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that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

GOD IS EVERY WHERE.

1. A CHILD, Six years of age, was asked by a dignified clergyman, "Where God was?" with the offer of an orange.

2. "Tell me," replied the boy, "where he is not, and I will give you two."

3. Recollect, my dear boys, that God is every where present; he sees you by night as well as by day; therefore let all your actions show that you think of the words of the Bible, "Thou, God, seest me."

4. Children are too apt to think if they can hide their sins from their friends, all will be well; but God sees and notices our conduct.

PLAYING TRUANT.

1. As a boy was going to his Sabbath School, he saw three of his companions, who endeavoured to persuade him to play the truant; but he resolutely resisted the temptation, and went to school.

2. When the circumstance came to be known by his teachers, and the boy was asked why he did not comply with the urgent entreaties of his companions, he answered, "Because I have read

in my Bible, 'My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.'

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3. Let every boy think of this story, when he is tempted to do any thing which he knows to be wrong; and like the Sabbath scholar, recollect the precepts of the word of God.

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SABBATH SCHOLARS DO NOT SWEAR.

1. ONE of the teachers, coming home from work one day, overtook a boy whom he knew to be very wicked, and particularly addicted to swearing; but he did not know that he had gone to a Sabbath School lately.

2. The teacher asked him if he ever swore any now? He answered, "No." "What is the reason you have left off?" "Because I go to a Sabbath School."

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1. THE Camel is one of the largest quadrupeds, being sometimes six or seven feet from the ground, and weighing three or four hundred pounds.

2. There are several species of these animals, and one principal characteristic of them all, is the prominence on the animal's back.

3. The Camel is a domestic animal, and very serviceable to man. Its native abode is in warm climates. Its motion is naturally slow; and when hastened, the rider experiences a severe jolting.

4. It is docile, patient of labour, and capable of abstinence in a remarkable degree. We are told it may be deprived of water for eight or ten successive days uninjured. And it feeds on the stunted shrubs and withered herbage of the desert.

5. The young ones are brought up in a system of privation. It will kneel at the command of its master, and submit to carry enormous burdens, during long journeys, in desert countries.

6. Its flesh is agreeable food; the milk is salutary and restorative; and from the hair which it casts annually, is manufactured various articles of clothing.

7. The camel lives between forty and fifty years; and few animals àre of use to so large a portion of mankind.

LESSON LIX.

THE DENIALS OF HIM WHO WOULD NOT DENY HIMSELF.

1. In a dirty ruinous looking house, that stood in one of the back streets of a smoky town, there lived an elderly man of the name of Smith.

2. Very few people knew, and fewer cared any thing about him; yet it was impossible to pass his abode without noticing the broken window panes, mended with paper, or stuffed with rags; the wretched door-yard, overgrown with nettles, and bestrewed* with fragments of earthen ware; the appearance of the whole bespeaking the sloth and misery of the owner.

3. Smith himself was not often visible, but occasionally he might be seen on a sunshiny morning, leaning, with his arms folded, over the fence of his yard, basking in the heat like his old black dog.

4. And sometimes on a dark evening, his long, lean, shabby figure might be discerned at the fire place, hovering over a handful of fire.

5. It is true, that there are in every town individuals equally wretched and comfortless; and it is also true, that in most, if not in every instance of the kind, there is more of fault than of misfortune.

6. But, in the case of Smith, it is worthy of record, that he was a man remarkable for his relish for the good and agreeable things of life.

7. Though he was wretched, he had certainly no taste for wretchedness; though he was destitute of pleasure, pleasure was the thing he most desired.

8. From his early childhood, his love of gratification was so great, that whenever an oppor

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