mand, beseech you not to be amongst such as neglect the Scriptures. The most pious in all ages have loved the word of God. Men eminent for their attainments in every department of art, science, and literature, have set a high value upon the Scriptures. Men of the most gigantic faculties have bowed with all the docility of childhood to its teachings. It has been their solace in seasons of affliction and trial. It has been a source of comfort to the fatherless and the widow. It has buoyed up the heart and hopes of thousands while crossing a sea of trouble. light has illumined the valley of the shadow of death, and the mouths of the saints of God have been filled with the high praises of the Lord while fording Jordan. May it be loved more and yet more by the writer and the reader, and may its great truths be applied by the Holy Ghost, that they may sink through the intellect into the conscience and affections, and give us a meetness for the everlasting rest of heaven. J. M.

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MEMORY.

How many curious relics the treasure-cell of memory contains; some fair and beautiful, others withered and defaced, unsightly and disfigured, to our earnest gaze! In one corner, lie sweet hallowed remembrances of the past, yet mingled with sorrow. Memories of the loved and lost, of bright and sunny days in our life-history, which are for ever gone; of those whom we have parted with on earth, whose lives, and loving acts, and ways, have become things of the long ago; fair pleasant remembrances of the buried past, whose memory only comes to us in hours of lonely thought, when we are almost weary in battling with the stern realities of daily life. And from the treasure cell of memory other thoughts come crowding up, and show to us how much of bitterness has been mixed with what was sweet, for upon the tablet of our hearts, tracings of the wrong we have done are far more numerous than records of the good we might have accomplished; records of our wanderings from our best Friend, our loving Saviour. Let us learn from memory's ever present monitions to be more like Christ, constantly glorifying, by our thoughts and deeds, our beneficent Creator, who has endowed us with so many rich blessings, and amongst the greatest, the gift of memory.

Radstock.

ANNE TUFFIN.

A SIMPLE FACT.

GOD works by means, and he sometimes employs very feeble ones to promote his ends. A fact of this kind was related not long since, the substance of which is as follows:

A little girl, some ten or eleven years of age, had her mind deeply impressed with the truth of God in the Sabbath school. Upon retiring to rest one night, she was in trouble about her soul, and at midnight her anxiety had so increased that it waked up 'the servant girl, who was sleeping in the same apartment. Upon interrogation as to the cause of her trouble, the little girl said that she felt she was a great sinner, that she could not help herself, and that unless she obtained help she must go down to hell. She then requested the servant girl to pray for her. But she replied, that she was not a Christian-she could not pray. The little girl then sent for her father. Upon entering the room, she asked him to pray for her, but he made the same reply that the servant girl had made; he was not a Christian-he could not pray. But sympathising with his child's anxieties, he called her mother to the bedside.

This good woman had often been to the throne of grace, but never on an occasion like this. She poured her soul out in prayer to God for her child. God heard and answered her. During the same night in the same room, by witnessing the melting scene, the servant girl was arrested, and in a few days the father became a Christian.

SARAH, daughter of Joseph and school at Wakefield; and in it Mary COOPER, who was born at she took great delight, and was Wakefield, March 23rd, 1850. regular in her attendance. The By her parents, who have been good seed which was sown at the members of our Connexion for Sabbath school was watched and many years, she was brought watered by parental instruction, up in the fear of the Lord. example, and prayer; and thus Naturally she was of a hasty yielded fruit to the glory of God. disposition, by which she was at Her father is of opinion that she times betrayed into error, of was under serious concern for her which she repented; but she was soul's salvation previous to her also frank, forgiving, tender- sickness; for she has been known hearted, and benevolent. When to spend much time upon her very young she entered the knees in secret, in prayer to her Primitive Methodist Sabbath heavenly Parent.

A week before her death she local preacher, was born Oct. 21st, 1841, at Leamoor Common, Salop. In the year 1853 the family removed to Bentley Hay, in the Lichfield Circuit. William immediately became a scholar in our Sabbath school; and was generally very attentive to his learning, and often subscribed towards the "Australian Mission Fund." He was much

was taken ill; medical aid was called in, but it was unavailing; the disease, which was slow typhus-fever, yielded not to the power of medicine, but proved fatal in a short time. Her sufferings during the time of her sickness were severe, but they were patiently endured. A few days after she was taken ill, as her mother and she were en-respected by the teachers and gaged in fervent prayer, Sarah was blessed in such a manner as she had never been before. From that time the fear of death was taken away, and she had a sweet hope of glory in her soul." Her trust was in "the children's Friend," and of him she delighted to sing. On more than one occasion, she sang, "I love Jesus,"

And on another,

"Heaven's my home." Her father asked her if she thought she was about to die," to which she replied, "yes, and go to heaven." To her mother who was weeping by her, she said, "Mother, don't cry for me, I am going to heaven." And when the time of her departure came, in the arms of the good Shepherd, she passed away from earth to glory, Dec. 3rd, 1862, aged twelve years.

scholars of the school. He was very mild and affable in his disposition, both as a scholar and as a servant. The writer employed him in his service for a length of time, and was sorry to part with him, but was obliged on account of his ill-health. But his affliction, which appeared to have been coming on for some time, at last fully set in, and it became quite clear to his parents and those who knew him that consumption had seized him as its prey.

And now he began to see himself a sinner, without an interest in the Saviour's blood, and his cry was the cry of the Publican of old, "God be merciful to me a sinner." I often visited him, and told him to believe there and then, and that he would be accepted for Christ's sake. Α short time after he was sick and vomited a quantity of blood. GEORGE STOUT. He then said, "Ah mother, I shall soon be gone now!" WILLIAM, the son of Charles Friends came to pray with him, GWILLIAMS, Primitive Methodist and encouraged him to forget all

his imperfections, and rest his | brothers who are left behind to all on the merits of a blessed and mourn his loss, meet him in

crucified Saviour; he did so, and

was filled with joy and peace through believing. He now desired us to sing,

ISAAC FERRIS, was born at Barrow End, in the parish of

"On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, Lyneham, in the Brinkworth And cast a wistful eye."

I visited him often during the last week of his sufferings, which he bore very patiently, and I always found him on the rock, even Christ.

He often desired the friends to sing, which they did until they were quite fatigued. He very earnestly requested his brothers to give their hearts to God, and prepare to meet him in heaven. And likewise, those who had been his companions in his youth, he earnestly urged to give their hearts to God. A short time before he departed he said,

"Soon my sufferings will be o'er,

And I shall sigh and sin no more." He said, "O, how the Lord reveals himself to me now; I see and feel more of the goodness of God than I ever did before." To his father, he said, "I shall soon be in heaven! O, death, where is thy sting? O, grave, where is thy victory.' have the victory through Christ.' 'Come Lord Jesus, and come quickly."" And thus his happy spirit took its flight, to be for ever with the Lord, Feb. 1st, 1863. May his parents, with his

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Circuit, on the 19th of October, 1855; and died at Clack, in the same Circuit, on the 14th of March, 1863, aged seven years.

He manifested strong affection towards his brothers and parents almost from his infancy. He was of a forgiving and meek disposition. When he was three years of age he entered our Sabbath school at Clack, and soon showed that he loved his teachers, and that he remembered what he heard. His parents were not God-fearing people when he became a scholar; but since that time both have begun to serve God, and have joined our society. They fondly hoped that he would grow up to manhood, and become useful; but the flower was nipped in the bud. He bade fair for obtaining a goodly share of useful knowledge, for he loved good books; but he had soon done with earth, and was ripe for glory.

There was proof that the Spirit of God had enlightened his mind; but not until a short time before he died did he confidently say that he was going to Jesus. His father said to him, "Shall the night before he died,