A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!

HAT is what the Editor wishes and says to all his

young readers, and he means to try and make their ittle magazine a source of increasing monthly enjoyment, so that they may feel all the better and happier for looking through it and reading it.

But happiness is the constant companion of thankfulness and surely we ought all to be thankful, VERY THANKFUL, Why, God has been daily loading us with benefits throughout the past year. A little boy once tried to count

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up the many mercies given to him by our Father in heaven; but he was soon puzzled. He never, at any school, had such a difficult sum, for he found himself quite unable to make out the sum total." He began thusI'll just take account of the blessings of

"Let me see. the past year. There are 365 days: that is 365 mercies; but no, that won't do, for every hour by day and night has been a mercy, and that makes 8760. But I think I ought to count the minutes and the moments; for, as I say in my Catechism, 'He keeps me from harm by night and by day, and is always doing me good.' Let me see. How many moments are there in a year? Oh! what a number! there are too many to put down, so I must just count up only the greater mercies. There are my dear parents, who have been spared to me all the year: two marks for that; then another for health, another for clothes, another for books, another for pleasant companions, another for games of play, another for the Bible: a good broad mark for that; and fifty-two more for my Sundays, and then another for... but, oh dear! I've no more room on my big slate, it is quite full; and yet I keep thinking of more and more mercies to put down; I must give it up! but God is indeed VERY good."

Then, let me tell you further that you cannot hope to be happy, unless you try and promote happiness in others. Look at the picture on the other side, and learn a secret.

This dear little girl is giving the "Book of Books," THE HOLY BIBLE, to a poor little Heathen, that the child