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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt:...the boiler is trembling with an ever-expanding force. Answers to Questions Referred in Previous Numbers. "G." will find something in LUlell's Living Age for August, 1872, entitled "Question Day," which may help him to solve the question as to the origin of the preparatory lecture. It will simply help him to trace it. S. T. S. In a former number of the Monthly inquiry was made relative to a work on the Sabbath. A very good little work, written from the First-day standpoint, "The Christian Sabbath,viewed briefly in the Light of Scripture, Chronology, and History, and the claims of Sabbatarians shown to be Untenable," by Bev. D. B. Byers. Price, 75 cents. C. W. A. ILLUSTRATION ABIDING WITH GOD.--The sunshine lies about mo as I sit in my room. 1 need not be continually looking at it to bo conscious of its pivaence. A friend sits there. I need not be continually conversing with him to feel his nearness. So, says Miss Smilley, the Christian can be over conscious of the presence and joy of his Master's presence, though in the midst of engrossing cares. AFFLICTIONS--Ah the musician tightens the strain on his viol strings, yet is careful not to snap them asunder, but only to secure a sweeter melody and better accord, so, says Cawdray, God through affliction makes his own children more perfoct instruments for His service here and in the life to come. BIBLE, how to rend.--When you are Teading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.--McCKeynt. Coleridge finely said: "The Biblowithout the 8pirit is a sundial by moonlight." The Baying is just as true of preachers whose sermons are only niaral essays. They may cast faint shadows on the dial-plate,...