Come, Pussy, go with me;" and he carries her into the sitting-room.

"Pussy has had her breakfast," he said to sissy; "now will she think your woolly dog a real dog? Let's show it to her."

Sissy put down her plaything, a little woolly dog, and sure enough, puss, as soon as she saw it, bushed her tail and backed up her back, just ready for a fight; but pretty soon she saw her mistake, and ran under the table, as if afraid to be laughed at. How the children did laugh; and what a pleasant breakfast that was, where kindness was the largest dish for "pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." Prov. xvi. 24.

Sent by W. FULTON.

FRIENDS AND FOES.

DURING the Peninsular war an officer of artillery had just served a gun, with admirable precision, against a body of men posted in a wood to his left, when the commander-inchief rode up. After turning his glass for a moment in the direction of the shot, he said, in his cool way, "Well aimed, captain, but no more; they are our own 99th."

This sad blunder has been repeated too often in the armies of the Saviour. With what fatal frequency have great guns of the church, which might have battered down the citadels of Satan, been misdirected against Christian brethren. THOMAS WRIGHT.

Juvenile Biography.

(Continued from page 29.)

On Saturday, March 10th, 1868, she was taken ill with scarlet fever, symptoms were favourable until the following Wednesday, then ulceration of the throat occurring prevented her taking food, and greatly intensified her sufferings. On the fourteenth day of her illness, appearing to be insensible, her mother thinking to do so unobserved, was removing the October number of the Christian Messenger previously referred to, and her small Bible, when, being by this aroused, the infant patient rising in her bed, put out her hand for the books; her mother gently asked, “Have you not forgot it ?" she replied by reciting "Poor Tom's Song:"

"There's three in one and one in three,

And the middle's the one that hath saved me."

Then anxiously and still the mother continued to sit by the side of her sick child until silence was again broken by her asking, "Mother, has heaven got a door to it?" "Yes." "Will it open when I get to it ?" "Yes." "When it opens I shall see my dada's father, and my uncle and his little boy" [all deceased]. "But you won't know them.” “O, I shall, and every time the door opens, when I'm there, I shall look if it is you, and dada, and baby, and John (her brother); and, mother, I shall see Mrs. Jones (the late wife of Mr. J. Jones, local preacher, who had recently died happy). Will she be singing when I get there? I shall tell her I went to school with Eva (Mrs. Jones's daughter). And I shan't want to come back, for there the Lord will make me well." Often during the few days previous to death, she affectionately asked: "Mother, shall I see you when I am in heaven? O, I wish I was there, I shall not want to

come back again," adding, "My grandma will soon come to me there, she won't be long before she comes." Thus she often expressed her anticipations of heaven, and she also deliberately spoke of the place where she wished to be buried, namely, in our chapel yard at Butler's Bank. The days of her mortal history are told off to the last, and on that last day her mother is reading to her some loved hymns, when the child asked, " Has the Lord a hymn-book, because if he has not I will let him hold one side of mine." Her mother wept; seeing her, Mary Elizabeth asked, "Why do you weep? what is the matter, mother?" "You are going to die." "It don't matter, mother, I shall be better off. How shall I feel when I go to heaven ?" "The Lord will make you feel very happy before you go. Do you feel the Lord with you ?" "O yes, sometimes I do." "There is a friend coming to see you, what must I tell her if you are dead?" "Tell her to come to heaven.” She now bequeathed her few treasures, saying: "Mother, you keep my Bible, and give my dada my hymn-book." After this her voice faltered, death was stopping her breath. The doctor came, she extended to him her hand for his final adieu. After his departure her mother softly announced to her the mortal crisis come. "My dear," she said, "the Lord is come to take you to heaven." Her last word was in clear recognition of the fact, the answer of assurance, it was a whispered "Yes." A few moments more then she placed her dying hand in the hand of her father, raised her head, and to him gave expiringly love's last token, the dying kiss, and returned to her pillow. Mary Elizabeth was no more a child of earth, but had passed away to the children's Saviour, who, when on earth, took the child in his arms, and also said, "of such is the kingdom of God."

Mary Elizabeth, daughter of James and Sarah Brown, of Waterloo, in the parish of Prees, Salop, a Sunday scholar at Pool Head, in the Prees Green Circuit, was born February 5th, 1863, and died March 30th, 1868, aged five years. SARAH ANNE POWELL.

Queries and Answers.

No. I.

DEAR SIR,-In Joshua x. 13, we read that the sun and moon stood still, whilst astronomers now tell us that the earth revolves on an axis. Has a change taken place since the days of Joshua? Your opinion through the Juvenile will suffice.-Yours, A. H.

ANSWER.-It was long thought that this earth was the great centre of the universe, that the sun and all the heavenly bodies moved round her. When the truth began to dawn on the human mind in relation to this question, the Pope and his cardinals thought the new doctrine was very dangerous, and, if believed, would destroy the credit of the Bible; and the infallible church persecuted those who taught the heresy. To enter into an explanation of the miracle in the pages of the Juvenile Magazine would only puzzle, and, perhaps, distract the youthful mind. We may shortly grapple with the subject in the large magazine or the Messenger. In the meantime an observation of Bishop Watson may not be out of place. That eminent prelate says, “The whole machinery of the universe is in the hand of God, and he can stop the whole or any part of it with less trouble than any of us can stop a watch;" and we may add, he can also provide against all the consequences that would result from such a cessation with infinite ease.

No change has taken place in the great laws that regulate the universe since the days of Joshua. The earth appears to stand still, and the sun to rise and set; so in the time of Joshua; and the great captain spoke accordingly, as we do in this day. Were we to describe these phenomena in any other language than the rising and setting of the sun, we should talk about a revolution. or a semi-revolution of the earth on its axis. By the use of such terms we should appear stilted and pedantic, and be wholly unintelligible to most hearers. We, therefore, choose to say the

sun rises and sets, and no sensible man hesitates to assent to what we say.

No. II.

DEAR MR. EDITOR,-A correspondent in the January Juvenile asks, if those readers who are able will tell him if the "Tree of life" and the "Tree of knowledge of good and evil," were one tree or two trees?

If all the readers of the Juvenile, who are able, were to respond to this invitation, I am inclined to think that your office-table would be very heavily laden.

Many trees adorned the garden of Eden, and among them were Two trees of a peculiar species and wonderful efficacy, one was called the "Tree of life," and the other the "Tree of knowledge of good and evil," and as man partook of the one or the other he would live or die.

Bath.

SERENA POPE.

We have received letters of similar import from Thos. Heath, jun., Plymouth; D. S. B.; E. M. B.; and Geo. Whittle, Poole, Dorset.