the altar, but he could hoe corn that others might be led to Christ! Noble boy, I say!

EARLY RISING.

I would inscribe on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber-" If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing. If you do not set apart your hours of reading, if you suffer yourself, or any one else, to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands unprofitable and frivolous, and unenjoyed by yourself."-Lord Chatham.

WHO IS TO DO IT?

Some twenty years ago, there was a shop-boy in Dublin, known at first as Johnny Morgan, but afterwards called 'Perpetual Motion." He had learned the worth of his own soul, and so he had learned the worth of other souls. Every Sabbath morning therefore, he was to be seen running from door to door in Mountjoy-square, that he might collect the members of an adult Bible class. He never stopped till, like a shepherd's dog, he had found all his stray sheep, and brought them once more under the shepherd's watch and care.

What became of that boy? Did he cease at length to labour for the salvation of men? Having began to run, did he faint in the race? No. That same "Perpetual Motion" afterwards transfered him to a Missionary field. Its activity was first seen in the humbler efforts of a catechist. And when the Catechist had purchased "a good degree," it was exhibited in the labours of a successful missionary.

What was the secret of his usefulness? Just this, and nothing more. Whenever the question arose, in respect to any service which he could perform, "Who will do it?" he said, "I will do it." Reader! would you learn how you can do much for a lost world? Be always ready to say, when any service in your power is needed, "I will do it." Try what you can do in the way of Juvenile Missionary effort.

TAKING UP THE CROSS.

A good old lady who has lived past her threescore years and ten, said to me a few days since: "The reason why professing Christians cannot take up their daily cross is, because they do not deny themselves. If they would first deny themselves, then they would be ready to take up their every cross and perform every known duty. We must attend to all our duties in the order in which they are placed in the Bible. 'If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."" Luke ix. 23.

THE POPULATION OF CHINA.

We may with tolerable safety estimate the present population of the Chinese empire at between 350,000,000 and 400,000,000 of human beings. The constant flow of emigration from China, contrasted with the complete absence of immigration into China, is striking evidence of the redundancy of the population; for though that emigration is almost wholly confined to two provinces, namely, Kwantung and Fookien, representing together a popula tion of probably from 34,000,000 to 35,000,000, I am disposed to think that a number nearer 3,000,000 than 2,000,000 from these provinces alone are located in foreign countries. In the kingdom of Siam it is estimated that there are at least a million and a half of Chinese, of which 200,000 are in the capital (Bangkok). They crowd all the islands of the Indian Archipelago. In Java, we know by a correct census, there are 136,000. Cochin China teems with Chinese. In this colony we are seldom without one, two, or three vessels taking Chinese emigrants to California and other places. Multitudes go to Australia, to the Phillipines, to the Sandwich Islands, to the western coast of Central and Southern America; some have made their way to British India. The emigration to the British West Indies has been considerable-to the Havana greater still. The annual arrivals in Singapore are estimated at an average of 10,000, and 2,000 is the number that are said

annually to return to China. As bearing on the great subject of Missions, these are momentous statements. One-third of the human race without God, and having no hope in the world!

PROTESTANTISM IN THE WORLD IN 1855.

THE DEAD FAITH WHICH DOES NOT SAVE THE SOUL.

This faith was possessed,

1. By many ancient Israelites. They believed his words, but soon forgot his works. Psa. cvi. 12, 13.

2. By Simon the sorcerer. He believed and was baptized; yet was in the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity, having neither part nor lot in the matter of true faith and salvation. Acts viii. 13-21.

3. By King Agrippa. He believed in the prophets, God, the law, and the promise of a Saviour; yet was only almost persuaded to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 27, 28.

4. By many apostates, who made shipwreck of faith, fell away, and perished. 1 Tim. i. 19.

5. By devils also. They believe and tremble; and acknowledge Jesus to be the Saviour, the Holy One of God. Jas. ii. 19; Luke iv. 34.

6. This faith is possessed by millions in our own enlightened day and land. They believe in God, the Bible, and the Gospel; yet neglect salvation and live in sin. Their belief is only "the dead faith which does not save the soul."

STREET EDUCATION.

The City Missionary visited an unhappy young man in jail, waiting his trial for a State prison crime. "Sir," said the prisoner, tears running down his cheeks, "I had a good home education; it was my street education that ruined me. I used to slip out of the house and go off with boys in the street. In the street I learned to lounge; in the street I learned to swear; in the street I learned to smoke; in the street I learned to gamble; in the street I learned to pilfer. O, sir, it is in the street the devil lurks, to work the ruin of the young." Is this so? Beware then, boys, of a street education, and stay at home. And let parents see to it, that home training is pleasant, and strong, and sound enough to grapple with and conquer the bad and dangerous influence of street society.

THE TRUE CHRISTIAN.

The following are some of the mysteries of true Christian life:

1. The Christian liveth in another; he is wise in another; he is righteous, by faith, in another; he is strong in another. 2. He is very low in humility, but very high in hopes. He knows he is undeserving the least mercy, and yet he expects the greatest.

3. He is in the world, but not of the world-in the world as a pilgrim, but not as a citizen. His habitation is below, but his conversation above.

4. He will comply with anything that is civil, but with nothing that is sinful. He will stoop to the necessities of the meanest, but will not yield to the sinful humours of the greatest.

5. He works out his salvation with fear and trembling. He works as if he were to live here always, yet worships as if he were to die to-morrow.

6. When he is weak, then he is strong. When he is most sensible of his own weakness, and most dependent on Christ's strength, then he stands the safest.

7. When he is most vile in his own eyes, he is most glorious in the eyes of God. When Job abhorred himself, then God raised him. When the centurion thought himself the most unworthy, Christ said to him, "I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."

8.

He is content in this world, yet longs and prays for a better.

TOO TRUE.

The less you leave your children when you die, the more they will have twenty years afterwards. Wealth inherited should be the incentive to exertion-instead of that, 'it is the title-deed to sloth.' The only money that does a man good is what he earns himself. A ready-made fortune is like ready-made clothes, seldom fits the man who comes into possession. Ambition, stimulated by hope and a half filled pocket-book, has a power that will triumph over all difficulties, beginning with the rich man's contumely, and leaving off with the envious man's malice.

THOUGHTS OF MATTHEW HENRY.

Those lives that are entirely devoted to God's praise are assuredly taken under his protection.

All our sufficiency for our spiritual work and welfare is from the grace of God; and if all be from him, let all be to him. Did we not often pray for mercy when we were in pursuit of it? and shall we think it will suffice once or twice to give thanks when we have obtained it?

Who would wish to live a day longer than God has some work to do, either by him or upon him?

If we would have God hear what we say to him by prayer, we must be ready to hear what he says to us by his word. With respect to those that think God their chief joy, as