"LEARN OF ME."

SUPPOSE Some grand and good nobleman were a Sundayschool teacher, would you not think it a great honour to be in his class?

But I can tell you of One whose scholar it would be a much greater honour to be. His class is a large one, and He keeps inviting children to join. He has made a textbook for his children to study. They love to study it. It was written a great while ago, but it does not grow old, and nobody gets tired of it. The more they read it, the more they value it.

This great Teacher has invited you to join his class. Have you never heard Him say, "Learn of me?"

Do you not know whom I mean? His name is Jesus, and his book is the Bible. He is higher than any earthly princes, for he is King of kings, and Lord of lords. And how much knowledge he has! Everything that has happened, is happening, and will ever happen, he knows.

"What will he teach us?"-Sunday Scholar's Magazine.

Oct. 5.

12.

SATURDAY NIGHT.

A TEXT FOR OUR TEACHER.

October 1861.

The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.
-Eph. iii. 19.
The meek also shall increase their joy in the
Lord, and the poor among men shall re-
joice in the Holy One of Israel.- Isa.
xxix. 19.

19. Our heart shall rejoice in him, because we
have trusted in his holy name.-Ps.
xxxiii. 21.

26.

Declare among the people his doings.-Ps. ix. 11.

SAVED BY SMOKE.

A BELGIAN vessel, called The Leopold, recently ran, in a violent storm, on a rock near one of the Falkland Islands, on the coast of Patagonia, and went to pieces. It was supposed that all her crew, nine in number, and their officers, had perished. A letter was, however, afterwards received from one of the crew, named Declerk, telling that he alone escaped. He swam to an island; he found no inhabitants, and had to live on some bits of bread which had been washed ashore, wild celery, and some birds which he killed with a stick.

Happening to have matches with him, he succeeded in lighting a fire, which he fed with turf. To make his fire burn well, he partly surrounded it with some planks washed ashore from the wreck. One night the wind blew these planks into the fire, and they were consumed. He thought this a terrible misfortune, but it was the means of saving him.

An American ship happened to be passing ten miles off, and seeing the rising smoke-an extraordinary thing on a desert island-some of her crew disembarked. They found the poor fellow crouching over the fire, and on hearing his tale they took him on board.

Notice how this man's extremity was God's opportunity-how that very circumstance which to man's eye was overwhelming, in the mercy of God was the very means of his safety.-Sunday Scholar's Companion.

SLOW BUT SURE.

THAT which we learn profitably, for the most part we learn slowly.

"DON'T GO, FATHER!”

ALL have some influence. A gentleman, lecturing in the neighbourhood of London, said "Everybody has influence, even that child," pointing to a little girl in her father's arms. "That's true!" cried the man. At the close he said to the lecturer, "I beg your pardon, sir, but I could not help speaking. I was a drunkard; but, as I did not like to go the public-house alone, I used to carry this child. As I approached the public-house one night, hearing a great noise inside, she said, 'Don't go, father!' 'Hold your tongue, child.' 'Please, father, don't go !' 'Hold your tongue, I say.' Presently I felt a big tear fall on my cheek. I could not go a step further, sir. I turned round and went home, and have never been in a public-house since,-thank God for it. I am now a happy man, sir, and this little girl has done it all; and when you said that even she had influence, I could not help saying, "That's true, sir.' All have influence."-Rev. Newman Hall.

CHINESE HEATHEN FOOLISHNESS.

LATE one night, a man was seen at the door of a house in Shanghae, with a lantern in his hand, which he waved above his head, and, in a mournful tone, called upon some absent person, while some one within answered in the same sorrowful voice. What did this mean? A child of the family had fever, and was delirious. The Chinese fancy that, when any person is suffering in this way, "his soul has gone away, and is rambling abroad." This being their notion, they use what they think proper means to bring it back to the forsaken body. For this purpose the father hangs up on the side of the house a figure of Buddha, which he burns. Then lighting a candle, and putting it into a lantern, he stands at the door of his house, holding the lantern, and crying in a voice of kindness and entreaty, "A-sze, come home!" to which the person inside, who is watching the sick child, replies, 66 A-sze has come back." This continues until the child recovers or dies. The people suppose that the wandering spirit sees the light, hears the voice, and is then drawn back to its home.-Dr. Lockhart.

THE WORK OF GOD.

EDINBURGH.-On Sabbath evening, 11th August, Mr. Weaver preached in the New Assembly Hall. There was a breaking up of very many hard hearts, and the good seed got entrance. Mr. Weaver's visit has brought out from our "closes" hundreds of those who were blessed during his former visit, and of whose number we could have formed no conception.-Wynd Journal.

MR. W. P. LOCKHART of Liverpool has visited various towns in the north and west, and in most places with great appearance of blessing. He writes as follows, of a meeting in Glasgow:-On Sunday afternoon we had a glorious meeting in the City Hall, Glasgow; upwards of three thousand present, and a large number of young men. At the close, I asked any young men who were anxious to come with me into the side-room. Fifteen or twenty came, all apparently in deep distress; and besides this, many anxious souls, both men and women, remained in the Hall. Several were enabled to rejoice in the finished work of Christ on leaving. One man, a soldier, was in great distress of soul; but I do trust that he got peace and joy in believing. In the evering, we had the Bridgegate Church crowded to excess. There, also, were many young men, and not a few anxious ones stayed for conversation. -Wynd Journal.

Revival in Natal, Western Africa.

MR. M'KINNEY, American missionary, of Amanzintote, wrote, March 6th:-"I have but a few moments to write, but I am sure it will gratify you to know that God has of late been visiting us by his Spirit in this dark land. At Umvoti, Ifumi, and here, there are most cheering evidences of a work of grace in progress. With us, interest of a marked character began on the first day of the week of prayer.' The solemnity continued, deepening day by day, up to the last; and we have continued our daily prayer-meetings, morning and afternoon, to this time."