another help, that is, His Holy Spirit, which, He says, 'will open the eyes of the blind,' and 'will guide you into all truth,' -not part of the way, and then leave you to get along as you can, but guide you into 'all truth,' that you need make no mistake and have no excuse for doing wrong." "But," said Jamie, "how can you get the Holy Spirit? I can read my Bible, because it's in my very hands." "God will give you the Holy Spirit if you ask Him for it," said his mother; "He says, 'Ask, and you shall receive.' The Bible also says that the Holy Spirit helps our infirmities."" "I don't know what that means," said Jamie, quickly. "When you see a person weakly, sickly, and not able to do what he wants to do, we say he is infirm,' he needs help. God sees how we stumble and go back, and miss the right way; how weak we are; He therefore sends His Holy Spirit to make us strong." "That is wonderful!" said Jamie, "how God knows everything." "Besides all this," said his mother, "He has put a little voice inside you, which, when you are inclined to go wrong, says, 'No, no, no!' and when you do right, says, 'Yes, yes, my dear child,' very sweetly indeed." 66 "A voice!" said Jamieyes, that still small voice my teacher tells about, and says it is conscience." "Do you not think, Jamie," asked his mother, seriously, "that God has done His part to make little boys and girls do right-not only to know the right, but to do right also ?" "Mother," answered Jamie, after a few moments' thinking, "I think God has. If we do wrong, it isn't God's fault, I'm God has done His sure. part." So, when we are helped, let us remember it is that we may help others, by showing them that God is the Helper of the helpless. Home News. THE TEACHER AND HIS CLASS. DEAR SIR,-On reading the article ("Our Missionary Box, and how we filled it”) in the January number of your valuable little magazine to my Sunday scholars, they all expressed a wish that I should accept the invitation there given, by writing to you, to tell you how we are filling our Missionary Box. THE PLAN. To interest my class in the missionary cause, we call the first Sunday in every month Missionary Sunday, when they all try to bring something to put into our box. After lessons I read to them extracts from the "Juvenile Magazine," or some interesting missionary story. In addition to this, to those who repeat their hymns and catechisms perfectly, I give a reward ticket, and, when six tickets are gained, sixpence to put in the missionary box; and to those who at the end of the year have obtained the greatest number of tickets, I give the bound volume of the "Juvenile Missionary Magazine." I am but a young teacher, and have not had my class long, but this plan has answered so well that we shall soon have a whole sovereign to send to the Society; besides which, the scholars seem to take a great interest in missions. If you think fit, I shall be very pleased to see this inserted in the Magazine. Hoping it may lead other scholars and teachers to take more interest in this important cause, I remain, yours respectfully, Blandford. A YOUNG SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. NLY a penny! and that is my all! 'Tis almost as well to have nothing at all; And so, to the shop with 'goodies' I'll go, Though I'll eat what I get in a minute, I know." Stop, stop, little spendthrift, and listen whilst I There's your poor little sister, too feeble to play, A penny would get a nice orange to take To the sick child who lies all the long night awake, A penny would purchase some morsel to give There are many nice books that a penny will buy, Don't think that I wish to deny you a treat, Boys and girls (and grown people) like something to eat ; But never waste pennies on folly and greed- But whether you save them, or whether you spend, Kind Words. |