"If," thought he, "I tear a leaf from this, I may lose my spelling lesson, and get a bad mark for not knowing it." He could not make up his mind to tear a leaf from any of his books till he saw his Bible. He said, "This is the largest book of all; I shall never read it through, I am sure. I shall not miss a leaf if I take it out of the middle." He did so, and filled the leaf with strawberries. After the boys had stayed some time in the field, they started for home. This little fellow had to go alone across the field, and, feeling lonesome, he began to eat his strawberries, and did so till he had eaten all but one. One stuck upon the paper. He put it to his lips to get it off, and he was going to throw the leaf away, when the bright red stain of the strawberry caught his eye. He looked at it and read Isa. lv. 6, "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found." On the other side, the red spot was on Isa. liii. 3, "He is despised and rejected of men." "Oh," thought he, "how wicked I have been!" He kept the leaf, and read it many times, until at length he ventured to tell his sister, and ask her what he must do to be saved. She prayed with and for him; and though every night and morning he had been accustomed to say prayers, yet until now he never had prayed with his whole heart. He obtained pardon and peace, and became a new creature in Christ Jesus.-Old Jonathan.

A SABBATH-KEEPING PONY.-"Balaam was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet." In a little village in Berkshire there lived a family, the members of which were in the habit of disregarding the command of God to remember to keep holy the Sabbath-day. Forgetting that God careth even for the beasts of burden, and has set apart a seventh portion of time as a day of rest for them as well as for man, they used to harness their pony in order to convey them and their friends to the nearest railway station on the Lord's-day. A new pony,

however, which they purchased, from some instinct which we shall not attempt to explain, but which has often been noticed to exist in dogs, was able to distinguish as accurately as its master between Sunday and the other days of the week; and probably, from remembering the habits of some previous owner, who was more careful to obey the commands of God, was fully resolved to enjoy that day quietly at home in his stable or his paddock. When he was fastened to the gig on Sunday, and his owner or his friends had ascended the gig, and wished to proceed, the pony, though obedient at other times, would plant his feet firmly on the ground, and neither blows, nor words, nor caresses could induce him to stir from the spot. All the efforts of his master proved powerless to induce him to move on the Sabbath-day; and at last, as a matter of necessity, he has been left to the quiet enjoyment of his weekly day of rest.

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AN INDIAN'S TESTIMONY.-On the camp-ground was an Indian named "Mingo," well known and highly esteemed. As the meeting rose in interest, Mingo grew more and more excited, and yet preserved the self-command so characteristic of his race. length he said, Mayn't I give my testimony?" "Yes," was the reply. "Brothers, I've been long in this warfare; fifty-nine years on my way. seventy-six years of age. The winds have blown hard on this old carcase, but the good hope is here. I see you white people, brought up at home, able to read, taught arts and sciences, and yet you live without Jesus. Poor me! I grew up wild; no father; brought up in the woods. Yet I found Him. Some of you have known me many years, and I'm a good boy yet. Poor me! Couldn't read, knew nothing, yet gave Jesus my heart. The first Bible I ever had I took home, put under my pillow, and slept with it there. This old frame totters, the strong wind shakes it, and it must go down; but I bless Jesus I'm under weigh to glory."

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How wondrous nds which men have y unflinching, deternce in this world of e lowliest have risen its means, the feeble and the philanthroreforming thousands men! It was perseproduced "Paradise severance, with the st High, that alone ustained the heroic Reformation. Selfverance too it was ohn Howard to work benefit for his race. ce therefore be so gent, it is especially day-school teachers;. need it both to conil and to disseminate God amongst their of hearers. od llans on this topic seems f naturally into two rance in all well everance in resisting g evil; and we shall few remarks under heads. First then,

sought to implant the germs of Christian knowledge within the minds and souls of the young, and who has yet but too sadly noted that little change has resulted from his or her arduous and untiring efforts. Yet, friends, may we not suggest that much of the want of success observable in our schools arises from an absence of the quality of which we are speaking? Do we not feel, some of us, that if we persevered more untiringly at the throne of grace with intercessions in behalf of our charge, and endeavoured more earnestly to stimulate them to all that is good and commendable, we should witness a more abundant harvest? Do we persevere ? in the true sense of that word, do we hold on amidst the most adverse circumstances, in face of the apparent indifference of our scholars to religious things, in our determination to win their young hearts to Christ? And may we not attribute much of our Iwant of success to the absence of enduring perseverance, rather than to external causes? It is to be feared that such is too certainly one at least of the chief reasons of ill success amongst our schools.

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Doubtless, dear reader, we require more unyielding perseverance in our work, in order that we may effect more good, and with God's assistance and blessing may turn many of the young into the narrow way leading unto life. We ought never despair or give up; for even when circumstances are most against us, when all is dark and drear in the minds of those we teach, and when little else than thoughtlessness and folly is observable, the Almighty may, by our instrumentality, send a ray of Divine light into that gloom of sin, and awaken the young conscience by His mysterious power. God works in an unsearchable way,

His path is in the mighty where we cannot trace His acting on the youthful hea ever repose our confidence love, feeling that "He d things well." Yes, when al adverse to our success as God may be preparing a wa entrance of His Holy Spirit souls of many of our hear us ever strive on, therefore, doubts, perplexities, and fo nigh crushing the spirit; le and yet more persevere, fo work God works in us an according to the good ple His omnipotent and mysteri

There can be little doubt Sunday-school teacher ca have too much of persevera character. He will be sure all he may possess of this qu oftentimes teaching becom disheartening work with us this should not be the d the teacher needs to exer ever-watchful perseveranc gard to himself, as well a spect of his responsible offi like other men, knows the of living as becometh a Chr this present evil world, and keep a constant watch over thought and act, lest his lif consistent with those high p which he sets forth be class from Sunday to Sund must follow with unweary severance the footprints Lord and Master along the racecourse, so that at last see Him as He is, when shall be removed from ou Perseverance must ever be e both in acting and in effecti in this world; and thus, Spirit's aid, the teacher's lig

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Evil Principle, perry atmosphere of our is ever on the alert, endeavouring to inearts of men, seeking fairest work of God. place for a discussion nature of that powerng; but we may prohere that, of all the he possesses, none is nt than that of perWe have only to glance ht to the fair paradise we see the fact exemn is never weary; ringly, never seeks res gigantic labours of does man seek to was that that mighty as thing, sin, first beof the present system se. Vainly too does art long for a solution erable problem. Still cending from our poor o its presence; still its ences are visible around ess real because we are e them to that powero is everlastingly emgesting thoughts from ths of his own black cure, which is ever anall that is of God. He g to turn the righteous y, and causing him at get God. Oh that we more clearly and perstern truth that has ered! Oh that we had souls like that of the the earth at the Rehe iron strength and of Martin Luther! He,

against the great enemy of souls. Thus let us labour therefore, acting as Christ would have us act, in shunning all that bears the appearance of evil, and endeavouring to follow more closely in the footsteps of our loving Redeemer. The Sunday-school teacher should avoid the very semblance of what is wrong, for he has imperative need of consistency in life and behaviour amongst men; otherwise his teaching will be productive of little good.

Not only, however, does the teacher need this important quality in regard to his own life and conversation, but also with reference to his children. Satan is ever on the watch for an opportunity of spoiling his work, for the chance offered for removing the good impressions made by teaching. Often is the teacher pained and disappointed, after having discoursed on a solemn passage of Scripture to his class, when he had marked more than one eye glistening with emotion, to observe how very rapidly these effects vanished, and how speedily the idle thought and word have undone the labours of the day. Satan has been there, and has sown the tares amongst the wheat; and how quick the growth of the one, compared with that of the other, in human hearts! Untiring and unwearying perseverance is necessary therefore, since it too often happens that these good effects become less marked from Sunday to Sunday in those taught, until at last the story of Divine love, suffering, and mercy becomes as a "tale that is told," and the teacher walks sadly away home, weary in heart, and wonderingly asking himself what good can ever result from his labour in the Lord. Be not discouraged, therefore, reader of these pages; hold on your way, persevere in your worthy labours, for your adversary Satan perseveres :

he is not discouraged, and by implanting good in t heart and mind that you c cate evil, and thus foil and act his evil and malicious d

Finally, how sublime an thing is perseverance as now been exhibited before inimitable a spectacle is a Christian holding manfu way against the powers of strong with mystic strengt trusting in the promise of who shall one day end al suffering for him; who wil troduce his immortal being state, where he shall ever praises round the Throne verance is the innate princi prompts a child of God t ence in all well doing, to after new attainments in g and cheering comfort from revealed. Perseverance is resistance with which he 1 suggestions or attacks of t of this world, "who wa darkness." Perseverance path of the just, shining more unto the perfect day perseverance that, with Go ing, sustained our noble f as to fight even unto b death for the faith once and which enabled them to victorious. Do we possess this quality at the present a Church, are we perseverin lowing the track of those s Christians, or are we char by the indomitable coura actuated the martyrs of old to be feared not. God gra greater supply of this ele character, more determin sistence in crushing evil, les before the perseverance enemies, becoming as a byword and reproach amo nations. Let our persever