6th. Here you meet the best of company. In these walks you meet with saints, the children of the King. Here you meet with Jesus, the King himself. What an honour, to walk with Christ the King!

7th. Here, there is the sweetest music. How joyfully holy children sing to the honour of Jesus in these walks. Come, come to join their company, and

sing:

"Jesus is worthy to receive

Honour and power divine,

And blessings more than we can give,
Be, Lord, for ever thine."-Amen.

A. F.

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STAG OR DEER.

THE Hebrew name given to this noble animal in the Old Testament, is, 5, AIL, and it signifies protection, and also, a horned animal. Deer, in the science of Zoology, belong to the genus or order called pecora; a Latin word which signifies cattle. Their horns are branchy and peculiarly becoming. They are at first soft, and covered with downy hair. Afterwards, they become smooth and hard. They fall off yearly, and are yearly renewed. Horns belong only to the males. These comely creatures live to a great age, are timorous, and swift. In their rapid course, they seem as if they were flying on the wings of the wind.

The following are some of the kinds of this numerous family of God's creatures, namely, the Hart, the Roebuck, the Rein-deer, the Elk, the Goat-deer, the Horsedeer, the Camelopardalis, or Giraffe, &c. The Reindeer is an inhabitant of Lapland, and other northern countries of Europe. It is to the Laplanders invaluable. It supplies for them the place of a horse, a cow, a goat, and a sheep.

The Fallow deer is the species mentioned by Moses, in Deut. xxiv. 5: "Ye shall eat the fallow-deer." It is a native of Greece, the Holy Land, and China. They are found in great abundance in the parks and domains of the rich landed proprietors of England and Scotland. Vast flocks of Red-deer, of the size of considerably grown heifers, adorn the splendid mountainous forests of the Scottish Highlands.

Jesus, on account of his loveliness and love, and his speed in coming to deliver and save us, is compared to the Roe, the Hart, and the Hind. Song ii. 17: "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved; and be thou like a roe, or a young hart, upon the mountains of Bether." Chap. viii. 14: "Make

young

haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a
hart upon
the mountains of spices."
My young friends, may your youthful bosoms glow
with love to Jesus! May you admire his loveliness,
and may you long after his fellowship! I pray God that
you may be enabled to say with the heart:

"Till thou hast brought me to thy home,
Where fears and doubts can never come,
Thy count'nance let me often see,
And often thou shalt hear from me.

Come, my beloved, haste away,
Cut short the hours of thy delay,
Fly like a youthful hart, or roe,

Over the hills were spices grow."

Saints are compared to Deer panting for water-brooks, to show the earnestness of their desires after Christ, and holiness, and heaven. May we feel these desires! "Lord, grant we may !" And may the following lines be the language of our hearts:

"With earnest longings of the mind,

My God, to thee I look ;

So pants the hunted hart to find
And taste the cooling brook."

A. F.

VERBAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

SIN.

"Stand in awe, and sin not."

My dear young friends, you may have heard of a good little girl, who as she lay on her death-bed asked her thoughtless father if he could spell the word, Repentance! This caused the father to think of the word, after the death of the dear child, and by the blessing of God, he was led to understand its meaning, and to bring forth fruit worthy of repentance.

We ask you not to spell the little word Sin, but we ask one and all of you, Do you understand what it

meaneth? We will tell you. It means something that hurts; because of all things sin is the most hurtful. There are many things which will hurt the body, and many things which will hurt the mind, but sin hurts both body and soul; it hurts them in time, and unless removed and destroyed by Him who came to save his people from their sins, will destroy both soul and body, in hell fire, for ever and ever.

"Sin," say the Rabbins, very strikingly, "comes to us first as a traveller; if admitted, it will soon become a guest, impatient to reside; and if allowed so far will soon and finally become master of the house!"

It may be said of sin, as of the beginning of strife, it is " as the letting out of water; therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with." Sin is strife with God; it is contention with our Maker; and the Bible says, "Woe to the man that striveth with his Maker." Strive, then, against sin, and pray to God that you may be enabled to stop it at the very beginning; admit it not into your hearts; give no encouragement to it there, lest it get the mastery over you, and lead you captive at its will.

Stand in awe, and fear little sins. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Behold how great a matter a small spark kindleth." If the serpent get in his head, he will drag in his whole body after it. "A scorpion is little, yet is able," says an old author, "to sting a LION to death." A small wound or a little sickness may carry you to the grave; and little sins (as many call them), without the great mercy of God, will ruin your souls for ever.

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Stand in awe, and beware of single sins. Remember, one sin ruined Adam in Paradise, and Adam's one sin spread over all mankind. It became a spreading leprosy." By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Sin is a plague, one touch of which ruined the whole world, and yet how few

there are who stand in awe and sin not. You would hesitate, I am sure, to eat the smallest morsel of poison, lest you should endanger your body; fear, then, to commit the smallest sin, for you thereby endanger your precious soul.

Stand in awe of the power of Sin. Sin is "the strong man armed, that keepeth the house." What Solomon says of the wicked woman, may truly be said of sin." She hath cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her." "Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chamber of death." David, the best of kings, was overcome by sin, which caused God to break his bones, and to turn his day into night, and to leave his soul in great darkness. Samson, the strongest among men, was too weak to grapple with this enemy; he was cast down, and made to grind in the prison house, with his eyes put out. Sin caused Moses, the meekest of men, to give way to unseemly anger, which so offended God, that he was not permitted to enter into the Holy Land.

Job, so remarkable for patience in suffering and afflictions, under the influence of sin cursed the day of his death, and wished that he had never been born. The wisest men are not secure from its influence. Solomon himself, through the deceitfulness of sin, was led away after strange gods. These are given us for ensamples; "Let us not be high-minded, but fear. Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall."

Think of the wages of sin. "The wages of sin is death," eternal death,-of all sins, whether you account them great or small. Think how a holy God hates sin. He calls it "that abominable thing which I hate." Oh, my young friends, hate what God hates, and love what God loves! His hatred to sin caused him to give up his beloved Son to this death for us all. Sin is of the devil; it is the devil's work: and all those who love and practice sin " are of their father the devil," for his works they do.

The Rabbins, to deter their scholars from sin, were