THE GERMAN WATCHMAN'S SONG.
Hark, ye neighbours, and hear me tell,
Ten now strikes on the belfry bell!
Ten are the Holy commandments given
To man below, from God in heaven.
Human watch from harm can't ward us,
God will watch and God will guard us;
He, through his eternal might,
Gives us all a blessed night!

Hark, ye neighbours, and hear me tell--
Eleven sounds on the belfry bell!
Eleven Apostles of holy mind

Taught the Gospel to mankind.
Human watch, &c.

Hark, ye neighbours, and hear me tell-
Twelve resounds from the belfry bell!
Twelve disciples to Jesus came,

Who suffer'd rebuke for their Saviour's name.
Human watch, &c.

Hark, ye neighbours, and hear me tell--
One has pealed on the belfry bell!
One God above, one Lord indeed,

Who bears us forth in our time of need.
Human watch, &c.

Hark, ye neighbours, and hear me tell-
Two resounds from the belfry bell!
Two paths before mankind are free-
Neighbour, choose the best for thee.
Human watch, &c.

Hark, ye neighbours, and hear me tell
Three now tolls on the belfry bell!
Threefold reigns the heavenly host,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Human watch, &c.

The several stanzas are chaunted by the watch men, as the hours of night are successively announced.

HYMN.

See Israel's gentle Shepherd stand
With all engaging charms;
Hark how he calls the tender lambs,
And folds them in his arms.

"Permit them to approach," he cries,
Nor scorns their humble name;

For 'twas to save such souls as those
The Lord of glory came.

We bring them, Lord, by fervent prayer,
And yield them up to thee;
Joyful that we ourselves are thine,
So let our offspring be.

Ye little flock, with pleasure hear,
Ye children, seek his face;
And fly with transport to receive
The blessings of his grace.

If orphans, they are left below,

Thy guardian care we trust;

That care shall heal our bleeding hearts,

If weeping o'er their dust.

(From Arnaud's history of the Vaudois: by H. D. Acland.)

About the year 1687, the wretched remains of the Vaudois arrived in Switzerland, and were spread among the towns and villages of the Canton of Berne.

The Duke of Savoy, in violation of the written promise of a treaty, imprisoned fourteen thousand of these persecuted Protestants, and by unheard of cruelty reduced their number to three thousand; he banished these from their vallies, and allowed them to retire to Switzerland, in virtue of a treaty with

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the protestant cantons. The state of these sufferers was most pitiable: when they arrived at Geneva, they were like moving skeletons. The Genevese vied with each other in taking to their houses he most wretched of these exiles, and carried many of them in their arms, from the frontier where they went to meet them. Some arrived only to die; and others scarcely in time to be susceptible of kindness and refreshment.

The Swiss fed and clothed them, and allowed them to settle in their country. Here they might have been happy, if they could have forgotten their native vallies. But not valuing life, unless spent where it was received, they resolv ed, whatever might be the penalty, to return thither. Three times they made the attempt; the last was effectual.

In the second attempt, they were completely disappointed, and they hereby caused their former friends the Swiss to treat them harshly. An instance of harshness towards these persecuted wanderers was practised at Vevay, which was visited by divine anger, attended by a merciful interposition in favour of a widow who had compassion on them.

As the Vaudois were returning from their second fruitless attempt to regain possession of their native land, they passed near the town of Vevay, situate on

the north bank of the lake of Geneva. The council of this town, not content with keeping the Vaudois from entering its walls or lodging in its neighbourhood, issued an order, enforced by a heavy penalty, that no one should afford them provisions. They encamped in a meadow near the town; and were informed of this edict by a charitable widow who supplied them with food, in spite of the risk of having her house pulled down. Shortly after, almost the whole town of Vevay was destroyed; but the house of this charitable widow escaped all damage, though in the midst of the fire.

SOME PARTICULARS OF LITTI.F M. G. L.

She was born in a seaport-town in Cornwall, April 15th, 1817. She never enjoyed good health, so that she was unable to walk alone till she was three years and six months old. At a very early age however the Lord seems to have inclined her heart to love him. At two years and a half old, she could repeat many Psalms and Hymns, especially the one beginning, "O what shall I do my Saviour to praise." At five, she learned, and repeated very correctly, (and as if she entered into the spirit of it and understood its truths) the first of St. John's Gospel; and at this