sense you are lent to the Lord, and ought to be always employed in his service. You were given to him in baptism. By that sacred rite, you were presented to the Saviour that he might bless you and make you his for ever. Oh! think of this. And when sin, and Satan, and this evil world would tempt you away, remember that you are lent to the Lord, and not your own, but bought with a price, even the price of his precious blood.

You must not expect, like Samuel, to hear a voice addressed to you from hea. ven. God does not in these days thus make known his will to us. But still God does speak to us. He speaks in his written word, the Bible. Ile speaks in his preached word, by his ministers and ambassadors. And he speaks secretly to the soul by his Spirit. And if, like Sam muel, you maintain a lowly, bearing frame of mind, God will in these ways speak to you, so as to guide you into all truth; and “when you turn to the right hand or to the left, you shall hear a voice saying to you, this is the way, walk ye in it."

Some time after this, the Philistines came to fight Israel; and Hophni and Phinehas took the Ark down to the battle; for they thought God would fight for them, if the Ark was there. But the Lord left these wicked men, and they were both killed, and the Ark was taken away by the Philistines. Poor old Eli sat by the road side watching for news; he was 98 years old and blind; but he heard a person running from the army, and so he asked him, " what is done there, my son ?”-The man told him that the Philistines had killed Hophni and Phinehas, and taken away the Ark. When the old Priest heard that the Ark was gone, he was so frightened and grieve ed, that he fell down backward, broke his neck and died.

Thus what God had told to Samuel came to pass.

Now there are one or two lessons to be learnt from this history, with which I will conclude. You, my dear young readers, are not called upon to go away from your parents, like Samuel, and to live in God's temple ; but still in one

sense you are lent to the Lord, and ought to be always employed in his service. You were given to him in baptism. By that sacred rite, you were presented to the Saviour that he might bless you and make you his for ever. Oh! think of this. And when sin, and Satan, and this evil world would tempt you away, remember that you are lent to the Lord, and not your own, but bought with a price, even the price of his precious blood.

You must not expect, like Samuel, to bear a voice addressed to you from heaven. God does not in these days thus make known his will to us. But still God does speak to us. He speaks in his written word, the Bible. Ile speaks in his preached word, by his ministers and ambassadors. And he speaks secretly to the soul by his Spirit. And if, like San muel, you maintain a lowly, bearing frame of mind, God will in these ways speak to you, so as to guide you into all truth; and “when you turn to the right hand or to the left, you shall hear a voice saying to you, this is the way, walk ye in it."

Oh! then, may all my young readers give up their own wills, and deny their own evil ways, and consider themselves as “lent to the Lord,” and daily look to him as their only guide and friend.

SARAH AND ELLEN BAKER. - John Baker was a weaver in a large town in Lancashire. He had a wife and seven children. The two eldest, Sarah and Ellen, were twins; good tempered, industrious, dutiful girls, neat in their persons, and constant in going to Church. Their parents had been too poor to let them go' much to school in the weekdays; but had sent them always on Sunday; by which means they had learnt to read well; and gained great credit by the correct way in which they said the catechism, and answered the questions from Scripture put to them by their teachers. Their mother taught them sewing and household work at home; and when of a proper age, they were taken to the factory; and the wages they earned, went towards the support of