Mr. Ramsden smiled gently, and perhaps both the papa and the little boy sang more heartily from their conversation. During the service Herbert once or twice had to try very hard to keep his thoughts from wandering to the question, "Who were the other six gods?" but he managed it, paid great attention to the sermon, and we have reason to believe slipped something extra into the collecting box as a thank-offering for that goodness of God to our own happy country, which his glance at the Seven Monuments of Saxon idolatry had brought to mind. A CHILD'S PIETY. IN the memoir of Mrs. Rose, the wife of a Missionary in Arracan, the following incident in her childhood when at the early age of six years, is stated. An aged minister of the church to which her parents belonged was making a religious visit in her family; after a conversation with her mother, to which Mary was observed to pay very close attention, he turned to the child and said, "Well, my little dear, I suppose you feel as though you were too young to be interested in religion." She promptly replied, "I am not too young to be a sinner." "But," said the old Christian, are you not too young to have the Saviour take any notice of you?" She answered with great emotion, "Jesus says, 'Suffer little children to come unto me.' He continued, "What must you do to come to Jesus?" She replied, "I must repent and believe on Him." The visitor said, "You seem to understand your duty, why don't you go about it?" She answered with great earnestness, "I should be glad to, but I don' know how to begin." She publicly professed her Saviour and was baptized at the age of eleven. A word to parents and pastors here. This dear child may seem to have been very young to be baptized. We would rather ask why her profession of religion should have been delayed until the age of eleven. Why not have admitted her to the privileges of discipleship as soon as conclusive evidence was given that she was truly and consciously a disciple? In the primitive church, there were not only professors, but martyrs at nine or ten. A venerable friend in forwarding us the incident, well remarks, "Many ministers and deacons, and some parents, in keeping back young disciples, discourage them and expose them to a greater degree of temptation than would be the case if they felt that they had solemnly taken the vows of the Lord upon them, and that they were under the discipline of the church. I have not known one instance of a child of twelve or thirteen joining a church where there has been cause for regret, but very many in which delay has been the occasion of bitter and lasting sorrow." SONG OF A HINDOO WOMAN. THE Hindoo women are accustomed to sing almost all day long, while busy about their housework. Very foolish and wicked, as well as idolatrous, their songs often are. A poor woman who had learned to know and love Christ, was found by a Missionary of the Free Church of Scotland, a short time since, singing to herself in the language of the country, a sweet little hymn of her own composing, of which our young friends will be pleased to read a verse or two, translated into THE OLD TIME AND THE NEW. English, as showing how the converted heathen women of the East often think and feel. To my poor house a stranger has come, With gods of stone what more have I to do? My soul clings to Jesus The Lord of all is my Father now- I shall not want. Since I clasped thy feet to my bosom, Oh, leave me never! THE OLD TIME AND THE NEW. ON turning the page, our readers will perceive two pictures. Both are of scenes in India, yet how different! Let us call them the Old Time and the New. JUGGERNAUT belongs to the old: see his dreadful car rolling slowly on, drawn by human hands, and crushing the unhappy worshipper who has thrown himself in its way. The RAILROAD belongs to the new; and to look at the steam-carriage, with the long train rushing on its iron path, makes us think of happy England and pleasant journeys we have taken with those whom we love best. There will soon, it is likely, be many railways at work in India, ready to carry passengers froin city to city, and almost from end to end of that great continent. When one of them was opened in April, 1853, we are told that some of the natives, who looked on, could scarcely be kept from throwing themselves under the engine-wheels! They would thus pay homage to the train, as they had seen their countrymen do to the idol's car. Perhaps, though THE OLD TIME AND THE NEW. 9 they might not be able to tell all their feelings, they felt that the railroad was stronger and greater than Juggernaut. There are many reasons why we should be glad to see railways, and works of that kind, carried on in India; but the greatest is, that they will certainly help the progress of the gospel. We should like our young readers to think of this. They will not, perhaps, at first, understand the whole of the matter, but we think they will see some ways in which this will be. "O yes," says one, "Missionaries will be able to travel about much more quickly from place to place, |