The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the YoungVarious
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The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the Young
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She afterwards became established in the truth, was joined to Mr.
Brewer's Church, died in the Lord some years since, and was interred in
the adjoining burying-ground.
AN EVENING AT THE WEST END.
On Monday evening, April 23rd, 1888, we were present at the
twenty-second Annual Meeting of Gower Street Chapel Sunday School, and,
although the weather was most unfavourable, the attendance was good,
which must have been very encouraging to Mr. Cooper, the Superintendent,
and the teachers. The meeting was presided over by the senior deacon,
Mr. Link.
The proceedings were opened by singing, and the Chairman read the fourth
chapter of Malachi, after which Mr. Gray engaged in prayer.
Mr. Link, in the course of a few weighty remarks, said that they were
gathered to thank the Lord for His goodness. He felt that the children
were surrounded with many temptations to ensnare them. He spoke of the
shortness of time, and the solemnity of the day of judgment, and said
that he often meditated upon these things, and thought about the Lord's
servants and people, whom he had loved because they were the Lord's, and
whom he hoped to meet again when he had done with time things.
The report for the past year was then read by Mr. Hale, the Secretary,
from which it appears that there are 222 scholars on the books, which is
a slight decrease during the year. The library numbers about 1,030
books. The report of the Sick and Benevolent Society was also read.
Mr. Boorne, of Greenwich, in addressing the teachers, referred to the
works, Word, and worship of God. He said that the grass, moss, plants,
trees, flowers, and fruits showed the sovereignty of God. Then there
were the various animals for the use and food of mankind, and the
internal treasures--metals, oxides, salts, &c. God's wise provision of
the sea for cleansing and purifying the earth--all declared the
sovereignty, wisdom, power, and goodness of God.
"Great God, with wonder and with praise,
On all Thy works I look;
But still Thy wisdom, power, and grace
Shine brightest in Thy Book."
He then spoke of the Book of _revelation_, the Bible, and the need that
the scholars should be taught the value of it, and what it has cost to
procure it to us--what a privilege it is to be able to read it, and of
the mercy of understanding it.
He mentioned an instance of a Bible, consisting of nine volumes, being
sold for £33 6s. 8d., in the thirteenth century, which would represent
about fifteen times that sum now. To-day a Bible might be bought for a
few pence.
He referred to the rigid laws of the time of Henry V., to prevent any
from reading the Bible in the mother tongue; yet still the Book lives.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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