names were Dobson and Vicars. Mr. Dobson had a son called Simon, and Mr. Vicars one also of the name of Gamaliel. Behind the houses were small gardens, separated at that time only by quickset hedges. Simon, when alone in his father's garden, amused himself with throwing stones into all the gardens round about, never once thinking that he might hurt somebody. Mr. Dobson had observed this, and reprimanded him severely for it, threatening to chastise him if ever he did so again. But unhappily this child knew not, or else did not believe, that one should not do wrong, even when alone, because God is always near us and sees whatever we do. One day, when his father was gone out, thinking that nobody could see him, he filled his pocket with stones, and began pelting them all round him. Just at the same time Mr. Vicars was in his garden with his son Gamaliel. This boy had the misfortune to think, as well as Simon, that it was enough not to do wrong before others, and that when alone he might do what he pleased. His father was watching in the summer-house, with a loaded gun in his hand, in order to shoot the sparrows that were picking his cherries. At this moment a servant came to tell him that a gentleman wanted him in the parlour; he therefore laid the gun on the seat, and expressly forbad Gamaliel to touch it. But, Gamaliel, when all alone, said to himself, "I do not see what harm there can be in playing with this gun a little ;" and saying this, he took it up, and began to exercise with it like a soldier. He handled his arms and rested his firelock, and had a mind to try if he could make ready and present. The muzzle of the gun happened to be pointed towards Mr. Dobson's garden, and, just as he was going to shut the left eye in order to take aim, a pebble-stone, thrown by Simon, struck him in that very eye. The fright and the pain together made Gamaliel drop the gun, which went off; and, oh, what cries and shrieks were immediately heard in both gardens! Gamaliel's eye was seriously hurt by the stone, and Simon had received the whole charge of the gun in his leg. Thus the one nearly lost his eye, and the other remained a cripple all the rest of his life. F. Ah, poor Simon! poor Gamaliel ! how I pity them! Mr, F. They were, it is true, very much to be pitied; but their parents still more so for having children se disobedient and vicious. After all, the accident proved a real happiness to these two bad boys. F. How so, papa ? Mr. F. I will tell you. If God had not early punished these children, they would always have continued in mischief, whenever I still and will not go at all; what they found themselves alone; am I to do with it?" "Why," whereas they experienced by this warning that, whatever bad actions men do not see, God sees and punishes. This was therefore a lesson to them to amend themselves, and they became henceforth obedient and careful, and shunned doing mischief when alone as much as if all the world saw them. And this, indeed, was the design of Providence in thus punishing them; for our merciful God never chastises us but for our profit. F. Thank you, papa, for your useful story. I will take warning by these boys, and I hope I shall always shun what is wrong, and do what is right, even though I see nobody near me. As he finished these words, they arrived at their own house. Frank was agreeably surprised to find that his cousins had come over to see him; and after tea Mr. Ferguson gave them leave to play in the garden, where Frank related to them all that his father had told him in the morning. O may we now for ever fear To indulge a sinful thought; Since the great God can see and hear, And writes down every fault. replied Mrs. Wilson, "you had better take it to the watchmaker, and he will examine it, and soon make it go right again." John was very soon at the watchmaker's; and, taking his watch from his pocket, said, "Please, I have brought you my watch to look at, for it will not go right; sometimes it gains, and sometimes it loses, and sometimes it stands still; will you try and make it go right?" "Yes," said the watchmaker, "I will see what can be done with it. Yours is a pretty-looking watch, John, and it ought to go right; but I suppose there is something wrong inside. You had better leave it with me a few days, and I will try and make it keep true time." In the course of a few days John called to ask if his watch was done; and, whilst the watchmaker was handing it to him, John said, "Will it go right, now?" "It will go like a new one," answered the watchmaker. "What was the matter with it?" asked John. The watchmaker replied, "I found the outside was all right enough; the case was sound, the hands were straight, and the face was perfect. I then JOHN WILSON'S WATCH; opened your watch and looked OR, IT WILL NOT GO RIGHT. "SOMETIMES my watch is too fast, mother," said John Wilson, "and sometimes it is too slow, and sometimes it stands quite within, There was the right number of wheels and pins; the spring, and chain, and other works were all sound and good; I found nothing gone nor out of place; but the dust and dirt were the cause of its going wrong. Your watch wanted a thorough cleaning, John, and I have done it for you, and it will now keep time with the great town-clock." John paid the charge, and returned home quite delighted to find that his watch would now go right. In some respects, my young readers, there is a likeness between you and John Wilson's watch. For instance, you have a face and two hands, and so has the watch. You have some delicate and wonderful workmanship in you, and something that keeps beating or ticking; so has the watch. But do you resemble John Wilson's watch before it was cleaned, in not going right? Suppose you were to look at yourself, and compare your movements with the proper time-with what is right. Do you go right in the morning, or are you a "lie-a-bed?" One morning I saw a little girl sitting at the open door of a pretty cottage sewing; she was working away with her needle-before six o'clock! I have sometimes seen little boys and girls, with their hands full of wildflowers, returning from a beautiful walk before breakfast. Where are you to be found on these bright sunshiny mornings? hope you do not lose this pleasant time in bed. I day? How does your tongue go? Does it go so fast as to contradict your parents? Does it take God's name in vain, or tell falsehoods? It had better not go at all than go at this sinful rate. Where do your eyes go? Are they ever looking into foolish books or papers, containing wicked songs or silly stories ? Are they ever looking after foolish sights, or delighted at beholding vanity? Where do your feet go? Are they swift in the way of evil and slow in the way of good? Do they ever carry you to the fair, the races or the playhouse? How do your hands move? go right? Are they ever stretched out to steal or lifted up to fight? Do you ever clap them together to encourage others in sin? Do these If these are your movements, it is quite certain you are not going right. Your course is crooked and uneven; and unless there is an alteration, you will be cast aside as one who is ruined. It is evident that you, like John Wilson's watch, have something wrong within you, and this is the cause of your going so very wrong. Now the Bible tells us that the heart, which is the mainspring of all our thoughts and actions, is unclean, that is, sinful; and, whilst it is in this unholy state we cannot go right. Now, what are you to do? You are to ask God for a new heart and a Do you go right during the right spirit. You may say to him in earnest prayer, "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way ever-pick up the poor blind man's hat, lasting." never loses an opportunity of doing a kindness; and Sarah gave a proof of the same disposition` the other day when she ran to East Grinstead. T. C. which had fallen from his hand. In the house of God Lucy behaves with reverence and attention; and Sarah, though she cannot understand all that is going forward, yet copies her sister's looks and movements, and is herself a pattern to many a restless, whispering child. In short, Sarah is already walking in all Lucy's ways, as well as her age will admit; and this causes the elder sister to be doubly careful, in order that she may learn from her nothing wrong. EXAMPLE AT HOME. It is of great importance that elder brothers and sisters should set a good example to the younger ones; for all who have observed the ways of little children must have seen the quickness with which they learn to imitate the words and actions of those around them. No wonder that little Mary Adams is so passionate and quarrelsome, or that Kate Stevens stops playing in the streets when she should be hastening to school; they are following the example of Jane and Betsy, their elder sisters, who have been over and over again reproved for the same faults. How different is the conduct of Lucy Gray and her sister Sarab, only five years old! Lucy obeys her mother in a moment; misconduct and bad example.and so does little Sarah. Lucy | Child's Companion. Reader! if you are an elder sister or brother, just consider for a moment what is likely to be the effect of your behaviour at home. Think seriously upon the subject; and take heed that the faults which you see, and sometimes reprove in others, are not the consequence of your own THE EDITOR'S DESK. QUERIES AND ANSWERS. QUERY 1.-ON THE SHEWBREAD. in the Sanctuary? and oblige DEAR SIR, Will you please yours, truly, inform me and the numerous readers of the truly interesting INSTRUCTOR, what is the meaning A CONSTANT READER. ANSWER.-The shewbread were of the shewbread which was placed square cakes or loaves of bread made of fine flour. They were twelve in number, placed in two rows of six each upon a table provided for the purpose, and on the top of each row there was a golden dish of pure frankincense, which was burned before the Lord as a memorial. At the end of each week the old loaves were removed and replaced by new ones, the priests eating them in the holy place. The table on which these loaves were placed was made in a manner prescribed by the Lord. It was made of acacia wood, two cubits in length, one cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height. A cubit was about twenty inches. This table was overlaid with pure gold, and a crown set round about it. There were four rings of gold attached to the table, in which were inserted two staves overlaid with gold; and these staves were used for lifting the table when it n to pista ass was required to be removed. What was the particular use of this bread is not explicitly stated, and cannot now be determined with certainty; but we conjecture that its object was to be a perpetual memorial of the bountiful goodness of God in supplying man with nourishing food, and thereby to move him to gratitude and love. The number of the loaves, being twelve, corresponded with the number of the twelve tribes of Israel. A loaf for each tribe might indicate that each alike was dependant on God for food, and each alike owed him the tribute of gratitude and praise. The Hebrew name of this bread (bread of faces) was given to it, perhaps, because it was placed before the face or presence of God in his sanctuary. We furnish our readers with an engraving of the supposed appearance and order of this bread and the table on which it was placed. QUERY 2.-ON THE TIME WHICH CHRIST REMAINED IN THE GRAVE. Scribers to your very valuable Work, the JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR AND COMPANION, and as you take great pleasure in answering questions in the same work, we beg to submit the following question for an answer. In Matthew xii. 40, it is said, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the DEAR SIR,-As there are a number of young men, members of the New Connexion at Pudsey, who form a theological meeting in our chapel on Saturday nights, and as myself and others connected with the meeting are sub-whale's belly, so shall the Son of |