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know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by the horns and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him for a burnt offering instead of his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast obeyed me, and hast not withheld thine only son; in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,' and as the sand which is upon the sea shore: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. So Abraham returned unto his young men and they rose up and went together to Beer-she'ba.

QUESTIONS.

What was Abraham desired by God to do with his son Isaac? Where was he desired to offer up his son? Who called out of heaven to Abraham when he was about to slay his son? What did the angel say to Abraham ? What did Abraham see when he lifted up his eyes? What did Abraliam do with this ram?

GOD BLESSETH NOAH.

And God blessed Noah, and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and

upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herb have I given you all things: But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will estab lish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to

pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. And I will re member my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And

God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

QUESTIONS.

What did God say to Noah and his sons when he blessed them? On what was the fear of them to be? What did he give them for meat? What was threatened against those With what did God say he would establish his covenant? What do you mean by a covenant? And what was the covenant? And what was the sign that was to be the token of this covenant?

who should shed blood?

TO THE LADY BIRD.

Oh! Lady-bird, Lady-bird, why do you roam
So far from your comrades, so distant from home?
Why do you, who can rev'el all day in the air,
Who the sweets of the grove and the garden can

share,

In the fold of a leaf, who can form thee a bower, And a palace enjoy in the tube of a flower;

Ah, why, simple Lady-bird, why do you venture, The dwellings of man so fa-mil'iar to enter?

Too soon you may find, that your trust is misplaced, When by some cruel child you are wantonly chased,

And your bright scarlet coat, so bespotted with black,

May be torn by his bar'ba-rous hands from your

back.

And your smooth jetty corselet be pierced with a

pin,

That the urchin may see you in agonies spin;
For his bosom is shut against pity's appeals,
He has never been taught that a Lady-bird feels.
Ah, then, you'll regret you were tempted to rove,
From the tall climbing hop, or the haʼzel's thick

grove,

And will fondly remember each arbour and tree,
Where lately you wandered, contented and free;
Then fly, simple Lady-bird !-fly away home,
No more from your nest, and your children to roam

THE SUPREME RULER OF THE WORLD.

Many kingdoms, and countries full of people, and islands, and large continents, and different climes, make up this whole world: God governs it. The people swarm upon the face of it like ants upon a hillock. Some are black with the hot sun;

some cover themselves with furs against the sharp cold; some drink of the fruit of the vine; some the pleasant milk of the cocoa-nut; and others quench their thirst with the running stream. All are God's fam'i-ly; he knows every one of them, as a shepherd knows his flock. They pray to him in different languages, but he understands them all; he hears them all; he takes care of all: none are so great that he cannot pun'ish them; none are so mean, that he will not protect them.

Negro woman, who sitest pining in cap-tiv'i-ty, and weepest over thy sick child; though no one sees thee, God sees thee; though no one pities thee, God pities thee. Raise thy voice, forlorn and abandoned one; call upon him from amidst thy bonds; for as suredly he will hear thee.-Mon'arch, that rulest over a hundred states; whose frown is terrible as death, and whose armies cover the land, boast not thyself as though there were none above thee. God is above thee; his powerful arm is always over thee; and if thou doest ill, assuredly he will punish thee.

Nations of the earth, Fear the Lord; families of men, call upon the name of your God. Is there any one whom God hath not made? let him not worship him. Is there any one whom he hath not blessed? let him not praise him.

QUESTIONS.

What is it that makes up this whole world? Who governs it? Like what do they swarm upon it? Are they all of one