means of promoting your spiritual progress; depending on the Holy
Spirit, through the blood and merits of Christ, to sanctify your heart.
For it is very possible for you to observe all these things, and yet
deceive yourself. Remember that true religion is a deep work of grace in
the heart, changing the bent and inclination of the soul, and giving a
new direction to all its faculties. O may you so live that Jesus shall
say to you, as to the church at Thyatira, "I know thy works, and
charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works and THE
LAST TO BE MORE THAN THE FIRST." Take also his exhortation to the church
at Smyrna: "BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF
LIFE."

Your affectionate Brother.

APPENDIX.

COURSE OF READING.

I. HISTORY.

1. _Sacred and Ecclesiastical History._--Josephus' Works; Millar's
History of the Church; Jahn's Hebrew Commonwealth, Mosheim's
Ecclesiastical History; Milner's Church History; Scott's Continuation of
Milner; Life of Knox; Gilpin's Lives of the Reformers; Fuller's and
Warner's Ecclesiastical History of England; Millar's Propagation of
Christianity; Gillies' Historical Collections; Jones' Church History;
Mather's Magnalia; Neale's History of the Puritans; Wisner's History of
the Old South Church, Boston; Bogue and Bennett's History of the
Dissenters; Benedict's History of the Baptists; Life of Wesley; History
of Methodism; Life of Whitefield; Millar's Life of Dr. Rodgers; Crantz's
Ancient and Modern History of the Church of the United Brethren;
Crantz's History of the Mission in Greenland; Loskiel's History of the
North American Indian Missions; Oldendorp's History of the Danish
Missions of the United Brethren; Choules' Origin and History of
Missions. Those who have not sufficient time for so extensive a course,
may find the most interesting and important events in the progress of
the church during the first sixteen centuries of the Christian era, in
the author's Sabbath-school Church History.

2. _Secular and Profane History._--Rollin's Ancient History; Russel's
Egypt; Russel's Palestine; Plutarch's Lives, to be kept on hand, and
consulted as the names appear in history; Wharton's Histories; Beloe's
Herodotus; Travels of Anacharsis; Mitford's Greece; Ferguson's History
of the Roman Republic; Baker's Livy; Middleton's Life of Cicero;
Murphy's Tacitus; Sismondi's Decline of the Roman Empire; Muller's