Just at this juncture Mrs. Watson and Rogers were called into the presence of "the august board," and after the usual preliminaries had been gone through, Rogers obtained permission to take the child home with him.

Linny begged so hard to be allowed to see Liz before leaving, that Rogers bribed one of the attendants to allow the children to meet, and so she got her wish satisfied.

Much to her joy she was dressed in her own clothes; the brown frock and blue pinafore had been exchanged for those her mother had made; and, although threadbare and patched, they were in her estimation garments fit for a princess. "Good-bye, Liz," said Linny.

Liz looked very puzzled; she could hardly recognise, in the animated face held up before her, the tear-stained countenance she had beheld with such concern only that very morning.

"I am going away to a home," continued Linny.

"Where?"

"Don't know, but such a nice man is going to take me; he's waiting for me I told him, though, as how I should like to see you afore I go."

now.

Liz felt a pang of jealousy, but was too good-natured to show it; the tears were in her eyes as she stooped and put her arms round the little one's neck; and as she said, " Good-bye, ducky," a great lump came in her throat.

"Ha' you seen your mother?" she added, after Linny had kissed her several times.

"A bit of her, but my real mother is in heaven, you know." The child's voice grew sad, and as the light died out of her face, and the former mournful look showed itself, Liz's heart seemed to grow less heavy. Not that she rejoiced at the mere sight of grief, but it seemed to convey to her mind the sense of com. panionship. Linny-happy, was an individual far away; Linny-sad, was near to her. And it also proved that Linny, her favourite, was not heartless and forgetful.

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Good-bye," she repeated,

see you."

66 'Oh, I will."

And so they parted.

66 and you ask this 'ere nice man if I may come and

Then Anthony Rogers, Mrs. Watson, and Linny set out for Vick's Court, Linny walking in the centre, having hold of Anthony's hand.

matter.

Mrs. Watson during the whole of the walk continued her endeavours to interest and gain Linny's confidence. But it was a kind of task she was not accustomed to, and having at the outset made a false step, it had become a very difficult There was but one point she touched upon that at all tended to success, and that was the subject of "where mother was ;" but, unfortunately, Mrs. Watson deemed that of too sacred a character to speak much about to a child, and thought it best for Linny to think as little as possible about her mother. So, holding to this mistaken notion, Mrs. Watson failed entirely.

"Attenborough." She pronounced the name very distinctly, having at all

times a very clear way of speaking for one so young.

"Yes, but Linny is not your right name, is it?"

"Oh no, mother said it was only half my name; the other is ever so pretty." "Tell us what it is?" said Rogers.

"Rosalind,” she answered, looking up towards him.

"What a heathenish name! hope Mr. Rogers won't allow you to use it."

"I think it is a pretty name," said Rogers, giving Linny's hand a squeeze,— "far prettier than your Marys and Marthas."

"I like Scriptural names, " said Mrs. Watson, in a severe tone, 65 equal to them." Her own name was Martha.

none are

"You may like them best, but we like what we have got best,—don't we Linny?—or shall I call you Rosy ?"

"So it is, because it makes you think of the birds, don't it?"

When they arrived at Vick's Court Mrs. Dakin was waiting for them on the door-step.

"Well, I declare! So you have brought her. What ever do you think you're going to do wi' her?” she shouted out to them.

"Bring her up."

"Bring her up'! it will be a bring-up. What can a lone man like you do wi' a child?"

When they were all safely landed indoors, and Rogers was rubbing his feet on the mat preparatory to going upstairs, Mrs. Dakin said,

"Let the pretty dear stay awhile with me, Rogers."

"A very good idea," said Mrs. Watson.

Rogers looked at the child, and the child looked beseechingly at him. "No," he answered, "thank you, she's coming with me."

CHEERFUL SERVICE.

WE must serve something or some one. If we serve ourselves we gain nothing by it; for we can give ourselves only what we already have. If we serve our fellowmen, obey their commands, promoting their interests and enhancing their glory we can obtain from them only what they have to give. Perhaps they will not perceive the value of our service, and have no grateful appreciation thereof. What they can give is perishable and of little worth. God permits us to serve Him, that is, to obey His commandments, co-operate with His great movement, and promote His glory. The service of God is a duty: it is also much more, it is a privilege. Christians dishonour their religion by representing Christian life as a chain that must be worn for a season, instead of a magnificent robe which adorns them. Serve the Lord with gladness. Be glad that you are permitted to serve Him. Engage in His service cheerfully. Let His service be the fountain of all your highest joys. Do not act as though you would say, "Ah me! I must pray, I must fast, I must give Him my time, my money, my labour, ah me!" before His presence with singing. Sing praises unto Him, that He permits you to give anything which in anywise connects itself with Him. The only permanent joy on earth is the joy of God's salvation.

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The Resurrection.

THE doctrine of the resurrection of the body is one of those which some have supposed might suffer from the progress of science; but, in truth, it is rendered more probable by all that has been discovered. Scientific men can demonstrate to us now that not a particle of matter can be destroyed by man,-just as not a single particle of matter can be created by him. He may decompose or recompose. By analysis he may break up; by synthesis he may combine, and new forms of old matter may appear. In the laboratory of man, as in the grand laboratory of nature, changes as endless as the figures in the kaleidoscope may be seen; but it is the same matter that is presented, however diverse its aspects; and man can no more create or destroy an atom than he can create or destroy a globe.

Some have attached so much consequence to the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, that they have regarded it as if it were the sum and substance of all revelation. This was the case with some of the earlier Socinians. To escape from other doctrines which they disliked-for example, the atonement, and the divinity of Christ-they proclaimed that His great mission was to reveal the resurrection of the body. But without exalting the doctrine to that rank it is obvious that it holds a first place among the truths of the Bible. Christ is to raise us up at the last day,―nay, He is Himself the Resurrection and the Life. That which is sown in corruption is to be raised in incorruption; that which is sown in weakness is to be raised in power; and in the case of the redeemed, the soul and the body, glorified together, are to be for ever with the Lord. It was the conviction of Job that, "though after his skin worms were to destroy his body, yet in his flesh he would see God," he would be raised from the dead, just as some of the departed were at the death of Him who in due time became the firstfruits of them that sleep. That is one of the radical truths of our faith; it is a keystone which at once completes and knits together the rest.

Now on this subject, so plainly revealed as a fact, we observe that man has nothing to do, except when idle curiosity prompts him, with the manner of the resurrection. There are difficulties connected with it, and things hard to be understood. Our salvation, however, does not depend on our ability to solve difficulties it depends on our believing what the mouth of the Lord has spoken. It may be difficult to understand how bone shall come to bone, and sinew to sinew, and particle to particle; but is that too much for Omnipotence, or is resurrection more difficult than creation? It may surpass our power to tell where the frame that was drowned in the deep, where the martyr that was devoured by wild beasts, or where the saint that was reduced to ashes by the persecutor's fire, or torn to shreds by the inquisitor's rack, can be found; but is that too much for

Omniscience? We have seen the bones of the dead bleaching on battle-fields; we have gazed with a feeling of horror on the ghastly visages of malefactors nailed against the walls of Continental prisons, as a terror to other evil-doers, and could not but ask, as the atmosphere wasted, or as the wind drove to and fro, the particles of these grim visages, How shall their dust be gathered together at the resurrection? "I the Lord will do it," is the answer; and faith requires no more. Omniscience can guard, Omnipotence can collect; and whether it be the unpardoned sinner to agony, or the saint to joy unending, all will be done as the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

The fact being established out of Scripture, in perfect harmony with reason and science, we observe next that the truth of the resurrection is needed to complete the fulfilment of what God has said in His word. On the one hand, were the body and the soul made holy on earth together? Was he who now occupies the narrow house sanctified in soul, body, and spirit? To arrive at that result had he to pass through many ordeals? Was he "in deaths oft"? Then they who suffered together are to rise together, to enjoy together, and together to be for ever with the Lord. On the other hand, did the soul stimulate the body to sin, and did the body in return drag the soul down to grovel in the dust, and all that is defiling there? Then together they must be raised, together they must endure, together they must receive acording to the deeds done in the body. Happiness on the one hand and misery on the other would not be complete were the two companions in holiness or sin not companions again. But for that the resurrection provides; so that the cup of blessings for the one class, and the cup of wormwood for the other, are equally full and equally complete.

Or, next, the believer is a member of Christ's mystical body; and on that subject the Bible uses some of its strongest language. "Ye are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones," may suffice as an example. But Christ would not be complete-the Head would be bereft of a portion of the members— the great Proprietor would be despoiled of part of His property-the Conqueror of the grave would have secured but half a triumph, were the body not summoned to glory as well as the soul. Since the firstfruits, then-Christ, have been gathered in, the full harvest will follow. As surely as the Head has come forth,

the members will rise in their order.

Or, again, there are many analogies in nature typifying or foreshadowing with great beauty the truth of the body's resurrection. A grain of corn is cast into the ground. There it is buried for a season; and had we no experience to guide us we might fear that it has perished for ever. But in due time, as the seed wastes, the new form of its substance appears, and the fields at last stand thick with yellow corn. So is it in regard to the resurrection, when the dead, small and great, shall stand before their God.

At evening-time the sun seems to sink into the ocean-night creeps over half the world; and were some fair visitant from afar, a stranger to our alternations of day and night, to witness the sight, that being might conclude that the light was quenched for ever. But morning dawns, the faded glory returns, and beauty beams for a day over the face of creation again.

When winter approaches there are flowers which fade away and wither, and

seem to sink into the earth. There they slumber for a season, forgotten or unknown. But let the suns of spring and summer shine again, they will put on their beauty, and gladden man afresh.

There, under the eaves of the cottage, is the chrysalis, dormant, and not even a reptile. It is offensive to the eye of some, and they shrink from touching it. But let a day pass over,-nay, perhaps while you gaze upon it, it bursts its shell, and the inhabitant flutters away in the sunlight, as beautiful an object as the flower on which it feeds.

These and other things in nature are analogies to the resurrection of the body. They are not proofs. They are not even presumptive evidence. But when we are told on the authority of God that the grave, and the sea, and all dark places shall give up their dead, we find some illustrative analogies scattered over the world which God has made.

This glorious truth of the resurrection makes the eternal world-the things unseen in some degree more easily comprehended. Tell man of a purely spiritual eternity, it is to him impalpable, it is incomprehensible, and does not materially influence his mind. But link the body to the soul again, tell man of the joys or the sorrows of both, and eternity becomes more palpable. It is still a mystery, for it doth not yet appear what we shall be; nevertheless eternity seems a nearer thing; man's dim eye can more easily descry it. There is an aged saint within an hour of death; a few more pangs, a few more struggles, and he is with the Lord. But while his struggles last he is braced for them all by the thought of his resurrection body-of the glory that shall clothe it, and the Christ-likeness in which it will appear.

The Lord of life has shed some rays of the radiance of heaven even upon the grave. If we be His, it is not so much our prison as our bed; and though the wounded heart by the grave's edge may exclaim,——

"Words may not paint our grief for thee,

Sighs are but bubbles on the sea

Of our unfathomed agony;"

yet even there the believer, who has given his little one to God, can add,— "It is sweet balm to our despair,

Fond, fairest boy,

That heaven is God's, and thou art there

With Him in joy."--Christian Treasury.

YOUR EXAMPLE.

You represent the gospel of Christ to your pupils. What you say has not half the weight with them that your actions have.

Of all the people in the world, the Sunday school teacher should be most careful cf example. Children imitate. They live by imitation. The authority of your example will go with them, perhaps, through life.

Not only does your life impress them, but your spirit as well. Your love and temper teach. And things that may appear harmless to you may injure them. If your tobacco or wine makes a drunkard of a boy, if your participation in doubtful amusements leads one to destruction, it were better for you that a millstone were hanged about your neck, and you cast into the sea.