ler.

I seldomly hear that.

O Lord, give us good thinking facticals.

The meeting will be in the basin of the church.

O Lord, throw overboard all the load we'se totin, and the sins which
upset us.

Jog them in remembrance of their vows.

I want her to resist me with the ironing.

I want all you people to adhere to the bell.

There will be no respectable people in heaven. (God is no respecter of
persons.)

I was much disencouraged.

It was said at the startment of this meeting.

I take care of three head of children.

We have passed through many dark scenes and unseens.

May we have the eye of an eagle to see sin afar off and shun it.

I have made inquiration at several places.

A letter written jointly to represent the opinions of several persons,
thus expresses itself to us: "We are happy to write this letter to you in a
conglomerate manner."

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THE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE A.M.A.

BY REV. FORREST F. EMERSON.

The report of the Executive Committee on educational work in the South,
confirms the conviction which must have impressed itself on many minds,
that the Association is a divinely-appointed agency for carrying forward
a work delegated to us as a _nation_. God calls nations as he calls men,
and consecrates them to a special work. Rome had a call, and fulfilled
it, under the Divine Providence, and that call was to work out the idea,
and demonstrate the necessity, of government, and to cultivate in the
minds of men everywhere regard for the authority of law; Greece had her
mission, and it was to teach the value of individual culture, both
physical and intellectual; the people of Israel had their call to teach
the doctrine of God, of his moral government, and of the eternal nature
of moral law; and this Christian nation has its divine call, and that
call arises from the peculiar relation which it sustains to the other
races and nations of the earth.

For a long time it seemed as if this land was to be given exclusively to
the English race. The Dutch who settled here were assimilated and
absorbed; the Spaniards and Portuguese found a congenial clime in South
America; the French, by the progress of events, were prevented from
gaining a foothold in New England, and with the sale of so-called
"Louisiana"--an immense area extending from the Gulf to British
America,--France relinquished her last claim to ownership of any part of
our domain. The period of