FROM MANY FIELDS. "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and rebuke her not." JOHN JOHNSTONE, 15 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH; AND M.DCCC.XLIX. GLEANINGS FROM MANY FIELDS. JANUARY 1. "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death."-2 Cor. vii. 10. "False repentance has grief of mind, and humiliation, only for great and glaring offences, until it supposes pardon for these obtained. True repentance is a continued war against sin, a permanent inward shame for its defilements, till death sounds a retreat."-Venn. A JANUARY 2. "And Jesus answered and said, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things."-Luke x. 41. 66 A spirit pure, simple, and constant, is not, like Martha, distracted and troubled with the multiplicity of its employments, however great; because, being inwardly at rest, seeketh not its own glory in what it doth, but doth all to the glory of God for there is no other cause of perplexity and disquiet, but an unsubdued will and A KEMPIS. unmortified affections." JANUARY 3. "Purifying their hearts by faith."-Acts xv. 9. "We can never advance holiness, nor ruin sin, by mere multiplying of duties. Indeed, we are said to be purified by obeying the truth through the Spirit."— CARMICHAEL. "If JANUARY 4. ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?"-Matt. v. 46. "To return the love of friends is the charity of publicans, from the compact of advantage; but to be well-minded towards enemies is among the heights of the Christian law, and an imitation of the Godhead."-BACON. JANUARY 5. "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."-Gal. vi. 2, "If all men were perfect, we should meet with nothing in the conduct of |