THE LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL. The other anecdote I have to relate is of a little girl who lived in the same place. -I must here tell you that the hamlet I am speaking of is a very destitute place. There is no church, no clergyman, no school; for it belongs to a distant parish, and the church is so far off that the people can scarcely get to church, especially in winter; when a winter flood separates the hamlet which is in the uplands, from the town to which it belongs. A kind lady pitying the state of these poor people, and especially the children, established a little school for their benefit; but in order that she might attend better to it herself, she fixed it in the village near her own home, which is a mile distant from the hamlet I am speaking of. The little girl whose name is Mary, and who was at this time between six and seven years old, was very fond of her school, and so eager was she to go, that nothing could keep her away. The winter which was a very wet season this year, had begun and the beds of the winter torrents which in summer were quite dry, were again filled with streams of water, which could only be passed by steppingstones here and there. You may believe it was hard work for the little girls to get along, still little Mary would go. One day it was raining very hard; her mother said to her, "my dear Mary I think you cannot go today:""oh, mother, never fear, (replied the little girl, we are not sugar or salt, we shall not be washed away.' So she cheerfully set out, and was mercifully preserved from danger, for no hurt befel her in going to or returning from the school. Her mother told the lady to whose school she went, that when her little girls came back from school, their shoes were so glued to their feet with the mud they passed through, that she was obliged to scrape it off before she could get the shoes off their feet; she then washed and dried their stockings, that they might be ready for the next morning, and this she did every day. As I fear many little girls keep away from school, and are kept away by their parents by much smaller hindrances than little Mary's, I hope her example may be useful to some of them. Yours, Y. THE DAISY. Not worlds on worlds in phalanx deep, Could form the daisy's purple bud; J. M. GOOD. JEREMIAH ix. 23, 24. O let not man, however wise, O let not man, whate'er his might, Nor let the man of riches boast, To know thy name, thyself to know, In thy most holy light to trace, This knowledge shall the soul sustain, The glory that on man is found, No glory can the soul surround, WONDERS OF CREATION. I sing the power of the LORD, He spake creation at his word, He built the heavens with his hand, When all the deep was wrapped in night Those glowing fires which beam afar, Nor moves alone God's mighty power, He formed my body from the dust,] O may he be my guide and guard, And my exceeding great reward, A. Foster, Printer Kirkby Lonsdale. IOTA. ELIJAH RAISING THE WIDOW'S SON. In the days of wicked King Ahab, God sent the Prophet Elijah to tell him, that there should be neither dew nor rain for three years. Of course you know that when the ground is not moistened, the flowers, fruit, grass and trees are all burnt up. And if there is no rain, the brooks and rivers dry up; and then there is a famine both of bread and water. Now this was the case in Elijah's days; and he was ordered by God to go and dwell with a poor widow woman who lived in Zidon. God also said he would put it into her heart to receive Elijah. F |