very painful one, he said, when in extreme g, "Father, I will say my prayers again :" rising from his bed, and bending his knees, red out his soul unto God in prayer. This s repeated four or five times during the night his death. Just before he died, he said to her, "Father, I am going to heaven: will you ?” He then said, “Hallelujah!” and expired he word "glory" on his lips, September 1st, ged six years and five months. His little ite sister was taken ill, and died a few hours er brother; and both were buried on the day, in the same grave. They are now, ess, singing together in the heavenly land the of Moses and the Lamb. How delightful! n nature; one in grace; and, now, one in J. M.

DO WELL.

a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well." T's just what my old mistress said, some ago, when I was an apprentice.

one day gave me a dirty, rusty, greasy sauce› clean; "And remember, Simeon," she said, thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well." ob was a very disagreeable one; but-whether a hearty belief in this proverb, or from a secret that if I did it well I should have sixpence for ouble, I will not pretend to determine-I sucd in giving the saucepan a very respectable rance, and took it to her. "Very nicely done,

Simeon," said the old lady, after carefully examining it; "and as you have done this one so well, here's" ("sixpence," I thought she was going to add) "another one for you to do!"

This was very poor encouragement for perseverance in well-doing, and I felt sadly disappointed at such a result; but, having done the first so well, I was unwilling to lose the credit I had gained, and so did the second equally to her satisfaction.

I endeavoured to carry out the principle taught by this proverb in other matters entrusted to me; and, though the fact that I tried to do things wel! sometimes brought me work I would rather have been without, yet, on the other hand, it helped me forward in learning my business. If any order came in, requiring more than ordinary care and attention in the finish, it was mostly placed in my hands; so that I had opportunities of improvement which the other apprentices, being less careful, did not enjoy.

Probably many of my readers are, or shortly will be, apprenticed to a business.

Whatever that business may be, it will have its difficulties, which only practice and perseverance will enable you to overcome. You will be disposed at times to do your work carelessly, or to neglect some matter which you deem unimportant, because it will involve a little extra labour, or cause a little trouble; but, if you want to become expert in your trade, and to have the reputation of being a good workman, you must remember that, if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.

the dresses entrusted to her, and was so indolent that her mistress refused to keep her.

She laid the blame to the confinement of the house, said sitting so long made her head ache, and thought domestic service would suit her.

Having a great respect for her father, I offered to take her as a servant for three months, on trial; but, although she was shown again and again how things should be done, she did nothing well.

The fires were badly laid, and burnt dull, or went out altogether; the rooms were swept only in the middle, leaving accumulations of dirt in the corners; the furniture was smeared over with a duster, leaving great patches of dust undisturbed; if sent on an errand, she stopped to gossip, and forgot what she was sent for; so that long before the three months expired, with every disposition to give her a fair trial, I was obliged, for my own comfort's sake, to send her home. Other situations were obtained for her, but she did not stay long in any; and the last time I heard of her she was idling her time away at home, an encumbrance to her friends, and with no prospect of becoming a useful member of society, because she had not learnt that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.

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There are some matters, however, in which you may decide for yourselves what is worth doing; and it is important that you should learn early to exercise right judgment: otherwise you may spend much valuable time in doing well that which would be much better left undone. I have heard of a boy who boasted how well he could say the alphabet

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and of a girl who could repeat some h songs: they had both wasted much me on things not worth doing.

novels and light trashy literature, learnof chance, and smoking, may be quoted s of things not worth doing.

ciple of this proverb applies to little well as to great ones.

habit of doing little things well that character; for our lives consist, not so erforming great and notable actions, as rly discharge of ordinary duties. Do and you will be ready disciplined for entous engagements, whenever God calls 1 them.

you are sharpening a pencil, or learning ; playing at cricket, or writing a book; ur boots, or building a mansion; remem h life, IF A THING IS WORTH DOING, IT IS NG WELL.-Bible-Class Magazine.

e not read for a long time a more beau→ ration of firm integrity in boyhood, than I in the following anecdote of a French

ine o'clock in the morning, a little boy of

ose jacket of white cloth and white apron indicated that he followed the profession cook) was returning from market with an et on his head, containing butter and