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times. This care kept him alive, till worn away by pining, and the effect of rain and cold, he died upon his master's grave.

How does this poor brute creature shame us. We have a master Jesus Christ, who died for us, in our stead. Should we not then love him ? think of him ? serve him always ? and if called upon, be willing to die for his sake? The grace of God has often indeed worked such a love in the human heart, and in little children too, that many have died, sooner than forsake this good master, or disobey him. We call these faithful souls martyrs ; and we ought also to pray to God, that we may love our Saviour as well ; and be willing, if called upon, to act as they did.

THE WALDENSES.

In the time of a great persecution of the Waldenses, a certain Monk was sent to convince them of their errors. But he came back quite in dismay, owning, that in his whole life, he had never known so much Scripture, as he had learnt during those few days, that he had been talking with the heretics (as the Papists call Protestants.) Some learned doc tors, who had just come from Paris, were then sent amongst them. One of these confessed in public that he had learnt more of the doctrine of salvation from the answers of the little children in their cate. chisms, than by all the disputes, which he had ever before heard.

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TO A SICK CHILD ASLEEP ON HIS

MOTHER'S BREAST.

Little infant, sweetly sleep,

Pillow'd on thy mother's breast; Angels watch around thee keep,

Calm and healing be thy rest.

How thy mother loves her boy,

None but mothers sure can tell ; Hope and sorrow, fear and joy,

Each in turn her bosom swell.

Looking upwards through her tears,

Oft she lifts a silent prayer
To the God who mourners hears,

That he would her darling spare.

Should thy little life be given

To thy mother's anxious love; Should the God who lives in heaven,

Send thee healing from above;

Wilt thou not, O baby boy,

Cherish her as she does thee? Be her comfort, and her joy?

Think of all her love for thee ?

Wilt thou not be good and kind ?

Never from her idly stray ?
All her wishes wilt thou mind ?

All her wise commands obey ?
Little knewest thou, sleeping one,

AH thy mother's constant care;
Nothing can beneath the sun

With a mother's love compare...
But there is a stronger love

Than thy mother's, child, for thee: Baby! God who dwells above

Loves thee yet more tenderly.

.O then, every morn and eve,
• Lift thy little hands above;
Infant prayers he will receive,

For his very name is love.

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EPITAPH ON A CHILD. .

As some fair flower, that hid in leafy green, Imbibes the dew of heaven and blooms unseen ;. Till fragrance strange, unto the passer by Reveal the secret of its birth-place nigh; . So Catharine lived, and sought the Lord alone Her griefs peculiar, and her joys unknown. A change divine soon met the wondering eye, And told the employment of her privacy. . Fain would we long have gaz'd---but God remov'd To holier, happier scenes the child he lov’d.

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THE JEWS. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper that love thee. Ps. cxxii. 6. - 1

Such of you, my dear children, as have read the old Testament, must have heard of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and his twelve sons; who, as Watts' catechism says, 56 were the fathers of the people of Israel.” Now the people of Israel was that nation, whom we call Jews'; and God chose thein from out of the heathen world around, to keep alive his pure re

ligion upon earth. It was this people of Israel, whom Moses led out of Egypt through the wilderness to the promised land, called Canaan. They were forty years travelling from Egypt to Canaan; and often made God angry by their unbelief and rebellion. But for his promise's sake to their father Abraham, God still bore with, and pardoned them; and they were his favoured people for nearly fifteen hundred years : that is from the time he brought them forth with such signs and wonders from Egypt, till our blessed Saviour was born. The Jews had long been looking forward to the coming of Christ; their prophets had written much about him; and this Saviour of the world was to be one of their own nation : but when Christ did come, they would not believe he was the real Saviour, because he did not come as a great earthly king, to give them riches and honours. Thus you see, “he was despised and rejected of men; he came unto his own, and his own received him not.” They despised the lowly, humble station of life he came in ; for “he took

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