stantly to Jesus. He is everywhere present: in the bustling scenes of the workshop, and in the midst of the family group, as well as in the retirement of your own little chamber. Say with the Psalmist, "Hold thou me up that my footsteps slip not;" and then, though the Devil and his followers may whisper in your ears inducements to sin, and try hard to bring you into the paths which lead to present and eternal ruin, you will have reason to say, in your happy deliverance from temptation, not only that our God is everywhere present, but that he is also all-powerful to

save.

PRAYER.

LUKE xi. 5-13.

Teacher.-Boys, there are a class of men who are never sure of spending a pleasant evening, or enjoying a good night's rest. Can you tell me who I mean?

First scholar.-Doctors.

Teacher.-Yes. Let us suppose we now see a doctor, sitting on a December evening by his bright parlour fire, with his wife and daughters by his side. The clock has just struck ten. His patients have been visited, his medicines have been sent out, and the entries in his day book have been made, and he is hoping to spend this last hour in quietness with his home circle. Look, now, how happy they appear;-what a social aspect the parlour presents; mark what they are doing the eldest girl is sitting down at the piano, while the second is showing her father how far she has got on with her worsted work; when, in the midst, a servant comes in and says, "Mr. W. has just sent for you, sir; his son has broken his leg by falling from his horse, as he was coming home from market." He hears the message, and

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wants, its temptat prayer. There are “ wasted face, and who been busy with their sanctify such affliction · and who will watch a answer to their prayer. the merchant watches ed vessel, or the farm. under the cheering ra, who will mark the tear. sion of countenance; .. heavy sod has lately.. or a sister, will pray may lead the child, w God in early life, and t the domestic hearth r of a hope, blooming wit who will wrestle with child, who has manifest divine things have been 1 remark, has shown that t in by-gone days, are q instead of rotting in barr Notwithstanding these cumstances of the class t by the mass of teachers; substituted for the earne in its behalf. Now ther this respect. If all the prep tile and worthless, without companying it to the hearts 'the increase,' whether in the dren, or devout communicar

see how sorry he looks that he is called to leave

his happy family.

Sixth scholar.-If I were him, I should'nt go. Teacher. Would you not? Suppose you were the boy who had met with the accident.

First scholar.-Well, why of course he ought

to go.

Teacher. Yes, and I hope that each of you would go to render help to a person in distress. But suppose he did refuse, and the messenger who had rode in breathless haste nearly two miles to fetch him, was sent back to say that the doctor was now too tired, but would come in the morning, how do you think the family who were bending over their poor afflicted sufferer would act?

Second scholar.-Begin to cry.

Teacher.-Yes, you might see the youngest girl, it may be, sobbing, because she thinks he'll die; while the mother once more wipes the sweat from his perspiring forehead. But the father,— notice him he is putting on his great coat, and has tied a scarf round his neck, and is asking for his whip. Where do you think he's going?

Second scholar.-Back to the doctor's.

All the other scholars.—To bring the doctor. Teacher. And where will he find the doctor? Second scholar.-In bed.