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THE CHILDREN'S CORNER.

The Children's Corner.

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A DEAF AND DUMB Boy.-A few years ago, a minister paid a visit to a deaf and dumb asylum in London, for the express purpose of examining the children in the knowledge they possessed of divine truth. A little boy, on this occasion, was asked in writing, "Who made the world?" He took up the chalk, and wrote underneath the question, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The minister then inquired in a similar manner, Why did Jesus Christ come into the world?" A smile of delight and gratitude rested on the countenance of the little fellow, as he wrote, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." A third question was then proposed, eminently adapted to call his most powerful feelings into exercise; "Why were you born deaf and dumb, while I can hear and speak ?" "Never," said an eye witness, "shall I forget the look of holy resignation and chastened sorrow which sat on his countenance as he took up the chalk and wrote, ' Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight."

BLIND AND DUMB GIRL.-A poor girl, who for two years and a half was both blind and dumb, and could not be moved from her bed, had her eyesight restored; and one of the first things she did was to write a letter in bed to a young companion, exhorting her to fear God and love the Saviour, and expressing her gratitude to God for his mercies! What a blessing is real religion, which can thus comfort the heart and teach it to be thankful in the midst of poverty and severe afflic

tion!

ON A LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP.
WRITTEN BY HIS FATHER.

REST, my Arthur, where we've laid thee,
Thou wert ever kind and thoughtful,
In the cold dark grave so deep;

Though a little chimney sweep.
Oft for thee my heart has grieved,

Rising from thy early sleep,
To go with me ere morning dawned,
Up the sooty flues to creep.
But when six days work was ended,
We observ'd our constant rule,

All clean and sweet our children wended,

To the happy sabbath school. Near its walls his body resteth,

Mouldering lump of lifeless clay; Waiting the great trumpet's calling, To the awful judgment day.

Great our loss of thee, dear Arthur,

Yet we ought not to repine;
Thou art with thy Heavenly Father,
Endless happiness is thine.
Loughborough.

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TH

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ELIZA DICKINSON, of Lockington, was dreadfully afflicted for four years with Tic Doloreux. Many medical gentlemen were applied to without effect. After taking two boxes of Kaye's Worsdell's Pills, she began to obtain relief, and by perseverance in the use of them was completely cured.

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THE CHRISTIAN PIONEER.

WE are thankful that the appeals we have made to our friends have been regarded, and, in many instances, carried into operation. An active agent says―

"I hope the circulation of the "Pioneer" is rapidly increasing, as I am glad to be able to say it is with us. My monthly orders now amount to nearly 120 copies. It is a great favourite; and its extreme cheapness induces many to take it who otherwise could not. Between 30 and 40 copies monthly go to a village a few miles from here, which my brother, who has lately gone to reside there, circulates chiefly among Wesleyans." Another says

"I am constantly hearing many pleasing testimonies in favour of the "Pioneer." I sincerely hope it will prove useful as well as entertaining. I should think that in no county is it so widely diffused as in Suffolk, but I am not satisfied yet."

We again urge attention to the following considerations. When it was found that the greater part of the people would read, men, whose only object was to make money, soon set to work and printed books, pamphlets, tracts, magazines, and newspapers, of all kinds, at very low prices, to meet the demand." Some of these publications were bad, others were wicked, others were vile and infamous. Tales, novels, romances, plays, songs, ballads, and we know not what were published in millions. Can we wonder that some who could read became more vicious and wicked?

True, there were some publishers who issued useful worksKnight, and Parker, in London, and the Chambers', in Edinburghand in their way they did good, but they were not-they did not profess to be of a decidedly religious character. And nothing can effectually preserve men from vice and wickedness but real religion. Plenty of room then for such publications as this to be circulated in every cottage in the empire-so cheap that the poorest may buy -so amusing and instructive that all may be interested—so plain that all may understand-and with so much religion every month that no man can take up a copy without finding words by which, under the divine blessing, he may discover the path of life. Jesus Christ is set forth in every number as the way to God.

Spread it then, christian friends, spread it on every hand. Can you who are rich do anything much more likely to do good among the poor than by ordering 50 or 100 copies for gratuitous distribution amongst them every month? Many a poor pious man or woman, who perhaps could do nothing else, not being able to teach in the sabbath school, would delight to be thus employed as the almoner of your bounty. And even where this is not or cannot be done, our poor pious friends, who wish to do some good in their life-time, may do much in this way, by shewing it to their neighbours, and getting subscribers, for its very low price places it within their reach. A poor bed-ridden man at St. Alban's was the means of circulating many by always recommending it to all who came to see him!

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