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182 Christian Giving.Y'es, and it was time you did. Y'ou want to see wovld thai theve is a vevy great difference innnchristian England converted. Y'es," and it is professing Christians in vegavd to this matter ofhigh time. Well, the way to do it, pavadoxical giving ; and that the difference is not always exasit may seem, is to pick out ouv Pauls and onv plained by a vefevence to iheir respective civcnm-Bavnabases, ouv vevy best men, and send them to stances, and by saying that the man who givesisIndia, to China, and to Africa, to pveach the rich and he who withholds is poov. It is not aigospel to evevy cveatuve.—Bev. R. F. Horton, at ways so. It is sometimes very far from being so.London Mny Meetings. ' Sometimes the vich man is niggavd, sometimes'/-iTTTiTcmT A AT m T-TAT/-I thc poov mau Is liberal, and thai not becausethey are not both Christians, but just becaiiseBeg-in to give as soon as you begin to get. one of them has been untrained in this specialThai and only that, will prevent the dangev of a grace of libevality. And, thevefore, it is wellgvowing covetousness. W3 ave all vevy much and wise to begin to give as soon as we begin tounder the inflnence of habit, purely as such. Of gathev. As soon as the stove begins to swell, -couvse we are liable to the inroads of evil prin- however small it may be, the hand of love oughtciples and affections ; we are liable to imbibe to be seavching it, and taking from it, not allthe love of evU things for their own sake, as for that comes, but some portion regulavly for prethesake of the passing pleasure of them ; bnt we sentation to the gracious Givev. As soon as theare Uableto be drawn towards them, and by de- well begins to vise, one or more streams ought togrees fixed in them, by habit even more than by he drawn from it for the watering and refreshingfirst affection. Many a man becomes a drunk- of some thirsty places. There is vevy greatard by not watching habit. Many a man be- danger in separating iiy any long distance thecomes a pvactical miser by habit. He is not in beginning of giving from the beginning of getting.pure nature a miseriy man, but he buUds his soul " Honor the Lovd with thy substance, and withnp and, vound and Vound with civcles of h,abit. It the fi.rstfruits of aU thhie incvease.''cannot gvow ; it cannot bveathe ; it can havdly How significant and pictuvesque in its beautylive. Habit has been called "a second nature." was the pvesentation of the fivst fi-uitsin the oldAn amendment of this apothegus might be that Hebvew times! The basket laden with thehabit is not a second, but a. firstnatuve. Habit rich clusters. The owneris confession as h^ preisnature acting and growing, taking fixed and sented it to the priest. The selling of it beforeenduring form. Habit is I, my.'^ielfi, becoming the altar. The articulate speech °of the offererwhat probably I shaU be through life, and per- befove the Lovd, ending with the venewed solemnhaps fov evermore. How important, thevefove, presentation vows: "And now, behold, I havethai in the growing time, in youth and eavliev bvought the fivst fi-nits of the laud, which thou,manhood, the form should be good, that the robe 0 Lord, hast given me !" AU that must haveI am weaving for my spivit to weav thvough life been vevy beautiful aud instvuctive, and it emboanddeath shoukl be of the right textuve, and dies an etevnal pvinciple. It sets fovth God's unshouldhave in it some coloring of celestial beauty changing claim to tbe fivstas well as the last ofthat wiU never fade. Not to give is to fall into a all we have. Givioo- late in Ufe, and after longhabU which U wiU be difficiUt to ovcvcome. withholding (there is very Uttie of such giving atYoi to give is to neglect to form a habit which it all), is as though a Jew liad come up to the ternwillbe hard to attain. It,s vevy well known to pie with his basket filled with the fvuits of yearsthose who are acquainted with the religious long gone by—all the bloom and fraa-rance gone