esting to the young, but there was a deep which coucheth beneath, which he hoped they might know something about. When he heard them singing just before, he thought how much better such songs were than the frothy things often heard about the streets, and he hoped many there would be found singing amongst the blood-washed host in Heaven. He did not think they would even then forget the meetings in their Sunday School. Their teachers came to them with an open Bible, and he hoped they would search to see if the things their teachers said were in the Scriptures. There are many people in the world who will cavil at the Bible, because it is against everything that is bad. Therefore, when people find the Word of God is against them, they turn against that. He hoped they would bring everything that they met with to the test of God's Word, and hold to that which the Bible says is right, and give up that which it declares to be wrong.

A Priest once found a little girl reading the Scriptures; he told her she had no business to do so, as it was a dangerous book; so he took it from her and threw it in the fire. But, she said, "I have got three chapters in my heart, you can't take those away." This shows the value of committing Scripture to memory.

He had also read of another Priest who asked a man that was mending the road if he knew when Adam was born. As the man did not know, he asked a child standing close by, who said, "Adam was never born, Sir, God made him."

The Priest said, "Pat, I am ashamed of your ignorance; even a child knows more than you do."

"Yes, Sir, but then he goes to the Protestant School," replied the man, "where they teach him to read the Scriptures."

He then referred to the value of prayer, and spoke of a youth who became an infidel and went to sea, where he was overtaken by a storm which compelled him to fall on his knees and pray, "O

God, hear my mother's prayers,” he had found out the value of prayer at last.

Mr. Hull then presented the books to the scholars with appropriate remarks.

Mr. Boorne, of Greenwich, said he had been requested to speak to the teachers, and would do his best to keep to his text. The best recommendation he could give to those engaged in the work was prayer both before and after teaching, for the battle was either lost or won in the closet. The next thing he would recommend was punctuality. There was a clerk in a bank that was so regular to his time, that the neighbours could set their watches by him. It should be the same with Sunday School Teachers.

A Committee of eight gentlemen were to meet at a certain time. Seven were there, but one came in a quarter of an hour late, with many apologies. "I am not sure," said a Quaker present, “ that we can excuse thee, friend, for thou hast not only wasted thine own quarter of an hour, but that of each gentleman present, which in all makes two hours lost." Mr. Boorne hoped that none of the teachers would thus waste the time of their scholars.

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Perseverance is also necessary. person entrusted with a load, who throws it down after carrying it a short distance, is not worthy of any confidence. Some teachers expect old heads on young shoulders; if they do not find them they grow tired of the work. They should remember that Paul says: "When I was a child, I thought as a child," &c.

Teachers should be prudent. "Dead flies make the ointment stink," and anything imprudent, either in word or action, on the part of the teachers, will at once lower them in the eyes of the scholar.

Patience is required in teaching. The husbandman has long patience before he sees the reward of his labours. When the seed is sown, some fall in one place, some in another. It is not known which will prosper: this or that. Discouragements are bound to be met When teachers can get every

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thing just to their mind it will be time for them to leave off. He had read of an artist who killed himself with laughing at a picture which he had painted, which he thought so excellent. Admiration of what one has done spoils all. Not unto us, not unto us, but unto the Lord should be all the glory We read of one in the Scriptures of whom it is said, "She hath done what she could; " you may not think it much that you can do, but that little should be done.

A passenger on board ship was one night in his cabin, when he heard the cry "a man overboard." He thought he might hinder if he tried to assist in the rescue; the only thing he could do was to seize his lamp and hold it close to the cabin window. That simple act was the means of enabling those on deck to rescue the man. So, however little the act may be which we perform, it may be of use to others.

He was sorry to hear there was a lack of teachers in the school, and as volunteers were better than pressed men, he hoped many would come forward and assist in the work.

Another hymn having been sung, Mr. Link concluded with prayer.

Through the kindness of one of the teachers the children were presented with a bun and orange at the close of the meeting. EBENEZER.

THE EARTHWORM AND ITS

FOOD.

HE assimilative power of the worm may be tested by causing it to digest food containing any dye colour, such as carmine or

madder.

The following are the steps in this process :-Take about half a pint of common white sand; dust in the colour until the sand has acquired the right tint,

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then pour in a few teaspoonfuls of salad oil, or use a piece of lard about the size of a walnut. Place the jar on a hot plate, stir the sand until the grease is equally distributed through it, and then let the mixture cool.

Now procure a few live worms, place them in the sand, which must have been previously rendered very damp with water, and after a few days it will be noticed that they have been living upon this prepared food; and if its use is continued long enough many of the organs and internal tissues will become partially coloured.

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This experiment is by no cruel, as the minute particles of carmine simply deposit themselves in the tissues.

It is worthy of remark that worms must cause a large quantity of earth to pass through them before sufficient nourishment has been extracted; in fact, we might judge of the richness of any sample of soil from the number of worms found in it, taking for granted that the soil is damp, as they will not exist in dry situations.

The swallowing of the soil is also of great assistance to the worm as it burrows into the ground; and as large quantities of earth are thereby removed and ejected behind, they are thus great friends to the farmer and gardener, constantly turning up the soil, and often making a barren spot fertile. The old popular belief that worms bite the roots of plants is utterly untenable, as they are not possessed of teeth, having only a very powerful muscular gullet and alimentary canal, by the use of which they obtain and digest their food.

The manner in which the earthworm swallows earth is curious. Its gullet is extremely muscular, and contains an internal muscular tunic, which acts something like the piston of an air-pump when the mouth is applied to the earth, thus sucking it in, and passing it onward by the muscular action of the gullet and alimentary canal.-Science for All.

ANSWERS TO BIBLE QUESTIONS ON THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. (Page 119.)

I. His right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot, viii. 23.

2. By sending down fire to consume the offering, ix. 24.

3. He destroyed them by fire, x. 2.

4. The taking of the blood of the bullock and the goat into the most holy place, and sprinkling of it on the mercy-seat, xvi. 14, 15.

5. Aaron putting his hands on the head of the live goat, and confessing the sins of the people over it, and then sending it into the wilderness, xvi. 21.

6. Leprosy, xiii.

7. The year of Jubilee, xxv.

8. To the humble and penitent, xxvi. 40-45.

[Examples and Lessons from the above Questions.]

I. "We learn from the blood being put upon Aaron, that before we can serve God acceptably we must be redeemed and cleansed by the blood of Christ, and that all those who are purchased by the precious blood of Christ and have received His mark should serve Him faithfully as their lawful Master, listen to His commands, do His work, and walk in His ways."-K. Colgate, M. E. Drake, J. Remain, B. T. Giles, A. M. Lower, C. Horton, B. Moss, S. House, A. Moss.

2. "This teaches us that the fire of God's wrath came down upon Christ, the substitute and sacrifice, and that His suffering was received by God as a satisfaction for the sins of His people, when He offered Himself without spot to God." -B. Moss, J. Bryan, A. M. Lower.

3. "If we disobey the Lord's command we must expect His judgment. God is holy and His judgments are terrible." R. Chaplin, Z. Hockley, K. Colgate, E. T. Scott, J. E. F. Tyler, E. M. Orman, B. T. Giles, M. Newton, A. M. Lower, F. Moody.

"We should never presume to do that

which God has not called us to. We should not bring in any innovations into the service of God, but worship Him according to His word only."-J. Remain, J. Bryan, M. Sergeant, M. E. Drake, E. J. Collins, C. Horton, S. House, S. Parsons.

4. "Christ is the way to God. There is no atonement for sin but the blood of Christ; this great High Priest has shed His blood in God's sight, and now pleads for His people."-S. Parsons, B. Moss, M. Sergeant. E. M. Orman, M. Ricketts, C. Horton, E. J. Collins, A. Chambers, F. S. Self, E. T. Scott, K. Colgate.

5. "God the Father laid the sins of His people on Christ, who carried them in His own body on the tree, and bore them away; and they shall never be found again. We must look alone to Christ to be saved from our sins."-M. E. Drake, J. Remain, M. Newton, A. M. Lower, C. Horton, F. Moody, J. Bryan, E. M. Orman, M, Sergeant, B. Moss, A. Moss.

6. "Sin is a disease of the soul as leprosy is of the body, and is ever spreading there is but one remedy for it, and but one physician, Christ. Each must go to the High Priest for himself in order to be cured."-F. S. Self, S. Parsons, J. Bryan, M. Ricketts, E. J. Collins, A. M. Lower, A Chambers, M. Newton, J. E. F. Tyler.

"We should shun sin as we would the leprosy.”—J. Remain, B. F. Giles, E. T. Scott.

7. "As the bond servants had their liberty restored at the Jubilee, so the Gospel proclaims liberty to poor sinners spiritually; and delivers them from Satan and sin to enjoy God's favour and service."-C. Horton, B. Moss, A. Moss, S. Parsons.

8. "If we humble ourselves, repent, confess, and forsake our sins, God will be gracious to us."-C. Horton, B. Moss, S. Parsons, E. J. Collins, M. E. Drake.

"God is true and faithful to His Word. He ever remembers His covenant."G. S. Gibbs, E. M. Orman, M. Ricketts, F. Moody, A. M. Lower, B. T. Giles, J. E. F. Tyler, E. Hampton, K. Colgate.

BIBLE QUESTIONS ON THE BOOK OF NUMBERS.

CHAPTERS I. TO XXIV.

1. How were the children of Israel guided in their journeyings?

2. Who was punished for speaking against her brother?

3. What was done to the man who broke the fourth commandment?

4. By what means did God both punish and deliver His people of which Christ spoke?

5. What bad man desired to die like a good one?

6. Who grew angry when he was told the truth?

Give Lessons and Examples from the above questions.

BALACLAVA.

BOUT four hundred years ago the Turks seized it and handed it over to the Tartars, who held it till the. Crimea was annexed to Russia by Catherine II. towards the end of the last century. Then it was colonized by Greeks from the Morea, whose descendants thought fit to show fight, few as they were in number, to the English army on its arrival in September, 1854. The house of their chief, Captain Manto, is the only dwelling which is visible from the sea. The rest of the town, a single street of about one hundred small houses, with two churches, stretches along the shore of what looks like one of the smallest of our northern lakes, land-locked by high, precipitous mountains. On those height 3, it is said, in the time of the mad emperor Paul, cannon were posted, intended to be fired upon any foreign vessels who might seek a for refuge from the storm within the port. About a mile north of the town lies the large tract of comparatively low ground known as the plain of Balaclava, some three miles long and two broad, hemmed

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