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844 means.: xvx.into the treasury of the Lord ot' their abundance; richmen have bestowed of their riches ; and in many casesthe miser has forgot his parsimony, the poor have replenishedthe funds of the Lord's house, and the widowhas cast in her mite. How easy to work the work ofthe Lord when the hearts ofmen are made willing by hispower! But shall weforget those who have tbrsakenthe land of their t`athers, the home of their nativity, andhave spent lonesome years of toil among strangers, yes,worse than strangers, among heathen idolaters, and thesavage of the wilderness, in the cold regions of thenorth, and under the scorching rays of a vertical sun,among the suifocating sands of the desert., or in thepestilential atmosphere of India; who have risked theirlives to learn a language, and prepare themselves totrim a.lamp for those who sit in darkness and the shadowof death? No, we will not forget them; the prayersof thousands have ascended be ore the golden altar,morning and evening, on their behalf, and Israel's Godhas been their protector. Surely we may hope thatthese have oil in their lamps, who have sacrificed somuch to bestow alamp upon others. But remember,my brethren, the Lord he is God, and let him have allthe glory. This is the time, and the same time thatGabriel informed Daniel, "many should run to and fro,and knowledge should increase." This, too, is the sametime when the angel through the midst of heavenhad the everlastin gospe Dying to preach to them who dweltupon the earth. Ifere are Christ's words fulhlled, wherehe says, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall bepreached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;and then shall the end come."2dly. It is plain to any diligent observer of the signsofthe times, that all the societies for moral reform inour world at the present day are parts of the fulfilmentofthe parable, giving more light. What of our Biblesocieties? Are not these trimming the lamp for millionsof human beings? Thirty past, more thanthree fourths of the families in wyears at we call Christianlands were without the lamp of life, and now nearl allsupplied. Many of those who satin heathenish in-k»