ANECDOTE.

A little boy had been reading the history of Androcles and the lion, and afterwards relating it to a visitor, the following conversation took place.

Visitor. Did you ever read of a time when lions and lambs, wolves and kids should feed peacefully together?

Child. I know there was such a time once--that was in Paradise before Adam fell-they all lived together in peace then. V.-I was speaking of a time yet to come -I was not alluding to Paradise-I was thinking of a time yet future.

Ch. A time to come when the lions and the lambs will feed together-O yes, I know there will be such a time.

V. You say "I know"-how do you know? what makes you so sure of it? Ch. Because the Bible says so and I know all the Bible says is true.

V. Yes, my dear child, you are rightall that the Bible says is true-and you may confidently say "I know it will be if the Bible says so"-but can you tell me when it will be?

Ch.-No-I cannot tell when I do not know the exact time.

V. Who can tell-who does know the time?

Ch. Nobody-nobody can tell-yesthere is ONE who knows--only ONE-yet there are Two-yes-THREE but these THREE are still only ONE.

These last sentences where spoken considerately, slowly and with reverence, as a little child should speak when he names the name of God.

P. P.

THE TRUE CHRISTIAN.

From the French.

It is to the true Christian, that it is said in Scripture," See thou dost after the pattern that has been shewed thee upon the Mount." The pattern which the Christian is to copy is Jesus Christ, therefore in his life must be found the life and the actions of the Saviour. The true Christian then, prays like Christ upon the Mount, with devotion, humility and faith. Like Christ, he is kind and condescending to the ignorant, to the poor, to the little children. He is without pride, without affectation, without severity. He is willing to become all things to all men. He converses with his friends as Christ did with his disciples; his conversation is charitable, edifying, seasoned with gravity, gentleness, and simplicity. He is humble, that he may be like Jesus, who washed the feet of his disciples and even of Judas, though he knew his treachery. He looks upon himself as the least of all, and as the servant of his brethren. He is obedient like Christ, who was obedient to Joseph and Mary; obedient unto death, yea even the death of the cross. The true Christian obeys his parents, his masters, his superiors, because God has set them over him, and they are to him in the stead of God. At his meals, he is like Jesus, at Cana and at Bethany; sober, temperate, attentive to the wants of others, and more anxious for the bread of life than for the food with which he sustains the body. With his friends, he behaves as Jesus did with St. John and Lazarus. He loves them in God and for God. He opens his heart freely to them, and if they die to grace, he does every thing

in his power to recover them to a spiritual life. He bears with privations and poverty, as Jesus Christ did, who had not where to lay his head; with contradictions and ca lumnies, in the same manner as the Lord bore with those of the Scribes and Pharisees, leaving to God, the care of justifying him. He bears with affronts and insults, as Jesus did, when he was buffetted, spit upon, and mocked, in the Pretorium. He suffers patiently spiritual sorrows, as Christ did when he was sorrowful unto death in the garden, and forsaken by his Father in his agony; and he endures grief like his Saviour when betrayed by one disciple, denied by another, and deserted by all! Lastly, the true Christian bears with sickness and suffers death after the example of Jesus Christ; who, on the cross, his head pierced with thorns, his body torn with the scourge, his feet and hands transfixed with the nails, committed his soul in peace into the hands of his Father: so that he can say with St. Paul, I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me.

ALIX.

SCRIPTURE PASSAGES.

God told the Israelites to ask or demand, not to borrow of the Egyptians; the mistaken rendering of our Bibles has often furnished infidels with an objection. (Exodus xii. 35, 36.) The dying charge of David to Solomon about Shimei (1 Kings ii. 8, 9,) has also often been found fault with, but the censure is founded upon an improper translation. It should be, "Thou therefore neither hold him guiltless, for thou art a wise man, nor his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood." Compare this with the history.

J. M. G.

Mr. H-, (says the Rev. J. Wolff,) who had a letter about me from his father-touched his head, and did swear he would give me letters for Rabbi H-, in Jerusalem. This explains our Lord's words, "neither shalt thou swear by thy head." Matt. v. 36.

The Jewish High Priests were forbidden either to touch a dead body, or to go into a house in which there was a corpse. But on the contrary, Jesus, the High Priest of our profession, went into the house where Jairus' daughter lay dead; he even took her by the haud. He touched the bier of the young man of Nain. He shed tears over Lazarus, already in a state of corruption. These considerations are more important than they seem to be. The defilement which the law sees in a dead body might contaminate the priest, because he was not able to take away the corruption of death; but he who could give life to the dead is above the laws and beyond the reach of such defilement. The Mosaic Priest left the dead, and left them in their defilement, because he could not offer any remedy for it; but the true and eternal High Priest, because he raised the dead, conversed among them and at his touch gave them life again; he comes to seek and save us even in our sepulchres, and watches and cares for our very dust.

For

We read that Christ wept three times. The first time for a man, the second for a nation, the third for the human race. a man when he wept over Lazarus; (John xi. 35.) for a nation when he wept over Jerusalem foreseeing its ruin, and the desolation of all the Jewish people; (Luke xiii. 34.) for the human race when he offered up pray.

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ers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save him from death. (Heb. v. 7.)

About three years ago, I felt a great de sire to aid in some feeble way the Missionary cause; verily believing the Scriptures must have their fulfilment. I have a large family, and it takes a deal to support them, but through mercy, we have a decent livelihood; but not having much to spare, I employed labourers, hoping by that means to get a little money together to put my intention in practice; and I have succeeded, for they have been very active indeed. I bought some bees, and they have collected honey to the amount of thirty shillings; so you see, dear Sir, that the inferior creation serves in some measure to promote the cause of Jesus Christ. Letter in the Miss. Register.