poor blind man," said Charlie. You see Charlie was such a little boy, that he thought when his papa told him that Jesus gave eyes to a blind man, that he had to give him His own,

Little Charlie is in heaven now, and has been there a great many years. And he has long known more about the goodness of God than anybody who still lives in this world. And if he could speak to you, he would tell you that it is better to be without eyes, and hands, and feet, than not to love Him who was willing rather to die, than that you should not know and love Him.-Little Susy's Six Birthdays.

ANSWERS TO BIBLE-QUESTIONS ABOUT INSECTS. (See page 192.)

1. Leviticus xi. 22. 2. Numbers xiii. 33. 3. Judges vi. 3, 5. 4. Ecclesiastes xii. 5. 5. Ecclesiastes xii. 1. 6. Exodus x. 13. 7. Matthew iii. 4.

8. Revelation ix. 3.

9. Revelation ix. 7-10. 10. Matthew xxiii. 23, 24. 11. Matthew xxiii. 23, 25. 12. Deuteronomy vii. 20. 13. 1 Samuel xxiv. 14; xxvi. 20.

14. Job viii. 13, 14.
15. John i. 29.

THE LITTLE MAIDEN WAITING ON GOD.

A TRUE STORY.

"LITTLE maiden! wherefore lie

Gazing upward to the sky?

All the grass is wet with dew,
No safe couch is this for you."
"For my God I'm waiting here,"
Said the maiden, with a tear:
"I have waited very long ;
Mother could not tell me wrong!
"He has taken in one day
Both my parents far away.
Baby brother, too, is gone;
They have left me all alone.
"Mother told me not to cry
When He took her to the sky.
God, she said, would be my guide,
When bereft of all beside.

"I am hungry, I am lorn,
To the sky all day I turn:
Is my God not coming yet?
For the sun is almost set."
"Little maiden! yes, 'tis true,
God has sent me here for you.
Take my hand, I'll lead thee home;
Friendless thou no more shalt roam.

"When thy parents leave thee here,
God shall for thy help appear:

This He promised long ago;

Now His truth you fully know."

BOYS BURIED ALIVE IN CHINA.

OUR young friends have often read accounts of the great rebellion in China. They remember that

he leader, Tai-Ping-Wang, had some knowledge of Christianity. He destroyed the idols, circulated parts of the Bible among his followers, and taught them to worship "Shang-ti," the Christian's God. These warriors gained many victories, but they suffered some defeats. At such times, frightful vengeance was taken by the troops of the Emperor. On one occasion the Emperor's soldiers entered a own occupied by the followers of Tai-Ping-Wang. All the poor inhabitants were at once murdered, xcept four hundred young boys, who were led to he commander of the troops. This man, addressing one of these children, said to him,—

"Little wretch, what is your father?"

"He is kinschin;" that is, a doctor of the second class.

"What God do you worship?"

"We have learned to worship Shang-ti."

"Child! I will teach you to worship Shang-ti: you shall die."

The little boy, and several others, threw themselves at the feet of the Mandarin, and begged for mercy. It was in vain. The monster ordered that the children should be buried alive. For this purpose they were divided into two parties, and given to two officers. Each officer had two hundred. One of them strictly obeyed this barbarous order. The hands of the children were tied behind their backs, and then they were thrown into a deep ditch, some having their limbs broken by the fall, and the ditch was rapidly filled with earth. The soldiers, with loud shouts of laughter, trampled upon the earth of

this living tomb, all the while mocking Shang-ti who, they said, did not know any better how to defend His worshippers. The two hundred children of the second division were spared, and were restored to their parents for a season.-Juvenile Missionary Magazine.

THIS Curious Australian animal is about the size of a common hedgehog. Its hair is of a chestnut colour, soft, silky, and at one season so abundant as to half cover the spines. It lives on ants, which it catches with its long tongue. It digs for itself burrows, wherein it remains during the dry season, coming forth only during the rains. It can roll itself up, we are told, for protection; and it sometimes continues as long as eighty hours in a state of

stupor, or suspended animation. Some have thought It the strongest animal of its size in existence.

In eating, it sometimes uses its tongue as a mower ases his scythe: so the food is, as it were, swept into the mouth.

THE LOST CHILD.

A LECTURE TO CHILDREN, BY THE REV. JOHN TODD, d.D. "And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and His mother knew not of it. But they, supposing Him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And when they found Him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him." -Luke ii. 43-45.

SOME sixty or seventy miles north of Jerusalem is a long, beautiful hill. Before the hill is a small, but quiet and most charming valley. Let us go up to the top of that hill. Now, children, let us look around us. On the side of the hill is a village, and a little on one side of that a fountain of water gushes out, and drops into a marble basin. To this fountain all the women of the village come to get water. Let us look beyond the village. Yonder, between the mountains, and beyond the little valley which lies just at the foot of the hill, on the left hand, is a great, beautiful plain-the most beautiful in all the land. It used to be called the Plain of Esdraelon. That round-topped mountain at the left is Mount Tabor; and there, over the hills, you can just see the heads of Little Hermon and Gilboa. And that beautiful mountain, stretching along till