full of mel - o - dy, Glad bells are

ring - ing,

Angels eyes are

look - ing

ten - der - ly,

On our youthful group to day.

In our Sabbath School how pleasantly,

Glide the passing hours along,

Up to God ascending gratefully,

He will deign to hear our song.-Chorus.

We are happy, singing merrily,

Like the birds, our tuneful lay,

Jesus, from the grave triumphantly,

Rose, and blessed the Sabbath-day.-Chorus.

Heard ye not how mild and peacefully,
Jesus speaks to you and me?

Lord, we come, and, oh, how cheerfully,

Give our hearts, our all to thee.-Chorus.

Juvenile Biography,

YOUTHFUL piety was beautifully exhibited in the life and death of HARRIET M. WATSON, who was born in London, 1857, died November 16, 1869, aged 12 years. With her parents she removed to Liverpool in 1865; soon after she joined the Gilead-street Sabbath-school, Liverpool third circuit. On the 13th April, 1868, she recited a piece at the anniversary, entitled the "Music of the Soul." It was noticed with what pleasure she did it, and how happy she looked. But it was little thought she would so soon be called away. She was loved greatly by her parents, and gained the respect of all who knew her. On November 2, she was taken ill at school: next morning medical aid was called in, when it was found she was afflicted with scarlet fever. She was subsequently brought very low, but, however, she began to improve a little. Then her fond parents began to cherish the hope that their loved one might be restored to them again. But the Lord saw differently; she was suddenly seized with rheumatic fever about the heart. All through her illness she was a great sufferer, but was never heard to murmur. Now, she as well as her parents, was concious that her end was drawing near. Frequently did she sing praise tɔ God, and often her sweet voice was heard, though feebly, to sing one of her favourite hymns:

I do believe, I will believe,

That Jesus died for me, &c.

When I called to see her on the Sunday before she died, I found her very weak, but death had lost its sting. I asked her if she loved her Saviour, when she fixed her eyes upwards and said, "O, I see Jesus and bright Angels;" and, lifting her arms, said, “O, I should like to put my arms round my Jesus' neck." The next day I found her in the same frame of mind. She would ask me to teach her some little prayer, and her whole request was,

"O talk to me more about Jesus, and pray with me.". Such like was her sweet language. And then again her voice would be heard singing another sweet favourite hymn,

Come sing to me of Heaven,

When I'm about to die;
Sing songs of holy ecstacy,

To waft my Soul on high;

There'll be no sorrow there, &c.

And often did she pray for God to convert her father and mother that they might meet her in heaven. About an hour before she died she prayed to Jesus to take her pain away. From that time her pain was gone, her prayer was answered; and, often kissing her parents and sister, and telling them to be good and meet her in heaven, like a sweet lamb she fell asleep in the arms of Jesus.

J. WRIGHT,

Queries and Answers.

I.

MR. EDITOR,-Your numerous insertions of Questions and Answers encourages me to hope you will be so kind as to reply to the following: Whether the explanation which the Apostle Peter gave on the day of Pentecost is to be considered the exact fulfilment of the prophesy of the prophet Joel ii. 28 to 32. Peter says in Acts i. that the Apostles were not drunk, but this IS that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; he says the whole prophesy is fulfilled. Now, if you will allow me, I want to know where the wonders were to be seen at that day, "wonders in heaven," "blood," "fire," "smoke," "the sun turned into darkness," "the moon into blood." I know these things were not literally so, will you please explain the matter to oblige a constant subscriber, and yours very respectfully?

E. B.

ANSWER.-E. B. properly says that the language is figurative. The sun may refer to the Jewish Church, and the moon to the civil power. These highly-wrought figures are common in prophetic language. The fall of Babylon, Is. xiii. 9-10; destruction of Egypt, Ezek. xxxii. 7-8; and the destruction of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, Dan. viii. 10, are represented in kindred language. The blood, fire, and vapour of smoke, point to the slaughter and sackage and wonton destruction of property, that follow in the wake of war.

That these things took place at "that day," if by that day is meant the day of Pentecost, is more than can be proved. Neither Joel nor Peter limit all the phenomena by name to Pentecost. The pouring out of the Spirit, the prophecies, and the dreams are to be in "those days," Joel ii. 28-29; Acts ii. 17-18. Whereas the wonders in heaven and earth, the blood, fire, and pillars of smoke, shall take place before that great and terrible (or notable) day of the Lord come, Joel ii. 30-31; Acts ii. 19-20. It is plain that in the language, “in those days," "that great and notable day," two periods are referred to as the area for the occurrence of these evils.

"That great and notable day" points to the destruction of Jerusalem, so graphically described by Jesus Christ in Matt. xxiv. At this time the civil and ecclesiastical polity of the Jews perished and the overthrow of the nation was distinguished by the most cruel and sanguinary war.-See Josephus.

II.

MR. EDITOR,-If you would send in the next Juvenile Magazine an explanation of the 9th chapter of Romans v. 11th to the 16th you would greatly oblige a

SABBATH SCHOOL TEACHER.

ANSWER. I v. 11, the words "the children are printed in italics, a different type from the other part of the text, thereby denoting that the words in question are not in the original passage; neither ought the words to be in the English version; at least, "the nations" would have been a better rendering. See the history of the passage, Gen. xxv. 23. It is not of Jacob and

Esau personally that God speaks, but of the nations which sprang from them, the Israelites and the Edomites; see Mal. i. 2-5. According to election." The election was not to salvation, or all the Jews are saved; for the election was of them, as we have shown, and not of Jacob personally. And then the counter part of this scheme is that all the Edomites are lost. There is not a hyper-calvinist in all the world that would take these consequents. The election was to national privileges (Rom. iii. 1-2.). Just as the Anglo-Saxon race seems to be selected by God to be the agent he will employ to diffuse his truth through the earth. It was not "of works," for the progenitors of the nations were not yet born; but of the sovereign pleasure of God. "Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated." v. 13. Barnes, though a Calvanist, thus speaks on this passage: "I have shown affection for that people; I have bestowed on them great privileges and blessings I have preferred Jacob for Esau. Esau,' the descendants of Esau, the Edomites-see Mal. i. 4.-' have I hated.' This does not mean any positive hatred; but that he had preferred Jacob, and had witheld from Esau those privileges and blessings that he had conferred on the posterity of Jacob. This is explained Mal. i. 3. See Jer. xix. 17-18; Ezek. xxxv. 3. It was common among the Hebrews to use the terms love and hatred in this comparative sense. Compare Gen. xxix. 30-31; Prov. xiii. 24; Luke xiv. 26.

N.B. The 15, 16 and 17 verses we shall explain next month.