A young lady was once admiring her curls before the looking-glass with a candle in her hand; she held the candle too close to her head and her hair caught fire, and was all burnt off her head, her face also was much burnt, and her life was in danger.

Turn away your eyes from beholding that which is evil, shameful and wicked. Do not go to see the idols of the Hindoos, they are not fit to be seen. Good children will not look at them. Biess God that you have eyes to see, that you may read his holy word. Many children are born blind; you ought to thank God even for one eye. 'How much more thankful then should you be that God has given you two eyes. Thank God, my dear boy, that you can see a little. Some men are born blind and remain so all their lives. If you can hear, thank God for it; some cannot hear. It is a sad thing to be deaf. Hear the voice of God in the Bible. Hear the voice of your teacher and treasure up his instructions in your minds. Hear the voice of your parents, and obey all their commands. Hear the voice of your friends, and attend to the advice they give. Keep your tongue from evil speaking,

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lying and slander, call no bad names.

Take

not the name of God in vain, swear not at all. Remember that for every idle word that you speak, you must give an account to God at the day of judgment. Pray to God, read his word, sing his praises. Remember you have two ears and one tongue, that you may hear much and speak little. The tongue is very unruly, therefore God has placed two guards before it, the lips and the teeth. See that your hearts are renewed by divine grace and made holy by God; without a holy heart you cannot go to heaven. Keep your hands from picking and stealing, from fighting and mischief. Let them be lifted up in prayer to God, let them relieve the wants of the poor. Adore the wisdom, goodness and power of God, in making you such a creature with a body and a soul. Remember that God made you thus, that you might "know him and serve him here on earth," and when you die, that you may dwell with him in heaven and be happy for ever. Amen.

A HYMN.

Adam and Eve.

THUS saith the Lord, "Let us make Man,"
Impress our likeness on his soul,
And his dominion shall be great,
All living things shall he controul.

His body from the dust was made,
And God the breath of life did give;
Then Man was holy, wise and good,
And did in Eden's garden live.

Then all the birds and all the beasts
At God's command to Adam came,
That he beholding all their forms,
To each might give a diff'rent name.

Not one among them all was found
That could his joys and pleasures share,
But while he slumber'd on the ground,
The Lord a helpmeet did prepare.

God, of a rib from Adam's side
A woman made, our mother Eve,
These were the parents of our race,
And thus mankind began to live.

R. M.

LECTURE

THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

GEN. 2. 15.-And the Lord God took the Man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it.

WE have in history many accounts given

us of the curiosities of Nature and Art. Children are fond of seeing curiosities and of reading wonderful stories, therefore I shall introduce this Lecture with a short account of the hanging gardens of Babylon. They were erected by Nebuchadnezzer, in order to gratify his Queen. They were built upon terraces one above another, till the height was equal to the walls of the City, These terraces were erected upon arches which were surrounded by a wall 22 feet in thickness. The floors of the terraces were laid with large flat stones, each 16 feet long and 4 broad, over this was a layer of reads, mixed with a large quantity of bitumen, a kind of pitch. Upon these there were two rows of bricks, closely cemented together with plaister (or chunam.) The whole was covered with thick sheets of

lead to keep the water from sinking through. Over all this the earth was laid, so deep as to give sufficient root to the largest fruit trees, with a large variety of plants and flowers, such as were proper for a garden of pleasure. In the upper terrace there was an engine or kind of pump, by which the whole garden was watered from the river. In the spaces between these large arches upon which the gardens were supported there were several, large light rooms, which had the advantage of a beautiful prospect. There were steps ten feet wide, by which they ascended from one garden to another. And as they were carried up aloft into the air, they appeared to the eye at a distance to be like gardens hanging in the air. These gardens were reckoned among the seven wonders of the world. I am now going to tell you of a still more won. derful and beautiful garden planted by God himself, in which Adam and Eve lived. It is sometimes called Paradise.

I. This GARDEN was planted by GOD himself" And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden." God did not build a palace for Adam and Eve, he planted a gar

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