was one thousand five hun- | appearance, orderly behaviour, dred and six. The Govern- and progress in learning." very all, ment of India, on my recommendation, made a liberal provision for whether old or young. I placed about two hundred of the children in mission schools in the low country. The great object I had in view, was, that the most intelligent might be brought up as teachers, and eventually settle in their native hills, where, by precept and example, under God's blessing, they might be instrumental in winning some of their own wild people to the pure principles of our holy religion. I had every reason to be well satisfied with the training bestowed by the worthy missionaries upon the Meriah children; and the attachment that sprang up between the teachers and pupils was sincere and lasting. I often visited them, and observed, with heartfelt pleasure, their neat and clean CONCLUSION. "We can now, I thank God, look back upon such atrocities as a thing of the past. It affords me intense gratification to be able to give so satisfactory a statement of the success of my measures for the entire and complete abandonment of this cruel custom. "I should be committing an act of great injustice towards the Government of India, whose support I uniformly enjoyed, were I to conclude this work without acknowledging the liberal spirit in which they received every proposition I made in behalf of my mission. Any amount of money I asked for was ungrudgingly sanctioned; and the warmest marks of approval were bestowed upon my humble but earnest endeavours to carry into effect their benevolent intentions." The Question of Questions. 66 HAT think you of Christ ?"-is the test To try both your state and your scheme; You cannot be right in the rest, Unless you think rightly of HIM; AS JESUS appears in your view As He is beloved, or not, So God is disposed to you, And mercy or wrath is your lot. But mix their own works with His plan; And hope He His help will afford, When they have done all that they can: (A little they own they may fail), They purpose to make up full weight, If asked what of Jesus I think, I say, Though still my best thoughts are but poor, My life, and my strength, and my store; My Saviour from sin and from thrall; My hope from beginning to end, My portion, my Lord, and MY ALL. Do you ever Deceive? SOME children are full of deceit. They seem to delight in making their playmates and friends believe what is false, or doubt what is true. They are false, and therefore wicked children. Have I a deceitful child among my readers? If so, I wish to tell him or her a story about a bird. A thrush had built her nest in a quarry. The miners soon after began to blast the rock, and the pieces fell very near the little bird's nest, very much to her annoyance. After shrinking from the pieces a few times, the bird noticed that the miners rang a bell, and left the quarry just before every explosion. The little Selected. ex creature followed their ample, and every time the bell rung, left her nest, and flying to the spot which sheltered the workmen, lighted at their feet until the explosion was past, when she returned to her nest. This curious fact was noticed by the men, and many persons hearing of it, went out to witness her movements. The men could not, however, explode a blast as often as the visitors came, so they only rung the bell. This deceit served its purpose a few times, but the thrush soon discovered it, and afterwards on hearing the bell peeped from her nest to see if the men left the quarry. If they did she followed them; if they did not she remained in her nest. Thus you see that even a bird could not be deceived long. She soon saw that the men wished to make her believe what was not true. I want you to make a note of this, little Double-face. Ask yourself this question: "If a bird could soon see through a deceitful act, will not my friends soon see through me, and learn that I am a cheat?" They will find you out, you may depend upon it. Indeed, they have found you out already. Every boy and girl you know, your parents, teachers, and friends, all know that you are as false child. They all see through the thin mask with which you seek to cover your false heart. What is a still more serious fact for you, God knows what you are. He sees through you, and knows that you are full of deceit and falsehood. Make haste, therefore, oh, my child, to put away your deceit. Ask Jesus to give you a true and honest nature. Beg' your heavenly Father to help you to say in good earnest," My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit."S. S. Advocate. The Lighthouse. T Upon a Lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall is engraved this instructive Motto: “TO GIVE LIGHT, AND TO SAVE LIFE." B EETLING above the rocky shore, Where loud the eddying surges roar, Its glowing beacon to the sky. 'Light 1 impart, and life I save." Hail, friendly Lighthouse! many a bark, Drifting upon the ocean dark, Has seen with joy thy gleams of light Here, Christian, stay awhile to view Oh! you who know the glorious sight Children of light! awake! awake! Have learnt THIS LIGHTHOUSE is designed Selected. How Emma Rose minded her Text. F MMA, dear, repeat your verse," said Mrs Rose to her daughter one morning at family prayer. "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city," said Emma. Prayer was then offered by Emma's father, after which the little girl bounded into the garden to look at her flowers. Emma was very fond of flowers, and this morning the first thing she did was to take her little green watering-pot, fill it with water from the well, and go to a bank under the dining-room window. There she meant to water a lovely fuschia, or ladies' ear-drop, which her aunt had sent her a few days before. But, to her great grief, the flower-pot was overturned and the fuschia broken. The cause of this disaster was close at hand. It was Emma's cat which had capsized the flower-pot. Emma's anger rose within her breast like a sudden storm. Her eyes flashed. She ran with uplifted arm toward puss, and was about to strike her a heavy blow when her morning | text came into her mind. She dropped her arm in a moment, and instead of striking, stroked pussy gently, saying, "You have broken my flower, puss, but I mustn't get angry. I must rule my spirit. I must be slow to anger. You are a thoughtless puss, but I suppose you didn't know any better. If you had, you wouldn't have spoiled my lovely plant. Thus, you see, Emma's text did her good. Why? Because she minded it. Exactly so. If she had not given heed to it, learning it would have done her no good. Mark, then, my children, this truth. It is not by merely learning texts of Scripture that you are made better, but by minding them after they are learned.-S. S. Advocate. Caste. OU have often heard and read of "caste." You know how in India it much withstands the Gospel, and troubles the native churches. In your school there are many classes. The scholar, who, on entering the school, is placed in the lowest, if diligent and attentive, may rise by degrees to the highest. It is not so with caste. If a man belongs to the lowest caste, he, and his children after him, must remain of that caste. This is part of the religion of the land, and sadly opposes and hinders the true religion. You know how a man of a higher caste despises him who high belongs to a lower. He thinks himself his superior, and will not come near him if he can avoid it. All these 66 thoughts and imaginations the Gospel casts down. It teaches that all, in the sight of God, are equal; that a man should honour his neighbour; yea, more, should love him as himself. How far the poor people of India are from the spirit of the Gospel, the following incident will show :-" An Indian Sepoy, after a battle, lay on the field dying of thirst. cup of water would have saved him, but there was no one to give it. At last his cries for water attracted the notice of A |