First scholar.-Those who put on Christ. Second scholar.-Those who are in Christ. Teacher.-Yes; if we ever enter the new Jerusalem, and sit down at the marriage supper of the Lamb, we must be clothed with Christ; we must be washed in his blood, cleansed by his Spirit ; we must show Christ in our lives, our tempers, our speech; and if we are really his, his righteousness will become ours, and our sins will be cast behind his back for ever. There are many who would like heaven who yet have not Christ. Pointing to heaven, they can say 'Christ there,' but they cannot come back to their own heart, and 'Christ here.' Now what think you will be the fate of such?

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The flame

First scholar. They will be speechless. Teacher.-Yes; for the apostle Paul says, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation;" (2nd chapter Hebrews, 3rd verse.) which means, we shall not escape. bright eye, oh, how it will pierce! deceive me. An evil heart may be veiled by a fair-looking exterior, and a wicked design may be cloaked under a gentle countenance; but "the Lord searcheth the hearts."

You might

You remember our

Sunday school treat before last?

First scholar.-Oh, yes, we went to A-meadow.

Teacher. And you remember who followed us there, although Mr. D. had said he should not

come.

Second scholar.-Yes, it was L., and Mr. D. found him, and fastened him to one of the waggons for a time, and then sent him back to London.

Teacher.-Yes; that wicked boy hid himself for a time, but the keen glance of the superintendent detected him, and then his merriment ended. But that was not a wedding feast, least of all was it the wedding feast of the King of kings. Now, you know it was painful for L. to leave the bright green of A-meadow, and trudge back to London, along the dusty road. And it would be more painful to gaze upon the green pastures and the still waters of the heavenly Canaan, but once, and then to track your way down to the dark, dark, land, where even hope never comes. Lest so sad an end should happen to any of us, let us watch the beginnings of sin, and guard against "an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." (3rd chap. Hebrews, 12th verse.) You remember what was the first sin named in the parable we have read.

First scholar.-Making light of the king's invitation.

Teacher.-Yes, and it is the making light of gos

pel offers the preferring other things, perhaps in themselves lawful, to God-which ruins so many souls. God, in Christ, is the only object which can fill and satisfy the soul—the being most worthy of being loved deeply, and intensely, and eternally. Oh, if there is any earthly thing which steals away the heart from eternal realities, which leads the soul to think slightingly of that blood which flowed from the veins of Jesus, in order to reconcile a lost world to God-whether it be a lawful employment, or a forbidden pleasure, let us view it as we should view a viper, which had fastened its fangs on our body, and was poisoning our life's blood. Oh, how lamentable is it that the poor trifles of this world should drug the soul into insensibility to the excellency of Jesus, and the concerns of eternity. Oh, the madness of those who make preparation for every thing else in the world but death, and at last have to die, though utterly unprepared.

THE PRAYER OF HEZEKIAH.

2 KINGS Xx. 1-7.

Teacher. Our lesson this morning occurs in the 20th chapter 2 Kings. Will you begin the chapter?

First scholar, ver. 1.-" In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live."

Second scholar, ver. 2.-" Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying,"

Third scholar, ver. 3.-"I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore."

Teacher. There is a strange thing mentioned in these verses. Can you tell me what it is?

First scholar.-That God should send to tell Hezekiah that he should die.

Teacher. Stranger, perhaps, than even that. Second scholar.-That Hezekiah should weep sore at the thought of dying.

Teacher.-Is not death, then, anything terrible?

First scholar.-No, not to a good man, because he will go to heaven when he dies.

Teacher.-How do you prove that?—What passage were we looking at the other day, which bears upon the point?

Second scholar-That in 1st chapter Philippians, 21st verse, where St. Paul says,

"For, to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." First scholar.-And it says in the 23rd verse of the same chapter,

"Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:"

Teacher.-How, then, are we to account for the fact, that Hezekiah looked upon death as a great calamity, and wept sore at the prospect of its approach?

Second scholar.-I should think that he did not know that he should go to heaven.

Teacher.-At all events, I think we may conclude, that his knowledge was very scanty and uncertain upon it.

Fourth scholar.-Did

Hezekiah think he

should never rise from the dead?

Teacher. It was Christ Jesus who taught men clearly the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, and of the future happiness of the righteous dead; and who actually burst the grave, and rose triumphantly to glory. At the same time, we