OUR FATHER. Varieties. A GOOD woman, searching out the children of want, one cold day last winter, tried to open the door in the third story of a wretched house, when she heard a little voice say, "Pull the string up high! Pull the string up high!" She looked up, and saw a string, which, on being pulled, lifted a latch; and she opened the door upon two little, half-naked children, all alone. Very cold and pitiful they looked. "Do you take care of yourselves, little ones ?" asked the good woman. "God takes care of us," said the oldest. "And are you not very cold? No fire on a day like this!" "Oh! when we are very cold, we creep under the quilt, and I put my arms round Tommy, and Tommy puts his arms round me, and we say, 'Now I lay me;' then we get warm," said the little girl. man!" said Will Thompson. "I will not take an insult." And the little fellow strutted up and down in a rage. He had been throwing stones at Peter Jones, and he thought that his anger proved him a gentle man. "If you want to be a gentleman, I should think you would be a gentle boy first," said his teacher. "Gentlemen do not throw stones at their neighbours. Peter Jones did not throw stones at you, and I think he is much the more likely to prove the gentleman." "But he's got bad patches on his knees," said Will. "Bad pantaloons don't keep a boy from being a gentleman," said his teacher, “but a bad temper does. Now, William, if you want to be a gentleman you must be a gentle boy."-The Little Folks. JESUS LOVES ME. W. B. BRADBURY. Je-sus loves me! this I know, For the Bi-ble tells me so. Lit-tle ones to him be-long, They are weak, but he is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Je-sus Jesus loves me! he who died, Jesus loves me! loves me still, Jesus loves me ! he will stay IN MEMORY OF A BELOVED ONE. FAREWELL dear child, thy days on earth are o’er, To share the pleasures of eternal day. ; E're earth's rude blasts of sorrow, care, or woe, To distant white rob'd harpers, the sweet song While ever and anon they cast their crowns All honour, power, and glory to receive. When life shall close of meeting thee in heaven. EMMELINE. |