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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Add to the joy while it remains,
For on in riper years
Those eyes, now beaming with delight,
May be suffused with tears.
When on the ocean's stormy deep
The voyagers are tossed,
And seem, in that one stormy hour,
To think all hope is lost--
If they secure the haven reach,
And lose their fears and cares,
While they rejoice their homes to gain,
Mingle thy joy with theirs.
And is thy neighbour mourning now
The loss of kindred dear?
Then give thy sympathy, and drop
Upon the grave a tear.
Or knowest thou an orphan, left
To tread this world alone?
Speak words of comfort, lend thine aid,
Or take the wanderer home.
Tell of the loveliness and bloom
Of Nature to the blind;
Tell of the joys of heaven, and thus
Shed light upon the mind.
Then sympathize with every one,
And the commandment keep--
"Rejoice with them that do rejoice,
And weep with them that weep."
M. E. C.
FORWARD INTO LIGHT AND LIBERTY.
"JESUS ONLY."
When Father Chiniquy reached his much-loved people, after he had left
the Church of Rome, it was on a Sabbath morning, and they were assembled
for worship. The bishop had telegraphed to them to turn away their
priest, but when they saw him, they received him joyfully, and crowded
round him to know what the bishop had really said. Entering the chapel,
he told his large congregation how and why he was a priest no longer,
assuring them that he would leave them, but not until they bade him
depart. All were deeply affected, but no one spoke, and when he again
appealed to them to bravely rise and tell him to go away, he saw their
countenances beam with love and joy more eloquent than words; and when
he offered to remain with them--the free Christian minister of a
Christian people, united by the love of God and His Word--they all arose
in token of their approval, and a thousand people left the Church of
Rome on that eventful day. And still the movement spread, till nearly
all who had loved and followed him as he had gradually taught them the
truths of the Gospel, followed him seeking the full light and liberty of
God's Word, leading him, and all who heard of it, to exclaim, "This is
the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes."
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