"But," argued Harry, "I am punctual at school, and I always repeat my lessons, and I believe I behave well; and why teacher should think him better than me, I don't know."

"I wouldn't try to know," said Effie, gently; "perhaps it was very difficult for your teacher to choose, and he'd be as sorry as could be, if he thought you felt like this."

"You are a good little sister," said Harry; "I only wish I had not been so silly as to say anything to Frank; but he began to talk about it, and then my angry feeling burst out."

"If I had to choose, you would have it, Harry," remarked Sarah; "for I always think George M- is selfsatisfied and proud."

"O, no, no, Sarah!" said Harry, warmly; "when I was feeling the most vexed, I could not help acknowledging that George M- was more humble and teachable than I am. I am so sorry and ashamed that I let Frank see my vexation."

"There, now," said Effie, "I do believe I have got another text will do for you;" and out again came the ticket-bag, and after a brief search Effie read: "When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom."

"Preach a sermon on it, Effie," said Sarah; "I am sure you can."

"O, Sarah, don't talk so; Harry knows what it means."

"Yes," said Harry, "I was very proud, and cherished high thoughts of myself, and a very little provocation made me speak my thoughts; and now, upon reflection, I am full of shame, not only that I spoke sinfully, but that I had proud thoughts. There is the application of the first part of your text, Effie; what about the other part?"

"We shall have to see about it," said

the child, rising from the bank and walking towards home. Harry and Sarah joined her, and Harry repeated, "But with the lowly is wisdom."

"You are cleverer than I am, Harry," said Effie, "I wish you would tell us what it means."

There was no response from the boy, so Sarah said,-"Let us go at it in our teacher's way, Effie; take first the difficult or prominent words, and see what they mean."

"There are only two," said Effie; "lowly and wisdom. What does 'lowly' mean, Harry?"

"It means humble," said her brother; "and in that proverb humility is put in contrast with pride."

"There's a nice answer!" said Effie; "and now, what is wisdom ?'"

"Well; it was only yesterday that my teacher said, wisdom was knowledge rightly used."

"Ah!" said Effie; "I am such a simple little thing; I can't understand that, but it is pretty well if I can get hold of the beginning of wisdom and you know 'The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.'"

Harry smiled, and putting his arm around her caressingly, he said,"Now then, little sister, sum up; will you ?"

"I don't know how to put it in words; I think I must go backwards. When we have 'the fear of the Lord,' we do not want to sin or grieve Him, but we often forget ourselves and do wrong things, and we find out that there is no good in us, and only as we have God's Holy Spirit given us, can we keep right, and this makes us humble and careful, and very glad that Jesus died for sinners."

"Go on," said Sarah, as Effie paused and looked timidly at her brother. Harry nodded encouragingly, and Effie continued:

"I think when we feel our own faults so very much, it is easy 'in

lowliness of mind' to 'esteem other better than ourselves.'"

"and

"So it is, Effie," said Harry; I mean to ask God to help me by His Spirit to conquer pride, and 'be clothed with humility.' Teacher was right, that's very certain."

They had now reached their own home, and paused a few moments to say good-bye to Sarah.

"Effie, dear!" she said, "I have found out to day the use of my Scripturetickets; I have never hardly looked at mine; I only tried to get twelve black ones, and then change them for one red one; and give that up to the Secretary as a subscription for a book. For the future I shall read them."

"Do, Sarah," was the reply; "I like them so much, for I don't always know where to find nice texts in my Bible, and these tickets help me; and

then I find the places, and read the chapters. I put a little tiny tick against my ticket-text, and I think it will be nice when I grow up to know all the texts I have ever had on my tickets."

The children parted, and Harry and Effie found their tea waiting for them; they were more thoughtful and less talkative than usual; but yet happiness beamed in their eyes, and during the evening Harry proposed to Effie that they should make a practice of talking over the Scripture-tickets every week, adding, "you make me think, Effie, and that is good for me."

"I shall be so glad, brother Harry, because you understand so much, and we shall sing more than ever 'How precious is the Book Divine!'

REVIVAL IN A BOARDING-
SCHOOL.

THE following interesting letter from a young lady to her mother has been communicated to us:

MY DEAR MOTHER,-I must tell you of the happy time we, as a whole, have experienced. Last Sunday, the Rev. H. P. Hughes, from Dover, preached. He is a young man, but full of love to God and the perishing souls around him. He gave us two very earnest sermons, and in the evening there was a prayer-meeting. He invited all those who were convinced of sin to come up to the Communion-rail. At last four came up, (young girls,) then an old man led his wife; but then it was time for us to leave, but not before Hettie B-, one of our day-scholars, went up.

As we came home, I was talking to my partner, Ellie M-, and she said she should have gone up, only she thought

LILLIE.

Miss G-would object; so I asked her

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why she could not give her heart to God at home?" so she said she would try. When we got home, we found Millie S-was seeking too, so I had permission to go with Ellie M- to talk to her, and another girl with Millie S-; so we went in faith and prayer to God, and He graciously granted us His blessing, for both found peace in a short time., Then Ellie and I (who had been alone) rejoined the others,-Millie S-, who had found peace, and Minnie M-, Sarah D-, and Nelly D-, who had been converted some time, and we all knelt down and thanked God. We then gave each other the kiss of peace, and went upstairs. On my way, I was asked to speak to Fairy D-, she felt so miserable; she was in bed, but I went up to her, took her in a blanket to the box-room, and there we knelt down, and very soon, thank God! she, too, found peace, and I left all those three

Millie, Ellie, and Fairy, who slept in the same room-rejoicing and praising God.

I went upstairs to undress, and was talking to Nellie and Amelia about God's goodness, when they said they would find peace that night; so we knelt and prayed to God. He showed their sinfulness, and I was enabled to point them to Jesus, and, Mother, dear, they, too, found peace. Then we had a thorough praise-meeting, and went to sleep rejoicing. Out for a walk on Tuesday night, I was able to talk to Emma K-, so when we came in, Miss G- gave us permission to go upstairs alone, and we went and prayed, and, like Jacob, wrestled with God till the blessing came, and now she is rejoicing in the consciousness of her acceptance. Yesterday night, while we were at class, Minnie M-pointed Janie P-to Christ, and now she is happy too. O, Mother! has not God been gracious to your children and their friends? They are all steadfast, trusting alone in Jesus, and are as happy as the day is long; and when we go to bed, we three have such nice talks and prayers. There are only three boarders who are not converted: is it not glorious? I, too, feel very happy; great confidence towards God, and trust in Jesus, are my chief thoughts,

and I feel that I must always be rejoicing and praying to God.

O!

O, Mother, this is no mere excitement; all I have told you of is thorough, heartfelt work. And now, Mother, we have been praying very earnestly for Henry, and surely God would not give to us so much blessing, and none for you all. I feel that He is blessing, and will bless you all, and I know that Henry will be brought to Him. I have been praying for him in faith. In five cases He has answered my prayers, and now I feel confident that Henry, if he has not yet learned to feel himself a sinner, will soon do so. And now, Mother dear, pray for your girls, that they may be kept steadfast, and that they may grow in grace. I feel confident that you and Miss G are increasingly happy; for I have been praying, and I know Jesus has answered my prayer.

pray for us, that we may be made a blessing!

Do you know, I wrote to Fanny P—, asking her if she were a Christian, and I received such a nice letter from her, and henceforth our correspondence will include religion. And now, Mother, I must say "Good-bye," so no more now from

Your affectionate child,

CARRIE.

SCHOOL

SUGGESTIONS FOR A SUNDAY

SCHOOL ADDRESS.

Moses in Egypt.

BY THE REV. EDWARD BAYLIS.

EVERY important work requires a previous training. The youth who keeps his father's business accounts; the magistrate who is supreme in his native city; the general who leads an army to fight for the interests of his nation; and the monarch whose kingdom includes tens of millions of subjects, will illustrate this fact.

Some men excel only in one particular thing; others in many things. Alexander is prominent in human history as a general: but would his daring have made him a great statesman? When a man has to do much for his nation, his age, and posterity to the end of time, he needs great natural abilities, and an appropriate training. How few in the history of mankind had so much to do for God and the human race, as Moses! How few are influencing mankind so much at this day as he is!

Moses as a writer is studied by the