SECULAR CHRISTIANITY.

2. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves. 2 Tim. ii. 25.

3. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. 1 Peter iii. 15.

4. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 5. Blessed are the meek: for they shall Matt. v. 5.

VI. PATIENce.

1 Peter iii. 4.

inherit the earth.

Rom. ii. 7.

1. Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14.
2. Patient continuance in well doing.
3. Patient in tribulation. Rom. xii. 12.
4. Let patience have her perfect work.
VII. CONTENTMENT.

James i. 4.

1. Having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 1 Tim. vi. 8.

2. I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Phil. iv. 11.

3. Without covetousness; be content with such things as ye have. Heb. xiii. 5.

4. Beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Luke xii. 15. VIII. AGAINST ALL EVIL.

Murder, drunkenness, gluttony, adultery, theft, fornication, cruelty, oppression, lying, slandering, calumny, hatred, envy, malice, covetousness, flattery, reviling, railing, cursing, swearing, ambition, anger, deceit, idleness, ingratitude, injustice, pride, revenge, iniquity, wickedness. (To be found under these heads in any Concordance.)

SOCIAL.

I. PHILANTHROPY, OR GOOD WORKS.

1. Follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. 3 John 11.

2. Prepared unto every good work. 2 Tim. ii. 21.

3. Ready to every good work. Titus iii. 1.

4. Careful to maintain good works. Titus iii. 8.

5. Rich in good works. 1 Tim. vi. 8.

6. Fruitful in every good work. Colos. i. 10.

7. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men. Gal. vi. 10.

8. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works. Matt. v. 16.

II. LOVE OR FRIENDSHIP.

1. Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 1 John iii. 18.

SECULAR CHRISTIANITY.

2. See that you love one another with a pure heart fervently. 1 Peter i. 22.

3. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9.

4. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour.

5. Love your enemies. Matt. v. 44.

Rom. xiii. 10.

6. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Matt. xix. 19.

III. PEACE.

1. Live in peace. 2 Cor. xiii. 11.

2. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans xii. 18.

3. Be blameless and harmless. Phil. ii. 15.

4. Blessed are the peacemakers.

Matt. v. 9.

1. Be ye therefore merciful. Luke vi. 36.

2. He that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. Rom. xii. 8. 3. Blesssed are the merciful. Matt. v. 7.

V. FORGIVENESS.

1. Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke vi. 37.

2. Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another. Eph. iv. 32.

3. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any. Col. iii. 13.

VI. KINDNESS.

1. Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted. Eph. iv. 32.

2. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. 1 Peter iv. 9. 3. Be courteous. 1 Peter iii. 8.

1. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. Luke xiv. 13.

2. Visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. James i. 27. 3. Ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good. Mark xiv. 7.

4. Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8.

5. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts xx. €5.

6. To do good and to communicate forget not. Heb. xiii. 16. 7. Charge them that are rich in this world-That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate. 1 Tim. vi. 17, 18.

VIII. FOR ALL GOOD.

1. Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Phil. iv. 8.

2. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. Matt. vii. 12.

1. Let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.-1 Cor vii. 2.

2. Marriage is bonourable in all. Heb. xiii. 4.

3. A man sball leave father and mother, and sball cleave to bis wife and they twain shall be one flesb. Matt. xix. 5.

4. Let no man put asunder. Matt. xix. 6.

II. HUSBANDS.

1. The husband is bead of the wife. Eph. v. 23.

2. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Col. iii. 19.

3. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. Eph. v. 28.

III. WIVES.

1. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. Eph. v. 22. 2. And the wife see that she reverence her busband. Eph. v. 33. 3. That the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house. 1 Tim. v. 14.

4. Teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.-Titus ii. 4, 5.

IV. PARENTS.

1. Parents (ought to lay up) for the children. 2 Cor. xii. 14. 2. If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own bouse, be bath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.-1 Tim. v. 8.

3. Having his children in subjection. 1 Tim. iii. 4.

4. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21.

V. CHILDREN.

1. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise. Eph. vi. 2.

2. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Eph. vi. 1.

V1. SERVANTS.

1. Exbort servants to be obedieot unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; not purloiuing, but shewing all good fidelity. Titus ii. 9, 10.

2. Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters—"ot with eye-service, as men-pleasers-wi.b good will doing service.— Eph. vi. 5, 6, 7.

VII. MASTERS.

1. Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal. Col. iv. 1.; and see James v. 1—4.

POETRY.

CIVIL.

I. OBEYING MAGISTRATES.

1. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Rom. xiii. 1. 2. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is

due.

Rom. xiii. 7.

3. Honour all men.

Honour the king. 1 Peter ii. 17. 4. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates.-Titus iii. 1.

5. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unio governors, as unto them that are sent by bim for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.-1 Peter ii. 13-14. II. LOVE OF Liberty anD ITS ABUSE.

1. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness. 1 Peter ii. 16. And see 2 Peter ii. 17-19. Acts xvi. 35—40. Acis xxi. 39--40. Acts xxiii. 1-3. Acts xxiv. 10-21. Acis xxv. 6-11. Acts xxvi. 24-32,

III. FREE DISCUSSION.

Too long to transcribe here, read Acis iv. 15-21. Acis vi. 7-10. Acts ix. 29. Acts xvii. 16-18. Acis xix. 8-10.

IV. AGAINST IMPOSITION AND HYPOCRISY.

1. Laying aside all malice-and hypocrisies.

1 Peter ii. 1.

2. Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is by pocrisy. Luke xii. 1. And see Mait. xxiii. 27, 28.

V. THE SABBATH; OR, A SEVENTH DAY OF REST.

1. The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. Mark ii. 27.

2. It is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. VI. FREE INQUIRY.

Matt. xii. 12.

1. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess, v. 21. 2. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Rom. xiv. 5.

THE EXCELLENCY OF CHRISTIANITY.

WHAT if we trace the globe around,
And search from Britain to Japan,
There shall be no religion found
So just to God, so safe to Man.

How well thy blessed truths agree!
How wise and holy thy commands!

Thy promises, how firm they be!

How firm our hope and comfort stands!,

Should all the forms that men devise,
Assault my faith with treach'rous art,
I'd call them vanity and lies,

And bind the Gospel to my heart.

ANECDOTES AND SELECTIONS.

Anecdotes and Selections.

THE NEW TACTICS OF INFIDELS.-These men dont like to be called infidels. David Hume did not. But they are infidels let them call themselves by what new names they may. For they are unfaithful to God and to his Word, and not only unfaithful, they always hate and oppose it, whether they call themselves Socialists, Secularists, or Free Inquirers. Now they come and say that Christianity is unfavourable to the interests of man in this life. The texts on the preceding pages were read by the Editor of the Pioneer at a crowded public discussion with an infidel, to prove that Christianity was more favourable than any other system. And the effect produced was surprising. No arguments could have done what those words of God did. Let christians use them; they are ready to hand.

PRAYING AND WORKING.-The same infidel lecturer said that christians prayed to God and expected him to help them when they did nothing; if what we want can be got by praying, men need not work at all. Christians do no such thing. As regards the good things of this life they labour for them, and pray for God's blessing. What they get they use with moderation and thankfulness. But if, when they have done their best, they do not succeed, they are resigned to what appears to them to be the will of God. To pray without working would be presumption, and to work without prayer would be ungodly. Christians avoid both extremes. They do not need the old fable of the “Countryman and Hercules" to teach them how to act.

ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS.-The same man said we ought to attend to what we find as the order of things around us, and not trouble ourselves about their origin. Christians do attend to the order of things around them, and make good use of them too. But why not ask about their origin? Because if we did we should be convinced that they must have been made by an ALMIGHTY GOD. And they call this reasoning and free inquiry. It is no such thing. It is debasing to both our intelligence and our reason. Their conduct reminds us of poor Topsy in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," for they make nature say, when asked about its birth, "Never was born: 'spect I grow'd." They are Topsyites.

AN INFIDEL QUESTION ANSWERED.- "If we are to live after death why have we not some certain knowledge of it? said one of these objectors.

"Why did you not have some knowledge of this world before you came into it?" was the cutting reply.

A LEARNED SCEPTIC, who afterwards became a christian, said, "I reasoned, and debated, and investigated, but I found no peace until I came to Christ as a little child."