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guide, but my own judgment is; as if the judgment and understanding of man were not quite as much impaired and perverted by the fall as the will.

Take heed, therefore, and beware, and pray for a tender, an enlightened, a scriptural conscience, lest you rashly substitute opinion for principle; what is plausible for what is right. From Sermons by the Rev. D. B. Langley, D.C.L., author of "Naaman the Assyrian," &c. &c.

POETRY.

A MISSIONARY HYMN, OR THE CHILD'S PENNY. (By Lady Wriothesley Russell.)

SHOULD you like to be told the best use of a penny?
I'll tell you of one that is better than any.

Not on apples, or cakes, or on playthings to spend it,
But in Bibles and Tracts to the Heathen to send it.
Come, listen to me, and I'll tell, if you please,
Of poor little children, far over the seas.

Their skins are quite black, for God made them thus,
But made them with bodies and feelings like us;

A soul, too, that never can die, has been given,

And there's room for black children with Jesus in heaven;
But there's no one to tell of such good things as these,
To poor little Heathen, far over the seas.

Poor children in England are well off indeed,

They have schools every day to sing, work, and read,
Their church, too, on Sunday, and pastors to preach,
And the new way to heaven, through Jesus to teach.
How sad to remember there're so few of these,

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poor little children far over the seas?

Poor blacks have no schools to learn reading and singing,
No Sunday for them with its cheerful bells ringing;
And some poor little blacks have no Bibles to read;
Poor little black children! you are ill off indeed!
But one penny from each would procure some with ease,
For poor little Heathen far over the seas.

Oh! think then of this, when a penny is given,

To help a poor black on his way home to heaven;
Then give it for Jesus, and he will approve,

Nor scorn e'en a mite if 'tis offered in love:
And Oh! when in prayer, you to him bend your knees,
Remember the Heathen far over the seas.

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Is there a Village Churchman who is really seeking to follow his Redeemer who does not sometimes ask himself, "Am I of any use to my fellow-creatures?" The importance of this subject has been lately forcibly impressed on my own mind by a poor aged man who is now laid aside from all active service. In a village containing 4,000 people he is said to have attended more death-beds than any one in the place; his time when not employed at his frame has been long engaged in leading others to God; yet as I stood beside him he said, "Seventy-six years have I lived in this world, and yet to look back it seems but a span: ah! ma'aru, I hear people complain 'I do not know what to do with my time; but if they could stand where I stand they would not think seventy-six years lived over again, and spent in the service of God, one too many." Is this not a lesson to us to "work while it is called to-day?" Many are the ways of being useful, but it is the habit of mind which turns every circumstance into an opportunity of being useful, that I desire to press upon your serious attention. This habit must be formed while you are young. I will not attempt to show how infinitely worthy our Redeemer is of "our best energies, our best affections, and our best days," because if you have learned to love him, you must feel that little indeed is all that you

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can give. He has enjoined on his followers to "present their bodies a living sacrifice," and we should rejoice to be able to offer him our feeble services. Think of the reward: a hundred-fold now in this present life, and in the world to come life everlasting. In manufacturing districts there is close work to be followed hour after hour; how then can you be useful? If you are a Sunday scholar there are your lessons of last Sunday to think about; you may teach them to those at home who have not heard them; and there are next Sunday's chapters to prepare; if you answer well you will be useful in setting a good example. Are you a Sunday-school teacher? you can bring each one of your children before God; study their characters, think how you can best talk to them, think of the motives you can place before them, and as you ply your needle, pray that you may feel more of your Redeemer's love-that your heart may burn within you as you teach these little ones. To parents I need say little; every action of your lives has usefulness for its end; God grant that the love of Jesus Christ may so constrain you, that you may shew it is the right kind of usefulness by your walk and conversation. You have neighbours often in sickness and in trouble; you may assist them, not by idle gossipping, but by doing needful acts of kindness; if you are acquainted with your Bible you can repeat some beautiful texts, and you may shew the sufferer some new proof of His love who came to heal the broken-hearted. Should these lines be read by those in the middle ranks of life, who feel time hang heavily -oh! be persuaded to begin to be useful. To the shame of young Christians there are many schools without sufficient teachers, and there are the sick and the poor to be sought out; if you know not how to help them you may soon learn; if you have not much money you have sympathy to bestow; and thank God in our day the persevering visitor is not left without help: many a benevolent rich person is willing to make you his almoner, and money will sometimes come when you most need it. A life of usefulness necessarily includes a life of self-denial. But it is not for me to recount the privations that lie before you: no, they are hid from my view, and why should I wish to place them in array? This I know, I can be placed in no situation, I can encounter no difficulty, in which I cannot apply to my heavenly Father, and he will assist me. My heart may sicken at the sight of human woe, and still more at the sin which occasions it, but we have a high-priest who can be touched with the feeling

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of our infirmities." To him, my reader, may it be your choicest privilege to go, and may you each strive to be useful in your families, and useful in the Church, that it may be said of you in these days of excitement, "there lives the quiet but useful Village Churchman."

THE VALUE OF THE BIBLE AND PRAYER-BOOK.

(From Clark's" Glimpses of the Old World.")

Two or three 'years since, Dr. Carr, Bishop of Bombay, accompanied Dr. Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta, on a tour of visitation through a part of his extensive diocese. On their way, they touched at Aurungabad, a city under Mahomedan jurisdiction, being a part of Nizamb's dominion, whose imperial court is stationed at Hydrabad. It so happened that Nizamb, or a portion of his army, was at this very time at Aurungabad. One morning, while they were at breakfast, a man who was evidently a native of Hindostan, called and preferred a request to the Bishop, that he would attend the funeral of a deceased child. The Bishop, of course, inquired if the parents of the child were Christians; to which inquiry an affirmative answer being received, both Bishop Wilson and Dr. Carr felt a strong desire to know by what instrumentality the parents of this child had embraced the Christian faith, as they were natives of India. They learned, upon inquiry, that they were followers of Nizamb's camp. All who were employed as domestics or servants in the families of the officers of this army, were called "followers of the camp." The parents of this deceased child, together with some seventeen or eighteen other persons, connected in a like capacity with the camp, had not only embraced the Christian faith, but were in the habit of meeting regularly or Sundays by themselves for worship. After the funeral the whole company of these Christians met Bishop Wilson, an had a long interview with him. He then learned that the had never enjoyed the instruction of any missionary, or ha an opportunity of conversing with any Protestant Christian Their ancestors resided in a part of India where a portion the inhabitants had been led to abandon Pagan idolatry, an embrace the Roman Catholic faith; and they among the

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