SPECIAL NOTICE. IR. J. PAXTON COSTA, R.D.S., gs to intimate to his Clerical and Ministerial Patients his REMOVAL from 3, ALDGATE, E.C., here the accommodation has proved inadequate to his increasing actice, to improved Premises, specially adapted to his professional duties, at 14, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. Mr. COSTA treats Patients specially for the IMPROVEMENT OF ARTICULATION. Consultations FREE, every day during the regular hours of attendance. Nitrous Oxide administered with all the latest improvements. Special arrangements to suit the convenience of Patients may be made by Post, and Terms, also, fixed. Attendance daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MR. J. PAXTON COSTA, R.D.S., 114, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. THE NEW PATENT Electric Knife Machine PRICE 3s, 6D, EACH. Will be sent upon receipt of the above, together with 6d. for carriage, to any part of the Kingdom. A WONDERFUL COMBINATION OF CHEAPNESS, SIMPLICITY, AND USEFULNESS. By means of this Machine a mere child is enabled to clean one dozen knives without the slightest difficulty in a minute or two. It is specially adapted for use in the Dwelling, on Board Ship, in the Workshop, and by Travellers. It is one of the new resources of civilization. It has stood severe and repeated tests in the most satisfactory manner. As this Machine works along the grain of the steel, and not across it, as in other knife cleaners, it speedily produces a beautiful polish, causing the cutlery to resemble silvered metal. The knives are not worn away by its use, nor damaged in the slightest degree. SPECIALLY PREPARED POWDER 4d. PER PACKET. There is no Waste, as the Powder can be used again. SOLE PATENTEES AND MANUFACTURERS : DAVISON, HEARN & CO., 84, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON. ALSO TO BE SEEN AT THEIR STAND IN THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXHIBITION, 1884. BEMROSE AND SONS, PRINTERS, 23, OLD BAILEY, LONDON; AND DERBY. EDITOR'S SERIES OF THE PREACHERS' MONTHLY, EDITED BY THE REV. W. HOPE DAVISON. CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. Living Words of Great Preachers. Thorough Amendment. T. L. Cuyler, D.D. Source and Characteristics of Gospel Blessings. T. Kelley. The Bible and Modern Discovery. The Jewish Exile and Assyrian Records. Professor F. Brown The Preachers' Library. PAGE 1 7 10 13 18 24 29 33 35 35 37 41 45 47 54 58 59 60 62 No effort will be spared to maintain the high character of the Magazine, and to adapt it for immediate use in the Preacher's Library. The aim of the Editor will be, as hitherto, to supply suggestive Thoughts for Thinkers-Useful Topics for Preachers and SpeakersLiving Seeds which may grow and fructify in the minds and hearts of busy and overburdened men who are set for the proclamation and defence of the Gospel of Christ. The Rev. C. H. SPURGEON says "it is first-rate: the best of its class." 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Of all Booksellers, or of the Publishers, BEMROSE & SONS, 23, OLD BAILEY, E.C., ر To whom communications for the Editor and Books for review should be addressed. THE PREACHERS' MONTHLY: STUDIES FOR THE PULPIT. EDITOR'S SERIES. Living Words Faithful unto Death. REV. ii. 10. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." ALTHOUGH these words are addressed to a person, to the Angel or chief pastor of the church or congregation of Smyrna, they are addressed to him, not for any distinctly personal reasons, but rather that he might, while keeping them in mind himself, inculcate and enforce them upon the people of his charge: saying to each from the Master, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." These words imply, I. A GREAT TRUST. "Be thou_faithful." Then something is committed to our care, and from the solemnity of the charge, from the greatness of the reward promised to faithfulness, it must be something of the utmost importance. What is this trust? I believe it is all that as Christians we have-and that is an immense property ourselves, our time, our talents, our opportunities, our friendships, our successes, and our trials. The great kingdom of Christ is also given in trust to His people: its principles to be defended; its honour to be maintained; its offers of salvation to be freely given. All this is committed in trust, with the solemn injunction, "Be thou faithful." There is an earlier trust which we receive as men. As a responsible being each man receives himself in trust from God. He has charge of himself, and of all that he possesses, either by express ownership, or by moral relationship to himself. God trusts every man with his own being, and it is strange and sad that most men do not take the trust, do not feel it; they refuse to know the wealth of their own heing; they squander, misuse and corrupt this great gift of themselves. When Christ comes to a man, He reveals to him this great trust. He VOL. 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