put directly into its mouth by the nurse bees, very much as the old birds feed the young. This is done for five or six days. They then make a covering for each cell, and seal it over. This lid or covering is very different from that which the bees place over the honey-cells. The honey-lid is of the purest wax; but the lid which closes the cells containing the young is made of wax and pollen, mingled together, and dark in colour. It is not flat, like the first, but its shape is peculiar, resembling that of a saucer turned over, and thus, being raised in the centre, raore space is given to the young creature within to move and breathe. As soon as the little worm is sealed up, it begins to wrap round itself a cocoon or silken shroud, much like that of the silkworm. This expands, fills the cell, and makes it smooth and soft While hidden in this covering it is called a chrysalis; and this is the second change through which it passes. Here the little creature rests, seeming to have no life or powers of any kind, until the appointed time for it to break from the confinement of its shroud and of its cell, and to come forth, entering, as it were, upon a new life. It is now a perfect bee; and, from its place of rest, as a poor, lowly worm, it sails into the air, and enters upon new scenes and new employments.

The singular change through which each little bee passes-the worm wrapped in its shroud, shut up from the air and light, in a torpid, death-like state; then bursting its enclosure, and rising upward, on its light wings, a new and beautiful creature-these things, so remarkable, bring to our minds thoughts of

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great interest to ourselves. We must each lie down in the lonely grave, our bodies must crumble into dust, and we be forgotten. is this the end of our being? Oh, no: the day will come when all the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of man, and shall come forth! The earth and the sea shall give up their dead! Then death shall be swallowed up of life. The children of God shall be clothed in the beautiful and spotless robe of Christ's righteousness, and the day of their happiness and glory shall begin.

The stars shall dim their brightness;

And, as a parched scroll,

The earth shall fade-yet still shall live
The undying human soul!

A MOTHER'S BEST GIFT.

WHY is it, that, when a boy or a young man leaves home, a pious mother is always so careful to put a Bible in his trunk? Because she knows the Bible can do more for him than all other books. The feeling which prompts a mother to do this has been prettily expressed by the American poet Kennedy in the following words. This is the mother's message to her absent son, when he opens his trunk aud finds the precious book she has placed there.

Remember, love, who gave thee this,
When other days shall come:
When she who had thy earliest kiss,
Sleeps in her narrow home.
Remember 'twas a mother gave

The gift to one she'd die to save.

That mother sought a pledge of love

The holiest for her son;

And from the gifts of God abovo

She chose a goodly one;

She chose for her beloved boy,

The source of light, and life, and joy:

And bade him keep the gift, that, when
The parting hour should come,
They might have hope to meet again
In an eternal home;

She said, his faith in that would be
Sweet incense to her memory.

And should the scoffer, in his pride,
Laugh that fond faith to scorn,
And bid him cast the pledge aside
That he from youth had borne,
She bade him pause and ask his breast,
If he, or she, had loved him best?

A parent's blessing on her son
Goes with this holy thing;
The love that would retain the one
Must to the other cling.
Remember! 'tis no idle toy,

A MOTHER'S GIFT-Remember, boy!

And what wonders have sometimes been done by these "Mothers' Bibles!" We have seen one of them that has done wonders. It is a little pocket Bible, printed nearly a hundred years ago, which was discovered by a sailor after the mutiny on board the ship Bounty; and, after the mutineers had landed on Pitcairn's Island, and all but two of them had been killed in their quarrels, these two began

to read the "mother's best gift." They were led to repentance by it, and afterwards instructed the children and natives on the island in the Christian religion. Learn, then, while at home, to read and love this blessed Book; and then, when you leave the spot rendered sacred by early ties, you will never forget "A mother's best gift," THE BIBLE.

"Do you know, uncle, that papa has promised to take me to-morrow to see the Great Globe in Leicester Square ?"

"I am glad to hear it, Peter; you will, no doubt, enjoy your visit."

"Yes; that I am sure I shall, uncle. The globes we have at home are only a foot and a half across; but the Great Globe in Leicester

Square is a great deal bigger than the house. Only think of standing in the middle of it, and looking at all the countries of the world at

once.

"Perhaps, Peter, I might prevent you from being somewhat disappointed in your visit, if I were to describe the Great Globe to you, for I rather think your notions of it are not quite correct."

"Please do, uncle; and then I shall enjoy going with papa more than ever."

"The other day I was in the Great Globe, conversing for half an hour with Mr. Wyld, She owner of it. He is, as I dare say you have heard, geographer to the queen. His mind has been occupied for many years on this model of the earth, bringing it to its present state." "He must be a clever man indeed; and I hope to see his Great Globe to-morrow.'

The Great Globe is in a large handsome building in the centre of Leicester Square. On entering the building, the ground floor is elegantly filled with maps and globes, some of them very large and costly. Here books and maps of various kinds are sold, and there are commodious seats for such as may be disposed to use them. There is also a waiting room for servants and others."

"I shall make the best of my way to the inside of the Great Globe, and not stay a moment in the waiting room.'

"The different countries of the earth being set forth on the Great Globe on a larger scale than ordinary, are of course much plainer seen, and much easier understood, than they otherwise would be."