to subscribe to send Bibles to the poor. She said she could not afford a guinea a year, but she would give one shilling a week! Why, this was above two guineas a year. That, you see, is the use of cards. There are many who cannot afford to give a guinea at once, but who might give more in small sums; and some who cannot collect it at once, might collect it by asking often. And who can tell but that the children in the Sabbath-schools on the south side of the Thames may build the first school in Africa. We should call it the Southwark Sabbath-school, built by Sunday-school scholars; and it would be a glorious result. Go and try; and with the blessing of God you will succeed.

The Rev JOSHUA RUSSELL, said-We all feel pleasure to-night, and our hearts have been raised to God, that he would bless you and make you his children, that you may love the Lord Jesus Christ in this world, and that when you die you may go to heaven, and meet there children from all parts of the world. What a blessed thing it would be for you to stand by the throne of Jesus Christ, and hear some little black boy say, "I read in a Bible that you sent out to me about the way of salvation." How you would rejoice together. Perhaps this may be the case; and therefore let every one try to do something to send the Bible and ministers of the gospel to the distant parts of the world. Two little children were lately lost in the woods in America,

and they were found locked in each others arms quite dead. Now, if any of you were to be lost in a wild place, and you were to part to find the way, and one should find it, what should you think of that child if he went on without mentioning his companions? You would say that he could not be so cruel as to do that. But you will be as bad if you do not tell your fellow creatures about the Lord Jesus Christ. As sinners we have all lost our way, and God has sent his Son to seek us, and to point out the right way; your teachers show it to you, and it would be wrong if you did not try to shew it to others. You will never be so unkind as that. If you were to see a boy perishing for hunger and you had got some food yourself, would you not give him part of yours? Here are these

black boys and girls who are in a state worse than starving. They have no Bible; they know nothing about God-about Jesus Christ, and about heaven. It is the starvation of the soul under which they are suffering. You have got the Bible, and that is food for the soul. We hope that you will try to-night what you can do to help to send it. Last week we had a meeting in the country, and a little boy who had some money gave a shilling. But when he thought about it, he told his father he should like to give two more. We wish you children to be thoughtful, and do what you can; and we want you to give yourselves to Christ. It would be inconsistent

if you were to send the gospel to the distant parts of the world and did not receive it yourselves. Let it be your prayer to God that you may be his children. Go home with this prayer in your hearts.

Mr. ALEXANDER FULLER, a man of colour, from Jamaica, who is going as a missionary to Africa, said, he had been a Sabbath-scholar. There were thousands of black children in the Sabbath-schools in Jamaica, who were very thankful that the English people had sent them Bibles and Missionaries. Many of them are serious, and are coming forward, and joining the church. One minister told them of sending preachers to Africa, and the girls got a box made, and each of them brought her two-pence halfpenny-the smallest coin. You English children should be thankful that you have been so long taught, and I hope you will do all you can. When I look at the gods which the heathen worship it distresses my mind. I am glad to devote myself to teaching poor African children the way to heaven; and i pray that the heathen may soon hear the gospel, turn unto the Lord, and serve him with all their hearts.

The CHAIRMAN having exhorted the children to remember what they had heard that night, they sang the Doxology, and the meeting separated.

A SABBATH SCHOLAR DROWNED. MR. RUSSELL, at a meeting of Sabbath-school children and their teachers, related the following affecting accident:

There was a girl in one of our Sabbath-schools, about thirteen years old, and one day she went to the river side to play. She slipped in and was drowned. We felt anxious to know whether she had been thinking about her soul. I asked her teacher what sort of a child she was, and she replied, "one of the best girls in her class-always regular at school, always attentive to her lessons and to what was said to her." So far I was pleased. I then went to her mother, and said that we were very sorry that she should lose her daughter in

that manner, and asked how she behaved at home. Her mother began to weep, and as she wept she said, "I hope that the child was thoughtful, and was prepared to die; she loved the Bible; she loved the Sabbath-school, and I hope she loved the Lord Jesus Christ. I went unexpectedly to her bed-room on the Sunday morning before she died, and I found her with her brothers and sisters around her, hearing them repeat the lesson that they were to say at the Sunday-school, and trying to explain it to them."

This was pleasing, but it was a sad accident, and no doubt that, not only the mother and father of the dear girl, but also her little brothers and sisters would be much distressed; and yet their distress would have been far greater, if it had not been relieved by the pleasing hope they had of her piety and salvation.

So soon and sudden, little reader, you may be removed. Should you be as safe?

A YOUNG DISCIPLE.

MARY ANN BELSEY had been, for a considerable time, a scholar in the Great Suffolk Street Sabbath-school; and from the first appeared steady and active. At the commencement of the year 1841, while her teacher was speaking to the class on the uncertainty of life, she became seriously impressed, and for sometime after, was anxiously inquiring what she