od's moral character in our side of the scale.

The wonderful purple stream which flowed for the healing of the nations,
has a branch for us. Nay, is Christ divided? "The grace of God that
bringeth salvation hath appeared to (for) all men, teaching us that
denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed
hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good
works."--Titus ii. 11-14.

But you say you have not the privilege of hearing of this gospel of
which I speak. I know it; and this is my great grief. But you shall have
it; I will send it to you by my humble prayer; I can do it; I will beg
our heavenly Father, and he will preach this gospel to you in his holy
providence.

You, dear father and mother cannot have much longer to live in this
troublesome and oppressive world; you cannot bear the yoke much longer.
And as you approach another world, how desirable it is that you should
have the prospect of a different destiny from what you have been called
to endure in this world during a long life.

But it is the gospel that sets before you the hope of such a blessed
rest as is spoken of in the word of God, Job iii. 17, 19. "There the
wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest; there the
prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressors. The
small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master."

Father, I know thy eyes are dim with age and weary with weeping, but
look, dear father, yet a little while toward that haven. Look unto
Jesus, "the author and finisher of thy faith," for the moment of thy
happy deliverance is at hand.

Mother, dear mother, I know, I feel, mother, the pangs of thy bleeding
heart, that thou hast endured, during so many years of vexation. Thy
agonies are by a genuine son-like sympathy mine; I will, I must, I do
share daily in those agonies of thine. But I sincerely hope that with me
you bear your agonies to Christ who carries our sorrows.

O come then with me, my beloved family, of weary heart-broken and
care-worn ones, to Jesus Christ, "casting all your care upon him, for he
careth for you."--2 Peter v. 7.

With these words of earnest exhortation