example; they will imitate your conduct whether it be right or wrong, and whether you desire it or not. As to your behaviour out of the school-room, let me impress upon you that your profession is of too important a kind to allow of your passing through life in the common decencies of ordinary men. What would be reckoned respectability of conduct in others, will be considered only as mediocrity in you. The honesty, sobriety, and morality that would pass muster for others, will not suffice for you. Higher requirements will be made, and a loftier standard of character expected from those who are to cultivate youthful minds, and train immortal souls for heaven. Pursue, therefore, the duties of your calling with a deep sense of its importance, and with a conscientious desire to approve yourselves unto "your Master who is in heaven." With lofty aims, that have God's glory and man's welfare for their end, and with exalted motives, that have the love of God in Christ for their source, you will attain an elevation of character, which, added to the efficiency of your schools, will ensure the advancement of your profession, and thus at once increase your earthly comfort, and extent your opportunities for doing good. With adequate views of your important duties, and a deep sense of your manifold deficiencies, above all with a constant recourse to the Throne of Grace for all needful help, you will be enabled to encounter difficulties with success, and to endure discouragements "without fainting." Nothing in the path of duty will be too arduous to attempt; nothing too insignificant to attend to; irksome employments will soften down into "labours of love," and overwhelming responsibilities into pleasing obligations; you will enjoy a peace and satisfaction that shall be your best recompense on earth, and you may look forward to that glorious day when the fruit of your exertions shall be exhibited before the universe of God, "to the praise of the glory of his grace."

Finally, my friends, be anxious seekers for self-improvement; be conscientious in the discharge of your duties; just in the transactions of life; diligent in the study of your Bibles; constant suppliants for promised wisdom; habitual and fervent worshippers in the house

of God; and then you need not fear but that "God, even our own God, will give you his blessing," and sanctify your efforts to his glory, and your own good. Receive the hints and suggestions I have offered you this day in the same spirit in which they have been given, and believe that they come from one who truly desires your welfare, and whose earnest prayer it is that all who are so happily assembled here this day, may meet together at the last, "with joy unspeakable and full of glory."— Rev. W. P. Walsh.

PAINFUL THINGS MAY MAKE GOOD

REMEDIES.

If we visit a hospital, we see persons enduring very painful remedies with thankfulness: this man allows the sharp instruments to cut the flesh of his leg, and then the saw to cut the bone; another person allows blood to be drawn in profusion from the arm or neck. Now if any person meeting any other at random were to attempt such acts as these, striking a lancet into people, or making them even bleed profusely, every body would be terrified to encounter him, and he would be looked upon as a public enemy of a very desperate character. Observe, then, the great difference which the motive makes; also the knowledge that skill, and not chance or caprice, administers the treatment. This makes the whole difference. Now, if you look upon afflictions as coming from a wise, a superintending, a gracious God, you will thankfully receive them, as the patients do these severe remedies; but if you look upon them as coming by chance, or without a gracious design, you will probably feel towards them in some such way as a man would who saw a person coming upon him to run a lancet into him, or to strike off a limb: he would be terrified to the utmost at such a meeting. Observe, then, of how much importance it is to know the motive-wнY God sends the trouble and bear in mind continually that his gracious hand does all.

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THE LOST FOUND.

Inscribed to the Rev. Thomas Guthrie, author of "A Plea for Ragged Schools."

BY ALEXANDER MACLAGAN, EDINBurgh.

"They perish in the open streets-beneath the pitiless pelting of the storm-of cold and hunger, and broken hearts."-Bp. Horsley.

When o'er the face of nature | When tables groan, then think

SUNDAY." O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.” (Is. xxxviii. 14.)

Monday.-"My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." (Ps. lxxiii. 26.)

Tuesday." When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." (Ps. xxvii. 10.)

Wednesday." When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." (Is. lix. 19.)

Thursday.-"The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.” (Ps. ciii. 6.)

Friday. We have no might against this great company, &c. but our eyes are upon thee." (2 Chron. xx. 12-16.)

Saturday." The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace," &c. (Ex. xiv. 13, 14.)

SUNDAY.- "" Remember, break not thy covenant with us." (Jer. xiv. 21.)

Monday." He will ever be mindful of his covenant.” (Ps. iii. 5.)

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Tuesday.-"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, . . . . through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect," &c. (Heb. xiii. 20, 21.)

Wednesday."

My covenant will I not break," &c. (Ps. lxxxix. 34.)

Thursday. My bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant," &c. (Gen. ix. 16.)

Friday My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed," &c. (Isaiah liv. 9, 10.)

Saturday.

He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure." (2 Samuel xxiii. 5.)

SUNDAY. Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" (Acts ix. 6.)

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¡Monday."The meek will he guide in judgment : and the meek will he teach his way." (Ps. xxv. 8, 9.) Tuesday."Be not weary in well-doing for in due sseason we shall reap, if we faint not." (Gal. vi. 9;) Wednesday." I will direct their work in truth." (Is. xi. 8.)

Thursday. Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord." (1 Cor. xv. 58.) Friday. "I will shew thee what thou shalt do." (1 Sam. xvi. 3.)

Saturday.- It is God which worketh in you both to swill and to do of his good pleasure." (Phil. ii. 13.) SUNDAY." Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort." (Ps. lxxi. 3.)

Monday."The name of the Lord is a strong tower : the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." (Proverbs xviii. 10.)

Tuesday."The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in ssafety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all day long," &c. (Deut. xxxiii. 12.)

Wednesday"The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble." (Nahum i. 7.)

Thursday.Thou hast been a strength to the poor: a strength to the needy in his distress." (Is.xxxv. 4.) Friday." The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my ssong." (Is. xii. 2.)

Saturday." In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and his children shall have a place of refuge." (Prov. xiv. 26.)

A. N.