Hittite— its mystery-Charles Spurgeon

It was reported of alanus, when he promised his auditory to discourse the next sunday more clearly of the trinity, and to make plain that mystery, while he was studying the point by the sea-side, he spied a boy very busy with a little spoon trudging often between the sea and a small hole he had digged in the ground. Alanus asked him what he meant. The boy answers, ” i intend to bring all the sea into this pit.” alanus hitter— its mystery. It was reported of alanus, when he promised his auditory to discourse the next sunday more clearly of the trinity, and to make plain that mystery, while he was studying the point by the sea-side, he spied a boy very busy with a little spoon trudging often between the sea and a small hole he had digged in the ground. Alanus asked him what he meant. The boy answers, ” i intend to bring all the sea into this pit.” alanus replies, “why dost thou attempt such impossibilities, and misspend thy time r” the boy answers, ” so dost thou, alanus: i shall as soon bring all the sea into this hole, as thou bring all the knowledge of the trinity into thy head. All is equally possible ; we have begun together, we shall finish together; saving of the two, my labor hath more hope and possibility of taking effect.” — t .jiomas adams. T bodble -j teeaea. Speaking of a norwegian summer, the- rev. H. Macmillan says : — “the long daylight is very favorable to the growth of vegetation, plants growing in the nit as well as in the day in the short hut ardent summer. But the stimulus of perpetual solar light is peculiarly trying to the nervous system of those who are not accustomed to it. It prevents proper repose and banishes sleep. ! Never felt before how needful darkness is for the welfare of our bodies and minds. I longed for night, but the farther north we went, the farther we were fleeing from it, until at last, when we reached the most northern point of our tour, the sun set for one hour and a half. Consequently, the heat of the day never cooled down, and accumulated until it became almost unendurable at last. Truly for a most wise and beneficent purpose did god make light and create darkness. ‘ light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing to the eyes to behold the sun. 1 but darkness is also sweet, it is the nurse of nature’s kind restorer, balmy sleep, and -without the tender drawing round us of its curtains the weary eyelid will not close, and the jrnlod nerves will not be soothed to refreshing rest. Not till the everlasting day break, and the shadows flee away, and the lord himself shall be our light, and our god our glory, can we do without the cloud in the sunshine, the shade of sorrow in the bright light of joy, and the curtain of night for the deepening of the sleep which god gives his beloved.” — rev. Hugh macmillan’s ” holidays on high lands.”