A WORD FOR THE NEW YEAR.

THE year which has passed away was full of eventful incidents and who can tell what mighty events the present year, too, may bring forth?

Teachers of Sunday-schools, Teachers of Week-day Schools, may God's grace be richly poured forth on you, that your labours in his vineyard may be blessed. None of you can tell how long you may have to work. Oh, then, work diligently while it is called to-day. Short may be the time during which you shall be privileged to have these dear children under your care: at all events, you have no time for idleness. Bend every faculty of the mind to your duties, and, above all, be incessant in your pleadings with God for the conversion of your children's hearts to God in Christ, which is the grand object every Teacher ought to aim at. And to cheer you in this most important part of your anxious labours, let me quote a sweet passage from the writings of that holy and excellent divine, Archbishop Leighton :

It is very difficult work to draw a soul out of the hands and strong chains of Satan, and out of the pleasing entanglements of the world, and out of its own natural perverseness, to yield up itself unto God, to deny itself, and live to him; and in so doing, to run against the main stream, and the current of the ungodly world without, and corruption within.

'The strongest rhetoric, the most moving and persuasive way of discourse, is all too weak; the tongue of men and angels cannot prevail with the soul to free itself, and shake off all that detains it. Although it be