And yet, my darling child, the night, With starless depths, may come, and day, The sunniest e’en, hath gloomy hours; What then will cheer the darkened way? Lo here! where deepest shade appals, The Saviour’s constant footstep falls. Seek thou, my child, the record oft, When faint thy weary heart, and dim With tears thine eye; our varied life Revealed in his appears; from him A light doth pierce the shadows through, Which fall on heaven’s long avenue. * * * * * THE RECREANT MISSIONARY, JUDAS ISCARIOT: “Who also betrayed Him.” BY CAROLINE C——. Thus always, the last mentioned among the holy Apostles, and with the brand of shame attached to his name, is Judas Iscariot, the traitor, brought before us. And inasmuch as from the lives of them, who in all circumstances continued faithful to their Lord, lessons of the highest benefit may be drawn by the teachable mind, I am constrained to think there comes to us a lesson and a warning we may not lightly heed, from him who “by transgression fell.” He, too, when the Voice was heard crying in the wilderness gave willing heed; he, too, amid the eager crowd was seen listening anxiously to the inspired word of John the Baptist; he, too, when the meek Saviour came, attended on His preaching, and his heart was stirred by the words of entreaty and condemnation that he heard. He, too, would fain believe, and be forgiven, and be numbered among the disciples of the new king.