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of the soul;" keep all pure and true within, and then you may allow any one to glance through. If you should close these windows so that no man can discover the thoughts of the heart, remember that there is one who knoweth what is in us. We cannot avoid the gaze of that all-seeing eye; let us, therefore, do what is pleasing to him, keeping our conscience void of offence toward God and man; then may we look any man in the face, nor fear detection.Early Days.

THOMAS ROSIE AND HIS SABBATH-CLASS.

IN the Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Rosie, which is just published, it is mentioned that he taught for several years a Sabbath-class of girls left to his care by his sister Jane, on her death-bed. Mr. Rosie performed his duty with much pains and many prayers. He cared for the souls of all his scholars, and earnestly prayed for their conversion. One of his friends, Mr. Williamson, thus writes in regard to this class:

"Of the scholars, many are now members of the Church, and some have caught their teacher's spirit. One of them was long a most efficient teacher in the same school; but, falling into consumption, she died in the peaceful hope of a blessed resurrection. When on her death-bed, she cast many a grateful thought upon the labours of her old teacher Mr. Rosie, whom she regarded as, under God, the means of her salvation. She mentioned the gift of a Bible she had received from him, and traced her own usefulness to the lessons he had given in teaching her the story of redeeming love. On Mr. Rosie leaving Edinburgh for Dunbar in 1850, he invited all the scholars of his class to tea, and, in my presence, addressed them in a most earnest and affectionate manner, before bidding them farewell. Eight years afterwards, when leaving for India, he mentioned to me that he rejoiced to believe that all his old Sabbath-scholars were," with one exception, giving evidence of being followers of Christ." "Coast Missions; a Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Rosie," p. 20.

A BIBLE FOR THE PRINCESS ALICE. THE Princess Alice, the second daughter of our beloved Queen, was married on 1st July last, to the Prince Louis of Hesse, in Germany. Before her marriage, a beautiful Bible and Prayer-book were presented to her from "the matrons and maidens of Great Britain and Ireland."

Often we hear of a Christian mother, when sending her boy away into the wide world, giving him a Bible, as her last most precious gift, to be his guide amid the snares and trials of life. It is delightful to think that many a womanly heart in this country has had something of the same feeling toward this dear young princess, who has already given many tokens that she has become a new creature in Christ Jesus. It is a pledge surely that there are many in this land who will not cease to pray for her. May the Lord bless and keep her, and make her a shining light for Christ in her new home.

RELIGION A REALITY.

To the man who really possesses it, the religion of Christ is his life. Wherever you see him, he has his religion. His religion is not like a man's regimentals which he can take off and go in undress; it is inside of him; it is woven right through and through him. You must kill that man to get his religion out of him. Racks may tear his nerves and sinews, but they cannot tear away his hope, for it is essentially and vitally part and parcel of himself. Ah! my ladies and gentlemen, you who think religion is no more real than the life of a butterfly, it is you who are unreal in your fancies, and your follies; religion is the substance, and your life is only the shadow! Oh! you working-men, who think that to be godly is but to indulge a dream, you know not what you say. All else is fiction but this. God give you grace to get it, and then you will feel we have not spoken too strongly. Rev. C. H. Spurgeon.

CHILDREN MAY DO MUCH.

Ir is quite possible that children may do much good, and quite certain that the weakest Christian may do much. Passing along the streets, I saw a number of men try to raise a ponderous stone to the top of a high building; the stone had nearly reached its place when it was found that without some additional help it could not be fixed in the exact spot designed for it. Several labourers had got hold of the rope, but all their efforts proved ineffectual to raise it to its place. They might have been within an eighth of an inch from attaining it; but that eighth of an inch was an insuperable obstacle, and down again the stone must infallibly have come, had not a little boy, a looker on, given his assistance, whereby the difficulty was overcome and the stone was fixed in its place. And who can say how much any individual Christian may be required for doing God's work?-S. S. Messenger.

ACQUAINTANCE WITH GOD.

WE speak to God in prayers: God speaks to us in his word. John Mason.

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SATURDAY NIGHT.

A TEXT FOR OUR TEACHER.

August 1862.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the
glory of thy name.-Psalm lxxix. 9.
Put me in remembrance.-Isaiah xliii. 26.
Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that
will I do, that the Father may be glori-
fied in the Son.-John xiv. 13.

23. All things are of God, who hath reconciled
us to himself by Jesus Christ.-2 Corin-
thians v. 18.

30. He knoweth them that trust in him.— Nahum i. 7.

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HAPPY AND USEFUL.

In summer-time, many of our young readers go to the seaside, or to some quiet village in the country. Schooldays are over for a while. Satchels and bookstraps are left at home, and there is time for long walks and play from morning to night. Little boys are digging with their spades or building castles in the sand, little girls are picking shells, or pretty seaweed, or wandering in the woods gathering ferns or flowers.

We love to see young people hearty and happy in their play, and growing strong and healthy, and ready for work when they get back to school. But they should try too, to be of some use, wherever they are.

Wherever you go, you will find some who are sick and poor. Have you found out any? Some poor old woman, perhaps, whose friends are all dead, and who is unable to rise from her bed, and very lonely. How it would cheer such a one, if you were to go and read a little to her from the Bible, or a story from your little Record, or sing a psalm or a hymn. And if the old woman were a believer, you would thus be giving a cup of cold water" to a disciple. And Jesus would say, "In as much as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it unto me."

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Or, perhaps, there is near you some sick child, who has a hard bed, and coarse fare, his parents are so poor. How glad such a little one would be to see you? You might tell him of Jesus, and all you have been hearing of the Lord's work from your minister and Sabbathschool teacher in the town you came from. When boys or girls lie sick and weary in bed all day, how happy it makes them for some young one like themselves to go and speak kindly to them for a little. And then you

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