writing articles for it. He did so, but without putting his name to them. These attempts, which he was almost ashamed of, he put under the door, when the office was shut up at night, and all were gone home. Next morning they were picked up, read by those who managed the paper, and were highly praised. Hearing these remarks on his performances, he claimed the authorship of them, and gradually rose in the estimation of his brother and his friends. Some things in the newspaper having offended the government, James was interdicted from publishing it, and for a few months Benjamin was responsible for what appeared in it. Being suspected by the government,-worse than that, having become a disbeliever in the religion of his fathers, being he himself says-regarded by pious men with horror as an apostate-he secretly left Boston and went to Philadelphia, where he arrived, dirty from being so long in the boat, his pockets stuffed out with shirts and stockings, knowing no one, nor where to look for a lodging."

"What an odd figure he must have looked," said Lizzy.

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Yes, my dear, I wish you to notice these things, that you may presently contrast his position now with that which he occupied only a few years afterwards."

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'He went into a shop to buy some bread, and had 'three great puffy rolls given him;' having no room in his pockets, he tucked one under each arm, and ate the other, and walked back to the ship. A young woman standing at one of the doors remarked his ridiculous appearance, but some years afterwards became his wife. He gave the two other rolls to a woman and her child who had travelled in the boat with him."

"That was kind," said Lizzy.

"When refreshed by his meal, he walked up the

street again, and went into a quaker's meetinghouse, where, overcome by fatigue, he fell fast asleep till the meeting was over, when some one aroused him. He soon got employment and made himself very useful to his new master. He became known to the governor, who tried to induce him to begin business for himself there, and to go to England to purchase materials. After trying unsucessfully to procure money from his relatives, he came to England on the faith of the governor's promise to supply him with money. The letters of credit he brought were valueless, and he was thrown upon his own resources, and became a journeyman compositor in London."

THE JEW BOY.

“I HAVE been in the churchyard," said a little Jewish boy;" and I find by the graves I have lain down by, that many have died younger than I am : and if I should die before I have learned the law of God, what would become of me?"-Christian Pocket Magazine, July, 1822.

THE GOOD MAN'S GRAVE.

When by a good man's grave I muse alone,
Methinks an angel sits upon the stone:
Like those of old, on that thrice hallow'd night,
Who sat and watch'd in raiment heavenly bright,
And, with a voice inspiring joy, not fear,
Says, pointing upward, that he is not here,
That he is risen!

the greater treat, because it rarely happens more than once a year.

Imagine you are going with us to pay a visit to that snug little house yonder. What a fine blazing fire there is in the parlour! What a number of happy faces are smiling around it! On one side is an old gentleman with very white hair; and on the other is a feeble old lady. How cheerful and comfortable they look; and why? Because it is a family meeting. There are their sons and daughters in health and peace; not one missing.

The circle is complete, and indeed, more than complete; for look, a little curly-headed boy is trying to climb the old gentleman's knee; but being too small to manage it, he is kindly assisted by his affectionate grandfather. And on the other side, a nice little girl is putting on a pair of spectacles, which are far too large for her, and saying, "Now don't I look like grandmother?"

And now grandfather good-naturedly bids the young folks be quiet while the grown-up people talk. They have something important to converse about. Would you like to listen to them? One says-and the rest are serious while he is speaking, and their eyes look as if tears were just coming into them-"I shall not be here next Christmas. We expect then to be in Australia; but we shall keep Christmas day, you know, just the same as you do here; with the exception that we shall not require a large fire, as it happens during the warm weather in that part of the world. In everything else we mean to try to be as much as possible like you are at home; for I trust we shall never forget our happy family meetings."

Now hearken to the kind old lady. "Thomas," she says, "It is not likely we shall ever meet you in this manner again; but if I should live to see another Christmas, I hope we shall be able to say,

"They have arrived in safety,' and that we may be certain you will have a plum pudding on Christmas day, I intend to make one for you to take with you. Perhaps you will think it a very strange thing to do; but Mrs. Goodman did so when her son went abroad, and he and his family invited their friends in Australia to dine with them; who, all of them, thought it the best pudding they had ever tasted, and spent as merry a Christmas as they would have done in England.'

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By this time the table is prepared, and this loving family are sitting down to dinner. Guess, what will they have? Why," say you, “the old English fare, to be sure.' Yes, you are right; roast beef and plum pudding. Well, we will leave them to enjoy it; and heartily wish that Thomas and his wife, with their curly-headed little boy, may have a good passage to Australia, arrive there in safety, spend happily their next Christmas day, and have an excellent appetite for the plum pudding; which must remind them of the excellent old lady and all their kind friends at home, while they remember the happiness so often afforded by the family meeting.

OLD DENIS AND HIS CHURCH.

CONCLUSION.

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Margaret. When we talked a little the other day about Denis and his Saints," you said that there was no good reason why we should pray to them at all; that they were not likely to hear us; and if they did, we were giving them unnecessary trouble. You said that those who apply to them go a round-about way to work, and ought rather to address themselves at once to the Father in heaven, through the Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ our Lord.