October 15

Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?—Luke 24:32.

DO I prize as I ought the privilege of searching the sacred Scriptures, and of communing with Christian friends as to the great truths and duties they make known? Is not such communion, communion with Christ himself, though we see him not with the bodily eye? What is better fitted to kindle the feelings, and warm the heart and animate the life? In such communion, does not Christ, as of old, often reveal himself to his people?

Be much with Christ, and your face will shine, and all will see that you are his.—BRAMWELL.

Religious instruction, religious conversation, religious communion—do they not always increase religious knowledge, and quicken religious feeling, and lead to religious activity, and bring Christ near to the soul? How should we prize every opportunity for them, and improve them to the utmost.

We'll talk of all he said and did,

And suffered for us here below,

The path he marked for us to tread,

And what he's doing for us now.

Thus, as the moments pass away,

We'll love, and wonder, and adore,

And hasten on the glorious day,

When we shall meet to part no more.

—J. NEWTON.