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or esteem a child who acted so mean a part? Such a child cannot be happy. A frank and openhearted child is the only happy child. Deception, however skilfully it may be practised, is disgraceful, and brings with it sorrow and contempt. If you would have the comfort of a good conscience, and the love of your friends, never do that which you shall wish to have concealed. Be above deceit, and then you will have nothing to fear. Besides, deceit will shut you out of heaven. At the last day, "God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing." And how must the child then feel, who has been guilty of falsehood and deception, and has it then all brought to light!

GOD SEES EVERY THING.

AMONG the deepest shades of night
Can there be one who sees my way?
Yes!-God is like a shining light,
That turns the darkness into day.

When every eye around me sleeps,
May I not sin without control?
No! for a constant watch he keeps,
On every thought of every soul.

If I could find some cave unknown,
Where human feet had never trod,

Yet there I could not be alone;
On every side there would be God.

He smiles in heaven; he frowns in hell;
He fills the air, the earth, the sea;
I must within his presence dwell;
I cannot from his anger flee.

Yet I may flee, he shows me where;
Tells me to Jesus Christ to fly;
And while he sees me weeping there,
There's only mercy in his eye.

HUMAN BEINGS AND THEIR SENSES.

I AM a human being. I walk upright. All human beings do the same. Other animals walk with their faces towards the ground. I use my legs in walking. Other animals also use their legs in walking.

I

I can see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Other animals can do the same. Seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling, are called the five senses. see with my eyes, I hear with my ears, I taste with: my tongue, I smell with my nose, and I can feel pain in any part of my body. Other animals also see with their eyes, hear with their ears, smell with their noses, and feel pain when they are hurt. I can also feel joy, sorrow, and fear. The other

animals feel the same. The dog feels joy when he sees his master pleased, feels sorrow when he sees his master uneasy, feels fear when he sees his master threaten him with a whip.

I can speak. I can express what I feel in words. Other animals utter sounds, but they cannot speak. The dog expresses joy by barking, and pain by howling he expresses sorrow by a look, and fear by hanging down his tail between his legs, but he cannot speak.

I can think. Reason is the power of thinking. Reason is one of the gifts which Almighty God in his great goodness has bestowed on human beings. God has not given reason to the other animals.

I can understand by reason why a house has windows, doors, and chimneys; why a stove is made of metal, and not of wood; why a pitcher has a handle; why the blade of a knife has a sharp edge; and why my shoes are made of leather, and not of tin, wood, or cloth. The brutes cannot understand what I do. A cat knows no more of the reason of these things, than the watering-pot does.

I can also understand why I am not always permitted to do what I please; why I ought to do what my parents and teachers desire; why I ought to be obedient, diligent, and attentive.

I observe that the rose is like the carnation, for both are flowers; both have an agreeable smell and fine colours; both have a root, leaves, and stem;

both proceed from a bud; both come out into flowefor a short time, and then fade.

But I observe also that they are unlike. The rose differs from the carnation, for it has not the same kind of smell. The rose has thorns, but the carnation has not. I can by reason compare the rose with the carnation, and I can distinguish the one from the other.

THE HUMAN SOUL.

WHAT is the thing of greatest price,
The whole creation round--
That, which was lost in Paradise,-
That, which in Christ is found.

The Soul of man,-Jehovah's breath!
That keeps two worlds at strife;
Hell moves beneath to work its death,
Heaven stoops to give it life.

God, to reclaim it, did not spare

His well beloved Son;
Jesus, to save it, deigned to bear
The sins of all in one.

The Holy Spirit seal'd the plan,
And pledged the blood divine,
To ransom every soul of man ;-
That price was paid for mine.

VOCABULARY.

Difficult words of Section First arranged, not alphabetically, but according to the order in which they stand in each lesson.

Italics sounds z; other Italic letters are silent.

Ven'-ture, dare to go

Dis-cov'-er, find out

Hur'-dles, rods plaited toge- Re-tains', holds or keeps

In-fest', to be troublesome

ther Osier, (o'-zher), a kind of Nui'-sance, something disa

willow

greeable

Comfortable (cum'-furt), plea- | De-vour', eat greedily

sant

Re-solved', fixed in mind

Pleas'-ant, agreeable

For-est, a large wood

Dis'-mal, dark and gloomy
Ca-ress'-es, inakes of
Ed'-in-burgh (bur-ro), a city
Va'-ri-ous, of several kinds
Sports'-man, a hunter
Pur-su'-ing, chasing
Faith'-ful, fit to be trusted
An'-i-mal, a living creature
La-ment', what expresses
grief

Na'-tive, born in a place
Sen'-ti-nel, one that watches
Ad-vance', go forward
A-larm', warning of danger
Man'-age, direct or guide
Pre-serves', keeps safe
Fam'-i-ly, those of one house
Pres'-ent-ly, without delay
Nim'-bly, activity, briskly

Sli'-ly, cunningly

Cre-a'-ted, formed or made

A-bun'-dant-ly, plentifully

Fir'-ma-ment, the sky
Mul'-ti-ply, increase in num-

ber

Im'-age, likeness or figure
Do-min'-ion, power over
Re-plen'-ish, stock or fill up
Sub-due', to bring under
Throb'-bing, beating with pain
or fright
E-scape', to get free
Per'-ish, to die

De-stroy', to kill or waste Con-ceive', to form a thought of

De-prive', to strip of

As-sem'-ble, to come or gather together

De-scribe', to tell about
De-fend', to keep from harm
Clum'-sy, ill-shaped

Ban'-ish, to drive from home

Ex-tinct', out of existence

Sev'-er-al, a number of differ- Pro-ceed', to go forward

ent ones

Mould'-y, covered with

A-muse', to divert

a In-struct', to teach

downy matter Quar'-ter, a particular point Fier-cer, wilder, more savage Poul-try, fowis kept about a իքստի

Pro-vide', to procure or get Per-ceive', to observe with the mind

Im-prove, to get better in any i Way

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