Joseph Brown Diary

16 TRACT SOCIETY.

Grants are often delayed for want of full information respecting some important points overlooked by the applicants. When books are granted, notice is sent tot he applicant for the amount of the grant, and of the time and manner of forwarding. The receipt of books from the Union ought always to be acknowledged. Statements respecting their usefullness should also be made to the Union in due time.

METHODIST TRACT SOCIETY.

This society was instituted by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1852. Presidents, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Corresponding Secretary, Rev, DANIEL WISE, D.D. Treasurer, J.B. EDWARDS, Esq., Methodist Book Concern, New York.

The object of this Society is to promote the circulation of evangelical tracts and books. It desires every preacher, 1. To organize a corps of tract distributers in every Society under his charge. 2. Ti take up a tract collection for the Parent Society. 3. To claim, if necessary, tracts and Good News to the value of half the amount of his collection, for the use of his tract distrubuters. 4. If his Church is too poor to take a collection or to buy tracts, the Society desires, on proper application, to make suitable grants of tracts, providing his Church will be responsible for their circulation.

Where annual conferences employ conference agents and colporteurs the Society assumes no responsibility.

Considerable funds are annually required by this Society to meet the wants of our German, Swedish, and Norwegian work. Perhaps it is nowhere more useful than int he foreign department of its work.

Donations should be transmitted to the Treasurers, as above.

Tracts are sold at fifteen pages for one cent, or twenty pages when five dollars or more are ordered.

A WORD OF ADVICE.

Before starting to Conference, be sure that your statistical report is carefully made out. Your station, whether large or small, is a part of the whole, and should be accurately represented.

Get your money for benevolent purposes changed into bills or gold - and thus save the treasurers of the societies much labor.

Take the earliest opportunity to hand to the persons appointed to receive them, your statistics and benevolent moneys; and thus save them the trouble of finding YOU to get them.

While at home, make it a point of conscience to present to the people of your charge the claims of all our benevolent objects. If the people are too poor to contribute to all or any of them, the will be poorer still if you do not preach to them.

FUNERAL. 17

FUNERAL OF A CHRISTIAN.

SCRIPTURE LESSONS.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? Job vii, 1.

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Job xvi, 22.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Job xxx, 23.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. Psa. xxxvii, 37.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Psa. cxvi, 15.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil. i, 21.

For I am in a strait betwixt the two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Phil. i, 23.

I would not live always. Job vii, 16.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psa. xxiii, 4.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Job iii, 17.

If a man die, shall he live again? Job xiv, 14.

For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. Job xix, 25.

Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Luke xx, 37.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. xv, 53.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. John xi, 25.

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18 FUNERAL.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this moral shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv, 54.

For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor. v, 7.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Rev. xxi, 4.

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign forever and ever. Rev. xxii, 5.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Job xix, 26.

Whom I shall see for myelf, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; through my reins be consumed within me. Job xix, 27.

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living. Luke xx, 38.

And whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die. John xi, 26.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 1 Cor. xv, 55.

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 1 Cor. xv, 56.

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. xv, 57.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2 Cor. v, 8.