Let the hope of soon entering that happy home, stimulate you to increased ardor in the cause of your Master.  Methinks, some who will read these pages, have snow-white locks and wrinkled brows and faded cheeks; and these tell you that soon your pilgrim journey will be ended, your tent-home dissolved, and your staff laid aside; and oh, if you have made God the strength of your heart and your portion forever, you shall welcome death with joy; yea, you will now be anxious to lay aside these garments of toil and conflict, and soar away to that better country, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.  With holy pantings after God you will say, “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!”

  “Let me go! my feet are weary,
    In the desert where I roam. 
  Let me go! the way is dreary—­
    Let the wanderer go home! 
  I am weary of the darkness
    Of these lonely, failing streams—­
  Let me go where founts are flashing
    In the light of heaven’s beams!

  “Let me go! my soul is thirsting
    For those waters, bright, and clear,
  From the fount of glory bursting—­
    Ah! why keep the pilgrim here? 
  Let me go!  O, who would linger,
    Fainting, fearing, and athirst,
  When before us lies a region
    Where undying pleasures burst?”

We have now enumerated some of the elements of the Christian home—­its constitution, its ministry, its trials, its joys, and its relation to a better home in heaven.  But we have not exhausted this interesting subject; we have given but a very general and imperfect sketch.  If this our first effort will contribute to the salvation of one soul, we shall be compensated; and should our encouragement justify it, we may continue the effort, in the preparation of a work on the historical development of the Christian home.