THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 145, 24 January 1874, Page 3

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

We have received from the agent. Mr Morrison-’ the January number of the J?reiibijU:ricnt Church JS’eivf;. Wo take the following from a well written articlo on tlic New Year : During the year that has pnssc/l away iho Church with which we are identified has boon steadily proceeding with its accustomed work, developing its organizations and dispensing the bread of life. Arid though that work may have been attended with no striking manifestations calendared to arrest the attention, we may hope that Hie jour’s record of Gospel ministrations has nob returned void to Him who gave tho opportunities. And now* As wo turn to tho year that has c ome, and peer into tho dim ami shadowy vista reaching through the three hundred and sixty-five days of eighteen hundred and seventyfour, we may well fed called to grave and solemn mod it ut ion. We know that our times are in God’s hand ; but we are equally sure that tboro are many of (hose who 'read these our now year reflections on the flight of time who will not live to see the close of the year. Time will come, and time will go, and the work of God will continue, though we may have gone over t-> the other side.” The year will revolve a!! i,‘n- sumo with itar Joys and trials, ha opportunities and its advantages. We know not. if ours will be the larger share of baoinnesd or of afflict. ion ; nnr w-sf*! nr-r onr rime he • or: or long, ’V £L -1 i?.' Cv. » uj r r Gt t** w » fiUoCiwut; O t v * _« 0 O

, ' 9 , ou i' s io £ l * 4 ourselves for labou. r and having * each ad another »Mle-stone in the journey of life, f'f to n > aK o » fresh .start in (Jus career of u>oluino'9. As a Chm*ij aiu j , iS individuals our '■"a s-uuls and the souls ol others crave our rare; ami tno flgat of time should rummd ua that — idfe is real ! Idle is "aruest, Ann the grave is not its yJ.d ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest \\ as not spoken ,;( the soul. !-<•' ns Mum he iip and do’ng W ii !i a heart for any foe-, fc>l ill achieving, still purs;.hie, Learn to labour and to war.