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EXETER-HALL SERMONS

FOR THE

WORKING CLASSES.

I.-Hon. and Right Rev. Lord Bishop of CARLISLE: "What saith the Scripture ?"-May 24.

II.-Rev. W. CADMAN, St. George's, Southwark: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin?"-May 31.

III.-Rev. CAPEL MOLYNEUX, Lock Chapel, Paddington: "What think ye of Christ ?"-June 7.

IV. Rev. Dr. MILLER, Canon of Worcester:

"How can these things be?"---June, 14.

V.-Rev. J. C. RYLE:

"What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"-June 21. VI.-Very Rev. the Dean of CANTERBURY:

"Why will ye die ?"---June 28.

VII.-Rev. R. BURGESS, Prebendary of St. Paul's: "What must I do to be saved?"---July 5.

VIII.-Rev. Dr. McNEILE, Canon of Chester : "Who then can be saved ?"---July 12.

IX.-Very Rev. the Dean of CARLISLE:

"Understandest thou what thou readest ?"---July 19.

X.-Rev. HUGH STOWELL, Canon of Chester:
"How long halt ye between two opinions ?"---July 2€.
XI.-Rev. W. W. CHAMPNEYS. Canon of St. Paul's:
"How are the dead raised up?"---August 2.

XII.-Right Rev. Lord Bishop of RIPON:

"How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation ?"--August 9.
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HINTS TO MOTHERS AND TEACHERS. UNDER the head of the mother's duty, we shall endeavour to express what we have to say as briefly as possible, in the form of a few plain, practical hints.

Be loving. This is the sceptre of your power: if this is broken, your empire over their hearts is at an end. And then, remember that though you may truly love your children, you may often fail to show your love; and thus, by apparent, though not real unkindness, sadly chill the young affections of your child. Love, to be winning and endearing, must be felt; and there are some mothers who, by a rude and harsh exterior, . sadly mar the influence of a kind and faithful heart.

Be firm. Never let your love degenerate into indulgence. As you deny yourself in everything else for its sake, learn also to deny your own feelings, when faithfulness and the true welfare of your child demand the sacrifice. Let your love be tempered with decision, your decision sweetened by love. Be tender and gentle at all times, yet calm and steadfast to your purpose in everything that concerns their real good.

Be hopeful and aim high. Who knows what rich success the Lord may be pleased to vouchsafe to your loving and faithful endeavours? He promises you your wages, and who can tell what rich guerdon that may be? That quick, precocious boy, or girl, that now so greedily drinks in the rudiments of knowledge, and whose keen, bright eye and open brow bespeak the ardent spirit within-who can tell what he or she may yet be, what a burning and shining light in the church of God? Such things have been, and such things will be again. Even so it may be with you. Or should it

be otherwise-should an humbler and quieter lot be assigned to the child of your womb, at least he may be a saint of God, a faithful disciple of the Lord Jesus, a light of the world on earth, a star in the firmament in heaven; and whether he shall be that or no depends, more than on any other influence, under God, on his mother.

Be cheerful, and make all happy around you. Mix religion with everything, and let it be a happy religion. Let it be a calm, bright, sunny, loving piety-hallowing all, sweetening all, endearing all. Let your children learn to associate religion with whatever is truest and most blessed in life, and with everything that is dearest and most precious in their mother with her calm smile, her gentle voice, her cheerful, happy step-with quiet Sabbath days, and sweet Bible texts, and holy hymns and prayers first learned upon her knees. So shall the family on earth be a lively image, and it may be also, through divine grace, an earnest and foretaste of the eternal family in heaven.

And, finally, continue your efforts perseveringly to the last. Never despair of the grace of God. So long as the day of grace lasts, and your child is still in the land of the living, work on perseveringly, hopefully. The prodigal may wander long, yet be brought home at last. The spring may be chill and backward, yet a glorious harvest may come after all. "In the morning," then, "sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not

thy hand, for thou knowest not which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be alike good." Let your efforts for their salvation begin with their birth, and terminate only with their death. When they are infants on the breast, give them again and again to Jesus. When they are boys and girls, train them up for him. When they go out into the world, still follow them with your counsels and your prayers. Crowd the audience-chamber above with your petitions and your arguments. Cling to his feet like her of old who pled for her afflicted daughter, and take no denial. Then, though for a time He may seem to spurn you from his feet, to you too may the gracious answer come at last:"O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt."-Rev. Islay Burns in "Sanctity of Home."

HAST THOU FAITH?

Extracted, with additions, from, "Are you forgiven?"
BY THE REV. J. C. RYLE, B.A.,

Rector of Helmingham, Suffolk.

READER,-The question before your eyes is one of vast importance. Pardon or no pardon,-forgiveness or no forgiveness, peace with God or no peace-all hinges on this one point, "Hast thou Faith?"