have not, because ye ask not," will be a fearful condemnation to many in the day of judgment.

Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies in your power to train them up to a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say. Encourage them to persevere. Remind them if they become careless and slack about it. Let it not be your fault, at any rate, if they never call on the name of the Lord.

This, remember, is the first step in religion which a child is able to take. Long before he can read, you can teach him to kneel by his mother's side and repeat the simple words of prayer and praise which she puts in his mouth. And as the first steps in any undertaking are always the most important, so is the manner in which your children's prayers are prayed-a point which deserves your closest attention. Few seem to know how much depends on this. You must beware lest they get into a way of saying them in a hasty, careless, and irreverent manner. You must be ware of giving up the oversight of this matter to servants and nurses, or of trusting too much to your children doing it when left to themselves. I cannot praise that mother who never looks after this most important part of her child's daily life herself. Surely, if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer. Believe me, if you never hear your children pray yourselves, you are much to blame. You are little wiser than the bird described in Job, "which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain without fear."

Prayer is, of all habits, the one which we recollect the longest. Many a grayheaded man could tell you how his mother used to make him pray in the days of his childhood. Other things have passed away from his mind, perhaps. The church where he was taken

to worship, the minister whom he heard preach, the companions who used to play with him-all of these, it may be, have passed from his memory and left no mark behind. But you will often find it is far different with his first prayers. He will often be able to tell you where he knelt, and what he was taught to say, and even how his mother looked all the while. It will come up as fresh before his mind's eye as if it was but yesterday.

Reader, if you love your children, I charge you do not let the seed-time of a prayerful habit pass away unimproved. If you train your children to anything, train them at least to a habit of prayer. "Wheat or Chaff," by Rev. J. C. Rule.

DR. CHALMERS' OPINION OF BUTLER'S "ANALOGY."

IN the summer of the year 1833, the writer of this Memoir was honoured by a visit from the learned and excellent Dr. Chalmers. During a conversation with that distinguished Christian philosopher, upon the course of study pursued in the divinity school at Edinburgh, he remarked, "that he made a point of grounding his class in Butler's Analogy, as one of the most important works which could engage the attention of the theological student;" and he proceeded to speak of the author of that treatise in terms of the highest admiration. His eloquent ardour on the subject led to an allusion to some family relics of Butler, which were immediately inspected by him with lively interest. Among these, a Greek Testament, with manuscript notes by the Bishop, was put into his hands, and the divinity professor was requested to inscribe some original remark upon a blank page of the little volume. Dr. Chalmers received this request in a manner so strikingly indicative of the humility of a great mind, as to have left a strong impression upon those who witnessed the scene. He declared himself" unworthy to write in Butler's own Testament;" that "it was a task for which he felt himself incompetent ;" and that he "ought to

have a week to consider of some sentiment deserving to be recorded in such a

useless. Reader, beware of such books. They are not apostolical. They would never have satisfied Paul.

THE GREAT PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT.

THE three great Pyramids of Gizeh are the chief of an assemblage of sepulchral works, once the cemetery of the rich and noble Memphis. The far-famed seventy or eighty feet high, rising out group are based on a ledge of rock, of a swell in an arid waste, just where it sinks into the cultivated lands, and between five and six miles from the Nile. On leaving the village of Gizeh, on the river bank, opposite old Cairo, the pyramids rise before you, glittering white against the blue sky; but the flatness of the plain, and the purity of the atmosphere, deceive the eye as to their distance, and consequently their size. You appear alinost at their base while several miles really intervene. As you advance, they unfold their gigantic dimensions; but you must have been some time on the spot-your eye must have repeatedly travelled along the Great Pyramid, 740 feet of base, and up its steep towering angles-before you can fully understand its immensity, and the untold amount of labour involved in its erection. Thousands of enormous stones, cut in the quarry of the Mokattam hills, all accurately squared and adjusted, are here elevated hundreds of feet from the ground; and each was hoisted step by step up the sides, till it reached its bed. To raise a single block to the higher part of the building would be an arduous task, probably defying all the mechanics of modern Egypt. The dimensions of the Great Pyramid, built by Cheops (the Chufu of the monuments) are these:Original base.

Actual base

764 feet 746

611

Original inclined height Actual perpendicular height The original perpendicular height, therefore, supposing the pyramid to have been carried up nearly to a point, was about 480 feet, or 43 feet more than St. Peter's at Rome, and 110 more than St. Paul's in London. The area covered was about thirteen acres.

IS POPERY REVIVING?

TELL me not that this system of lies is reviving and confirming its grasp upon the minds of men. It may be doing so in reference to some of the infants of our species-infants in knowledge, not in age or simplicity-including in this category the ignorant and bewildered among the lower classes, and the proud, petted, fantastic, and affected fribbles who compose such a large portion of the upper ranks, and who are betaking themselves to Popery and Puseyism, from a spirit of spiritual epicurism; just as the ancient Roman nobles, in the decay and degeneracy of their country, began to eat the brains of peacocks and the tongues of nightingales, instead of the manly fare of their fathers; but the Men of this age-its more intelligent classes those who possess common sense, and who read their Bibles, are all ready to cry out-"Down with such a system of flimsy, transparent, egregious, and complicated falsehood! Let it no longer weave the spider-meshes of its sophistry between the eyes of millions and the clear shining of the Sun of Eternal Truth."

CHRISTIANITY AND POPERY.

THE one is a splendid sovereign from the mint of heaven-the other is a bad but burnished farthing from the mint of

hell.

SINGULAR BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPT.

on black

In the library of the late Dr. Williams, of London, there is a curious manuscript, Containing the whole book of Psalms, and all the New Testament, in fifteen volumes, folio. The whole is written in characters an inch long, with a white composition paper, manufactured on purpose. This perfectly unique copy was written in 1745, at the cost of Mr. Harris, a London tradesman, whose sight having decayed with age, so as to prevent his reading the Scriptures, though printed on the largest type, he incurred the expense of this transcription, that he might enjoy those sources of comfort which are "more to be desired than gold-yea, than much fine gold."

EDWARD IRVING'S LAST VISIT TO GLASGOW.

believed to be the voice of Jehovah, one Or his implicit obedience to what he led to his dying in Glasgow. His meof the most striking instances was what

dical advisers had recommended him to proceed before the end of autumn to Madeira, or some other spot where he might shun the vicissitudes and inclemency of a British winter. But some utterance in his church had proclaimed it to be the will of God that he should go to Scotland, and do a great work tour in Wales, by which his health apthere. Accordingly, after an equestrian peared at first to be improved, but the benefit of which he lost, throught exposure to the weather and occasional

of the oracular voices which found

preaching, contrary to the injunctions of his physician, he arrived at Liverpool on his way to the north. In that town unable for several days to quit his bed; he was taken alarmingly ill, and was but no sooner could he rise and walk

through the room, than he went, in defiance of the prohibition of his medical attendant, on board a steamboat for Greenock. From Greenock he proceeded to Glasgow, delighted at having reached the first destination that had been indicated to him. From Glasgow it was his purpose to proceed to Edinburgh; but this, I need not say, he never accomplished. So much, however, was his mind impressed with its being his duty to go there, that, even after he was unable to rise from his bed without assistance, he proposed that he should be carried thither in a litter, if the journey could not be accomplished in any other way; and it was only because the friends about him refused to comply with his urgent requests to that effect that the thing was not done. Could he have commanded the means himself, the attempt at least would have been made. Nor, though his frame of mind was that of almost continual converse with God,

do I think that he ever lost the confidence that, after being brought to the very brink of the grave, he was still to