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(11 mo. 24, 1850.)

In looking at the world around, we may be apt to think that the day is very far off when the Lord’s kingdom, shall be established in peace:  but to those who, through the regenerating power of Christ, have become subjects of the Prince of Peace, that day has commenced already; and whatever storms may rage without, they will experience peace within.  For “he will keep them in perfect peace whose minds are staid on him, because they trust in him.”

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(9 mo. 19, 1852.)

John Yeardley addressed the children with much feeling, telling them to rely on the Lord Jesus Christ in all their ways—­to let him carry them in his bosom, and to run to him in danger or trouble, as they would to their tender mothers.

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You sometimes are restless in these meetings, not knowing how to keep your thoughts fixed on heavenly things, and perplexed for want of some visible means of instruction.  I believe your tender Saviour may often feed you, even while in this state, with food convenient for you.  But remember, dear children, that he is always calling to every one of you, Come unto Me.  Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not.  O! come to him, my precious lambs, and he will feed you, and “lead you beside the still waters, and make you lie down in green pastures.”

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(12 mo. 8, 1854 At a Funeral.)

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads:  they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.—­(Isa. xxxv. 10.)

In the pain of parting with the beloved object of our heart’s affection, we forget the rejoicing which welcomes the ransomed spirit to its everlasting rest.  But when the time is come for the Lord to pour in the healing balm into the sorrowing soul, then we find a little comfort. ....

“Watchman! what of the night?  Watchman! what of the night?  The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:  if ye will inquire, inquire ye:  return; come.”  There are many in this company in the morning of life, enjoying the prospect of many days, and forming many plans for the future, with all the ardor of their youthful minds.  May the present occasion prove the morning of their spiritual day; and may they remember that the night cometh as well as the morning.

How thin is the partition which separates the present state from that of eternity!  We mourn over those who are taken away from us, and we fancy we are left alone.  But we are called to be one in Christ.  I have great faith in the communion of saints, in the union of saints on earth with saints in heaven.  And we are all called to be saints by walking in faith, by leading a life of holiness in the fear of the Lord.  We say our beloved friends who have gone before us are dead. They are not dead:  they have but just entered into life. Let us not mourn, then, as those who have no hope.  Let us rather rejoice with them and for them, and so live that we may be among the ransomed of the Lord, who shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.