Store your minds with little hymns now in the time of health; and if you are laid on beds of sickness, you will know their value better than I can describe to you. How pleasing to your dear Teachers when they visit you, to find you singing little hymns instead of fretting at the pain you are suffering! When I watched him on the last night of his pilgrimage, often, when enduring the most excruciating pains, he would turn to me, saying, "Da, safe? Da, safe?” I as often replied, that he was perfectly safe in the hands of the Good Shepherd. He was as often composed, believing, in simple faith, what I said. At one time during the night, through weariness of body, as I stood leaning over him, my head nodded for want of sleep; he caught my head with his two hands, saying “Da fall, da fall.” This aroused me. I told him all was well. His pains were so severe, that frequently did I pray for his release from bodily sufferings. He asked for his mother; and when she entered, his eyes sparkled with joy, and he clasped her hand in his, She remained with him, moistening his mouth; and often did she pray for her little sufferer that he might be relieved. At twenty minutes past eight o'clock on Tuesday morning his mother was engaged in prayer, when her dear little patient boy said, "Ma, ma," and breathed his last: the Good Shepherd had taken him. And being dead, he speaks to you, through me, his father. May you attend the Sunday-school with a desire to follow the Good Shepherd. When he calls, may you, like Samuel of old, say, "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth." May you love, honour, and obey your parents as he did. And when you die, he, with others of the heavenly host, will rejoice over you as they welcome you into those happy, happy regions. What a happy time he is now enjoying! This is his first Sunday in heaven. I believe that the providence of God has taken him from me, that, feeling his loss, I may speak to some of your parents of the precious promises which have been our stay in this trial, when they are deprived of some of you. "Then let our songs abound, And every tear be dry: We're marching through Immanuel's ground, To fairer worlds on high.' NOTE. We have inserted the preceding affecting address with some hesitation, as it is full of inaccuracies in composition; but we think our readers will agree with us that its artless piety makes ample amends for all such defects.-ED. THE PRINCIPAL PARABLES OF CHRIST. ARRANGED FOR REPETITION. 1. The Sower.-Matthew xiii. 1–23. Luke viii. 1-15. 2. The Wheat and Tares.-Matthew xiii. 24-30, 36-43. 3. The springing Seed; the Mustard Seed; and the Leaven. Mark iv. 26-34. Matthew xiii. 31-33. Luke xiii. 18-21. 4. The Treasure; the Pearl; the Net; and the Householder.Matthew xiii. 44-52. 5. The Labourers in the Vineyard.-Matthew xx. 1-16. 6. The Vineyard let to Husbandmen.-Matthew xxi. 33-46. Luke xx. 9-18. 7. The Two Sons.-Matthew xxi. 28-32. 8. The Fig-tree in Spring.-Matthew xxiv. 32-51. Mark xiii! 28-31. Luke xxi. 29-33. 9. The unfruitful Fig-tree.-Luke xiii. 6-9. 14. The lost Sheep.-Luke xv. 1-10. Matthew xviii. 11-14. xix. 11-27. The Pounds.-Luke 17. The Dishonest Steward.-Luke xvi. 1–17. 18. The Merciful Lord and Unmerciful Servant.-Matthew xviii. 21-35. 19. The Lost Piece of Silver.-Luke xv. 8—10. 20. The Prodigal Son.-Luke xv. 11-32. 21. The much-forgiven will love the most.-Luke vii. 36-50. 22. The good Samaritan.-Luke x. 25-37. 23. Before Honour is Humility.-Luke xiv. 7-14. 24. The Unjust Judge.-Luke xviii. 1-8. 25. The Covetous Man, or Rich Fool.-Luke xii. 13-21. 26. The Pharisee and Publican.-Luke xviii. 9-14. 27. The Ten Virgins.-Matthew xxv. 1-15. 28. The Marriage-feast.-Matthew xxii. 1-14. Luke xiv. 15-24. HINTS FOR MAXIMS FOR THE YOUNG. MANKIND in general mistake difficulties for impossibilities. That is the difference between those who effect, and those who do not. People of weak judgment are the most timid, as horses half blind are most apt to start. Burke, in a letter to Miss Shackleton, says: "Thus much in favour of activity and occupation, that the more one has to do, the more one is capable of doing, even beyond our direct task." Plato, "better to err in acts than principles." Two kinds of idleness-a listless and an active. If industrious, we should direct our efforts to right ends. Possibly it may require as much industry to be best billiard-player as to be senior wrangler. The endowments of nature we cannot command, but we can cultivate those given. My experience, that men of great talents are apt to do nothing for want of vigour. Vigour, energy, resolution, firmness of purpose,— these carry the day. Is there one whom difficulties dishearten,-who bends to the storm? He will do little. Is there one who will conquer? That kind of man never fails. Let it be your first study to teach the world that you are not wood and straw,-some iron in you. Let men know that what you say you will do; that your decision made is final, -no wavering; that, once resolved, you are not to be allured or intimidated. Acquire and maintain that character.-Sir T. F. Buxton. 1 SCRIPTURE PRAYER TEXTS, FOR JUNE. SUNDAY." Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." (Mark ix. 24.) Monday." And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" (Matt. xiv. 31.) Tuesday." The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing." (Rom. xv. 13.) Wednesday." I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not." (Luke xxii. 32.) Thursday." This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." (1 John v. 4.) Friday." Have faith in God." (Mark xi. 22.) Saturday." He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God," &c. (Rom. iv. 20, 21.) SUNDAY.-"O Lord be not far from me." (Ps.xxxv.22.) Monday.- "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart," &c. (Psalm xxxiv. 18.) Tuesday." Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you." (James. iv. 8.) Wednesday." Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world!" (Matt. xxviii. 20.) Thursday." While they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went with them." (Luke xxiv. 15.) Friday." The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." (Ps. xxxiv. 7.) Saturday.- I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good." (Jer. xxxii. 40.) SUNDAY. 66 cxix. 37.) Quicken thou me in thy way." (Ps. Monday." I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart." (Psalm cxix. 32.) Tuesday.—" God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ," &c. (Eph. ii. 4-6.) "" Wednesday.- Draw me, we will run after thee." (Sol. Song. i. 4.) Thursday." And while he lingered, the men laid their hands on him," &c. (Gen. xix. 15-17.) Friday." They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (Is. xl. 31.) Saturday.—“This is my comfort in my affliction, for thy word hath quickened me." (Ps. cxix. 50.) SUNDAY.-"Take not thy Holy Spirit from me." (Ps. li. 11.) Monday." I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever." (John xiv. 16.) Tuesday." Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." (Ephes. iv. 30.) Wednesday." And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes," &c. (Ezek. xxxvi. 27.) Thursday." If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke xi. 13.) Friday." Sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise," &c. (Ephes. i. 13, 14.) Saturday. God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts," &c. (Gal. iv. 6.) A. N. NOTICES OF BOOKS. Images. By W. WELDON CHAMPNEYS, M. A., Rector of Whitechapel, London. Pp. 210. Seeleys. Images." Such is the somewhat quaint title which the excellent Rector of Whitechapel bestows on ten beautiful allegories, illustrative of the Christian religion. We quite agree with Mr. Champneys in his view of the unchanged utility of teaching by parables. "The writer has been led to believe that the Saviour, when he used the illustrative mode of teaching by parables, did not merely adopt his way of teaching to the Eastern mind, but used a method, most attractive to the mind of man, as man. In his own constant weekly visits to the many schools of his charge, the writer has in |