Mr. Fraser then addressed the meeting. He spoke of the state of the heathen, and the cruelties practised among them. He mentioned what some other Juvenile Societies had done, and exhorted his hearers to follow the example of Jesus, who when but twelve years old, was engaged about his Father's business." The children then sung, and the meeting separated highly gratified. The members of this society are also busily employed in preparing a third box of clothing for Africa. The Children's Bookshelf. BREAKFAST TABLE SCIENCE. By J. H. WRIGHT, Surgeon. London: Tegg. A very instructive and amusing little volume. It consists of conversations between a father and his children on various interesting questions of natural science. The questions are put so as to make little people think. For children of ten years of age and upwards, it will be found a very useful present. Those who wish to know “ Why a fly cannot ride on horseback;" "Why a rotten apple is bitter;" "Who ran, the man or the tree;" "What Jack Frost did last winter;" "If a fly had a sore toe, what would happen;" must look into the book itself. THE PAGE FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS. Be kind enough not to mistake the editor's meaning, fellow-helpers of the truth, in giving this page to you. All the book is yours, and if you please, is to be read by you to your children, as well as by them. But this page is peculiarly yours. It is meant to speak to you, -now a word of encouragement-now of fraternal counsel-now of entreaty, always of Christian faithfulness and love. Take it in the spirit in which it is given. John Bunyan speaks somewhere of "nuts that spoil the children's teeth." In a sense somewhat different this page might have been headed with that saying. This page is not for children, it is for you. But though the nuts it contains may be too hard for them, you perhaps can break them, and give to the young in children's language their kernel, or their vital truth. Let the pithy sayings which from time to time this page may contain, be explained to younger readers or treasured up in your own heart to guide you in teaching them. If they are short sayings you will the better remember them, and they will be the more forcible. Truth is like the watch-spring, the more powerful the more compressed; so says John Foster. If they are long, the presumption is that as they take more space, they are the more worthy of your perusal. "HE MUST REIGN." BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. THE fount is opened, from whose streams Shall aught their glorious current check, With blooming Eden's deathless rose? The strong archangel, to whose hand And soaring spans the vault of heaven. Shall aught oppose his boundless flight? Aught dim with clouds his flaming scroll? No! not till truth, with holy light, Shall visit every heathen soul: Not till blest peace shall spring to birth,-Till hatred sheathe the useless sword,Till all the nations of the earth Become the kingdoms of the Lord. The flag of the Dove is of blue silk with a dove and olive branch upon it. It was presented, together with several other valuable presents, by ladies connected with Pembroke Chapel, Liverpool. VOL. 1.] God speed "the Dove!" And from above, No "meteor flag" she bears, Nor hostile aspect wears; With balm for Afric's woes. [FEBRUARY. Leeds. God speed "the Dove!" Her Pilot be, Across the sea. A Vulture flag alone, God speed "the Dove!" Our bark of love Oh! may he keep, Upon the deep. Her emblem flag shall be, O Africa to thee! Pledge of assured relief, From all thy wrongs and grief. God speed" the Dove! Smiles from above Be on her way, From day to day. Her omen flag shall bear God's light and mercy, where Dark superstition's reign God speed" the Dove!" That, winged by love, From evil free ; Her sacred flag a sign, More peaceful and benign, Than vessel ever bore P. J. S. |