ugh to know there is such ough to talk about it and This will do us no good find out who are going whom it is prepared. If , and children were sure ast, then we need think but the Bible says only it (Matt. vii. 14). ld you that at the next treat only a few boys or school would be allowed e of a particular class or would you feel about it? be wondering whether we ng them, and try to find likely to go and who I should try to be very of being one.)

u would all feel anxious; were among you. But if a pleasure or reward sts the day, how much e to be about so importas a pleasure which lasts rnal happiness! Don't

is this feeling makes me he youngest child in my once decide whether she ravellers to heaven or not. given us so many marks Christian pilgrim may be we look carefully we shall decide; but first tell me ne meaning of that word (No, teacher.) Well, it o wanders, or is always the name is given to the use while upon earth he nor at rest, but only a trange land (Heb. xi. 13). tand?

loes the word Christian Chat is named after Christ, -(Because he belongs to ho follows Him.)-Very all who bear this name ve it, all do not follow re not all like Him, nor ims to heaven. This is

ray to be true, real, folns, must we not ?-(Yes, e we have found a way to

THE SURE GUIDE Read Psalm cxix. 9, 10 WHICH of you little ones can what our lesson is to be th ing? (The guide to heaven, What is a guide ?-(One wh the way in which others are Right.

Many years ago, when the were travelling through the w to the land of promise, God g a guide; do you remember wh -(Moses, teacher.) Yes, and died whom did God send in h

- (Joshua.) Yes; without t people would not have been a on, or to find the right way.

Have we any one now who before us, as Moses did be Israelites ?-(No.) Then do y God has left us all to wander to go through this wilderness any guide?-(I don't know, Think, if God in His great 1 prepared so beautiful a home for told us to get ready for it; if H that we are not to live here alw to live as pilgrims journeying other home; if He sent His to die for us, to put away our s to open the gates of this beautif which sin had closed to us fo if, I say, He has done all this, think He would leave us wi guide to it, without something out the way?-(Oh! I know, the Bible, isn't it?)

Certainly we find that God ra holy men on purpose to write d He wishes us to know abou way" see 2 Pet. i. 21; and t all so clear that the youngest the most simple, need not ma mistake : see Isa. XXXV. 8. have nothing to do now but re is written- ? (in the Bible, t Yes, this is the "sure guide going to talk to you about.

I hope you each have a Bible. is no reason now why the poores should be without a copy of God' Bibles are so cheap, it mak often tremble when I think how

why? Because it leaves se for neglecting it. It greater, and will make t heavier by-and-by. o, very few could buy persons then walked chapter read; think of

ng ago of the visit of a Christians in the valleys ed Calabria. Shall I tell (Oh! please do, teacher.) Out three hundred years ened, when Bibles were when persons were not hem freely, as they may ing a little peasant child own the mountain with , and she saw a stranger her and said, "I like were singing just now, hen he told her he had aundreds of miles away. o the hut in which she nand was welcomed as when he made known Ehat he was a pastor, no bounds. It was I that a meeting should ening; and the father even little Lois, the hastened from cottage Che light of torches to to come. A crowd of men, women, and chilthe cottage home. And pastor took out his read, "The book, the rmured, and bowed their ce to hear the words of

ldren, what do you think uld say could they come nd see how the book is in the Sunday-school, any; if they could see use, trifling while it is you think they would

(Yes, teacher.) Then ture God sees you, and nd you trifling over the means to be your guide. back to our lesson. a me any text to show es are a guide?" The

EARLY TIMES OF THE BIBLE.

XVII.-PHARAOH'S DREAMS.

"He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he."-Prov. xvi. 20.

Now, little ones, I am about to tell you the meaning of Pharaoh's dreams; but first you must repeat to me what the dreams were about.

Quite right; then Joseph said, "The dreams are both the same; and this is the meaning. God is going to send seven good years one after the other, in which there will be such plenty of corn and fruits and everything good to eat, that they might be called fat years. Now these are what the seven fat kine and the seven fine ears of corn mean; seven good fat years, you see, with a great plenty of everything. After these seven years will come seven years of dreadful famine. Do you know what that means? These years of famine will be so dreadful that all the plentifulness of the fat years will be eaten up, and there will be nothing left; and this is what was meant by the seven thin kine and the seven bad ears of corn eating up the others."

Then Joseph gave the king some good advice; he said it would be a good plan for all the people not to be extravagant in the fat years, but to eat only what was proper, and waste nothing, and that Pharaoh had better appoint some people to gather up, all about the land, what food there was to spare each year, and take care of it, and then it would be ready for the famine years.

Well, Pharaoh was quite pleased with this plan and with Joseph altogether; and he said to his people, "Where could we find such a clever, wise, good man as this is? We had better make him the head man, to do all this." Then he took his own ring and put it on Joseph's hand, and a gold chain on his neck, and gave him fine linen clothes to wear; Pharaoh also sent him to ride in a grand carriage, and as he rode along they called to all the people to bow the knee before him.

Now Joseph would begin to think his own dreams were coming true,-people

bowing down before him; but still far, far away were his father and brothers. How were they to bow before him? We shall see.

There

Joseph soon began his work. was such abundance of all sorts of food as never was known, very much more than all the people could eat; and Joseph kept collecting all he could, till he had got such quantities that he could not even tell how much he had; round about every city he had stores and stores. At last the seven plentiful years came to an end, and the years of famine began: nothing would grow, no corn would ripen; and soon the people who had not taken pains to be careful and store some up when there was|| plenty began to be hungry.

Do you ever hear of people doing so now-a-days? I do. I often hear of people who have plenty of work and good wages for a time, spending away as fast as their money is received, and indulg ing in all they can get; and then when a time of sickness or want of work comes, they have nothing left. Do you se

that they should do as Joseph didthink of the scarce time that may come, and prepare for it?

But the people of Egypt had not been provident, no one but Joseph: there fore very soon they got famished, and cried to the king for help. He said, "Go to Joseph, and ask him for bread, and do as he thinks right." When the people came to Joseph, he said, Oh yes, poor people; I can sell you some corn;" and he opened all his storehouses to them. They brought their money, and bought corn, until at last they had spent all their money for corn; then they said, "O sir, what must we do now? We have no money left, must we starve?" "No, no," said Joseph; "don't be afraid; bring your cattle, or what you have; I will buy it, and give you corn instead."

Well, the people went on some more years, until at last they had nothing left. Then they came again to Joseph, "O my lord, what shall we do now? we have nothing left; will you be so good as to buy us and our land now? and we will be Pharaoh's servants for ever."

replied, "Yes, indeed I hall have corn all the rest e famine lasts; and then rd upon you. I will give ow too; and though by all belong to Pharaoh, Keep four parts for your1 for you and your little seed; and the fifth part

ROM THE LIFE OF HEMIAH.-I. ehemiah i.

to-day to try and learn om the life of a great and man, and may each of lp profit by the example

do we first hear of Nehei. 1.) He was a Jew by me he to be in the palace e winter residence of the ? [Recall to children's ory of the captivity and he Jews, the rebuilding of nd the condition of the ra.] But, though Neheom the land of his fathers, reless about the state of ; and when one day Jews udæa he put many quesWhat were they? Can ir sad answer?-(Ver. 3.) ient people were now poor little thought of by their nd their city lay open y (2 Kings xxv. 10): no ehemiah wept (ver. 4). - did he do?-(Ver. 4.) of One who is a very n trouble (Ps. xlvi. 1), rusalem notwithstanding xlix. 14-16), whose arm en earthly helpers failed; pitiful ear he poured out s people's sorrow. Could nything better for them? at his prayer, for the Lord

for our instruction. Can

ything about it? It was