ther and mother may forsake you the world may seem to you like a dreary waste, full of thorns and pitfalls-but He can bring you safely through trials, and give you a golden harp and snowy robe, like those the justified wear in heaven. He can even surround your death-bed by angel-visitants. "He is all-powerful, an ever-present help in time of trouble." Will you not then seek his friendship? This you can never gain, unless you come to him through the Lord Jesus, and daily keep his commandments. "If you love me," said the Saviour, "keep my commandments." Do you keep these? Do you not only "abstain from evil," but from the slightest "appearances of evil?" These are solemn and soul-searching questions. If you are compelled by truth to answer them in the negative, will you not change your course, and begin today to live for God? Perhaps some very little boy or girl may read this story of little Roger, and turn away from the reflections here at the close, saying, "I am too young to become a Christian yet; by and bye I will keep all of God's commandments, and be very good indeed." My little friend, you are not too young to die. Perhaps you may not live to fulfil your design of becoming a Christian in some future hour. Better begin now! Trust me when I say to you, you are not This world is a wide one, God has too young. and it is full of wickedness. called it in the Bible his vineyard, and he calls continually for labourers to come and work in it. Would you not like to work for a Master, who will pay you with the gold of a happy heart in this world-yea, in "the life to come" will give you a place close to his great white throne, in that beautiful world, the glories of which " eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man to conceive?" Or will you work for that wicked one, who will pay you with groans and gnashing of teeth, and "everlasting burnings"-who will delight in making your path in this life full of bitter memories, and in "the life to come" terrible indeed? I am very earnest in this important matter, and I wish you to make a wise choice now; one that you will not regret having made throughout the endless ages of eternity. You cannot be an idler, young though you be. If you do not work for God, believe me, you are working for Satan. What a fearful thought! PERILS OF THE ALPS. AN event which occurred near Briançon, says Gilley, in his "Waldensian Researches," will give some notion of the incidents which emblazon the mountain |