MORNING DEWDROPS.

January 1st.

"LORD REMEMBER ME."-Luke xxii. 42.

THERE is an hour awaiting thee, Christian, dark with "the shadow of death," covered with clouds, and full of terror; the hour in which thy spirit, separated from its mortal companion, must shoot the untried gulf of eternity; in which thy recollection of the Saviour is peculiarly important to thy safety and thy peace. In that hour, Christian, forget not thy Lord, as thou wouldst not wish then to be forgotten by him. Fix thy thoughts on Him, as the conqueror of death, the destroyer of the grave, the Lord of eternity; and as it has been thy principal study to be like Him in his life, let it be thy closing ambition" to be made conformable to Him in his death." The remembrance of Jesus is a sovereign charm for chasing away those alarming visions which are apt to gather around a dying bed, and the persuasion of his love has often, in a great measure, superseded the agonies of dissolving nature. REV. W. J. BROWN.

"O Thou, from whom all goodness flows,

I lift my soul to Thee:

In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,

Good Lord remember me.

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MORNING DEWDROPS.

When in the solemn hour of death
I wait Thy just decree;

Be this the pray'r of my last breath,
Good Lord, remember me."

January 2nd.

"THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, COME."-Rev. xxii. 17.

WHERE seems to be a reference to what had been said. (Rev. xix. 7-9.) It is with respect to this her marriage supper, that she, from the motion of the Spirit of the Lamb in her, says, "Come." So that you are invited on all hands, all conspire to call you. God the Father invites you. This is the king that has made a marriage for his son; and he sends forth his servants, the ministers of the Gospel, to invite the guests. And the Son himself invites you. It is he that speaks, "And let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will, let him come." (Rev. xxii. 17). He tells us who he is in the foregoing verse: "I Jesus, the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning star." And God's ministers invite you; and all the Church invites you; and there will be joy in the presence of the angels of God, that hour you accept the invitation.

PRESIDENT EDWARDS.

"Forgive O Lord! our wand'rings past,
Henceforth we would obey thy call;

Our sins far from us let us cast,

And turn to Thee devoutly all:

Then with archangels we shall sing
High praise to heav'n's Eternal King.

Hear us, O God; in mercy hear;
With sorrow we our guilt deplore,
Pity our anguish, calm our fear,

And give us grace to sin no more:
Then with archangels we shall sing
High praise to heav'n's Eternal King."