lady expressed surprise, and said, "Why, boys, ar all these your treasures?"

Arthur, who was about eight years of age, replied "No, ma'am, these are not our treasures: these ar our playthings, but our treasures are not here. "Where are they?" said the lady. "In heaven, he replied. "What treasures have you in heaven! she asked. Arthur replied, with a sweet smile, " harp and a crown."-Child's Paper.

THE MISSIONARY SHIP.

I SEE the ships upon the sea,
That noiselessly go by,

As white upon the waters blue,
As doves in yonder sky.

And men are glad the ships to watch,
That bring them goodly things,
Silver, and gold, and raiment soft,
Beneath their broad white wings,

But I should like to look upon
The ship that goes afar,

With Christ our Saviour's messengers,
Where Heathen children are ;

With holy books, that they may read
How kind our Lord has been ;

For such a ship, I think, must be
The fairest ever seen.

EARLY DAYS.

JUNE, 1856.

LINES WRITTEN IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI.

BY PROFESSOR UPHAM.

I MARK'D the bright, the silver star,
That nightly deck'd our desert way,
As, shining from its depths afar,

Its heavenly radiance seem'd to say,-
O, look! From mists and shadows clear,
My cheering light is always here.

I saw thee-and at once I knew,

Star of the desert! in my heart,

That thou didst shine, the emblem true
Of that bright Star whose beams impart,
From night to night, from day to day,
The solace of their inward ray.

There is a Beam to light the mind;
There is a Star the soul to cheer;
And they, that heavenly Light who find,
Shall always see it burning clear;
The same its bright, celestial face,
In every change of time and place.

Star of my heart! that long hast shone
To cheer the inward spirit's sky,
Illumined from the heavenly throne,
Thou hast a ray that cannot die.
'Tis God that lights thee: and with Him,
No sky is dark, no star is dim.

NEWARK PRIORY, SURREY.

ABOUT a mile beyond Woking are the remains Newark Priory, delightfully situated in a mead on the left bank of the river. Bishop Tanner s that at Aldbury, afterwards called Newark or N Place, in the time of King Richard I., or bef Ruald de Calver, and Beatrix de Sandes, his w built a church of Black Canons to the honour of Virgin Mary and St. Thomas of Canterbury (rat an odd association, by the way). authentic known of its history. that the Monks liked good living and that their pleasures were preferred to t devotional exercises.

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This, like the other places miscalled religi establishments, was broken up by Henry the Eig This Monarch granted the site of Newark Pri with most of the adjoining property, to Sir Anth Browne. It was undoubtedly a fine structure, is of the early pointed style of architecture. Iti a very dilapidated condition, nearly every trac ornament being gone. The walls are about t feet thick, and are formed, like most similar edi in this county and in Sussex, of flint and rul