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how kind! and will you give me a drawer to put them in?

M. Yes, my dear, you shall have two shelves in the parlour cupboard; only mind -if you do begin this good work, remember that text; "Be not weary in well doing." Keep a list of all 'you make, and of those you give them to. The prayers of some of the pious poor may be offered for you in return, and you will tell me you have been happier at the end of this year (if you live to see it,) than you were yesterday.

AN ACCOUNT OF A CHILD WHO DIED AT

THE R

MARCH 1828.

"Matilda M' C. was found in a Fever Hospital, where her mother had died, and left her friendless. She was between four and five years old when she was brought to the R-, where she remained ten years. She was very little of her age.

About a year before her death, she was attacked with a violent spitting of blood, which threatened immediate death. She was asked how she felt. She said, "I am not frightened." "Wherefore?" She answered, "because Christ has washed away my sins in his own blood." After a sleepless night, her friend said, "what have you been think.

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ing of?" She said, my text was, draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you: cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded." Her friend said, "you know what it is can cleanse us?” she said, "yes, the blood of Christ." Her friend said, "do you like the thoughts of dying, and being with Christ?" she answered, "yes." She chose the Psalm to be read, "Bow down thine ear, O Lord"-and recollected a sermon she had heard about two years before, on the verse, "Shew me a token for good." It pleased God to restore her, in a degree, so that she was able to sit in school and work, and regularly learnt her hymn and chapter by heart. Her behaviour was humble and patient, and her delight seemed to be in her Bible, which was indeed her staff: so accustomed was she to think of it, that whenever she was asked a question, on the subject of religion, she generally answered in the language of Scripture. She was asked, what she would take in exchange for the knowledge of the Bible? she replied, not the whole world; what would it profit me ?"

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She was very reserved; so that only one friend who visited her constantly, had the comfort of hearing her speak; and even when she spoke freely to that person, she seemed fearful of saying more than she felt,

so that sometimes she was silent when spo

ken to.

A few days before her death, supposing that she was alone, she was heard to say to herself; "I know that if this earthly house of the tabernacle were dissolved, I have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.' Dissolve it, if it be thy will. Lord Jesus Christ, be my mediator, and advocate with Him who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and cannot look upon sin. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief ever since I was born. I shall be satisfied, when I awake with thy likeness. Into thy hands, I commend my spirit: Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth."

Her death took place in the middle of the night. When she felt herself dying, she said to the pious woman who attended her (a blind woman)" now, Ellen, none but Christ. 1 am dying, but I am not afraid; my feet stand on an even place; I stand on the rock of ages." She asked the schoolmistress to read the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians, and 7th chapter of Revelation; and followed, or rather went before the reader, in every verse. The last she articulated, as on concluding the chapter, she fell asleep without a sigh."

QUESTIONING CARDS.

Many readers of the Children's Friend will most likely have seen the Questioning Cards which were published some months ago.

It is pleasing to find that they are much liked in various parts of England. One person writes word that they had found their way into a servant's hall of a gentleman's house, and were leading the men-servants to search the Scriptures.

In another case, an out-door servant was seen hard at work finding the passage referred to on the Card, for his little boy to take to the school the next Sunday.

Another lady writes word that she had seldom seen any thing interest the children of her schools so much as the Questioning Cards; and that they were proving a real benefit not only to them, but to the servants, and even some young ladies in her own family. She writes to beg that more may be published, and her wishes have been anticipated, as a second series of three packs each containing fifty Cards are now in the Booksellers' hands.

Another lady writes to ask in what ways the cards are intended to be used: and it is to answer this question that the subject is now brought forward: as many other persons besides may wish for the same information.

What has been already said may serve to give hints for some of the ways in which the Cards may be made useful. In families where the good practice is kept up of catechising and instructing servants and children on a Sunday evening, I cannot conceive a more useful exercise, than to give each of them one or more Cards in order that they may bring the answers the next Sunday Evening. It would tend to give them a habit of searching the Scriptures, and of keeping Scripture subjects uppermost in their minds throughout the week.

But the Compiler of the Cards had chiefly in view the good of children in schools. A Card is given to each scholar in a class on the Sunday, and the answer brought the Sunday following: when the teachers will do well, as far as time will allow, to explain and enforce the text.

Where the Cards are given as rewards to young people, they may afford much instructive amusement amongst themselves in their play hours. Let a set be divided equally amongst a little party, and each be called upon in turn to read and answer a question he holds in his hand.

Whatever tends to bring the mind to the Bible is good and the Compiler of these Cards will feel that she has much reason to be thankful, if her little effort to make Bible

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