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and persecuted little flock will remain, who|of Jesus and says, ‘‘There is none other name
shall worship God in piety and purity. God| under heaven given among men, whereby we
will raise up new Pastors who shall proclaim} must be saved.’”’? The poor man, however, had
to the people the sound doctrine of Christ, | lost his place, and while trying to find it with
build up and renew the tottering Church, pu-| his finger, kept repeating the last words he had
rify the Christian religion now corrupted by so} read, ‘‘none other name,—none other name,—
many errors, and preach against Antichrist. | none other name.‘‘ Some of the people smiled,
But before this the pious will, on account of pure} but the gentleman went away, deeply musing. | the numbers of Thy martyrs, in the cup of Thy
religion, be bitterly persecuted by the Anti-}/ —He had lately become convinced that he was} Christ. For this and for all things, I praise
christ, the chief adversary of the pure doctrine.’’| 2 sinner; he had been trying in many ways to|'Thee, I bless Thee, I glorify Thee.” —Marrry
The worthy martyr Jonx Huss, who in the} get peace of mind; but his religious exercises, | Lurner's last words were: ‘“O my heavenly
year 1415 was burned by the papists, said to| his good resolutions, his changed habits, all} father, Thou hast revealed to me Thy Son, our
his enemies, shortly before his death, in allu-| were unable to take the heavy load away from | Lord Jesus Christ. I have preached Him, I
sion to his name, Huss, which means goose:/ his conscience, and to enable him to rejoice in | have confessed Him, I love Him, and I worship
“To-day you roast a goose, but after a hundred | God.—The words he had heard from the blind | Him, sis my dearest Saviour and Redeemer.
years a swan shall arise from my ashes, which} man, however, rang like solemn music in his|Into Thy hands I commit my spirit; God of
you will not be able to roast.” soul. ‘None other name.”— When he came | truth, Thou hast redeemed me.’
JEROME of Prague, the friend of Huss, who| home and went to bed, these words were still
also died the martyr's death in the year 1415, heard: ‘None other name, none other name, Old Uncle was right.
declared to his judges a short time before his} none other name.’’ And when he awoke, the
execution: ‘I shall leave a thorn in your| words again came to his mind: ‘‘None other
hearts, and now cite you before the highest|name, none other name, none other name.”

Last Words of the Godly.

Ignatius, who died a martyr, said, “I would
rather die for Jesus Christ, than rule to the
utmost ends of the earth.”—Potycarp, who was
also a martyr, said, ‘‘I bless thee, o Lord, that
thou hast thought me worthy to have part in

Aunt Dinah could shout and sing with the
best of the church members. It was common

Judge to answer me within a hundred years.”
—SAvVoNAROLA, a preacher in Italy, who was
also burned by the pope in Florence, in the
year 1498, prophesied shortly before his death:
“The time will soon come when the abomina-
tions and idolatries of the pope will be pun-
ished, and a teacher shall be born whom none
will be able to resist.’’

In the year 1516 there was a man in Rostock,
a city in Northern Germany, who was com-
monly called the prophet. This man cried out
before all the churches and other places of the
city, that the deliverance of the people of God
was at hand, and that the people should re-
pent. ‘‘Awake, ye priests!”’ he cried, ‘‘from
your deep sleep of sin, and repent! Awake,
ye citizens, from your errors and be converted!
Your salvation and freedom are near, O ye
saints! Your destruction is at hand, O ye
wicked.’’ For this he was laughed at, but in
the year 1517 the loud voice of the Reformer
was heard throughout the land.—And now,
who was this Reformer? It was Dr. Martix
Lurner. He is that swan which the pope
could not roast. He is that brave hero in the
war against Antichrist. He is that teacher of
pure doctrine whom none could resist. He is
that angel flying through the Church with the
everlasting Gospel for all nations, and for all
people. Must it not be interesting to learn the
history of his life? Our little paper will, there-
fore, with its next number begin to tell you the
Life of Dr. Martin Luther.
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,yNone other name.”

There was a blind man standing upon a bridge,
and reading from a Bible with raised letters. A
few persons stood round him, and whilst he got
a little money, he read to them words from the
Bible, more precious than gold.—A gentleman
on his way home from the city, stopped on the
bridge to see what was going on. Just then
the blind man was reading the fourth chapter
of the Acts, in which the apostle Peter speaks

These words entered his soul, and by the bless-
ing of God he awoke to a new life. ‘‘I see it
all’, said he, ‘‘I sec it all. I have been trying
to be saved by my own works, my prayers, my
repentance, my reformation. I see my mistake.
It is Jesus who alone can save. To Him I will
look. Neither is there salvation in any other.
For there is none other name, none other name,
none other name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved.’”’—Such is the
power of God’s Word.
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The Indian Chief.

Several years ago, a missionary among the
Indians was visited by a proud and powerful
chief, who had been deeply convicted of sin by
the Word of God which he had heard. The
savage, while trembling under a sense of his
guilt, was unwilling to accept the free offer of
the Gospel. He wanted to make some sacrifice
and pay something for the water of life. He,
therefore, offered his wampum, an ornament of
beads and shells, in order to drive away the
punishment which he feared for his sins. The
man of God shook his head, and said, ‘‘No,
Christ cannot accept such a sacrifice!”? The
Indian went away, but, unable to find rest, he
came back, and offered his rifle and the skins
he had taken in hunting. The missionary again
said, ‘‘No, Christ cannot accept such sacrifice.’’
The wretched sinner withdrew, but he found
no peace and returned once more, to offer his
wigmam, his wife, his children, and all that he
had, if he could only buy pardon and eternal
life. The missionary was compelled to say,
“No, Christ cannot accept such a sacrifice.”’
The chief stood for a moment, with his head
bowed, as if in dispair, and then, raising his
streaming eyes to heaven, his heart poured
itself forth in a cry of full surrender and con-
secration, ‘‘Here, Lord Jesus, take poor Indian
too!’? He gave himself up to Christ, and ac-
cepted the pardon of his sins offered in the Gos-
pel without money and without price.

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at the missionary meeting to sing the hymn,
“Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel’, while the
collection was being taken, and Aunt Dinah
always threw her head back, shut her eyes, and
sang away lustily till the plate had passed. Old
uncle Moses, the collector, observed her habit,
and one evening stopped when he came to her,
and said: ‘Look-a-heah, Aunt Dinah, you
needn’t be a-singing, “Fly abroad, thou mighty
Gospel!” if thou doesn’t give nothin’ to make her
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IF a man wishes to become wise, he must fear
God, he must fear the Word as God’s Word.
For this is the chief reason why many people
hear the word of God (which is nothing but
God’s wisdom), and yet do not learn anything
from it, namely, that they regard it as a word,
but not as God’s Word. They think they under-
stand it as soon as they have heard it; but if
they had respect for it as the Word of God,
they would certainly think thus: Very well,
God is wiser than you are, He will also sveak
greater things. —Luther.

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You say, where, and in what place is hell?
But why are you so much concerned about that?
The chief question is, that its real existence be
proved and acknowledged, and then let us ask
not, where it is? but: How can we escape it.—

Chrys.
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THE love of God’s Word drives away the

love of sin.
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