began to reflect, and read her Bible, and pray with her heart, and the result was that she followed her family in embracing the truth as it is in Jesus, and became, if anything, more zealous and devoted than any of them; and now the youthful Victoire, only seventeen years of age, is in prison too! But she rejoices and wonders that she is counted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake. Her joy and delight in thus being made in some degree like her Saviour, are something quite remarkable. But while we feel for those who suffer, do you not see what great good will come from all this? Are not our enemies thus showing all Italy what Popery really is, and what Protestantism is.

God will take care of his captives; they shall not suffer any loss; while thousands will wax bold by their bonds; and thus the cause of Christ will be advanced, and not thwarted.

Oh, that the time may soon come when the enemies of the Lord shall cease to triumph! I see many signs of great changes for good. While I am writing I hear of three priests in this town, who have just made public their intention of having done with Popery for ever; and I know of other priests who look with approval on our efforts to spread the Bible and promote the Gospel in other ways.

ITALY, March.

From His high throne, above the sky,
The Lord can all things see.
I cannot see Him, but His eye
Looks kindly down on me.

He cared for me before I knew
That I had such a Friend;
When my first feeble breath I drew,
He did my life defend.

And while I was a baby weak,

He taught my thoughts to rise; And long before I learn'd to speak, He heard my infant cries.

He keeps me still, by His great power,
From danger night and day;
I could not live one single hour
If He were far away.

But He is ever near and kind,

And loves to hear my prayer.

May I His tender mercy find,
And trust His love and care!

TEXTS TO FIND AND QUESTIONS TO

1st Week

2nd Week

3rd Week

4th Week

5th Week

ANSWER.

35. "Whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved."
36. How was it that dew once made a
good man to trust in God?
37. "I came, not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance."
38. How many of the Jewish rulers and
counsellors were friends of Jesus?
39. "Our God, whom we serve, is able to
deliver us."

40. What does St. Paul say we should do
with the sin that does most easily
beset us?"

41. "The Lord is on my side; I will not fear."

42. What king tried to escape in battle by disguising himself, but killed by a chance arrow?

43. "Thy hands have made me."

44. Who was hanged himself upon the same gallows that he had made for another?

ANSWERS TO TEXTS AND QUESTIONS FOR LAST MONTH.

(27.) Isa. xl. 18.

(28.) 2 Sam. xvii. 27. (29.) Hos.

xiii. 9. (30.) 2 Chron. xxvi. 19. (31.) Luke x. 20. (32.) Jer. xxvi. 8. (33.) Acts xxii. 10. (34.) Luke

viii. 43, 44.

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ONE autumn night, a year or two ago, I was walking to my home, after spending the evening with a friend. My path lay along the top of a high cliff, overhanging the sea,

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which murmured far below. The sky was clear, but it was very dark. There was no light but what the stars gave, and that was very little, and only just enabled me to see my path. I was walking quietly on, when all of a sudden I was startled by a bright and sudden light. It was so bright, that I thought the moon must have suddenly risen. I looked for the moon, but there was none to be seen. And by the time I had passed my eye back again, the light was gone, and I only just caught sight of a large looking kind of star, with a long tail, moving far away in the distant sky, until it appeared to drop into the water.

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Presently I heard a gruff voice cry out near me, "Who goes there?"-it was coast-guard, taking his solitary night's walk along the cliff. I answered, "A friend ;did you see that strange sight a minute ago?"-"Yes," he said; "I never saw the like of that before."

So he and I walked on together, and talked about this wonderful light. He did not know much about it; and I could not tell him much more than he knew. These meteors, as they are called, are strange things. What they are, what they are doing, and where they come from, and are going to, nobody seems to know. Sometimes they appear, as I saw, in the form of a powerful light, and then stream away along the dark sky. Sometimes hundreds of them may be seen, moving quickly about in the sky above.

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