HOPE OF THE CHRISTIANS.
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Our daily observation and experience


proves to us, that hope springs continually
within the breast of man. If he under
takes scheme, and fails Of accomplishing


it to his mind, hope will nerve him up to
the undertaking of another, and so on to
the end Of life. 1t is right that it should
be SO. Were it not for this, life would be
insupportable. But there are times, when
the delusive hopes Of this world cannot
give peace to the soul-when sorrow,
trouble and afliction overtake us-when
health, fortune and friends are gone,-how
dreary, how inconsolable, how sad our lot,
did not the hope of the gospel incite US to
look forward 70 fairer prospects, and did not
ONE bright spot appear through sorrows
clouds, which tells US all is not darkness
that light may ye. shine upon US and while
we view this bright spot, our dropping
spirits are revived, and hope of better,
brighter prospects cheers our hearts, and
gives lis life within. Mistortune's storms
may rage, and sorrows waves dash; trials
and troubled, with foaming fury, rush in
on every side, and even deaths dark wa
ters be full in view yet if we ride in the
bark of christian hope, we need not fear,
twill bear Us safe through life's tempes-
tuous seas-outride the dark waters of
death, and conduct US TO the haven of eter-
nal rest, where peace like river, will for
ever flow TO the soul