ERRATUM.-After the words "river of life," in the nineteenth line from the top of page 107, in April "Hive," read, "that we may bring forth abundant fruit to the honour and glory of God, The return of flowers may also remind us of death and the resurrection. It is appointed unto man once to die, but only once does he pass from the summer of life," &c.

Cedars of Lebanon.

HE mountains of Lebanon are to the north of Palestine, and are visible throughout its length. Some have computed their sum mits to exceed in height the Pyrenees or the Alps, but this is not likely. From their sides spring several rivers, and from their feet the Jordan takes its rise.

The cedars of which we hear so much

are only located in one portion of the

mountain, and even there are but few in number. Some travellers state so few as seven, others say there are twelve old cedars remaining. They are evidently of an immense age; some imagine as much as 3,000 or 4,000 years. However, we may safely look upon them as existing prior to the time of our Saviour.

New trees are constantly springing from the ripe cones or from the roots of the old trees, but as fast as they rise they are destroyed by the Arabs for firing and other common uses, so that ere half a century passes, the cedars will, probably, so far as Lebanon itself is concerned, have become extinct. But many of the seeds have been brought into Europe, and there are more cedars within fifty miles of London, than there are upon Lebanon itself.

Moses had a strong desire to see Lebanon, having no doubt beard of its grandeur and beauty, but he was not allowed the pleasure, and travellers of our own day, who have visited it, testify to the gratification they derived from the visit. From this spot Solomon obtained his wood for the temple and other buildings. From Lebanon the Tyrians and Sidonians had their wood for shipping and building. Jesus Christ and His Church are likened to Lebanon, for their spiritual comeliness, and their fragrancy and fruitfulness. Jerusalem and the temple in it are called Lebanon,

because mostly built of cedar, and the houses of Jerusalem were so lofty as to be compared to its forest.

The Christian is compared to the beautiful, enduring, useful, and fragrant cedar. Let us each endeavour to grow in the beauties and graces of religion, and become as cedars in the Temple of God, being useful in our day and generation, as well as ornamental. T. J. B.

Kitty's Bed Quilt.

ITTLE Kitty Needham, with her father and mother and brothers and sisters, had gone from the city, where she had lived ever since she could remember, to a new home in the country: and Kitty, who, like most city children, had fairy-like ideas of country life, supposed she was going to be perfectly happy. It was in the early autumn that the removal took place. The weather was lovely, and Kitty could not be induced to remain in the house an hour of the day. From morning till night she was out on exploring expeditions: in the barn, the orchard, the meadow, the corn-field, and, above all, the woods, the great,green, shady woods,-where even at noonday it was cool and dark; where the brook rippled, and the birds sang, and the breeze made music in the boughs; where the mosses and the ferns grew too thick to be gathered, and the squirrels ran nimbly up and down the trees.

Oh! there never had been anything in the city half so delightful as that old wood; not the park with its fountain and gold fish, nor the museum with its stuffed animals, nor even the toy-shops and confectioner's; and all the children enjoyed beyond everything a ramble there-but especially

Kitty. She was an eager and excitable child, and, her mother said, had" a bad habit of running everything into the ground." She made this literally true, for one day, after long, long wandering through her beloved woods, she threw herself down to rest upon a mossy bank, which, however soft, was very damp. There she fell asleep, and waking

up, by and by, with "hot and cold shivers running all through her, she dragged herself home, and, to everybody's consternation, proceeded to develop a regular “old-fashioned ague."

Now, this disease is an enemy that "sticketh closer than a brother;" and when he is invited, as it were, by such thoughtlessness as Kitty's, to take up his abode with one, he is not very easy to be got rid of. This the poor child found out to her cost; for, though she was instantly put to bed with blankets and hot bottles, though horrible doses of quinine were administered, and strict imprisonment in the house observed, he made his appearance duly at the same hour on the next day but one; and the whole hateful performance—hot and cold shivers, blankets, bottles, and medicine-had to be gone over again; and still the ague shook her till her poor little bones rattled, and the fever scorched her till she seemed all on fire.

The doctor came and ordered more quinine, and Kitty's mother got out all her stores of marmalade, jam, and jelly, to try which would best disguise the bitter taste. But it was all in vain. The more medicine Kitty took, the harder her chill seemed to be next time; and it persisted in coming and coming until everybody got discouraged, and the doctor himself said he never knew such an obstinate case.

Poor Kitty was very impatient indeed under the afflic tion. On the days when she was really ill she tried to be patient, for she saw that every one pitied her, and that her mother looked almost heart-broken when she found she could not relieve the pain. It was the "between-days' that were really the hardest to the active child. Her broth

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