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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 585, 24 November 1871, Page 3

When Mr. Moody wa* on a journey in the western part of Massachusetts, he called on a brother the ministry on the Saturday thinking to spend-the Sabbath with him rf Ueeable. The man appeared very glad to see him, and said, '< Ishould be very glad to have you stop and .preach for me to-morrow, bat I feel almost ashamed to a*k you Why, what is the matter ?". said Mr. Moody. "Why, our people have got into such a hab t of eoine out before meeting has closed, that it seems to be an imposition on a .ganger "If that is all, I must and will stop and preach for you," was Mr. Moody s reply. When the Sabbath day came, and Mr Moody had opened the meeting and named the text, he looked around on the assembly and said, "My hearers, I am going to speak to two Borta of folks, saints and sinners. Sinners, I am going to give you a portio.i first, and 1 would have you give good attention " When he had preached to them as long as he thought best, he paused and said, "There, sinnera, I have done with you now ; you may take your hats and go out of the meeting-house as soon as yon please." But all tarried and heard him through. „._.... ~ . . -

The Perthshire Advertiser extracts the following from a visitors' book " in a well-known locality in the Highlands":—

"SaßtfMsflSsttrj&ffijs"

And immediately below :—- ---" Glen Urquhart is a glorious glen , „ $£» mules and shoddy have not *£*£»£.

A new-fangled system of nnfirag the hym.s has crept into some or our churches of late years, which frequently leads to positions which, but for the sacreclness of the occasion would go very far toward the ludicrous- Ihe fJJonriU repetition of the first syllable has not uXquently been known to result » Buch doubtful harmonies as these :—

"Mypoorpol-, poor pol-, sly poor polluted heart. And— " Our'great sal-, - ! Our great sal-, „ Our great salvation comes.