prayer, and weeping. The maid was frightened, and ran down to tell her mistress.

When the young man was called down, and questioned, he said plainly and openly that he believed in Jesus, and that unless they also be lieved in Him as the Messiah of Israel, they could not be saved. The young man was threatened by his relations, and they made him promises, if he would give up these things. But he replied that he loved his parents, and would obey them in all things, except in this matter. His father told him that his obedience only made this step the more bitter.

At last they sent him to some relatives who lived in a town on the Rhine. They thought that he might forget what he had learnt. But. there he met with some pious Moravians, and they helped him to know more of Jesus.

When the young man saw that the way was so difficult in Germany for him to become a Christian, he determined to go to America. This he had done, and the Jew said that he had heard that he had become a missionary. While he assured all who were present that this was true, he said that he did not think that such a tract would have any effect on a rabbi, though it might have some upon the mind of an ignorant young man.

But the colporteur told this Jew, who received

a tract and promised to read it, that the Word of God could reach every heart, and that “the Gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."

THE ANT-HILL.

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"ELLEN, come here! the Advocate's' come, and there is something you wanted to see.”

"O, let me look! where are the little ants? O! I see, and here's my sixpence down all right!"

"How you would like to see all the little ants here together, making a mound of their shillings, and sixpences, and pence, and farthings, would you not, Nellie?"

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"O, that would be fun, Janie! Wouldn't I try and make it bigger. Are there many ants, I wonder?"

"Not half enough, Ellen! I hope new ones will come to light every day, and the mound would soon grow bigger then."

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Yes, but I wish I could see it, don't you, Janie ?"

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Well, I don't care so much about seeing it. I can believe it, that is, see it in my mind. You must be content to believe it too, Nellie, for you are the only ant you can see, unless you

can find out some more near you, and get them to help you to make a little mound of your own, and then you can watch it growing bigger!"

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"O, yes! I'll try what I can do. And you must help me, Janie."

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"Yes, dear, I will; but you must ask some one else to help you, and do it for His sake, or else you had better not do it at all, Ellen ". aid Jane, drawing her little sister close, and Looking serious.

"I will ask Him," Ellen replied softly, giving Jane a kiss. "Jesus was a Jew. Isn't hat why we should love the Jews?"

"That is one reason, Nellie; and then you know they kept the Bible for us. The Apostles, too, were all Jews, and if they had not taught the Gentiles, we should never have known the Gospel. Now we have it, we must give it back to the Jews from whom we received it."

"I wonder why they did not keep it?" asked little Ellen.

"Because so few would were too proud to

believe it. They

care about Jesus,

who

was so lowly, and died on the cross. They only hated and rejected Him; and so it is now with most of the Jews. Let us pray that the Holy Spirit may take away their pride and unbelief, and show them what a good and loving Saviour Jesus is. May they learn to see that He is their

own Messiah, who was foretold by the Prophets, and the great sacrifice for sin."

"I have seen a Jew who believes in Jesus, haven't I?"

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"Yes, and I have seen several, Nellie. I'll tell you what I should like to see better than the little ants making their hill."

"What?"

"All the Jews and Jewesses, great and small, who have been taught the Gospel by the missionaries, and who really love Jesus-only I hope there are too many to see all at once!"

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“O, that would be nice! I should so like to see a little Jewess, if she loved Jesus!"

"Well!" (said Jane kindly,) "let us trust in Jesus as our Saviour, and then, when He takes us to heaven, we shall see hundreds and thousands of Jews and Gentiles who have been taught the way there by the missionaries, who 'go out into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,' as Jesus commanded us to do."

"Yes, and mamma says we shall see Abraham, and Joseph, and David there, and I shall not be afraid of them, she says, as I should be now, I am sure. O, we shall be so happy in heaven!"

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'Yes, through all eternity!"

(To be continued.)

C. E. R. M.

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LETTERS ON MISSIONS.

TURIN.

DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,

We are going in this letter to take a long leap, and to jump from Palestine to Sardinia! Do you know where Sardinia is? Look at your maps, and you will find that there is the kingdom of Sardinia, which is that part of Italy that is next to France and Savoy. There is also the Island of Sardinia, which you will find is situated in the Mediterranean.

It is about the kingdom of Sardinia that I am - now going to speak, in which we have missionaries labouring amongst the Jews. The religion of this country is that of the Roman Catholics. Until late years the door was closed against the Gospel. The good Waldenses, of whom you I have perhaps heard or read, still lived in the mountains. It is true that they were allowed to have their Churches, and to meet together for the service of God; but yet they were likely to be persecuted, as their fathers were of old.

But a time of greater freedom was coming. The present King of Sardinia said, that all his people should be allowed to worship God according to their consciences. He said that he would not prevent the Gospel from being preached, or missionaries from working in his country.

There are a great many Jews in Italy. In Turin, which is the chief city of Sardinia, there are about three thousand. There are also many at Genoa and at Nice, which are places to which the missionary can easily go from Turin. If he also goes to the south part of Italy, which