120 CHILDREN'S BOOK FOR SABBATH H OURS.

 I am so glad you took that course to be a comfort to you, every day of her
to show me my naughty, selfish, ways. life."
I wonder what made me so blind to "Yes, darling, I know you do. May the
my faults before. Your Kitty means dear Lord help me do my duty by you."




 GOOD FOR EVIL. the other boy's way? or did he speak
 N Perthshire, England lived a bitter and sharp words which would
P1i 7 rN Perthshire, England, lived a .
 or little shepherd boy. e wound him? Ah, no; these would have
 poor little shepherd boy. He
 n op bt hd bn come from an evil heart; but, on again
 was an orphan, but had been .
 taught the meeting the boy, our little friend only
 taught the truths of our holy .
 Sh rts or hi said in sad tones, and in his own Scottish
religion by his parents before their speech, man, I wad'na hae done
 speech, Ah, man, I wad na hae done
death. At the farm where he worked in ,
 that to you.
herding sheep there was a narrow path that to you."
 Think how this soft answer" would
or ridge, which he had to pass over in disarm al unfrien feein
 z: disarm all unfriendly feeling !
attending to his duties. At a farm not .
attending o his du-ie. At a fm not This little shepherd boy was afterwards
far away, a herd-boy tried to annoy the good and wise Rev. John Brown, of
 the good and wise Kev. John Brown, of
little orphan child, and used to place
 So c Haddington. It was the fear of the Lord,
prickly briars and thorns so as to cover childs heart,
 early implanted in this child's heart,
the narrow path, before alluded to, that which enabled him thus, by the gentle
 which enabled him thus, by the gentle
the naked feet of the little shepherd
 answer, to turn away wrath, and was
would be torn by their spikes.
 would be ton by ther spes, the foundation of all the after-greatness
 Now, let us see what the boy did in which so marked that man of God.
 which so marked that man of God.
return. Did he try to place thorns in




 AN EVENING PRAYER. And when we again awake,
 Give us strength our cross to take,
 LORD, thine eye is closed never, And to order all our ways
 And to order all our ways
 When night casts o'er earth her hood, o n onr and Ty prais
 To Trine honor and Thy praise.
 Thou remainest wakeful ever,
 And art like the shepherd good, Or if Thou hast will'd that I
 Who, through every darksome hour, Must before the morning die,
 Tends his flock with watchful power. Into Thy hands to the end,
 Soul and body 1 commend.
 Grant, 0 Lord, that we, Thy sheep, Soul an body Amen.
 May this night in safety sleep;