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PREFACE.

Ir is a highly beneficial, and, it is to be hoped, not a very unusual practice, to read some portion of the Holy Scriptures at the hour of rest. Children, and persons not well acquainted with every part of the Bible, are, however, often at a loss what portion to choose, and it is to meet this need that the following compilation has been made.

The passages selected are short, for the weariness of night does not admit of lengthened attention to reading, but meditation upon a few verses will teach us more than a hasty perusal of many, and it cannot but be profitable to us all to endeavour to fix in our minds some one definite lesson, gathered from God's holy Word, which may remain with us as our last waking thought at night;

and may through the aid of the Holy Spirit enable us to rise with a more earnest devotion to our duties on the morrow.

It can scarcely be necessary to add, that such appointed lessons should never be allowed to interfere with the wish which all are likely at times to feel, to turn to some particular passage, suitable to the needs of the moment.

BONCHURCH,

December 10, 1859.

NIGHT LESSONS FROM SCRIPTURE.

First Sunday in Advent.

2 ST. PETER III. 8—13.

BELOVED, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness; looking for and hasting unto the coming of the Day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according

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