THE COMET. THE WEALTH OF POVERTY. 179 ISAIAH xxix. 19.-"The poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." Grateful for Small Mercies.-A touching story is told of a poor woman with two children, who had not a bed on which they could lie, and scarcely any clothes to cover them. It was the depth of winter; they were nearly frozen, and the mother took a cellar door off the hinges, and set it up before the corner, where they crouched down to sleep partially screened from the cutting wind. One of the children whispered to her mother, when she complained of their hard lot, "Mother, what do those children do who have no cellar door to put in front of them ?" THE BEGINNING OF SIN. PROVERBS i. 10.-"My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." The Worm at the Root.-A company was walking in Sudbrook Park, when Dr. Ellis drew attention to a large sycamore tree decayed to the core. "That fine tree," said he, was killed by a single worm.' Two years previously the tree was as healthy as any in the park, when a woodworm, about three inches long, was observed to be forcing its way under the bark of the trunk. It then caught the eye of a naturalist who was staying there, and he remarked, "Let that worm alone, and it will kill the tree." This seemed very improbable, but it was agreed that the black-headed worm should not be disturbed. After a time it was discovered that the worm had tunnelled its way a considerable distance under the bark. The next summer the leaves of the tree dropped off very early, and in the succeeding year it was a dead rotten thing, and the hole made by the worm might be seen in the very heart of the once noble trunk. "Ah!" said one who was present, "let us learn a lesson from that single How many who once promised fair for usefulness in the world and the Church have been ruined by a single sin!" tree. THE COMET. MYSTERIOUS visitant! whose beauteous light Among the wondering stars so strangely gleams; Like a proud banner in the train of night, The unblazoned flag of Deity it streams: And thought in vain would through the pathless sky Too vast for time to grasp;-oh! can that eye, O Thou, my every hope, my only fear; Father of lights, round whom the systems roll, With all their suns and comets, sphere on sphere, Thy all-pervading energy, the soul, Thyself the centre of the mighty whole! Shall seize my ravished mind,—that awful day Then shall I shudder at the guilty past, Thou art my bliss, and yet I said, "Depart; Murmured, though boundless mercy fixed my lot: And wilt Thou own the soul that Thee so oft forgot? Oh wondrous thought! the high and holy One, The humble soul His dwelling-place; the sun He guides the comet's course,-He marks the sparrow's fall. Linked to the golden throne this creature earth, Let suns, let systems perish-Jesus died. And circled with the beams of uncreated light. 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