FROM THE BORDERLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6237, 12 November 1881, Page 3

FROM THE BORDERLAND.

AN UNFINISHED FOKM. HY THE LATE CAROLINE V. LEAKEY. Fltppin-J so slowly, but stron? in His strength Whose arm is almighty to save, I shall hold on my wav, triumphant at length O er Satau and death and the jjrave. so gently, yet still nearinq ever God's land of sweet summer and rest: Just leaning, just trusting, rav onlv endeavour, Close into His love to be pressed* Loving 30 feebly, yet. Lord, all Thine own, This' he rt in itself so unmeet; Oh, take it, and break it, though hard as a stone, In Christ it is is fair and complete. Working so faintly, yet striving to win Thy " Well done," when Jesus appears ; Saviour, 011, help me, Thy Spirit within Can shine on my sowing in tears.

Praying s> coldly. Lord, set mc oil lire : The longing must first come from Thee, Whose Spirit indwelling alone can inspire An utterance filial and free.

Watching so idly, yet seems the time lons, That He, my loved Lord, id away ;

Rev. Professor Plumptre, in a paper just published, draws atteutiou to the fact that the history both of the Old and New Testament stands now on a firmer footing than it did a hundred years a**o. Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian inscriptions have brought into a daylight-clearness all that the Hebrew Scriptures tell us of such rulers as the Pharaohs, Sennacherib, Salmaneser, Nebuchadnezzar, &c. Chaldean and Assyrian records give the Bible names of Omri, Ahab, Jehu, Pekah, Azariah, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. The cemetries of Rome, the Columbarium of Livia, the arch at Thessalonica, the stones of Cyprus, are adduced us verifying the New Testament account of the origin of the Christian Church. These facts are very weighty.

It is affirmed, from Cairo, that among the groat discovery of mummies at Thebes, twenty-six are now aceuratcly known. Among them is that of "the Pharaoh of the i Jewish captivity" in a perfect state of preservation. The mummy is wrapped in linen of a texture finer than the finest Indian muslin. There is also, says the writer, the body of " the most glorious monarch of the Pharaonie history,'' and on the linen roll in his tomb a text not yet translated. There are several mummies of princesses, show ing the high social position of " the daughters °£ Egyptian kings." We are manifestly on the eve of most remarkable confirmations of Scripture.