present only where his body was; or he was God and man, and so in his Deity could be present where his humanity was not. As a man, Jesus did not, could not, make this promise, as his own act immediately afterwards proved: the supposition is absurd. Just look at it. A man just about to take his final departure from his friends, calls them together,acquaints them with his purpose, and then seriously says, “I wish you to carry on the work I have begun,-to do it on a more enlarged scale after my departure than has been as yet attempted; and to encourage you I promise you great success: I will indeed be alway with you, even to the end of the world.” It is impossible seriously to hold this notion. Therefore, as God, Jesus made this promise: only as such can he perform it. In these words he claims Deity; and the place in which they are recorded proves that they who heard them so understood him. If Matthew had not believed Jesus to be divine, "Immanuel, God with us,” he neither could nor would have written this passage.

WHICH IS THE BRUTE? An instance of animal sagacity and humanity, unequalled in our remembrance, took place before our door lately. An unfortunate dog, in order to make sport for some fools, had a pan tied to his tail, and was sent off toward Galt. He reached the village utterly exhausted, and lay down before the steps of Mr. Young's tavern, eyeing most anxiously the horrid annoyance hung behind him, but unable to move a step further to rid himself of the torment. Another dog, a Scotch colly, came up at the time, and, seeing the distress of his crony, laid himself down beside him, and gaining his confidence by a few caresses, proceeded to gnaw the string by which the noisy appendage was attached to his friend's tail, and, with about a quarter of an hour's exertion, severed the cord, and started to his legs, with the pan hanging from the string in his mouth; and, after a few joyful capers around his friend, departed on his travels in the highest glee at his success.- Edinburgh Chronicle. MARCH, 1848.

THE WISH OF A PIOUS CHILD. Miss Dinah D- , of Portsea, in her dying moments, said to an aunt, “When I am dead, I should like Mr. G. to preach a sermon to children, to exhort them to love Jesus Christ, to obey their parents, not to tell lies, and to think about death and heaven. I will suggest the text; namely, 2 Kings iv. 26.—You are the Shunammite, Mr. G. is the Prophet, and I am the Shunammite's child. When I am dead you will be grieved, although you need not. The Prophet will come to see you; and when he says, “How is it with the child ?' you must say, 'It is well.' I am sure it will be so; for I shall be in heaven, singing the praises of God. You ought to think so also.” The wish of this pious child was complied with. “Of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

A SONNET.
Written in the Album of E. W. Bradburn.
E: “And another book was opened, which is the book or

LIFE."—Rev. xx. 12.
Sister, beloved, thy gentle will be done !
On this fair page I write my humble name,

That so, being link'd with those of brighter fame,
It may be saved from dark oblivion ;
But chiefly that thine eyes may rest thereon
When I perchance shall heed nor praise, nor blame;

Then drop one tear, no higher meed I claim,
For my rude lay, or fond affection.
But since even these, with sibyl leaves of yore,

And all the records of the great and wise,
Must perish at His glance, whose flaming eyes
Will shrivel heaven, shall our names no more
I Be found ? O yes, they both shall written be
In the dread ALBUM of ETERNITY!

Sophia Cooke ROGERS.

Marske.

THE POOL OF BETHESDA. The meaning of this word, Bethesda, is house, or place of mercy. It was a pool at the Sheep-gate of Jerusalem, built round with orches, for the