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"Oh, but," said Jessie, "don't you know I must do my work just as well as ever I can, for it is for God?"

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EDINBURGH FREE CHURCH JUVENILE
MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

Letter from Dr. Tweedie.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "CHILDREN'S MISSIONARY RECORD."

EDINBURGH, June 2, 1862.

MY DEAR SIR,-Let me send you a brief account of the Juvenile Missionary Association. First, How did it arise? Secondly, How is it conducted? And thirdly, What is its design?

1. It arose in this way. Some friends of Jesus in this city who pitied the heathen, resolved to try to bring some of them to the Saviour. They saw many around them who did not seem to care about Hindoos or Africans, whether they perished or not. They gave little, and perhaps prayed less, to promote the salvation of heathen souls. But the friends whom I have mentioned thought, We shall try to train the young to care for those souls, to love them and pity them, and help to send missionaries to them; and so our Juvenile Missionary Association was begun, just to train children to love the heathen as Jesus does. A little child's prayer may be heard. A little child's penny may be blessed. God does not despise the day of small things, and, certainly, neither should we.

2. The Juvenile Missionary Association has already existed for eight or nine years. In that time it has held about thirty meetings. It has sent money to support converted children in India, and a colporteur in China, as well as done other things designed through God's blessing to make the heathens cease to be heathens, that is, to make them followers of Jesus. At the meetingswhich have always been very happy ones-addresses by missionaries are delivered; missionary maps, and mis

sionary diagrams are exhibited; in short, the young are interested in this great and blessed work, both by words addressed to the ear, and pictures addressed to the

eye.

3. The design of the Association has already been explained. Hitherto, however, it had been confined mainly to one congregation. But about six weeks ago, it was enlarged so as to include the children of all the Free Churches in Edinburgh who choose to become members. It is a pity to confine to a single flock what is good for all, and I hope many of your young readers in Edinburgh will hasten to join this enlarged Association. Let us trust that the parents who have learned to love souls will embrace this opportunity for training their little ones to do the same, that the good and gracious One may have a race prepared by his own Spirit to serve Him, when their fathers are no more.

Would it not be well if associations like this were to be found in other towns ?-I am, &c.

W. K. TWEELIE.

A BRAND FROM THE BURNING.

A POOR man who fell into bad habits, on being rescued, reformed, and converted, often spoke of himself as a "brand plucked from the burning.'

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"What do you mean by that?" asked one of his former companions. Come, go with us," he continued, "and have one more drink."

PRAISES AND SLANDERS.

WE should be troubled as much at unjust praises as at unjust slanders.--Philip Henry.

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WORSHIPPING A TIGER.

OUR tent had been pitched outside of the village of Kundali, under some tamarind trees, near which were set up six rude representations of tigers. While we were seated at dinner, I saw through the tent window some men engaged in worship. Going out, I learned that one of them, in the prosecution of his trade as a barber, had the day before proceeded to an encampment of Brinjaris, who resemble your gipsies, and are engaged in the conveyance of grain. On the road he met a tiger. Filled with terror, he made a vow, that, should his life be preserved, he would present an offering to Waghoba (the tiger god); and, faithful to his promise, he had brought his oblation. To one of the six idols he paid special attention, for it had been placed there on the occasion of his own uncle having been devoured by a tiger. This he besmeared with vermilion, and then before it he laid cakes of bread, burnt incense, and broke a cocoa nut, distributing part of it among the other tiger deities, each of which, like his uncle's, is supposed to be the angry spirit of a man killed by a tiger.-Rev. S. Hislop, Bombay.

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No person ever becomes great or wise or rich by accident. We teach in the nursery, in the school, at every step of education, that a young man's prosperity must depend much upon himself. We say to the young, "If you are industrious and frugal, and if you set before you a distinct object In life, you will succeed; but if you are idle and improvident and changeable, you will come to no good." A person must have a purpose; he must make up his mind what he means to be and to do, or he cannot reasonably hope to succeed in life. Whether he is a Christian or a business man, it is indispensable to success that he should know what he means to do, and pur pose to do it.

If a hundred ships should to-day start out of the harbour of New York for London or Liverpool, without rudders or sails, or any means of steering, would it not be a wonder if one of them touched London or Liverpool?

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