WILLIAM IVES, late of Ash, in the Great Yarmouth Circuit, was born August 5th, 1856; entered our Sabbath-school March 22nd, 1868, attended regularly when able; and died of consumption, very triumphantly in the faith of Christ, January 14th, 1869, aged 12 years.

His was a brief and simple course of existence, but it was crowned by that blessing of salvation which is above all price. He was for three years motherless; and inheriting a feeble constitution, and having but few comforts and advantages, he was not a stranger to suffering, or to difficulty in the attainment of the knowledge of Divine things. Contact with our friends, particularly of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Young, and the influence of the Sabbath-school, were to him the principal means of instruction, and these were greatly blessed of God unto him. His end was peace. It was joy, it was ecstasy of delight; it was the expression of a full assurance of everlasting life through Christ with Christ in heaven. May his father, brother, sisters, teachers, and fellow-scholars meet him there. R. TAYLOR.

SARAH THOMPSON ELLIOT, the beloved daughter of Mrs. Ann Elliot, of Stanhope, died February 5th, 1869. From her infancy until her death she was a scholar in our Sabbath-school, in which she took great delight, and from which she was seldom absent when it was possible to be there. Every Sabbath-morning she was seen wending her way to the Sabbath-school a quarter of an hour before the time of commencement. She was very diligent and very attentive while at school, and loved her teachers dearly. Her constitution was very feeble; and often have we gazed upon the pale face and shattered frame amid the group of children listening to the instruction given by her teachers; but consumption had evidently marked her for its prey; she became ill and gradually grew worse, and as she neared the terminus of life she often spoke of Jesus. Being visited by the superintendent of the school she was asked if she loved Jesus, when she said, "I love Jesus, he's my Saviour;

I'm going to be with him for ever; blessed Jesus!" She seemed quite resigned to the will of her Heavenly Father; and on Friday, February 5th, 1869, her happy spirit took its everlasting flight to the mansions of eternal bliss. She seems to have been a tender flower in the garden of the Lord, but did not remain long exposed to the severity of the weather in this region below, being only 12 years of age when the Lord of the vineyard took her and transplanted the flower to flourish in a more genial atmosphere and a more luxuriant soil, in a milder clime, even in the gardens of the Paradise above.

WILLIAM TWEDDLE.

Queries and Answers.

No. I.

DEAR SIR,-Will you have the goodness to give me your opinion on the following passage of holy writ, by so doing you will greatly oblige your sincere friend and contributor,

THOS. HEATH, jun., Plymouth.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison."-Matt. v. 25.

ANSWER.-Our Lord is inculcating the duty of living at peace with all men. This may be done in various ways, and one of the many is that recommended in the text. The word translated adversary means a legal opponent; antidikos, one that sues them at law, a plaintiff. Do not join issue with him at the tribunal of the country, when he "hath ought against thee," verse 23, namely, a just charge. "Be reconciled," verse 24, or agree with thine adversary," verse 25. Make the required concession or restitution before he appeals to law; for there thou wilt lose the suit, and be mulcted in the costs of the trial, and perhaps be unable to pay. What then? Thine adversary will deliver thee to the judge, and the judge will deliver thee to the officer,

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and thou be cast into prison. This is a plain process, such as is observed in our courts of law in this day. We would enter our caveat against spiritualising on this passage. I once heard a preacher divide the text thus: 1. The adversary is God; 2. The judge is Christ; 3. The officer is death; and 4. The prison is hell. What a prostitution of the passage. He should have gone on into the twenty-sixth verse, and taken us into purgatory and seen us out again. Tholuck says the application is this: Be not surprised at the urgency of my command to be reconciled, for should it be the case that you pass from this life with an unreconciled heart, the passion of which you have not repented, the wrong for which you have not atoned, will meet you as an adversary at the bar of God." All professing christians who owe grudges, are revengeful in spirit, and refuse to pay debts, should read this passage and tremble.

No. II.

DEAR SIR,-In Genesis, 2nd chapter and first and second verses, I read "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." I always understood that God ended his work on the sixth day till now. I came in contact with a friend the other day who said not. If you will kindly give me your opinion on this subject, through your Juvenile, you will greatly oblige,-Yours, &c., A SUBSCRIBER.

ANSWER. There are two ways of answering the question. 1. By translating the original thus: "And on the seventh day God had ended." This is perfectly legitimate, as the tenses in the original, both of the Old and New Testaments, are often used interchangeably. 2. It is likely the correct reading is, “And on the sixth day God ended his work." Vau, the sixth letter in the Hebrew alphabet, stands for six, and zain, the seventh letter in the same alphabet, stands for seven. These two letters are very much alike, as every one who has examined the Hebrew alphabet knows. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Samaritan, read "sixth." It is probable this is the true reading, and that the term "seventh" got into the Hebrew text through some careless copyist.

HENRY VIII. AND HIS TIMES.

How pleasant is the work of recording or reading the doings of the wise and good! They may be noble although poor; or, if of highest rank, they may be kingly in disposition and behaviour as well as in name and office. But, sad to say, we often have to travel far through space or time before we meet with prince or ruler such as Nehemiah, or Alfred the Great, or Washington. Such a king illumines and blesses his period, and more than that.

Henry VIII. has a widely different memorial. It seems only too well proved that the mass of his character was inexcusably bad, though possibly there may have been an occasional relieving ray in the prevailing horror of thick darkness.

The people of England did not seem very sorry that Henry VII, was dead. For his yoke had not been very easy, nor the burden light that he had imposed on the nation by unjust taxing and extortion. So when his son came to the throne in 1509 many hoped great things from the new king, a handsome young man with a free open manner and apparently generous nature. And when he dealt severely with the men who had cruelly oppressed the people, it was pleasingly expected that the nation would now have just and mild government. But it was not long before it was found that the new king could oppress equally with his father. War was soon being carried on both with France and Scotland; and enormous sums were demanded from the country for the purpose, as well as to keep up the disgraceful extravagance of the king in his household expenses. Rebellions in the eastern counties, and elsewhere, somewhat checked these exactions. In France the English were victorious at Tourney in 1513, and in other engagements. And in the north of England the English army under Earl Surrey met James IV. of Scotland, who had brought an army across the Tweed. The noted battle of Flodden