When a person is not kneeling, we can hardly believe that he is pray. ing.

Now what I wish to advise you to do, is to think of these things, and to think seriously of them, and to consider why you do them. You will then see that when you have left school, you are not to leave off these good prac tices. You have, perhaps, learned to sing also. When you are grown up, then you should join in the singing of the church. If we were all to be taught these things when we were young, and not forget them when we grow old, we should make a congrè, gation of worshippers much more de. vout in their appearance than we now behold. I say in their appearance; for there may be the appearance without the reality. This is hypocrisy, may God keep us from this sin! Though, however, there may be an appearance of devotion without the reality, yet there cannot well be the reality without the appearance. Let us shew our respect for the service of God by the outward reverence of our behaviour, and by the proper observance of his appointed

worship; and let us, at the same time, know that, for our service to be really acceptable in the sight of God, it must be an offering not only of the lips, not only of the body, but it must be the inward offering of the affections and of the heart.

Questions and Answers, from" Watts's Preservative from the Sins and Follies of Childhood and Youth."

Q. What are the chief dangers that attend childhood and youth?

A. We are in danger of many sins; and many frailties and follies attend us whilst we are young.

Q. What is it that is most properly called sin ?

A. Doing what God has forbidden, or neglecting to do what God has required.

Q. What do you call frailties and follies?

A. Those things which God has pot so plainly forbidden; but which would, if indulged in, lead us into sinful prac

tices, and are attended with conveniences.

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Q. How many sorts of sins. are committed by mankind?

A. Our sins are of three sorts,-the sins of the heart, the sins of the tongue, and the sins of the life.

Q. Against whom are those sins committed?

A. Some more directly against God, some against our neighbours, and some against ourselves.

Q. But are not all sins committed against God?

A. Yes; we sin against God in all the evil that we do, because his law forbids it all; but, in some sins, we do more particular injury to our neighbours or ourselves.

Q. Are children and youth in dan-, ger of all these sorts of sins?

A. Yes; our natures being sinful, we are in danger of those sins, as well, as grown persons,

Q. What are the best ways to avoid those sins?

A. I must do these five things:
1. I must endeavour to see the evil

nature, and ill consequences of every sin that I am in danger of.

2. I must be sorry for what evil I have done in time past.

3. I must pray to God to renew my sinful nature, and to give me strength against these sins.

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4. I must trust in Jesus Christ, and grace to keep me from them.

5. I should have some good reason, and some suitable Scripture in my memory, always ready to oppose them.

SPEAKING TRUTH.

1.

THOSE children who a promise give,
Should always keep their word;
And falsehood from their little mouths,
Should never once be heard.

II.

For when a child a lie has told,
He cannot be believed;

Not even when the truth he speaks,
Because he once deceived.

III.

Oh! who would falsehood dare to tell,
And bring himself to shame;

And thus oppose the God of truth,

And mock his holy name?

Easy Rhymes for Children.

A HYMN FOR A CHILD.

LORD! teach a little child to pray,
Thy grace betimes impart;
And grant thy Holy Spirit may
Preserve my infant heart.

For Christ can all my sins forgive,
And wash away their stain;
And fit my soul with him to live,
And in His kingdom reign.

III.

To Him let little children come,
For He hath said they may;
His bosom then shall be their home-
Their tears He'll wipe away.

IV.

For all who early seek His face,
Shall surely taste His love;
Jesus shall guide them by His grace,
To dwell with Him above.

A meek and quiet spirit is, in the sight of God, of great price. 1 Pet. iii. 4.

Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a housefull of dainties with strife. Prov. xvii. 1.