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neighbours who love the Gospel: if you will give us a word of exhortation, I will run and acquaint them. This is an obscure place; and as your coming is not known, I hope we shall have no interruption." Mr. Heywood consented; and on this joyful occasion, a small collection was cheerfully made, to help the poor traveller on his way.

"NOT A MINUTE TO SPARE."*

"NOT a minute to spare,"

While, with madd'ning career,
Men hasten their incense to pour
At the fair shrine of Fashion,
Or Pleasure, or Passion,
And Mammon, their god, to adore!

"Not a minute to spare"

For the children of care,
Their patient endurance to aid!-
"Not a minute to spare"

To breathe forth a prayer
By the bed where the dying is laid!

"Not a minute"

The tale of despair

to hear

From the wretched, the suff'ring, the vile;

To teach them to lave

In Siloam's wave

Souls that sorrow and guilt do defile!

• From a good little book, bearing this title, lately published in Exeter and London.. (Hamilton, Adams, & Co.)

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See! the miser, by stealth,
Though in haste to get wealth,
Can many a moment afford
Greater gains to devise,

And, with covetous eyes,
To count o'er his glittering hoard!

O! my brother, beware!

"Not a minute to spare"

From the world, with its pleasure or toil,

Must betoken a heart

Unto self set apart,

Which Satan himself claims for spoil.

If with filial love

To our Father above

Our hearts to o'erflowing be fill'd,

In softening the woe

Of our brother below

Will that love, like the dew, be distill'd.

Then, what seems to us loss

For the sake of the cross Shall be paid by a costlier price; For when Jesus shall come, And shall gather us home, It will seem but a light sacrifice.

THE GROUND-BEETLE.

ALMOST incredibly numerous is the beetle tribe. It is said that specimens of between seventy and eighty thousand species exist in the cabinets of

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collectors. Among this

vast assemblage th Ground-Beetles form a large family. Their body remarkably hard and firm, enabling them to cree about under stones and other heavy substances, an securing them against hurt from the insects the attack. Many kinds of the beetle are very injuriou to vegetation, especially in the larva state; bu our Ground-Beetle, it is admitted, renders eminen service to the gardener and farmer by preying upo caterpillars and other noxious or destructive things Its colour is a coppery green, and its wing-case: are ornamented with several rows of spots.

There is a grand collection of these interesting objects (in glass cases) at the British Museum.

ONE OF CHRIST'S LAMBS.

In a Christian family near Amoy, China, a little boy, the youngest of three children, on asking his

father to allow him to be baptized, was told that he was too young; that he might fall back, if he made a profession when he was only a little boy. To this he made the touching reply," Jesus has promised to carry the lambs in His arms. As I am only a little boy, it will be easier for Jesus to carry me." This logic of the heart was two much for the father. He took him with him, and the dear child was ere long baptized. The whole family of which this child is the youngest member-the father, mother, and three sons are all members of the Mission church at Amoy.

MEMOIR.

LITTLE LUCY.

DEATH has again visited our Sunday-school, and has taken sweet little Lucy, an interesting girl, from our number. She has gone from this ungenial clime to those "sweet fields" which "stand drest in living green." She had numbered but six summers when God took her to His fold in the skies. Lucy was a very affectionate child, and much attached to her parents, who almost idolized her. She was, indeed, particularly amiable, and was beloved by all who knew her. Her love for the truth was remarkable. She was never known to tell a falsehood; and if she heard children in the street say what she believed not to be true, she would reprove

them.

Though so young, she was most anxious to do everything in her power likely to help her mother,

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