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SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. 15

The condition on which the gratuitous numbers of the Missionary Advocate are issued are:

1. That the spirit of the Chapter on Missions is carried out on the station or circuit. -- See Discipline, p. 207.

2. That the funds raised on the credit of the General Missionary Cause be sent to the Treasurer of the Parent Missionary Society at the earliest practicable period.

3. That the application for the gratis numbers be made invariably by the pastor, and one or more of the members of his Missionary Committee.

This application should come forward every year, and if possible during the months of February and March, as the March number is the last for the year. The new volume commences April 1. Will the brethren renew their applications?

SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE M. E. CHURCH.

BUSINESS ADDRESS.

All communications respecting statistics, and the general business of the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary, Rev. D. WISE, D.D., 200 Mulberry-street, New York.

Funds should be remitted to the Treasurer, S. J. GOODENOUGH, at the same place; J. M. PHILLIPS, Cincinnati; J. P. MAGEE, Boston; W. M. DOUGHTY, Chicago; J. L. READ, Pittsburgh; or H. H. OTIS, Buffalo.

Applications for aid in behalf of Sunday-schools should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary at New York; to J. M. PHILLIPS, Secretary of the Committee at Cincinnati: to J. P. MAGEE, Secretary of the Committee at Boston; to W. M. DOUGHTY, the Secretary of the Committee at Chicago; to J. L. READ, Pittsburgh; or to H. H. OTIS, Buffalo.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR AID.

Applications for aid should be signed by the preacher in charge, and also, if practicable, by the Presiding Elder of the District. Every application should state distinctly:

1. The name of the school and place for which aid is asked, and the Conference, District, and Appointment to which it belongs.

2. The average number of persons worshipping in the congregation to which the school is attached.

3. The average number of teachers engaged in the school.

4. The average number of scholars attending.

5. The average number of scholars able to read.

6. The number and kind of books on hand.

7. Amount raised per year on the circuit or station to aid the SundaySchool Union.

8. The precise manner in which books should be forwarded.

9. The Post-office, County, and State where the applicant may be addressed by mail.

Various other particulars might be added, according to the circumstances of the case.

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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 to the applicant of 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 usefulness 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 Chuch 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. To 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 distributers. 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 responsiblity.

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 in the 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' worth or more are ordered.

A WORD OF ADVICE.

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

Get your money for benevolent purposes changed into bills or gold -- as large as possible -- 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, they will be poorer still if you do not preach about them.

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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 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 of God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Luke xx, 37.

For this corruptible must put on incorruptioni, 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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