duty is; let nothing tempt you to neglect it. Be watchful over your passions, and endeavour to repress all evil thoughts. Spend not in idleness the leisure time which your intervals of duty leave you, and which may be a blessing instead of a curse to you: but seek knowledge, especially that which you will find in your Bibles, and which will make you wise unto salvation.

If you find this a hard task, if you find it difficult to overcome the corruption of your nature, to maintain a successful struggle against your carnal lusts, and your evil appetites, do you think that God will leave you to your own weakness? No; He is too merciful for that. He is ever ready to work with you, if you will only show yourselves anxious to work with Him; if you will only ask his help in sincere and earnest prayer, through the all-prevailing name of his Son Jesus Christ.

It is my prayer and fervent hope that you will consider Confirmation a preparatory step to receiving (whenever you have the opportunity) the Holy Communion of the Lord's Supper, which God has appointed as one channel through which we are to receive grace; but which, I grieve to say, is too much neglected by soldiers. Many of you who have not hitherto done so, will, I hope, henceforth draw near with faith to the Lord's Table, and take this Holy Sacrament, so full of heavenly comfort, of strengthening and refreshing grace, and thus make open profession of your faith in that Saviour whose name you bear. And may God, of his infinite mercy, confirm your faith and good resolutions, and defend you with his heavenly grace, that you may continue his for ever, and, daily increasing more and more in his Holy Spirit, and in all godliness of living, may come to his everlasting kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord!

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SHORT ADDRESS TO SOLDIERS

ON THE SACRAMENT OF

THE LORD'S SUPPER.

BY THE

REV. R. W. BROWNE, M.A.

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A SHORT

ADDRESS TO SOLDIERS.

THESE words are simple and plain words, and they convey to us a plain and simple command. And if you will read the twenty-second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, in which they occur, you will find that it is a command to celebrate the Sacrament of our blessed Lord's body and blood, in commemoration of his death, and the sacrifice which He offered upon the cross in behalf of sinful man; and that He who gave this command was no other than our Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

On this plain and positive duty, then, I would wish to address a few observations to you, beseeching you to take heed to them, and to lay them to heart, as men who love your Saviour, and value your own salvation. And there is the greater reason so to do, because it is a sad and melancholy truth, that you now stand singly as the only body of men in this country who almost universally neglect it; so much so, that I do not suppose that throughout England there can be found any other congregation of Christian wor

shippers, the members of which, almost without exception, turn their backs upon the table of their Lord.

This discredit, so glaring in the eyes of the world, so well known, and so wondered at by your fellow Christians, must be wiped off from you, Christian soldiers! For remember, that whatever casts a slur on your character as Christians, tarnishes your reputation as men. And do not think that I am speaking the language of unkind and harsh reproof. I firmly believe that this state of things has arisen, not from wilfulness or obstinacy, or a contemptuous disregard of the ordinance of your Saviour, but from the fact of neglect having by length of time grown into a habit. It has come to be considered unusual amongst you to receive the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood; and each almost dreads the singularity of breaking through an established usage. We know what creatures of habit we are, and how difficult it is to persuade ourselves to leave a course which we have seen others around us pursuing. But still such conduct is not less to be regretted, and I feel sure that those amongst you, who are accustomed to think seriously on religion, must be convinced, that it is inconsistent with a heartfelt belief in the doctrines of the Gospel.

It will be instructive, first, to observe the circumstances under which the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was instituted. The termination of our blessed Lord's earthly career was now