All that my soul has tried
Left but a dismal void :
Jesus has satisfied;

Jesus is mine.

"Farewell, mortality,

Jesus is mine.

Welcome, eternity,

Jesus is mine.

Welcome, oh loved and blessed;
Welcome, sweet scenes of rest;
Welcome, my Saviour's breast;
Jesus is mine."

VI.

The Happy Learners.

"JESUS, my Saviour and my Lord,

To Thee I lift mine eyes; Teach and instruct me by Thy Word, And make me truly wise.

"Help me to read the Bibleo 'er
With ever new delight:

Help me to love its Author more—
To seek Thee day and night.

"Oh let it purify my heart,

And guide me all my days;

Its wonders, Lord, to me impart,
And Thou shalt have the praise."

THE HAPPY LEARNERS.

"All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children."-Isa, liv. 13.

CANNOT help thinking that this is a verse for the Sunday scholar. What a delightful thought that Isaiah, who wrote these words more than two thousand five hundred years ago, saw a vision of the Sabbath-school, with its teachers and scholars, and all its blessed instructions. How happy we are, who begin to see this prophecy fulfilled; and how happy the Church everywhere in the promise that the work of bringing the young to Christ shall not stop till all her children shall be taught of the Lord, and be blessed with this "great" peace of God

I. The first thing that this verse teaches is, that all children and youth have great need to be taught of the Lord.

Suppose we were to go into a beautiful garden, filled with the loveliest flowers and the choicest fruits, and one were to tell you that they all came up of themselves, without any planting or watering or the care of any human being. Would you