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Such was the parting charge to teachers from one who, by the grace of God, had been led, through the influence of the Sunday school, to find pardon and peace at the cross of his Redeemer, and who had earnestly desired the privilege of feeding the lambs of the flock with the nourishment which his own soul had received.* "Cling to Christ, and go on with the work." Memorable words are these, for surely never were the duties and privileges of a teacher more briefly, yet completely described. Cling to Christ-to Christ who died for us, who bore for us what our finite minds cannot fully grasp, agonies and grief which swell up before our contemplation into an awful and indescribable magnitude -to Christ triumphant, leading captivity captive, bursting the tomb, and soaring upwards through the "everlasting doors." To Christ the Intercessor, touched with the feeling of our infirmities, knowing our frame, remembering that we are dust. To Christ, the patient, gentle, loving Friend, bearing with our waywardness and wilfulness, pleading for us, teaching us line upon line, drawing us with the cords of Divine love, strengthening us with the Spirit in the inner man, guiding us with his counsel, opening to us the kingdom of heaven, receiving us into glory, that where He is we also may be for ever. Cling to Him! The world with artful enticements would allure us away; the flesh would tempt us into the paths of sinful pleasure, or forbidden indulgence: the devil would loosen our hold and urge us, either to self-righteousness, or to despair. Cling to Him! A thousand influences would carry the soul to other hopes and other confidence. Cling to Him! The tempest of God's wrath will one day sweep over the world, and that "man" alone, who was God as well as man, can be "a hiding place from the storm, a covert from the tempest." Cling to Him with no half-hearted love, no cold adoration, no dwarfed or stunted devotedness. Cling to Him in the toil of the six days, and in the rest of the Seventh-amid the busy scenes of the world, and in the calm retirement of the closet-in the hours of strength, activity and health, and in the gathering shadows of pain, weakness and suffering-amid the full glow of life, and in the lonely pathway of the valley of death. And GO ON WITH THE WORK, the work of feeding Christ's lambs, and leading little wanderers to the still waters, and the green pastures, the work compared with which the noblest earthly pursuits are folly-the work which deserves and demands our highest efforts, our greatest self-denial, our truest devotedness-the work which angels may envy-the work which will survive all time, and bear its fruit throughout eternity. It is a work of toil and fatigue, a work to try the strength of mind and body, and put to the test the energies and endurance of new-born faith. It is a work on which the Saviour's loving eye rests in joy and triumph, and which He gave in charge to the repentant Peter, as a pledge of forgiveness, and a test of faithfulness; a work which that gracious Saviour declares to be done unto Himself! Shall we not go on with the work? Yes, dear friends; cling to Christ, and go on with the work. Cling to Christ, that you may know his love; go on with the work, that you may shew yours. Cling to Christ, there is the source of life; go on with the work, there is the proof of life. Cling to Christ, that your faith fail not; go on with the work, that you lose not your reward. Cling to Christ, lest you be disheartened; go on with the work, lest you be disowned. Cling to Christ, and go on with the work. Both alike are duties, both alike are privileges, both alike are the sunshine of the heart, and they blend together in the light that streams from yonder everlasting hills upon the path of human life. 3. G. F. THE "WORK OF FAITH." 1 Thess. i. 3. THE work to which a Sunday school teacher is called, is emphatically a "work of faith," and he needs to have this constantly brought before him. For, much too often, he is ready to yield to the despondency of unbelief, saying:-"I'm afraid all my teaching is thrown away, for I never see any fruit." But is not that precisely the very way in which faith is exercised? the work is not a work of sight, BUT OF FAITH." The amount of good is not to be estimated by the seen fruits the teacher must learn to rest simply on the promise of his God, "So shall my Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void." (Is. lv. 10, 11.) 66 What is he sowing Sunday after Sunday? is it not the "incorruptible seed" of the Word of God? Then assuredly, that seed cannot No; but "that which thou Down it must sink into the decay and corrupt, and come to nothing. sowest is not quickened, except it die." soil of the dear children's hearts; perhaps to lie buried there for many long winter months--perhaps for years! But there God's eye watches it; and when the early and the latter rain have fallen upon it, it will spring up, and in the Great Reaping Day of the Harvest, at the end of the world, the faithful praying teacher will see that his labour was not in vain. "THE FULL ASSURANCE OF HOPE." Heb. vi. 10, 11. THE "Work of Faith" involves of necessity, more or less of the "patience of hope" in its developement. (1 Thess. i. 3.) Whilst looking for that which as yet we see not; we hope for it "with patience." The hope spoken of in Scripture, is not the vague uncertainty which in common conversation is often expressed by hope. For we are not left to hope for things which may never be realized; "the hope set before us," is sure and stedfast! And in this hope the Sunday school teacher should seek to "abound," (Rom. xv. 13.) for by it he is to be supported while engaged in his labours of love and works of faith."We are upheld (Greek) by hope," says the apostle, (Rom. viii. 24.) "But hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for ?" If all the children in your class |