... to specify with any prominence the evangelistic labours to which the love of Christ has since impelled me • this book will speak not so much of what has been done as of what still remains to be performed before the gospel can be said to be preached to ...

... eight days, where her arrival and marvellous escape excited considerable sensation. The officers in command of the troops speak in the highest terms of the conduct of Captain Castle during the trying occasion. By the latest arrivals the head-quirters ...

... out before the end of the world, and most effectually relieve us from the smoke nuisance. The latest accounts from Naples speak of the recent earthquakes there being more fatal even than was first reported. The Times correspondent says that he has heard ...

... raair nat’ral to me, and ’ll may be find its way readier to the hearts o’ many o’ your readers who are accustomed every day to speak it, and who, I hope, often tak’ delight in readin’t, no as it’s shamefully carikatured and murdered ower mony o’ oor modern ...

... will suffer weel’s the men. Some o’ oor Commishuners seem to be awfu’ fond o’ secret doin’s in Committee, frae the way they speak against open discushun. They wad fain hae the publick meetin’s mere sham,seemin’ly ; but for a’ that, naething but good can ...

... misfortune to be acquainted with him all my life. I have been in debt from the age of thirteen. (A laugh.) Mind, I am not speaking in joke. I make no boast of it—believe me, it is a very serious matter. I hope, however, now, that I shall soon bid a long ...

... enquiry I was informed that he was dismissed from L bleaching field. Do you know the reason why he was dismissed ? —I am only speaking from hearsay.” The first thing which will strike an impartial reader of the above is that the questions put, and the answers ...

... ” &c. It was the Scottish pipes, indeed ; The booming drone, the thrilling reed ; Now loud and harsh, then soft and low, Speaking plainly to friend and foe, The Campbells are coming,” &c. So Lucknow was relieved at last; And the bitterness of death seem’d ...

... that naebody that bocht it cou’d say, wi’ ony face that they had paid ower dear for their whustle.’» Tho’ I diuna like to speak aboot mysel’, I rnaun confess that I was wee bit surprised when I saw Sandy figurin’ sae bauldly in the editor’s columns, and ...

... amount of the accommodation we had from that firm was £lBl4. We had also transactions with James Duncan, Dundee, generally speaking for goods sold, hut he also accepted to a limited amount for our accommodation. The amount of our accommodation from him ...

... EVILS PROCRASTINATION. I was a time thinkin’ o’t, An unco time in thinkin o't, But Jeannie was sae sweet and fair, I couklna speak for thinkin’ o’t. For if, thought I unto mysel’, My Jeannie shouldna like the thought, And ’gainst a* wiles and smiles, rebel— ...

... of this being his first appearance before an audience of his fellow-townsmen, and his being called on quite unexpectedly to speak proceeded briefly to state the position of the Total Abstinence cause in relat.on to society and religion ; and how this cause ...