no visible companion with thee-lo! thy conscience will, in all cases, do thee this service, if thou wilt but regard its voice, and follow its counsel.

Observe. It is a source of true gratification and delight to be able to be a helper and benefactor to the truly needy and suffering, especially when unseen and unobserved; and thus to become an instrument, in the hands of God, for the relief and happiness of our fellow-men.

Observe. Genuine confidence in God, at prayer and labour, will never be put to shame. He often appears, before we are prepared, and showers his bounty upon us, unexpectedly. But a heart that trusts in Him, is grateful also, when it has been blessed with the divine aid, and does not act like those nine lepers, who, when cleansed of their leprosy, returned not to give glory to God, but forgot their helper and physician.

TALK TO VERY YOUNG READERS.

HAVE EVERYTHING IN PLACE.

FIRST, be in place yourselves. This is needed in order to have things go right. If one of the little wheels of a watch gets out of place, the others cannot move well. So if you are not in a proper place, things will be in a bad state. God found Adam out of place one time when He visited the garden of Eden. He had sinned, and then hid away among the trees. God had to call him and say, "Where art thou?" Elijah, a good prophet of God, once got out of place. A wicked woman said she would kill him, and he went out of the country. There was no need of it, as God would have

prevented her doing him any harm. He went two or three hundred miles on foot and hid in a cave. God called to him and said, "What doest thou here, Elijah?" He was not doing good there, and had to go back again.

You would be out of place if you should go into the orchards belonging to other men, and take apples or fruit without leave. You would be out of place if you should be at play or idling away your time on the Sabbath. You would be if you should disobey your parents or teachers at school. You would also if you should quarrel with your brothers, or sisters, or mates. Also if you should lie, or speak wicked words, or use any profane language. Finally, if one does wrong in any way, that one is out of place, and things with him and about him will go badly till he gets in the right place again.

It is beautiful in a house to see all the furniture in its place. So in a store, how nice it is to have a place for everything, and everything in its place. And so it is every where else. This, orderly people like. But God likes as well, yes, far better, to see men, women and children in place.-There was once a good man named Gideon; God chose him, with a few men, to punish a great many wicked people. All of Gideon's men stood in their proper places, and did just as they were told to do, and they prospered in the best manner. Now will you try to keep in your proper places? Will you be good and do nothing but what is right?

If you try hard, you will do it. You will find a good way in which to live, and at death God will take you to a good place, which he has fitted up for those who have lived well.

NIGHT was fast coming on, and Pilgrim needed special support to keep fear out of his heart. But hope had left him, and there was darkness in his soul when there ought to have been light. How he did chide himself for being so foolish as to fall asleep in a place that was erected only for a little refreshment of his weariness! When he came to the

arbour, the very sight of it renewed his sorrow and shame for that idle sleep in the day time, and in the very midst of difficulty, when all his wakefulness was required. Alas! cried he, that I should have to tread those steps with sorrow, and thrice over, which I might have trodden but once, and with delight! Oh that I had not slept! Oh that

God would have mercy on me! And now the fifty-first Psalm came into his mind, and he cried out with David, Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee." But oh, thought Pilgrim, without my roll I shall never have the heart to speak to another person as long as I live. What shall I do? What shall I do? Oh that God would have mercy upon me! Oh that I knew where I might find him! Behold I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him. Well nigh given up to despair, Pilgrim was sitting himself down to weep, disconsolate and broken-hearted, when, as kind providence would have it, looking through his tears beneath the settle, there he espied his roll, and with what trembling eager, haste did he catch it up and secure it again in his bosom! Oh, who can tell how joyful he was when he had gotten his roll again? And now returning thanks to God for directing his eye to the place where it lay, Pilgrim with gladness betook himself again to his journey. But he had lost a great deal of time, and it was now growing dark. Just then he began to think of what Mistrust and Timorous had told him about the lions, and he said within himself, these beasts range abroad in the night for their prey, and if they should come this way before I can reach the end of my journey, how can I escape being torn to pieces. Perhaps they are lurking behind that bush; I fancy there is somet thing frightful there? However he went on. And as he went troubling himself with all sorts of fears, there suddenly rose before him like a dream, a very stately palace, close by the highway side, which being within the walls of salvation, and directly where he must pass by, he knew to belong to the Lord of the way, or at any rate

that the Pilgrims would there be welcome. Now if he could only get to that palace and be lodged there, he would care but little for the lions. (He had not seen them yet.) But as he went forward towards the narrow passage which led up to the gate, there the lions were, sure enough, grim and terrible! He was just thinking of running away, when the

porter cried out to him, and told him not to be a coward, that the lions were chained, and were suffered to be there to try the faith of pilgrims, if they had any, and to discover if they had none. Pilgrim's heart was greatly encouraged at this, but still he went on trembling and afraid, and keeping to the middle of the path; and though he heard the lions roar on him, yet they did him no harm. When he got past them, without their laying hold on him, he clapped his hands, and made haste up to the porter at the entrance to the Palace Beautiful. May I lodge here to-night? said he.