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 When every eye around me sleeps, If I could find some cave unknown, Yet there I could not be alone; He smiles in heaven; he frowns in hell; Yet I may flee, he shows me where; 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 Soul of man,-Jehovah's breath! God, to reclaim it, did not spare His well beloved Son; The Holy Spirit seal'd the plan, 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 Na'-tive, born in a place Sli'-ly, cunningly Cre-a'-ted, formed or made A-bun'-dant-ly, plentifully Fir'-ma-ment, the sky ber Im'-age, likeness or figure 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 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 |