not give them your views about human depravity; for it is more important that they should give you theirs than for you to inculcate them beforehand. Experience will teach them fast enough. “But should not the child have a code of ethics to build upon?" No. You must leave it to the experience of the little conscience. When that little being was sent into the world, God knew what He was doing, and He will not ask from it more than the child can give.

Do you want to teach your child the works of God? Then take him out, and let him search these things out for himself. For I have found that the power of experience is everything in the instruction of children. All that they learn about what we call nature is treasured up by the child as latent heat against dull days, as light against dark hours. The love of God in nature is a charm from meanness, saves the youth from folly and sin, keeps him in the path of virtue. I never knew a man go utterly astray who loved the works of God thoroughly. The passionate love of flowers even will do much to keep him innocent and pure.

What do you do with your children all Sunday? "Oh!" some of you say, "I am so exhausted with

the labours of the week, that I don't want to be troubled with the children on Sundays; I want to rest." Well, for those of you who must labour like this, I am sorry indeed; but for those who labour more than they need, and neglect their children's highest good, I am sorriest of all. Would they like to be called into judgment by the All-Father and Lover of the little ones? Give your child, then, some little instruction about the works of God. Not in puzzling over some dry scientific work on Botany; not in teaching him the hard grammar of it; but take him out into nature, and talk to him in this wise: “The rejoicing God has sent this to you as an expression of His thoughts, and to tell you what He meant about certain things."

The child will ask you questions, and you must answer them as best you can. It is no use shirking it; though the wisest men have been puzzled to know what to do with the questions of a child. But there is one thing you must do. You must always be honest with the child. If you don't know a thing, say you don't. He treats a child the best who lowers himself to the child, and who, when the child puts a question to him which he cannot answer, says, "I cannot tell you, my child, for there are many things I do not know. And I,

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too, my boy, I put questions to which I cannot get But I know enough to feed you and to care for you." It is your duty, however, to explain to them all that you can. Children don't take much damage from anything they can understand, and you ought to be able to give such answers to your children. I wonder sometimes why some people dared to marry or to have children at all, they show such utter inability to answer their questions.

Now, remember, it is as much your duty to go from business out into nature that the little child may be fed with the bread of the soul, as it is to go to the warehouse in order that bread for the body may be brought in. But how many do it? Did women every day learn some new thing about nature in order to teach it to the child, what children we should grow some day! If man and wife were to sit down every evening and discourse upon some work of God, in such a manner as that the little child might understand it and be instructed by it, what a good thing that would be! If the child asks, Why is the flower spotted? tell him of the marvels of light. All these things will lead the child to comprehend the presence of God in nature in the only way in which he can be led to

comprehend it; and his mind will understand that these are the methods by which the moods of His soul are communicated unto us.

This bright morning we put in a plea for the children. The child should be taught very early to walk through this world with eyes never blinded, calling nothing common or unclean. He should know the works of God as a gentleman knows the works of the old masters. And, just as some of us would be ashamed to say that there are pictures of the old masters which we do not know, so it should be a shame to us not to know the works of God.

Surely the works of the Great Artist should be sought out by all them that have pleasure therein. Now, to get pleasure therein, one must seek them out, and the surest way of being fascinated into the study of them is to look upon every visible thing as an expression of the thought, mind, will, and intention of God. Therefore, each thing tells words of God-something

me something of the that He is thinking about. So, through His works, we may rise into communion with the Father of all, and then we shall understand the words of the Apostle, "By the things that are seen, the hidden things of God are known."

CHRIST FULFILS MOSES.

August 9th, 1874.

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil; for verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."-MATTHEW v. 17, 18.

IN these words of our Lord a danger is suggested, (hence the warning is given); and the danger was that men should think Christ came to bring a new Religion into the world in the light of which the Religion of Moses, of David, of Isaiah should pass away. How that danger arose it is not difficult for us to understand. As the Jews ceased to be strong as a nation, after they had tasted the bitterness of captivity and known the sadness of bondage; as the Restoration failed to bring them back the ancient glory or the former strength; as the Roman had come, and the tax-gatherer of Cæsar walked in