children see their parents, and brothers and sistērs passionate and quarrelsome, they will soom imitate them; if they see all about them mild and gentle, and good-tempered, and if they see their parents look sorry and displeased whenever their children are cross and fretful with each other, they will probably try to govern their own little angry impatient feelings. Often put your other children in mind that their poor little deaf and dumb brother or sister cannot go to the Sunday School, or hear the word of God at Church, or the good advice of the Minister, or of their parents, and that therefore they must be so much the more careful to let him see nothing at home but examples of very affectionate, kind, and gentle behaviour, obedience to their parents, neatness, good order, and industry. Often talk in this way to your family, and perhaps you may find that your deaf and dumb child may become a useful check on the behaviour of the rest of your children.

Now I will give you some more little sentences, which you may teach your child to write and explain by signs. Read them carefully yourself, with the directions I shall put after them.

I am a boy, I am not a girl-or, I am a girl, I am not a boy. I am not a man-you are a man. I am not a woman, you are a woman. I am young, I am not old. My grandfather is old, or my grandmother is old. I am not a baby. A baby is sleeping in the cradle. I am short, I am not tall. My father is tall, my brother John (or whatever name you please) is short. I am standing, I am not sitting. Jane is sitting-she is sitting on a benchshe is not sitting on a chair-my brother is sitting on a stool. Mary and Fanny are working-they are not writing they are my sisters-they are good girls-they are not naughty girls. Thomas is digging in the garden-or ploughing in the field or driving the waggon. The sheep are eating

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grass they are in the field-they are standing under the trees. The cows are in the field-a woman is milking the cows-she is sitting on a stool. I am not in the field-I am in the house. I am not eating grass-I am eating bread. You are eating an apple. We are writing-we are not working. We are writing on slates-we are not writing on paper. The birds are flying in the air-a yellow bird is in a cage-a blackbird is in the tree. I have one nose—

-I have not

I have two eyes. two noses. I have many teeth. I have two lips. I have one tongue. I have two arms-you have two arms. You have two hands-we have two thumbs-we have eight fingers. I have two feet. I have a frock-you have a gown. They have hats on their heads. The girls have thimbles on their fingers. Horses have four feet. Cows have four feet. Cows have horns. Asses have long ears. Men and women have two feet-I have two feet. I have not wings-birds have wings. You have a ring on your finger.

I have a penny in my pocket-you have a shilling in your pocket. The woman is carrying a basket on her head-eggs are in the basket. The woman has a blue gown-she has a red petticoat. The man is carrying a heavy bundle on his back. The man has a ragged coat-he is poor-he is not rich. The boys are playing-they are running-they are jumping.

If you look over the list of words which I have given you in my former letters, I think you will be able to make out many little sentences of this kind; and if you can get a few little pictures, such as are put in children's story books, it would help you very much.

You will easily teach your child the meaning of the words I, you, he, she, we, they; and I will only add a few directions.

I am a man-for the word I, point at yourself;

is, then the usual sign for mun, and shew by signs you are not a little boy like himself, but a grown up man. You are a boy-for you, point at him, are (sign given in the last letter) afterwards let him point at you, and write you are a man.

Mary is a girl-write this sentence on a slate, or instead of Mary, put down the name of any girl who happens to be in the room: then rub out the word Mary, or the name of the girl, and write the word she instead of it. Thomas is a boy-rub out the word Thomas, and write the word he in the room of it. When you teach the word we, get two or three of your children about you, and let them all jump, or sit, or kneel, or eat, or drink, and you do the same; write on the slate we are jumping, we are eating, we are kneeling, &c.—and while you are all kneeling, sitting, or eating, let them read the words, and for the word we, point round at yourself and them; for teaching the word they, bid two or three of your children to do the same thing at the same time, for instance, to laugh, or pretend to sleep, and write on your slate the names of your children, in this

then rub out the names, and write the word they, instead of the names.

For the word have, the sign will be drawing your hand close to yourself, as if holding tight something which belonged to you.

By the help of these directions, I hope you will be able to explain all these little sentences; but remember what I said to you in my last letter, let your child write about the things he sees passing before his eyes, or of which he sees the pictures: for instance, when he writes such sentence as this, a woman is carrying a basket on her head, he ought

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really to see a woman with a basket on her head, or the picture of a woman carrying a basket-and he must tell the name of the real colour of her gown, petticoat, or cloak, and the name of the article she really has got in her basket. You may go on practising my former directions for counting, for I must not tell you any thing more till next month.

I am your friend and well wisher,

D. D.

EXTRACTS FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS.

WE are not rich or poor according to what we possess, but according to what we desire.

Warwick's Spare Minutes. He is not rich that hath much, but he that hath

enough.

The Same. : Hypocrisy desires to seem good rather than to be so honesty desires to be good rather than to

seem so.

The Same.

Each true Christian is a right traveller: his life is his walk, Christ is his way, and Heaven is his home. His walk painful, his way perfect, his home pleasing. I will not loiter lest I come short of home; I will not wander lest I come wide of home; but be content to travel hard, and be sure I walk right, so shall my safe way find its end at home, and my painful walk make my home welcome.

The Same. How apt are we while the word of God is sounding in our ears to let our thoughts loose upon worldly and trifling concerns, and even whilst we are present in the body to be absent in the spirit!.

Rennell.

"Clouds and darkness are round about the throne

pious enquirer, they will gradually vanish away, and the sun of righteousness will open upon us from amongst them in all his glorious and consoling lustre.

The Same.

To hear the word with profit, we must hear it with devotion, with hearts and desires dedicated to God. We must remember that we are fallen and frail creatures, without life and without hope but in Christ. How precious, then, will every word of his Gospel be! with what anxiety then shall we "search the Scriptures," knowing that in them, and in them alone, "are the words of eternal life."

Let those Scriptures which teach us our duty be welcome to us, as well as those that tell us of privileges. Indeed it is one of our greatest privileges to be taught our duty, if at the same time we are inclined, by divine grace, to perform it; and, if we are not, our privileges will not prevent, but will increase, our ruin.

Dr. Doddridge.

Nothing but experience can teach us how good, and perfect, and acceptable the will of God is, and how happy a thing it is to be governed, in every respect, by its unerring declarations.

The Same.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c.

New Churches.-His Majesty has been graciously pleased to give a donation of a thousand pounds to the Church-building Society. It is well known that there is a great want of ac. commodation in the Churches of London, and other large towns, especially for the poor. The Church-building Society is endeavouring to supply this want. It has already expended eighty-six thousand pounds in this object, thus affording 113,714 sittings, of which 84,548 are for the use of the poor. Whoever gives a pound to this Society, will furnish one additional free sitting in a Church. The Society has nearly got to the end of its resources: but, for such a purpose, there will not be a backwardness on the part of the