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loses nothing but his dross, his chaff, his scum, his filth. Now he that finds his sins thus over-ruled for the good of his

soul, he is certainly a gracious soul.”— BROOKS.

OCTOBER 22.

"Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word."-Ps. cxix. 67.

"Affliction is the glass of sin, and the opening and awakening the conscience to see it."-PLEDGER.

OCTOBER 23.

"Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure con. science."-1 Tim. iii. 9.

"Faith is a precious jewel; but conscience is the cabinet where this jewel must be kept."-WATSON.

OCTOBER 24.

"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." -Prov. xiii. 20.

"Souls the most thoughtful of eternity are still the most careful of their company; and it is certain, the company of your choice in this world is both that which you would have and shall have in the next."-BURGESS.

OCTOBER 25.

"How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth."-Ps. cxix. 103.

"Do not, for your lives, ever neglect reading the Scriptures. Take some portion of God's Word as duly as you eat of his bread. It is very honourable. I do

remember a poor soul who sometimes burned the thatch of her house, to read her Bible by the light of it. It was Luther's saying: 'The reading of the Scriptures is the terror of devils.'" BURGESS.

OCTOBER 26.

"The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."-Ps. xxxiv. 18.

"Nothing that is broken bears any value, except a broken heart, which becomes the more valuable the more it is broken."-From the Persian.

OCTOBER 27.

"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak."-James i. 19. "Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears, but only one tongue; which means, Listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one."-From the Persian.

OCTOBER 28.

"Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing."-1 Pet. iii. 9.

"There is no kind of revenge so poor and pitiful as railing; for every dog can bark and he that rails, makes another noise, indeed, but not a better."-DR. SOUTH.

OCTOBER 29, 30.

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."-James i. 27. "Thus explicitly and clearly is the line of Christian duty, in reference to a believer's connection with the world, laid down by the Holy Ghost; he cannot depart from it without grieving the Spirit, wounding his own soul, and compromising his Christian profession."WINSLOW.

OCTOBER 31.

"Ye shall be holy, for I am holy."Lev. xi. 44. "Men compare themselves with men, and readily with the worst, and flatter themselves with that comparative better

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