You were resting on a false foundation; and had you died, that foundation would have given way, and you would have fallen through it into perdition." She was impressed and arrested, and begged the young minister to instruct her. He explained to her the way of salvation; and God blessed what he said to her conversion.

Having now obtained light in her own soul, she could not be at rest while her friends were still in darkness. "O that my father were here! I am sure he knows nothing of all this!" In two days she left the house where she was visitiug, and returned to her home. She soon found an opportunity of speaking to her father. He was surprised and alarmed, and gave her this decided answer: "I desire that you will never speak to me on this subject again. It has never before been brought into my family; and I beg I may never hear of it more." She spoke next to her mother, who also was surprised and distressed, and said, "I am your mother, I am not to be schooled by you. Let me hear no more of this." She then tried her brothers, and had to endure a long season of persecution; every one wondering what had happened to Betsy. But she gradually won them over by her sweet and amiable deportment. At length she obtained permission from her father to have family-worship; and twenty per sons assembled, night and morning, at that house, while she read the scriptures and prayed.

A minister in the neighbourhood had the happiness of admitting into his church nine ploughmen from the estate on which the farm stood; and they all dated their conversion to the efforts of the farmer's daughter.

The young minister mentioned in this anecdote went abroad as a missionary, and long acted a distinguished part, for Christian usefulness, on the continent of Europe. On his return to his country, he paid a visit to the farm. The father, who had now grown to be an old man of eighty, came out to meet him; and while his silver locks flowed down on his shoulders, he exclaimed, "Now, sir, we are a whole family going to heaven, through Christ. And dear Betsy has been the instrument of accomplishing it all."

FORGIVENESS.

ONE of the petitions in the Lord's Prayer is, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." We thus pray that God will exercise the same kind of forgiveness toward us, which we exercise toward others; consequently, if we are unforgiving or revengeful, we pray that God will treat us in the same way when we appear before him in judgment. Thus God teaches the necessity of cultivating a forbearing, and a forgiving spirit. We must do this or we cannot be Christians.

When I was a boy, there was another little boy who went to the same school with me, who had been religiously brought up, and taught to regulate his conduct by the pure principles of Christian duty. Some of the bad boys were in the habit of ridiculing him, and doing everything they could to tease him, because he would not join with them in mischief.

Near the school-house there was a small orchard, and the scholars would frequently go there, and gather apples, without the leave of the owner. One day a party of boys were going into the orchard, and one of them asked this pious boy to accompany them.

"Come, Henry," said one of them to him, "let us go and get some apples."

"The apples are not our's," he replied, “and I do not think it right to steal.”

"You are a coward, and afraid to go,” the other replied.

"I am afraid," said Henry, "to do wrong, and so ought you to be; but I am not afraid to do right."

The wicked boy was exceedingly irritated at at this rebuke; he called Henry all the ill names he could think of, and endeavoured to hold him up to the ridicule of the whole school.

Henry bore it very patiently, though it was hard to be endured; for the boy who ridiculed him, had much talent and influence.

Some days after this, the boys were going

out fishing. Henry had a beautiful fishing-rod, which his father had bought for him.

George (for by that name I shall call the boy who abused Henry) was desirous of borrowing this fishing-rod, and yet he was ashamed to ask for it. At last, however, he summoued courage, and called out to Henry upon the play-ground:

Henry, will you lend me your rod to go fishing?"

"Oh yes!" said Henry," if you will go home with me, I will get it for you now."

Poor George felt quite ashamed of himself for what he had done; but he went home with Henry to get the rod.

They went up into the barn together, and when Henry had taken his fishing tackle from the place in which he kept it, he said to George, "I have a new line in the house, which father bought for me the other day; you may have that too, if you want it." George could hardly hold up his head, he felt so ashamed. However, Henry went and got the new line, and placed it upon the rod, and gave them into George's hand.

A few days after this, George told me about it. "I never in my life felt so much ashamed," said he;" and one thing is certain, that I never can call Henry names again."

Now who does not admire the conduct of Henry in this affair? This forgiving spirit is

what God requires; the child who would be loved by God, must possess this spirit. You must always be ready to forgive; you must never indulge in the feelings of revenge; you must never desire to injure another, how much soever you may feel that others have injured you. The spirit of the Christian is a forgiving spirit.

BROTHERLY LOVE.

"LITTLE children, love each other,"
'Tis the blessed Saviour's rule;
Ev'ry little one is brother

To his play-fellows at school.

We're all children of one Father,
The great God who reigns above;
Shall we quarrel? No, much rather
Would we be like him, all love.

He has placed us here together,
That we may be good and kind;}
He is ever watching whether

We are one in heart and mind.

Who is stronger than the other?
Let him be the weak one's friend;
Who's more playthings than his brother?
He should like to give or lend.

All they have they share with others,
With kind looks and gentle words;
Thus they live like happy brothers,
And are known to be the Lord's.