First Methodist from Topeka, Kansas • 1

tie iriirst meinooiis" A WORD ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES. The New York Christian Advocate will cost you $2.50 from the time you hand the pastor your money until January 1, 1895. The Western, Northwestern, Central, or Pittsburgh Christian Advocates will cost you $2.00 from now until January 1, 1895. With any of the last named you can have your choice, free, of the following books: The Methodist Discipline. The 16 mo.

Hymn Book (without tunes.) Accidents and Emergencies. An Ohio Itinerant Pioneer. Jacob Young, 528 pages. Pioneer Life in the West. Finley.

455 pages. Autobiography of Peter Cartwright. 524 pages. Life among the Indians. Finley.

550 pages. Picturesque Ohio. 238 pages. Or you can pay $2.50 and have as premium The Woman at Home, and English ladies magazine, fully illustrated and edited by Annie S. Levan, of world-wide reputation.

Please look this offer over with care, it is quite liberal, and hand your name, money and the paper desired with premium wanted, to the pastor. A few persons have not received the premium books due them in payment of last year's subscriptions to the Advocates. The pastor has the books, and will be glad to place them where they belong. RESPONSIVE READING. OGIVE thanks unto the Lord, tor he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; Because they rebelled against the words of God, ind contemned the counsel of the most High: Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; thev fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to heaven." JoJin Climacus. "Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeamsthe more they are condensed the deeper they burn." Dr.

Southey. "I love that tranquillity of soul in which we feel the blessing of existence, and which in itself is a prayer and a thanksgiving." LongeHow. "Unless I give my heart wholly to God, and make my religion my great and engrossing concern, I shall be a stranger not only to duty but to all solid peace and enjoyment." Chalmers..