hood as we now regard them. In 1828 a very respectable publication seriously discussed the question, "Can a child reason?"

5. And now for further progress! Let it be all in God's way. Other foundation hath no man laid than the name of Jesus. Let us progress in the same line as hitherto, and:

In the Church recognition of the Sunday school as one of its grand departments of labour. Hence let the Church oversee and guide it; selecting, training, and accepting its teachers; arranging services for it in the best practicable manner.

The Church should supply the reasonable and proper wants of the Sunday school. The school should not be a bill of expense to the workers who perform its labour. All the charges should be borne by the Church. Rooms, the most excellent that can be afforded, should be built for it. Let the children first be fed.

Let us progress in the co-operation of the Sunday school with other departments of the Church.

The Sunday school has not worked to the detriment of the family, nor yet of the pulpit. But it can do far more than it has done in both lines. Teachers must count their work with and for pastors and parents, as well as with and for scholars, and all work together for the general good.-Address at the Plainfield Institute.

SCOLDING. It is very easy to scold. It requires no self-control, no patience, no careful adaptation to the rights and feelings of others. It is far more popular than any other display of energy, and it is very convenient, for the scolder's weapons are always within easy reach. Does & boy "look around" during the Sunday school lesson? Scold him. Does a girl whisper? Scold. Give the superintendent a sly scolding for putting in your class a pupil that don't match the others. Give each of the parents a piece of your mind (broken off short and sudden) for not teaching their children the lesson. Snap at the other teachers for talking too loud. By these means Christian workers can make themselves and others as comfortable as it is possible to be-in a hornet's nest.— Christian at Work.

VERSES FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

I.

PAPA, WERE YOU EVER A BOY?

My little four-year-old Harry,

Bright in beauty and joy,

Said, with his accent of wonder,
"Papa, was 'oo ever a boy?
Was 'oo ever as little as I be?"
"Dear baby," I said, in reply,
"Will my darling ever be weary,
And heart-worn, and sinful as I?"

With forehead of whiteness and candour,
And loving and innocent eyes,

Thou dost measure the distance between us
With a strange and holy surprise.
Thou like a bud flushed and fragrant;
I like a leaf at its fall;

I far away from the angels

Thou within reach of their call.

Type of the beauty celestial,
Humble, and tender, and sweet,
Thou comest in faith, my darling,
To sit at thy father's feet.
Taught by thy loving example,
By thy truth that knows no alloy,
May I go to our Father as simply,
And in heart be always a boy.

The Christian Union.

II.

YOU WISH TO BE BEAUTIFUL?

You wish to be beautiful? truly, dear child,
For that I most earnestly pray;

So, listen to wisdom, and I 'Il thee instruct,—
To be beautiful, I'll shew you the way.

For a beautiful dress put on those white robes
Which Jesus doth give us to wear,

With garments of praise, the vestments of song,
Which make saints and the angels so fair.

For a beautiful face let the glory of God,

In "the beauties of holiness," shine

Through each feature and look, so as cheeks, lips, and eyes, All transparent, reflect the divine.

For a beautiful head let wisdom adorn,

As a graceful chaplet, thy brow;

Have "treasures of knowledge" to sparkle and charm,— Child taught by the Spirit be thou.

For a beautiful heart fill'd let it be

With the warmth and the sweetness of love;

Make Jesus thy pattern in all that you do;
Be gentle and meek like the dove.

For beautiful hands you must constantly wash
In the fountain of innocence pure,

And lift them to God, and use them for good,
While the season of life doth endure.

For beautiful feet be constantly shod,
And prepared by the Gospel's glad sound;
Keep the way everlasting, shun sin to defile,
On the road to the kingdom be found.

THE OBJECT.-What is the object of Sunday school teaching? It is to bring the souls of the children to Jesus. Nothing less. Nothing more. There can be nothing more in eternity than that. There can be nothing less in all the labours of time than that—to bring lost and fallen children to know, discern, accept, enjoy, and feed upon a Saviour's love. Do you understand it? Can you go, and from the experience of your own heart, in the fulness of divine forgiveness, sit down beside a company of little ones, and tell them, without pretence, or profession, or guile, of the fulness of the glory of a divine Saviour? This is the object. And the minister of Jesus has no other. The power of the ministry does not depend upon its office, or upon the intellect of the men that fill it; but entirely upon the simplicity of the truth with which the teacher speaks; and it can be demonstrated in the experience of the whole Christian Church, that the most useful men are not, after all, the men that rise and shine in the sight of men, but those who, with loving hearts and praying spirits and watchful souls, and with a deep and true enjoyment of the Divine favour, go forth to speak the most simply and unceasingly of a Saviour's love. There is no appointed minister of the Gospel that can occupy a higher office than the Sunday school teacher occupies. As a teacher, you have put into your hands, at the very time when most of all you desire to have them, souls that are to live for ever, may live with Christ for ever.-The Rev. Dr. Tyng.

It is impossible that an ill-natured man can have a public spirit; for how should he love ten thousand men who never loved one?

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GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL UNION. | Committee, on obtaining writers of -The ordinary meeting of the Di- Papers for Perth Convention; by rectors of this Union was held on Statistics Committee, on the proximthe 17th June. One District Union ity of dates of the Annual Meetings report was received. It was agreed of the General and District Unions; to recommend for the consideration by Sabbath Observance Committee of the District Unions the question or Juvenile Sabbath Union, and by of the decrease of scholars its the Committee on District Unions, on probable causes, and how they may efforts to form additional local be remedied. Progress was reported Sabbath School Unions. Consideras follows:-By deputation to Mr. ation of the desirableness of the Morrison, on arrangements for Model Union establishing a cheap Library Lesson Class; by Public Meetings Scheme for teachers and for scholars

was remitted to the Publication | locality in which any church is situCommittee. Next meeting of Direc-ated, whether in the town or the tors fixed for August.

The

ing the decrease in the number of scholars before Presbyteries and Sessions, were adopted.

country, to ascertain what children SABBATH SCHOOLS OF THE ESTAB- are not receiving religious instrucLISHED CHURCH.-Sheriff Barclay tion; and that no pains should be gave in to the General Assembly a spared in establishing mission schools, special report by the Committee on and drawing in to them the neglected Sabbath Schools. It stated that the children." From the statistical number of schools reported for the returns it seemed that in 1871 there year is 1853, with 153,211 scholars were 10,514 teachers and 81,481 on the roll, and 122,977 of an average scholars in the Church, as compared attendance; 13,624 teachers, 997 with 10,490 teachers and 82,440 ministers teach or superintend, 148 scholars in the previous year. do not teach or superintend, 644 recommendations of the committee parishes and chapels have libraries, as to preaching to the young, as to 419 do not have libraries, 15,472 the roll of baptized persons not in attend adult classes, 6798 attend full membership, and also as to bringBible classes on week-days; the amount of contributions intimated was £84 17s. 9d.; the amount collected for missions, £1026 18s. 94d. The SABBATH SCHOOLS OF THE FREE number of non-reporting parishes was CHURCH.-Mr. William Dickson gave 65, and the number of parishes with- in the report to the General Assembly. out Sabbath schools was 52. The The numerical results of returns reabove figures all shew an increase ceived from every Synod and every for the year, except in the number Presbytery of the Church were the of non-reporting parishes, and those following:-Number of Sabbath without Sabbath schools. There is a schools, congregational and missiondecrease of 21 in the number of non-ary, 1772; senior classes, including reporting parishes, and a decrease of ministers', 918; total, 2690. Sabbath 5 in the number without Sabbath school teachers, male, 6688; female, schools. The report recommended 6342, total, 13,029; teachers of that all Presbyteries and Synods senior classes, including ministers, should appoint committees upon their 996;-total engaged in teaching, Sabbath schools. 14,023. Sabbath scholars at ordinary SABBATH SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED schools, male, 59,480; female, 66,321, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Mr. Inglis,-125,801 scholars. At senior classes, Johnstone, submitted to the Synod male, 13,750; female, 17,996,the report of the Committee on 31,746. Total under instruction, Sabbath Schools, which recom- 157,547, being an increase over last mended-" (1.) That means be taken year of 9883. Total contributions at stated intervals to ascertain if for the year, £2685, being an increase the children of the Church are re- over last year of £568. ceiving a thorough education in CHURCH OF ENGLAND YOUNG religious truth. (2.) That ministers MEN'S SOCIETY.-The twenty-eighth and sessions should use all their annual meeting of this society was influence to draft into the Sabbath held in the hall of King's College, on schools those church members who, the 24th May, J. Macgregor, Esq., by education, ability, piety, and in the chair. This society, the object other qualifications are best fitted to of which is to promote the welfare become Sabbath school teachers. (3.) of young men spiritually, socially, That there should be a periodical and intellectually, numbers eighteen examination by the session and metropolitan and nineteen provincial Sabbath school teachers of the branches, with an aggregate of about

by the downfall of the temporal power of the Pope; mention being made that the Bible Society had held its first meeting in the city of Rome, the seat of Antichrist for so many centuries, without the propriety thereof being ever questioned; and that contributions had flowed in for the building of chapels and schools in Rome and Naples, and for the prosecution of a vigorous aggressive enterprise throughout that priest-ridden country.

3800 members. After a few con- the kingdom of Italy, brought about gratulatory remarks from the chairman, Mr. Cecil Raikes reminded those present that while they had added eight branches to the society during the past year, they had lost six. Mr. Charley said that while the upper and working classes were loyal to the Church, there had been unhappily a great falling off on the part of the middle classes. It was one of the missions of the society to recall the middle classes to the fold of the Church, for it was desirable above all things that the Church should not SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION degenerate too much into congre- OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. gationalism. A resolution was carried-The annual meeting of this society urging upon young men the necessity took place on the 25th May,-the of joining the society. Archbishop of Canterbury in the WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. chair. The report shewed that the This society met on the 29th May, in total income for the past year Exeter Hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury amounted to £97,603 18s. 4d. Also in the chair. According to the that the society supported wholly or financial statement the home receipts in part 462 ordained missionaries. for the past year have amounted to They are thus distributed :- In £110,703; the foreign, £37,000 odd; America and the West Indies, making a total of £148,585, being 227; in Africa, 83; in Asia, 110; in greatly in advance of the ordinary Australia and the Pacific, 41; in income. The report represented the Europe, 1. A year of progress and society's work as far exceeding the activity had not been without its most sanguine expectations. Special trials and sorrows, and foremost emphasis was laid upon the opening among these was the death of Bishop to the teachings of Protestantism in Patteson and his companions.

NOTES ON THE UNION'S LESSON SCHEME FOR 1872.

LESSON XXIX.-JULY 21.

THE RESURRECTION MORNING.--Matthew xxviii. 1-10.

I. The connection.-Our Lord was buried on Friday afternoon, and lay in the grave all Saturday, which was the Jewish Sabbath, when no work was done. The women had seen where He was laid; but having no time that afternoon to perform the customary anointing, they had gone home, prepared the spices, and rested on the Sabbath (our Saturday) according to the commandment, (Luke xxiii. 55, 56.) "In the end of the Sabbath," i. e., on our Lord's day morning, for their Sabbath ended at sunset on our Saturday, "as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week," or, as John says, "while it was yet dark," these women left Jerusalem and set out for the grave. Learn from this how earnest lovers of Jesus will grudge no pains to shew their love to Him. They were doing all this for the dead body of Jesus. We have the living Lord to love and serve.

II. The Resurrection, (v. 2-10.)-As they were going together to the grave they were talking about the stone which had been rolled to the entrance to the tomb, and wondering how they could remove it, so as to reach the body. On coming up, however, they found the stone rolled away. For there had been a great earthquake,