorious harvest. He who took children in his arms on carth, takes them still into his heavenly keeping for eternal blessing-now jewels on his bosom. This is the comfort. IX. He is willing to take every penitent and present him faultless," where all shall be one family in Him. There shall be no sorrow there. SOME REASONS FOR REMOVAL. REV. VARNUM LINCOLN. I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.-2 SAM. xii: 23. WHY HY take away the little one in the freshness of early dawn, leaving the home desolate, the heart sad, and the sweetest hopes forever withered? We may not be able fully to answer; but there are considerations |