And in order that some of them Prof. H. was astonished. At should, Mr. J. Passmore Edwards, length he said: 'How can the sabfrom London, has recently been bath school benefit you so much, introducing the temperance prin- when you never go near it?' ciples in day and Sunday schools, in many parts of the country. In many places, he has recently succeeded in getting the Sunday scholars of the several denominations together on the sabbath afternoon, and speaking to them on the moral and religious advantages resulting from pure temperance. He has been showing them how the temperance reform would increase and improve the education of the times, and how it would sustain any good education that might be given to the rising generation. This he has done in several of the towns of the country; and wherever he has gone he has been kindly received, and he has also been glad to find, almost invariably, a disposition on the parts of the teachers to co-operate with him in the labour of love. 'IT BENEFITS ME TEN DOLLARS A YEAR.' PROF. Hamilton, of Nashville University in Tenessee says:-When I was teaching several years since, in New Jersey, I was requested to act as librarian in the sabbath school. I did so, and for the purpose of enlarging the library, I drew up a paper, and carried it to the people in the village for contributions. Some gave twentyfive cents, some fifty cents, and some a dollar, till I came to the house of a rich learned man,' that never went to meeting, and did not believe the Bible. Prof. H. being a very polite man, went in and explained the object to this unbeliever. 'Put me down, ten dollars,' said the infidel. Prof. H. was quite surprised. 'It benefits me ten dollars a year,' said the infidel,' and I am willing to pay it.' Why, before the sabbath school began,' said the infidel, the boys disturbed me all day on the sabbath. They were out of their day school, and while their parents were at meeting, many of the boys were in the streets, playing, laughing, or cursing, making so much noise, that I could neither read nor study. Sunday was a noisy day. But the boys now get their lessons, go to their Sunday schools, and then bring home interesting books, or papers to read; so that they never think of play. The Sunday school has made it so. The sabbath is still and quiet. The change is worth ten dollars a year to me, and I will give that sum every year, if you will keep the school going. THE STREET BOYS. ONE Sunday, not long ago, I passed by one of our largest city prisons. All along the great blind wall were ranged a number of boys, from five years old to eighteen. They were playing, laughing, quarrelling, and even cursing. This is their way of spending the holy sabbath. I could not help saying, Poor fellows, you will soon get inside! It is wonderful to observe how many of our city boys spend their sabbaths out of doors. Many good people who pass the day in church or at home, have no idea of what is going on around them. But let them be called, on visits of mercy, as I have been, to certain parts of the town, and they will behold strange sights. At the wharves, and along the docks, they will find groups of little fellows, fishing or jumping about in boats, or crossing the ferries, or watching for the coming in of sabbath-breaking steamers, or in doubt not, the Lord Jesus Christ will approve. Something of this is already done by individual Christians; but the evil is so vast, and de the warm season swimming about. There are certain corners where you may always be certain to meet clusters of boys by day, and even by night. Wherever there is a noted or frequented spot-mands such additional labour, wherever a long, high wall or fence stretches along for some distance-whenever the side of a building is exposed without doors or windows, there these youngsters assemble. Or go out into the edge of town, where there are brick-yards, ponds, and open lots, and you will discover larger boys in great numbers at marbles, ball, or flying of kites. After all that Sunday schools are doing, this is still the case. The common means of grace do not reach these youths. They go to no church, and no multiplication of churches will insure their reform. Nothing but Sunday schools can at present relieve them. And even these do them no good, unless they can be persuaded to attend. These boys will soon be men. They will be the men of our cities. They will vote and govern the country. They will choose our lawmakers, our magistrates, and sometimes our judges. They will determine whether we have to war or peace. With such sights before us let me ask, What is the next generation likely to be? There is need of a Christian community, such as has never been seen. We need a Christian police; not to punish, but prevent crime. We need a thousand persons at least, who shall feel it to be their special task to scour every lane, alley, neighbourhood, and suburb, and bring these wanderers in. Nothing will do any good but personal application. They must be taken by the hand and talked with. They must be followed up and never let go. Many persons can do well in this cause who are not competent to be teachers. It is a charitable work, which, I that we need a prompt organization of forces for this particular end. I fear, however, that a service so laborious and thankless will not attract many volunteers, until our churches shall be visited with a genial influence of the Holy Spirit. Then the people will have a mind to work. At present, in Sunday schools, as well as other things, we are making head way rather by an impulse given long ago, than by any very urgent plying of the oars. And hence the duty of earnest and united prayer.—S. S. Journal. THE MAD INTOXICATION OF DANCING. She 'I was once called,' says an aged 'The wretched victim knew that the Spirit had taken his final leave no compunctions for sin, no tears of penitence, no inquiries after God, no eager seeking of the place where Christians love to meet, now occupied the tedious hours. Instead of the on the brink of reprobation and despair, would lay to heart the warning. THE PASTOR.-He is not a pastor who is never met by a smiling child in the streets; and such a man, minister as he may be, we gence of a pleasing duty. A chrispity for his unpardonable negli tian minister should be well ac bloom and freshness of health, there came the paleness and haggardness of decay. The wan quainted with as many of the and sunken cheek, the ghastly families of hearers as possible; glaring eye, the emaciated limbthe sure precursors of approach-dren and domestics. They expect not the heads only, but the chiling dissolution-were there. The it, and the expectation is reasoncaresses of friends, the sugges-able; and he will do little good in tions of affection, were all unheeded. The consolations of piety -the last resource of the miserable-were to her but the bitterness of death. In this state of mind I was called to visit her. When I entered the room and beheld her, pale and emaciated, and reflected, that the ravages of her form without but faintly shadowed forth the wreck and desolation within, I was almost overpowered. Never had I conceived so vivid an idea of the woe and misery of those who have quenched the Spirit. She lected. To notice them regularly, any house who leaves them negaffectionately, and religiously, is to engage and maintain many hearts, members for the church and saints for glory; and these shall honor the good man, as he passes through the streets, with their pleasant looks and blessings. The Saviour exercised a lovely into Jerusalem, children strewed supremacy, when, as he entered his path with the branches of palm trees. Wesley never appeared more like St. John than when, with children on his knees, and others thronging him, as he sang songs for them on the rural hearth. And to us no part of Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village' is more pleasing than that which says of the preacher, 'Ev'n children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.' 'I proposed prayer. The word threw her into an agony. utterly refused. No entreaties of friends, no arguments drawn from the love of God, or from the fulness and freeness of atoning blood, could prevail to shake her resolution. I left her without being able to find a single avenue to her heart, or to dart one ray of comfort into the dark bosom which, to all human view, was soon to be enveloped in the blackness of darkness for ever. Never shall I forget the dreadful expression of that ghastly countenance, the tones of that despair-point, formed the strongest roof ing voice. The impression is as vivid as though it had been but yesterday. Oh, that the young, gay, thoughtless ones in our sabbath schools, who stifle the convictions of conscience, and dance NATURE AND SCIENCE.--Mathematicians laboured hard, for a long time, to find what figure could be used so as to lose no space; and at last found that it was the six-sided figure; and also that a three-plane ending in a or door. The honey-bee disco- extent of that blessed power which he will silently wield over human minds and hearts when he has ceased to be; the fruit of it all gathered to heaven will fill him with adoring wonder. And the sinner knows not how fearfully his influence will accumulate in after ages, nor how many souls will charge their sins upon him in the judgment. 'We are fearfully and wonderfully made.' Such are the elements of our own being, and such our relations to others, that we cannot die in this world or the next. How numberless are our actions!-and not one of them will ever find a grave, or live an idle life, or prove false to its parentage. They may be unwise, and regretted by us; the work of a moment's folly or passion; no matter, we have given them life and cannot take it away; and they will live on in their consequences when the occasion which called them into being, and the remembrance of the deeds themselves have perished; live still to fasten impressions on human character, and control the destiny of souls immortal. The wicked Cain is alive still on the earth; his type of character is manifest, and his footprints are seen along the pathway of the living world. The man who hates goodness and sheds innocent blood, copies the example and acts out the spirit of the first murderer. Abel is not dead. He belongs to living piety, as well as to history. By his recorded example of obedience and faith, and by the memory of all that he was, he is present with the child of God in every land and age of the world, declaring the necessity of faith in Jesus, the mercy and favor shown to the penitent and believing, and the treatment which the good are to expect in this world of enmity and death. All the great and good of past ages are speaking to us-with united voice crying to reap! Not less certainly indeed does |