now disjoined from his estates, is called the farm of 'Lord's cairn' to this day, and will never be named without remembering the cause; nor shall I ever forget the lesson he taught me, NEVER TO WASTE BREAD." Chambers.

A MOTHER'S LOVE.

"Happy is he who knows a mother's love."

What is so pure? The patriot expects fame, the friend sympathy, and the lover happiness. Even religion, while she waters her faith with tears, looks forward to the fruit of her penitence. But maternal affection springs from the breast, uncalled-for by the touch of interest. Its objects are the weak and the helpless. It is around the cradle of infantile pain, and hovers near the couch of the faint and forsaken. Its sweetest smiles break through the clouds of misfortune, and its gentlest tones arise amid the sighs of suffering and of sorrow. It is a limpid and lovely flow of pure feeling, which gushes from the fountain head of affection, and courses the heart, unmingled and unsullied by selfish designs and sordid passions.

What is so firm? Time and misfortune, penury and persecution, hatred and infamy, may roll their dark waves successively over its object, and still it smiles on it unchanged;

or the more potent allurements of fortune, pride, and power, may woo her-and yet she is unmoved! Mother "loves, and loves for ever."

What is so faithful? From infancy to age, "through good report and through evil report," the dews of maternal affection are shed upon the soul. When heart-stricken and abandoned, when branded by shame, followed by scorn, her arms are still open; her breast still kind. Should all the world forsake her child, she will be more than all the world to it. Through every trial that love will follow, cheer in misfortune, support in disease, smooth the pillow of pain, and soften the bed of death.

"Happy is he who knows a mother's love."

TYRANNY.

No! do not hurt a little boy,

Because he's less than you;

If stronger, then your strength employ,
Some benefit to do.

Be his protector and his friend,
To help him in distress;
Teach him what's faulty to amend ;-
Such efforts God will bless.

But never make it sport to tease,
Or set two lads to fight;

For Providence such acts as these,
Will in some way requite.

THE FATHER OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS.

You will be much pleased with reading the life of this pious Patriarch. He was the son of Isaac, and the grandson of Abraham; and of these three Patriarchs you often read in the Bible,-Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They were beloved of God, and they were the great fathers of the Jewish people. Jacob was born in the year of the world, 2168. He was a plain, pious man, and lived in tents in the fields, being fond of taking care of sheep. Esau, his brother, was older than he, but one day coming home from hunting very hungry, he

sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Some time after this, Jacob, advised by his mother, deceived his father, Isaac, and obtained the blessing. This was very wrong; and Esau, when he came home and found what had been done, was very angry. On this account, Jacob was obliged to leave his father's house, and fly to Haran, 400 miles off. On his way he slept one night in the open-air, upon a stone, and he dreamed that he saw a ladder reaching to heaven, and on it angels ascending and descending; and when he awoke he called the place Bethel, or the house of God. And the Lord promised to be with him and bless him. When he came to Haran, he met with Rachel, his cousin, at a well, and she went and told her father, Laban, who was glad to see Jacob. And Jacob lived many years in that country. At length, at the command of God, he left that place to return to Canaan. Now the Lord had blessed Jacob, and he had men servants, and women servants, and many flocks and herds, and much riches, and a large family of children. He went out alone, but he came back with many. On his way he was met by angels, who assured him of the favour and protection of God. And he had need of this, for he was afraid of his brother Esau, who lived in

Mount Seir. Jacob, however, made ready to meet him, and then went away to pray to the Lord for help; and behold a man came and wrestled with him all night, and Jacob prevailed with the stranger; but lo! the stranger touched Jacob's thigh, and the sinew shrank; then Jacob knew he was an angel. So Jacob entreated his blessing. And the name of Jacob was changed to Israel, or a mighty Prince, or a Prince with God, for, said the angel, "As a Prince thou hast power with God and with men, and thou shalt prevail."

The next day the two brothers met; but the Lord had softened the heart of Esau, for when Jacob met him he bowed himself seven times towards the earth before Esau, and Esau fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept together.

Jacob now went on in peace to Canaan, and he dwelt at Succoth; but here he had much trouble on account of his daughter Dinah, and the cruel and wicked conduct of his sons, who were not good men. He removed to Bethel, where he slept on his way to Haran, and there the Lord met him again and blessed him.

About this time, his beloved wife Rachel died, just after the birth of her last child. She called the child Benoni, or the son of my