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THE EVERLASTING MEMORIAL.

Up and away! like the dew of the morning
Soaring from earth to its home in the sun,
So let me steal away, gently and lovingly,

Only remembered by what I have done.

My name, and my place, and my tomb, all forgotten,
The brief race of time well and patiently run,

So let me pass away, peacefully, silently,

Only remembered by what I have done.

Gladly away from this toil would I hasten,

Up to the crown that for me has been won,Unthought of by man in rewards or in praises, Only remembered by what I have done.

Up and away! like the odours of sunset

That sweeten the twilight as darkness comes on,

So be my life, a thing felt but not noticed,

And I but remembered by what I have done.

Yes; like the fragrance that wanders in freshness

When the flowers that it came from are closed up and gone, So would I be to this world's weary dwellers,— Only remembered by what I have done.

Needs there the praise of the love-written record,
The name and the epitaph graved on the stone?
The things we have lived for let them be our story,
We but remembered by what we have done.

I need not be missed; if my life has been bearing
(As its summer and autumn moved silently on)
The bloom, and the fruit, and the seed of its season,
I shall still be remembered by what I have done.

I need not be missed; if another succeed me

To reap down those fields which in spring I have sown, He who ploughed and who sowed is not missed by the reaper,He is only remembered by what he has done.

Not myself, but the truth that in life have spoken,-
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown,-
Shall pass on to ages-all about me forgotten

Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done.

So let my living be, so be my dying,

So let my name be unblazoned, unknown,Unpraised and unmissed, I shall yet be rememberedYes, but remembered by what I have done.

REV. HORATIUS BONAR, D.D.

PART I.

USEFUL CHRISTIANS IN HUMBLE LIFE.

RELIGION AND LABOUR.

"We are labourers together with God."--1 COR. iii. 9.

"Let not ambition mock their useful toil,

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor."

GRAY'S ELEGY

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RELIGION AND LABOUR.

"The Lord working with them.”—MARK xvi. 20.

MAN was intended to be a labourer. The law of labour was revealed ere ever it was necessary to toil for bread. Even in innocence it was a duty to work. It was necessary to the proper cultivation of human powers, physical, intellectual, and moral. It was a beneficent arrangement of God. Much more is it incumbent on the race now. Ever since sin entered into the world, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" is the divine rule. Throughout all this dispensation that law shall remain. Industry is made essential to life. But it is not a mean thing to labour with the hand. There is a dignity in every duty, and especially in this. Since the CARPENTER of Nazareth toiled at his bench and made tools for Galilean peasants, labour has had a dignity, and artisans an elevation, and workshops a consecration. After this, the lantern-making of King Eropus, the shipbuilding of the Czar Peter, or the watch-making of the Emperor Charles V., could do little to exalt it. It is in every respect an honourable calling, and each man by attending to his work does one part of his duty to God and to his brother. It is a precept of the New Testament, "that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands." It is essential to well-doing, to family maintenance and comfort. It should, therefore, be practised in a right spirit and with a single eye. Re

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