die for ever, if Jesus Christ had not come into the world to save sinners; but that "whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." "This is all very kind and true, and you ought to love your teachers very much, Charlotte; but who pays them for taking so much trouble?" "O ma'am, they are not paid at all; they do it because they love God; and that makes us love them all the more." "But who pays for the Bibles, and books, and tracts, which they give you?" "The teachers do, ma'am ; but sometimes kind friends send money to the superintendent." "Well, then," said her mistress, "I am so much pleased with what you have told me, that as soon as Mr. H. comes home, I will ask him to send some money by you next Sunday." Mr. H. loved his wife, and cheerfully gave an order for £10; and need we say, Charlotte's heart beat with joy as she carried that treasure, and that her eyes glistened when she gave it to the superintendent, and said, "If you please, sir, my mistress has sent you this order for £10, to buy books for the Sunday-school." The kind-hearted man looked at the order, and said, "Your mistress is very good, and we should all feel greatly obliged to her; but, my dear little girl, it is not for us, it says, 'Pay the Ragged-school, £10; so you must thank your mistress, and say I will give it to the master of that school." Poor Charlotte's heart was now so sad, she could have cried at her disappointment.

On Monday morning, Mrs. H. saw Charlotte looking very downcast, and inquired the reason. Charlotte said, "If you please, ma'am, you gave me an order from master for £10 for the Sunday-school, and our superintendent told me to thank you for it, but it was written for the Ragged-school." And here the poor child burst into tears. "Never mind, my dear," said Mrs. H. "Leave off crying, and perhaps Mr. H. will give you the same sum for the Sunday-school." Charlotte said she did not cry because she was jealous of the Ragged-school, for that wanted money more than her own school; but it was her disappointment that made her weep. The next week an order for £10 was sent, rightly directed, to the superintendent. Charlotte's mistress used to ask every Monday what had been taught on the Sabbath, and

God was pleased to bless what Charlotte related. Soon afterwards, Mrs. H. was taken ill, and Charlotte was often asked by her mistress to read to her, and was in constant attendance upon her till she died. Before her death, which was a very happy one, she called her husband to her bedside, and told him that she owed her conversion to the teachings of Charlotte, and wished him, as her dying gift of love, to send £100 to the Ragged-school, about which Charlotte had often told her mistress. Mr. H. instantly gave the promise, and soon afterwards sent the money; but this was not all: he had loved his wife most dearly, and often thought what she would wish him to do. When she had been dead twelve months, he gave another £100 to the school, and promised to give yearly rewards of money to those who kept their places after they have left the Raggedschool. But his work of love was not yet done: he went again to the master of the school, and said, "I am not satisfied; I want to do something more; tell me what you require?" The master explained that their rooms were not large enough, and that they should be thankful for a subscription to help to build a new school. Mr. H. went home, wrote to his surveyor to find out a piece of land in the neighbourhood, fit for the purpose, and buy it: he then drew a plan of the Ragged-school, and ordered a builder to erect it; and wished that the teachers should always regard it as a tribute of affection to the memory of a much-loved wife, who had gone to Jesus through the teachings of Charlotte. Little did that Sunday-school girl think that there was any connection between her act of sewing the old covers on her books and the building of a Ragged-school. But God, who maketh all things to praise him, blessed Charlotte in her work of love, and made her the instrument of building a large and handsome school, where thousands of poor children will be taught the way to glory. How happy must Charlotte be each time she passes that school! and, if she continues to fear and love God, what a beautiful crown will be placed on her head, when she leaves this world and joins her mistress among the angels in heaven! Dear children, often think of Charlotte; and whatsoever your hand findeth to do, do it with all your might. Show how

much you love your Saviour and your teachers, by speaking to others, when you can, of what is taught in the Sundayschool.

J. J. BEW.

USE OF MONEY.

WHAT a useful thing is money! If there were no such thing as money, we should be much at a loss to get anything we might want. The shoemaker, for instance, who might want bread, and meat, for his family, would have nothing to give in exchange but shoes. He must go to the baker, and offer him a pair of shoes for as much bread as they were worth: and he must do the same thing if he I went to the butcher for meat.

But the baker might happen not to want shoes just then, though he might want a hat. Then the shoemaker must find out some hatter who wanted shoes, and get a hat from him, and then exchange the hat with the baker for bread.

All this would be very troublesome. But by the use of money this trouble is saved. Any one who has money may get for it just what he may chance to want. The baker is always willing to part with his bread for money; because he knows that he may exchange that for shoes, or for a hat, or for firing, or any thing he is in want of. What time and trouble it must have cost men to exchange one thing for another before money was in use!

We are cautioned in Scripture against the too great love of money. It is a foolish and wicked thing to set your heart on money, or on anything in this present world. Some set their hearts on eating and drinking, and some on fine clothes. All these things are apt to draw off our thoughts from God. Therefore our Lord Jesus Christ tells us to "lay up for ourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt," and forbids us to be too careful and anxious "what we shall eat, and what we shall drink, or how we shall be clothed," but to "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness."

But we ought to be thankful for all the good things which Providence gives us, and to be careful to make a right

use of them. The best use of wealth, and what gives most delight to a true Christian, is to relieve good people when they are in want.

It is for this purpose that money is of the greatest use. For a poor man may chance to be in want of something which I may not have to spare. But if I give him money, he can get just what he wants for that: whether bread, or clothes, or coals, or books.

When there was a great famine in Judea, in the time of the Apostle Paul, the Greek Christians thought fit to relieve the poor saints (that is, Christians) that were in Judea. But it would have been a great trouble to send corn to them such a distance; and besides, they themselves might not have had corn to spare. But they made a collection of money, which takes little room, and Paul carried it to Judea; and with this money the poor people could buy corn wherever it was to be had.

But why should not each man make what he wants for himself, without going to his neighbour's to buy it?

Go into the shoemaker's shop, and ask him why he does not make tables and chairs for himself, and hats, and coats, and every thing he wants, he will tell you, that he must have a complete set of joiner's tools to make one chair properly; the same tools as would serve to make hundreds of chairs. And if he were also to make the tools himself, and the nails, he would want a smith's forge, and anvil, and hammer. And after all, it would cost him great labour to make very clumsy tools and chairs, because he has not been used to that kind of work. It would be less trouble to him to make shoes that would sell for as much as would buy a dozen chairs, than to make one chair himself. To the joiner, again, it would be as great a loss to attempt making shoes for himself. And so it is with the tailor, the hatter, and all other trades. It is best for all, that each should work in his own way, and supply his neighbours, while they supply him.

But there are some rude nations who have very little of this kind of exchange. Each man among them builds himself a cabin, and makes clothes for himself, and a canoe to go a-fishing in, and fishing-rod and hooks and lines, and also darts and bows and arrows, for hunting; besides tilling a

little bit of land. Such people are all of them much worse off than the poor among us. Their clothing is nothing but coarse mats, or raw hides; their cabins are no better than pigstyes; their canoes are only hollow trees, or baskets made of bark; and all their tools are clumsy. Where every man does every thing for himself, every thing is badly done; and a few hundreds of these savages will be half-starved in a country, that could maintain as many thousands in much greater comfort.

OLD WINSFORD'S VISIT TO THE ISLE OF MAN.

HAVING often heard and read of the Isle of Man, which is situate in the Irish Sea, and about equi-distant from England, Ireland, and Scotland, I was desirous of visiting it myself, that I might form my own opinion upon it; for secondhand opinions are not always correct. We must not credit all we read, or all we hear. Julius Cæsar said of this very island in his Commentaries, it was reported, that it had darkness for thirty successive days in the middle of winter. That report however was without any foundation whatever in truth. I had often conversed with persons who had visited the island; but had derived so little information from them, that I was determined to see for myself. So having a few days at liberty, I made all possible haste to Liverpool, and was speedily on board the "Tynwald," a powerful steamer, which plies between Liverpool and Douglas. The latter is the principal seaport, and largest town, in the Isle of Man. We left Liverpool at eleven o'clock in the morning, and between five and six in the evening stepped on shore at Douglas. The pier was densely crowded with spectators, consisting principally of visitors looking out for their friends, or drawn thither by curiosity to spend an idle hour, and by porters, and lodging-house proprietors, of which latter class there are great numbers in Douglas. The passage was a most delightful one, the sky was clear, the sun shone resplendently, the weather was warm, but not hot, and the sea as calm as a lake. There was not so much to interest, as there is in the voyage from Liverpool to Caernarvon, by the coast of Wales, and up the Menai Straits.