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One sin-gle mis-take, small as it seemed to be, brought about all this ru-in and death. Do you not see how plain it is, that great re-sults may turn upon very small things? One mo-ment of time turned the scale, and prop-er-ty and lives all go down into the deep. There the goods are des-troyed, and there the hu-man be-ings sleep till the great morn-ing of the res-ur-rec-tion day.— Todd.

LESSON XXXVII.-MRS. FRY.

Al-most ev-er-y-bod-y has heard of the no-ble and ex-cel-lent Mrs. Fry, and of her vis-its to the pris-on-ers at New-gate. No-bod-y took an-y in-ter-est in these poor crea-tures, and they were treat-ed with great harsh-ness and cru-el-ty. The con-se-quence of this was, that they be-came so vi-o-lent and des-per-ate, that ev-er-y-bod-y was a-fraid of them, and there was the great-est dif-fi'cul-ty in man-ag-ing them. The keep-ers of the pris-on were a-fraid to go in, e-ven with the food of the pris-oners, un-less they had with them a guard of sol-diers with load-ed mus-kets. But Mrs. Fry re-solved to go in a-mong these des-per-ate crea-tures and try to do them "good. Her friends were a-larmed when they heard of her in-ten-tion. They told her she would cer-tain-ly be in-sult-ed, or in-jured, if not killed; and tried to persuade her not to go. But she was re-solved to go, and said she had no fear. Then they want-ed her, at least, to have a guard of sol-diers with her; but she re-fused. With noth-ing in her hand but the new Test-a-ment, she ven-tured in a-mong that hard-ened, law-less crowd. "They were men and wom-en more fierce than the hungry li-ons in the den in-to which Dan-iel was thrown. It did seem like a ver-y dan-ger-ous ex-per-i-ment. But

she spoke to them in tones of ten-der-ness and af-fec-tion. It was what they had not been ac-cus-tomed to hear. It act-ed like a charm up-on their hard-ened hearts. She o-pened her book, and read to them. She closed the book, and spoke to them free-ly of the love of Je-sus. They lis-tened with pro-found at-ten-tion. Sobs and groans were the on-ly sounds heard while she was speak-ing, and tears were seen cours-ing down the cheeks of those who had long been un-used to weep. Af-ter that, she often re-peat-ed her vis-its, which re-sult-ed in a great ref-or-ma-tion a-mong those pris-on-ers, man-y of whom were re-claimed from their e-vil ways, and made use-ful mem-bers of so-ci-e-ty. And what was the charm a-bout this no-ble wo-man, and the se-cret of the great power she ex-er-cised o-ver those a-ban-doned pris-oners? The charm a-bout her was the spi-rit of love. She con-vinced these poor crea-tures that she re-al-ly loved them, and want-ed to do them good. This made them love her, and then she could do an-y-thing that she want-ed with them.-R. Newton.

LESSON XXXVIII.—THE MONTHS.

How much do four weeks make? A month.

And twelve months make a year-Jan-u-a-ry, Febru-a-ry, March, A-pril, May, June, Ju-ly, Au-gust, Septem-ber, Oc-to-ber, No-vem-ber, De-cem-ber.

Jan-u-a-ry brings the snow,

Makes our feet and fin-gers glow.

Feb-ru-a-ry brings the rain,

Thaws the fro-zen lake a-gain.

March brings breez-es, loud and shrill,

Stirs the dan-cing daf-fo-dil.

A-pril brings the prim-rose sweet,
Scat-ters dai-sies at our feet.
May brings flocks of pret-ty lambs,
Skip-ping by their flee-cy dams.
June brings tu-lips, lil-ies, ro-ses,
Fills the chil-dren's hands with po-sies.
Hot Ju-ly brings cool-ing show-ers,
A-pri-cots, and gil-li-flow-ers.
Au-gust brings the sheaves of corn,
Then the har-vest home is borne.
Warm Sep-tem-ber brings the fruit,
Sports-men then be-gin to shoot.
Fresh Oc-to-ber brings the pheas-ant,
Then to gath-er nuts is pleas-ant.
Dull No-vem-ber brings the blast,
Then the leaves are whirl-ing fast.
Chill De-cem-ber brings the sleet,
Bla-zing fire, and Christ-mas treat.

LESSON XXXIX.-RICE.

Sara Coleridge.

The rice plant is a na-tive of In-di-a, but it is grown in many other coun-tries. It may be cul-ti-vat-ed with suc-cess, wher-ev-er the cli-mate is warm, and plen-ty of wa-ter can be obtained. Rice does not want rich soil; all that it needs is mois-ture. In some parts of the East, it is grown on-ly du-ring the rain-y sea-son. In Chi-na, they dig can-als round the rice fields, and when the seed is plant-ed, the wa-ter is made to o-ver-flow the field, and cov-er the rice. As soon as it is ripe, the wa-ter is drained off, and the crop gath-ered in. The rice is cut down with a sic-kle, like corn; it is then passed be-tween mill-stones, placed so far a-part as just

to sep-a-rate the grain from the husk, without bruis-ing it. After this it is read-y for use. Mr. Todd tells a very pret-ty sto-ry a-bout the man-ner in which rice is grown in E-gypt. Here it is:

Rice is the food most used in east-ern coun-tries, es-pe-cial-ly in E-gypt, even to this day. Ev-er-y year, when the snows all melt off the moun-tains, the riv-er Nile ri-ses high up, and o-ver-flows its banks, and cov-ers all the coun-try round it with wa-ter. The peo-ple set down stakes, ev-er-y man in his land, be-fore the wa-ters come. And when the Nile has ris-en, and all the ground is cov-ered with wa-ter, they go out in their lit-tle boats, and sow, or cast their rice upon the wa-ters. The rice sinks down, and sticks in the mud be-neath, and when the wa-ters are gone, they find it has ta-ken root and sprout-ed, and it grows up and gives them a har-vest. This is " 'cast-ing their bread upon the wa-ters, and find-ing it af-ter many days."

LESSON XL. THE CREATION-SIXTH DAY.

Now I shall tell you of the last thing God made. God took some of the dust of the ground, and made the bod-y of a man; then He breathed on it, and gave it a soul; so the man could un-der-stand a-bout God. Ad-am was quite good like God. Ad-am loved God very much.

God put him in a very pret-ty gar-den, full of trees cov-ered with fruit. This gar-den was called the gar-den of Eden. God showed Ad-am all the beasts and birds, and let Ad-am give them what names he pleased. He said to Ad-am, "I give you all the fish-es, and in-sects, and birds, and beasts; you are their mas-ter." So Ad-am was king over all things on the earth.

God said to Ad-am, "You may eat of the fruit that grows on the trees in the gar-den." Still God did not let him be i-dle, but told him to take care of the gar-den. You see how very kind God was to Ad-am.

But Ad-am had no friends to be with him; for the beasts and the birds could not talk to Ad-am. Then God said He would make a wom-an to be a friend to Ad-am. So God made Ad-am fall fast a-sleep; and while he was a-sleep, God took a piece of flesh out of his side, and made it into a wom-an. When Ad-am a-woke, he saw her. He knew that she was made of his flesh and bones, and he loved her very much. Her name was Eve.

You have heard of all the things God made. They were all beau-ti-ful; and all the liv-ing things were quite hap-py; there was no pain; and no sigh-ing, and no sin in all the world.

God had been six days in ma-king the world. And when He had fin-ished it, He rest-ed, and made no more things. The an-gels saw the world that God had made: they were pleased, and sang a sweet song of praise to God. Je-sus Christ the Son of God was pleased, for He loved Ad-am and Eve.-" Peep of Day."

LESSON XLI.-THE YOUNG MINER.

By a sud-den burst of wa-ter into one of the Newcas-tle col-lier-ies, thir-ty-five men and for-ty-one lads were driv-en into a dis-tant part of the pit, from which there was no pos-si-bi-li-ty of re-turn un-til the wa-ter should be drawn off. While this was ef-fect-ing, though all pos-si-ble means were used, the whole num-ber died, from star-va-tion or suf-fo-ca-tion. When the bod-ies were drawn up from the pit, seven of the youths were

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