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Why was the first feast of the Jewish year called the Passover? Exod. xii. 26, 27. To whom did the Paschal Lamb point forward? John i. 29. 1 Cor. v. 7, last clause. What was the first requirement in regard to the Lamb? Exod. xii. 5, first clause. Is this fulfilled in Christ? 1 Pet. i. 18, 19. What was the last requirement? Exod. xii. 46, last clause.

In what event has this been fulfilled? John xix. 33-36.

What was to be eaten with the roast flesh? Exod. xii. 8.

What is this typical of? Acts xx. 21. What does the unleavened bread represent? 1 Cor. v. 8.

What did the sprinkling of the blood signify? Exod. xii. 22. Heb. x. 22.

March 12.

Who was the first High Priest among the Jews? Exod. xxviii. 1, 2.

Is there any High Priest now? Heb. iv. 14. Where are Aaron and Jesus Christ compared together? Heb. v. 4, 5.

How was the High Priest anointed? Exod. xxix. 7.

What was the Holy Oil poured on the Saviour? Luke iv. 18.

What was the sign of entire consecration to God? Exod. xxviii. 36-39. Heb. vii. 26. What did the High Priest bear on his heart? Exod. xxviii. 30.

How does Christ bear His people on His heart? Heb. vii. 25, last clause.

How often, and in what way, did the High Priest enter the Holy of Holies? Heb. ix. 7.

Is this fulfilled in Jesus Christ? Heb. ix. 24-27. What other office did the High Priest exercise? Lev. ix. 22.

Is this also accomplished in Christ? Luke xxiv. 50, 51.

March 19.

What was the food of the children of Israel in the Wilderness? Exod. xvi. 14, 15.

Of whom was the manna a type? John vi. 31-33. How often was the manna to be gathered? Exod. xvi. 21.

Are we to be daily coming to Christ for the bread of life? John vi. 34.

How were the Israelites supplied with water? Exod. xvii. 6.

Of whom was the Rock a type? 1 Cor. x. 4.

From whom does the water of life flow? John vii. 37.

Why were Fiery Serpents sent among the people? Num. xxi. 5.

What remedy did God provide for the bitten Israelites? Num. xxi. 8, 9.

Did Christ find in the Brazen Serpent an emblem of Himself? John iii. 14, 15.

March 26.

What kind of place was the Tabernacle? Exod. xxv. 8.

Mention the principal divisions? Heb. ix. 2-5. What was the nobler dwelling of God, of which the tabernacle was the symbol? John i. 14. What was the lid of the ark called? Exod. xxv. 21.

Was the mercy seat the meeting place between God and man? Exod. xxv. 22.

Could the mercy seat be approached without blood? Heb. ix. 7.

What other word is used sometimes instead of

mercy seat?-Propitiation.

Who is the true mercy seat or propitiation? Rom. iii. 25.

What concealed the Holiest of all from the holy place? Exod. xxvi. 33.

What became of this vail? Matt. xxvii. 50, 51. Is the way now open to the true mercy seat? Heb. ix. 19, 20.

RIGHT.

'LIGHT after darkness,
Gain after loss,
Strength after suffering,
Crown after cross.
Sweet after bitter,

Song after sigh,
Home after wandering,
Praise after cry.
'Sheaves after sowing,
Sun after rain,
Sight after mystery,
Peace after pain.
Joy after sorrow,
Čalm after blast,
Rest after weariness,
Sweet rest at last.
'Near after distant,

Gleam after gloom,
Love after loneliness,
Life after tomb.
After long agony
Rapture of bliss!
Right was the pathway
Leading to this!'

FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL

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Then his enemies tried plot. There were forged letters sent through the country, signed in the names of tried friends of Cargill, and inviting him to preach at the Hill of Beath. And the letters found Donald Cargill in the West Bow of Edinburgh. The plot seemed to be successful. Cargill made ready to go, and his enemies made ready a boat to meet him at a certain ferry. Soldiers also lay in wait, at a certain distance from Edinburgh. It seemed that they never before were so sure of their precious prize.

Donald Cargill set out, but had scarcely left the city when the plot was discovered to him, and he escaped again.

Weary with this struggle, he went after this for a little while into England. But in the early spring-time he was preaching again among the hills. On a May-day in Loudon woods, while he preached and baptised in a little stream, an alarm that soldiers were near suddenly dispersed the congregation. Cargill, with several others, took refuge in a neighbouring moss. 'The dragoons fired hard upon them,' writes John Howie; but there were none either killed or hurt that day.'

The people, so eagerly waiting for the truths they could hear but by stealth, hung upon the words of the preacher-they could not be satisfied. They thought his sermons short, though they listened always at the peril of their lives.

O Sir,' they prayed him, 'it is long between meals, and we are starving; all is good, sweet, and wholesome that you deliver-but why do you so straighten

us?'

And Donald Cargill answered them :

Ever since I bowed a knee in good earnest to pray, I never durst preach and pray but when my heart is moved. When my heart comes not up with my mouth, I always think it time to quit.'

And in that early summer he took a secret tour through Ayrshire, Carrick, and Galloway, comforting the poor people. And they brought their little babes to the

lonely moorland streams to be baptised; and the young men and maidens came and were married under the birks, or in the solemn dark of the fir woods, without merriment or song.

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Then he returned to Clydesdale to preach on Tinto Hill. Some of you know Tinto-that lonely height in Upper Lanarkshire, with the endless rhymes and stories that have somehow gathered round it. The Hill of Fire' the name means, for the dreadful worship of the Druids was, ages ago, celebrated on lonely Tinto Top.' And in the long centuries which lay between the times of the Druids and John Knox, it was a common penance from the church, in a little near glen, to carry a great stone to the top of Tinto Hill. And so a great cairn has gathered, and may be seen still, crowning the high solitary hill, which in Scotland they will not call a mountain. It had one more memory to add a memory which is still to the country people the dearest and proudest of all that have gathered round the lonely place.

Donald Cargill was the guest of John Liddel, who lived near the base of Tinto; and on Tinto Hill he arranged to preach on the Sabbath day. But the mansion of St. John's Kirk stood in the neighbourhood of Tinto-the only considerable mansion which stood in that moorland parish. And the lady of St. John's Kirk was the friend of Donald Cargill-a Covenanting lady, zealous as well as kind. And the lady had given it out, whether by mistake or otherwise, that it was at Home Common the sermon would be preached.

Donald Cargill had gone out in the sunshine of the Sabbath morning, and was seated on some green knoll reading or musing alone. And when he lifted his eyes he saw the green hillside sprinkled with reverent groups, all wending in one direction under the morning sun. And of one who passed nearer than the rest, Donald Cargill inquired the cause.

'It is to hear Mr Donald Cargill, who preaches at Home Common,' the man answered.

DONALD CARGILL.

And Donald Cargill rose up, and followed them five miles.

'The morning being warm (about the first of June),' says John Howie, and the heights steep, he was very much fatigued before he got to the place, where a man gave him a drink of water out of his bonnet, and another between sermons, this being the only entertainment he got that day, for he had tasted nothing in the morning. Here he lectured on the 6th of Isaiah, and preached on these words, Rom. ix. 20: "Be not high-minded, but fear." From thence he went to Fife, and baptised many children, and preached one day at Davon Common, and then returned to the Benty Ridge in Cambusnethan, where he received a call from the hands of two men to go back to Galloway, but got it not answered.'

It is near the last sermon now. 'Mr Cargill had run very fast towards his end, which now hastened apace. Having left the Benty Bridge, he preached one day at Auchingilloch, and then came to Dunsyre Common, betwixt Clydesdale and Lothian, where he preached his last sermon on that text, Isaiah xxvi. 20: 'Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers.'

That night, with the lady of St. John's Kirk, and one or two other friends, he went back to Covington Mill, which lay at the base of Tinto. His friendship for the lady was known. He might be her guest, perhaps. Irvine of Bonshaw marched with a party of dragoons from Kilbride. And they came, by the time of sunrising, to old St. John's Kirk, and searched the lonely moorland mansion, but all without success. Then they went on to Covington Mill, and there seized Donald Cargill.

"O blessed Bonshaw!' they tell how Irvine in ecstacy exclaimed, and blessed day that ever I was born-that has found such a prize!'

They took him to Edinburgh. His death was already decreed. Some of his last words have been preserved by his friends.

'I entreat you, be not discouraged at the

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way of Christ, and the cause for which I am to lay down my life, and step into Eternity, where my soul shall be as full of Him as it can desire to be. And now this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever mine eyes did see.'

'Now I am near the getting of the crown which shall be sure, for which I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here. They shall wound me no more. I forgive all men the wrongs they have done me; and I pray the sufferers may be kept from sin, and helped to know their duty Farewell, reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproach, and sufferings. Welcome, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Into Thy hands I commit my spirit.'

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And so,' writes John Howie, 'he finished his course, and the ministry which he had received of the Lord.'

And at the end of this life there is an acrostic preserved-three rude verses, which must be given.

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MASTER DONALD CARGILL.
'M-ost sweet and savoury is thy fame,
A-nd more renowned is thy name,
S-urely than any can record,
T-hou highly favoured of the Lord!
E-xalted thou on earth didst live;
R-ich
grace to thee the Lord did give!

'D-uring the time thou dwelt'st below
O-n in a course to Heaven didst go;
N-ot casten down with doubts and fears,
A-ssured of Heaven near thirty years;
L-abour thou didst in Christ's vineyard,
D-iligent wast, no time thou spared.

'C-hrist's standard thou didst bear alone
A-fter others from it were gone.
R-ight zeal for truth was found in thee,
G-reat sinners censured'st faithfully.
I-n holding truth didst constant prove,
L-aid'st down thy life out of true love.'

H. W. H. W.

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