142 SCRIPTURE READING UNION. and Indweller (Matt. i. 21, 23). If we prize both, we shall proclaim both (Is. xliii. 10; Acts i. 8; Acts v. 32). June 28.-Ch. x. 7, 8. The germ of medical mission work-the double healing of soul and body ever crowned the Master's work. He bids us here, follow in His steps (Luke x. 9; John xiii. 15). Let us help on this Christ-like work. Freely ye have received, freely give." June 29.-Ch. x. 16-31. How precious the minuteness of our Father's care for the bodily needs of His own, "Nothing shall by any means hurt you," is true of the body as the soul, since nothing can touch the redeemed, who are "safe under His feathers," but through Him (Prov. xviii. 10; Zech. ii. 8; Rev. i. 18; Is. xxx. 15). June 30.-Ch. x. 37. Whole-heartedness is precious to Divine love, as to human. This is no hard saying to those who know the sweetness of those words," So have I loved you." His love, strong as death, cannot but awaken the echo, "Jesus only." "I am His " (Mark ix. 8; Cant. ii. 16; Hosea iii. 3). "CHRISTIAN PROGRESS" SCRIPTURE READING UNION. 1. Every MEMBER reads daily the same Chapter of the Old Testament and a short Evening Portion of the New. ASSOCIATES read only the New Testament Portion, any time during the day. 2. Persons of all ages and all denominations may join. All Readers of LIVING WATERS are invited to join this Union, either as Members or Associates, and to ask their friends to do 80. They should send their full names and addresses (stating whether Rev., Esq., Mr., Mrs., or Miss) to the Rev. ERNEST BOYS, Beverley, Sidcup, Kent. One stamp must be enclosed, and a card of Membership will be forwarded. During the past month our increase has been 791 Members and 553 Associates, making our registered total on May 10th to be 52,432 Members, and 22,009 Associates. NEW TESTAMENT NOTES. Some few have written regretting the change and asking for the Old Testament Notes to be given in LIVING WATERS besides those for the New. It is impossible to please all. The double Notes would take too much space; and we are convinced that the change will be best for the Union generally. SUBJECT FOR PRAYER FOR JUNE. For unhappy Ireland, that the wisdom which cometh from above may be asked for by, and given to those who have to legislate for her; and that God would restore peace and harmony to the land. Remember specially all God's people there, many of them in peril, and in ́ sore straits. July 1st commences with Psalm xxix., and August 1st with Psalm 1x. The readings for the intermediate days can easily be calculated at the rate of one chapter a day. NEW TESTAMENT READINGS FOR THREE MONTHS. DAILY TEXTS FOR JUNE. Th God, whose I am, and whom I serve. Acts xxvii. 23.) SU Tu F SU M 13 Tu THOU DIDST WELL THAT IT WAS IN THINE HEART. Bear ye one another's burdens. Gal. vi. 2. Luke xii. 32. On Thee do I wait all the day. Ps. xxv. 5. The Lord will not forsake His people. 1 Sam. xii. 22. The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of man. WATCH AND PRAY. Mark xiii. 33. ... Behold, I lay. a sure foundation. Is. xxviii. 16. Always abounding in the work of the Lord. I Cor. xv. 58 He led them on safely. Ps. lxxviii. 53. Faithful and just to forgive us our sins. I John i. 9. 18 SU FULL WITH THE BLESSING OF THE LORD. Deut. xxxiii. 23. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities. Rom. viii. 26. Our sufficiency is of God. 2 Cor. iii. 5. The Lord shall be thy confidence. Prov. iii. 26. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. Ps. xcii. I. Phil. ii, 13. Job. xxii. 22. GOD WHICH WORKETH IN YOU. 28 W 29 Th 30 Ez. viii. 31. 146 FERSECUTION OF JEWS IN RUSSIA. PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN RUSSIA. BY MRS. FINN. T is, alas! too true that for more than a year past Jews have been persecuted in Russia by professing Christians. And what are we Christians about? What are we doing to wipe out the reproach which rests upon Christianity by reason of the crimes committed by our fellow-Christians against the Children of Abraham, God's ancient people to whom we owe such a deep debt. The notices printed last year in our English newspapers were so short and so few that for a long time people in this country did not understand what was going on. Nearly two hundred towns and villages where Jews lived had been wholly or partially destroyed. Violence of the most terrible kind had been practised upon thousands of defenceless Jews, men, women, and childrenmany had been killed after suffering cruel tortures; many thousands had been rendered homeless by the burning down of their dwellings, and utterly destitute by the pillage and destruction of all their property, furniture, and clothes. It would be too painful and it is, perhaps, unnecessary to give details as to the frightful cruelties perpetrated while all this was going on. At first people here in England refused to believe that the accounts received could be true-refused to believe in the mutilation of innocent children, the ill-treatment of women, and the torturing even to death of people of all ages. It is hard, indeed, to believe in horrors such as these. But gradually it has become known to us that there was no exaggeration, that half-nay, not one hundredth part-has been told nor can ever be told, of the sufferings of the Jews in Russia in 1881. It was only in January of this year, 1882, that we began to hear details of these awful events. Up to that time the Jews in England and on the Continent had been silently exerting themselves to relieve the misery of the half-million of their brethren in Russia who were enduring the rigours of the inolement winter, the extremity of cold, of hunger, and of disease. Great sums of money were thus raised by the Jews, and were * Widow of Her Majesty's late Consul for Jerusalem and Palestine. 4 |