as you would wish to be found when death comes and brings you before God.

2d. If you would avoid what are called great sins, keep clear of little sins.- Churchman's Penny Magazine.

"I WOULD RATHER BE SCOLDED THAN TELL A LIE."

That was a noble reply which Augustus made, and one which we wish all boys would remember when any one asks them to tell a falsehood. One day, when Augustus was sent by his mother, to get some milk in a pitcher, Robert wanted to go in his stead, and when they got into the street, he tried to force the pitcher out of his brother's hand. Augustus held the pitcher fast, till at last it was broken to pieces in the scuffle, by falling on the ground. Augustus began to cry bitterly. A person who was in the street, and saw how it happened, came up, and told him to say, when he got home, that the woman who sold the milk had broken the pitcher. Augustus wiped his eyes, and looking stedfastly in that person's face, said, "That would be telling a lie; I will tell the truth, then my mother will not scold me; but if she should, I would rather be scolded than tell a lie."

HE WILL CAST NONE OUT.

"Our new Sabbath-school has been evidently blessed. Like as David delivered the lamb of his flock from the bear, so did the good Shepherd on Thursday evening at the opening, rescue a poor soul turned seventy-one years of age (the parent of the superintendent) from the power of "Satan, who goeth about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour." Is not this a fact to afford encouragement to the beginnings of true religion. It is common with enquiring souls to reflect on their unworthiness. and from a sense of guilt to be discouraged from coming to Christ; but you here perceive that however long they have been straying, that upon their returning with repentance, He will open his arms and his heart to receive them. "He will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind

that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick."

W. C.

LOOK TO JESUS,

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In each season of affliction, to whom can we more appropriately look than to Jesus? He was pre-eminently the man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. If you would tell your grief to one who knew grief as none ever knew it; if you would weep upon the bosom of one who wept as none ever wept; if you would disclose your sorrow to one who sorrowed as none ever sorrowed; if you would bear your wound to one who was wounded as none ever was wounded; then, in your affliction, turn from all creature sympathy and succour, and look to Jesus; to a kinder nature, to a tenderer bosom, to a deeper love, to a more powerful arm, to a more sympathizing friend, you could not take your trial, your affliction, and your sorrow. is prepared to embosom himself in your deepest grief, and to make your circumstances all his own. So completely and personally is He one with you, that nothing can affect you that does not instantly touch Him. Your temptations from Satan, your persecutions from man, the woundings of the saints, and the smitings of the watchman, all fall upon Him. "The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me." Tender to Him are you as the apple of his eye. Your happiness, your reputation, your usefulness, your labours, your necessities, your discouragements, your despondencies, all pass beneath his unslumbering notice, and are the objects of his tenderest love and incessant care. If Jesus, then, is willing to come and make, as it were, his home in the very heart of your sorrow, surely you will not hesitate in repairing with your sorrow to his heart of love. -Winslow.