egin!"

What do you call that sweet noise? Music? And what is that but another
of these stones we can see, which tell of others we see not as yet. Dr.
Watts said of sacred music--

"Thus, Lord, while we remember Thee,
We, blest and pious grow;
By hymns of praise we learn to be
Triumphant here below."

While I hear those children's voices I seem to catch the sweeter strains
of my children in heaven, singing their joy. Those deep, manly bass
voices remind me of the psalms up yonder--like the sound of many waters.
Why, the very crape some of you wear reminds me of some who sat by your
side, and who are now clad in garments "whiter than snow."

XXX. "HE THAT SLEEPETH IN HARVEST IS A SON THAT CAUSETH SHAME."
PROVERBS x. 5.

We shall always be in debt to Solomon for these wise sayings, and for the
pains he took to have them preserved. The words which head this form a
picture. It is harvest-time, and the old folks have been depending on
their able-bodied son getting in all their corn, but they are doomed to
disappointment. He sleeps when he should work. When others are toiling
he is snoring, and his corn rots in the field because he does not carry
it while he has fine weather. How ashamed his father is! Other men have
got their corn well housed, but his is still where it grew, because the
son he has reared is lazy and self-indulgent. One feels that no language
is too strong for this indolent young man.

But what has this to do with us? some will ask. We reply--Is not this
the harvest time of the church, when the days are closing and the nights
lengthening? Have we not been used to hear of special efforts being made
for the rescue of perishing souls, and ingathering of those who are in
danger of dying unready?

ARE YOU ASLEEP IN HARVEST?

Let every Methodist who reads this ask--What am I doing? Am I sleeping
or harvesting? What am I doing to gather in the ripe corn? If I am
indolent I shall cause shame to the people who count me one of
themselves. If we sleep now that we should work, at the March Quarterly
Meeting our place will be down in numbers, and as there are others of the
same indolent sort, our circuit will be down at the District Meeting, and
perhaps the District be down, and there will be the shame among the
churches if Methodism is down.

Other churches are used to look to us to shew them how to do the reaping.
O, let us be up and doing! How shall we dare to me