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into bad company without being injured, as it would be to be exposed to the small-pox without danger. The Bible compares such company to pitch. It will stick. There are boys in almost every street with whom no good, pure boy ought ever to associate. They are teachers of iniquity. You already know their names and faces. "But what shall

I do?" say you. What would you do if you saw a mad dog in the streets? Would you go and play with him, or keep as far from him as possible? What would you do if you saw a furious ox making towards you? Run from him, would you not? But what if you are one of these wicked corrupting boysthen what? Then be ashamed of yourself. Feel what a vile fellow you are when every mother and sister in the street shudders at your name, and dreads you as she would a plague. Humble yourself before God, and ask Him to make you a better boy, and not let you become a curse to yourself and a curse to all around you.

Seventh mistake: that it depends on others, and not on yourself, what your character will be.

Boys are very apt to think that if they only had rich parents, great advantages, and distinguished friends to help them, they should do well-should study and learn, be industrious, and become valuable men; whereas it depends mainly on the boy himself what he is, and what he shall become. Almost every boy may have any character he pleases. He may make a merchant, a physician, a lawyer, or a minister of the gospel, if he chooses. And there is no boy whom all the money and all the friends in the world can help, if he is not true to himself. Not all the lifting in the world can help a boy to climb a tree, if he will not take hold and pull himself up. You must wash your own face if it is kept clean. It depends much on yourself what you shall be in this life and the next.

Eighth mistake: that religion was not made for boys.

This is the greatest mistake any boy ever made. He may think that religion

is suitable for his mother, and perhaps his older sister; but for a boy-one who feels so lively, and is so unlikely to die, who is so manly and so wise--what can he want of religion? I will tell you, the oldest man you know will tell you, that it took all the experience of his life to make him humble; the wisest man you know will tell you that he is very far from being wise; and the holiest man will tell you that he feels anything but holy; and they all tell you that you are a child, and need some one to guide you; that you have strong passions, and need some one to calm you. You have no experience, and are liable to make a thousand mistakes; you have a wicked heart, and need some one to make you good. You want to live, and who but God can keep you alive? You want health, and who but the great Physician can keep you well? You want to grow up a man of whom your parents will be proud, whom all will respect, whose influence shall be great and good; you want to be useful in this world, and you want to be happy for ever. Can you take one sure step towards either of these points without religion?

Let a boy make up his mind to begin life without God, and very likely God will let him have his chosen way. There is no class in the whole community who would be so much aided by religion as boys; none upon whom it rests more beautifully, and none whom it can fit for so much usefulness. I would rather a boy would be a child of God than the son of a king. The moment you join yourself to God, your whole nature is ennobled ; your powers have new strength, and your heart new and glorious aims. The boy who reads these lines to-day may hereafter be a noble man, in some profession, in some station in which he can be a great blessing while he lives.

My dear boy, do you want to be respectable and useful and good? or do you want to grow up a curse to yourself, a woe to your friends, a disgrace to your town, a blighted, ruined spirit, lost for ever, to sob and wail to eternity? God says to you to-day, "My son, if

thou wilt receive my words in thy heart, and hide my commandments with thee, discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee." "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall

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direct thy paths." Lord is the beginning of wisdom." you are a Christian nothing is really done for you; when you are, "all things are yours." DR. TODD.

NOTICES OF

Picture Gallery of All Nations. London: Religious Tract Society.

THE Preface to this book states that while a limited portion of it has appeared in one of the Society's periodicals, it is now issued with three-fourths of new descriptive matter and numerous additional engravings. It contains short and graphic sketches of every nation on the globe, describing the general features of the country, and the habits, manners, appearance, and moral condition of the inhabitants. There is an Appendix, containing a list of the principal cities, mountains, volcanoes, and rivers. The engravings of costumes, places, &c., are numerous, and very good, and the book being altogether got up in handsome style, makes its appearance appropriately at this season of gifts.

Original Fables. By MRS. PROSSER, Author of "The Awdries and their Friends," &c. London: Religious Tract Society.

A BEAUTIFUL book, tastefully bound, and containing about 200 short fables, or rather parables, cleverly and copiously illustrated. Some of these are full of fun, and will please the youngsters, but in a great many the moral and spiritual lessons are better adapted to their seniors, and will be received and enjoyed by them, when the same teaching in a graver form might be inappropriate and unwelcome.

Breviates; or, Short Texts and their Teachings. By the Rev. PHILIP B. POWER, M.A., author of "The Oiled Feather," "The I Wills' of the Psalms." London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.

THOSE who are acquainted with Mr. Power's previous works will expect something good from this, and will not be disappointed. The book consists of thirty-two short papers on practical subjects, marked by a deep insight into character, illustrating in a clear and pointed style, and with much

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freshness and tenderness, the bearing of Christian truth on the varied phases of the Christian's daily experience. The book has the rare merit of being appre ciable both by the cultured and uncultured Christian, and we commend it as fitted to be very helpful to all who are in earnest in the art of "holy living." Rest Above. A True Narrative of Mary

and Willie. By ANNIE WARD. With Preface by the Rev. C. S. MONEY, M.A., Incumbent of Deptford. Lon. don: William Macintosh.

A TOUCHING story of real life, fitted to interest the little ones as well as those to whose care they are entrusted. The Scripture Pocket Book for 1871; The Young People's Pocket Book for 1871. London: The Religious Tract Society.

THESE are now standards of their class, and are quite entitled to a first place Each of them

among many rivals. contains an almanack, a text for every day in the year, and useful information on a variety of subjects.

Night unto Night; a Selection of Bible Scenes. By the Rev. DANIEL MARCH, D.D., author of "Walks and Homes of Jesus." Hamilton, Adams, & Co. A FEW of the night scenes forming the subject of this book are as follows:"Jacob's night at Bethel-the last night of Israel in Egypt-the last night of Sodom-the night passage of the Red Sea. And from the New Testament, the night interview of Jesus with Nicodemus-the night of Peter's temptation, the night of agony in Gethsemane, and the first night of the Resurrection."

To use the author's words: "From some of the night scenes of Sacred History he has sought to bring forth rays of light to cheer the dark hours of life, and to guide pilgrims on their way to that land where there shall be no night.'

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nently successful in this attempt. The descriptive part of these sketches is marked by vividness and truthfulness of colouring, partly owing, no doubt, to the author's personal acquaintance with Eastern lands. And in the appeals to the heart and conscience drawn from the Bible narrative, he has shown much spiritual insight, and a deep and tender sympathy with the manifold wants of humanity.

The Holy Bible, according to the Authorised Version, arranged in Paragraphs and Sections: with Emendations of the Text; also with Maps, Chronological Tables, and Marginal References to Parallel and Illustrative Texts. Part III. Job to Song of Solomon. London: The Religious Tract Society.

THE Tract Society has already "purchased to itself a good degree in the publication of Paragraph Bibles. Its "Annotated Paragraph Bible" is a very valuable and useful work. The work now before us is a large quarto, and when completed will make a good Pulpit Bible, greatly aiding the public reader, by its division into paragraphs, and, in the poetic parts, into parallel lines, to read with due and proper emphasis. The "emendations" which the volume contains are added to the authorised version and inserted within brackets, but they are not so numerous as to occasion any confusion to the eye of the reader. It gives us great pleasure to call attention to this beautiful edition of our Holy Book, and we cannot doubt that it will command the regard and confidence of many, for family and private, as well as pulpit use.

Spanish Pictures : Drawn with Pen

and Pencil. By the Author of " Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil." With Illustrations by Gustave Doré, and other eminent artists. London:

The Religious Tract Society. THIS is a book of deep interest as well as of great beauty. Its author enjoyed and carefully availed himself of many facilities for acquainting himself with the condition of the Spanish people, and for examining their social, moral, and religious state. Entering Spain by the Western route, where the Pyrenees subside into the Atlantic, he visited the parts and places of greatest historic interest, and returned to France by the Eastern extremity of the Pyrenees. He gives us in all cases the results of his

own observation and inquiries, and gathers additional information from various travellers and authors-so that the volume is something far better than a mere tourist's journal. It is impossible to write of Spain without giving prominence to the sad story of the Inquisition, by which the Reformation was stamped out of the country, and the country itself reduced from the highest estate among the nations of Europe to a condition of the utmost misery. Happily, those who now write of Spain have likewise another tale to tell. The Gospel is now finding its way throughout the land; and the book before us contains many notices of its progress. "It has indeed been the fashion," our author says, "to affirm that spiritual and evangelical religion can never take root in Spain, and that the genius of the people requires that religious truth should be embodied in ceremonies and symbolical forms. The experience of the last few months disproves the assumption: there is scarcely a considerable town in Spain in which the Gospel is not preached in its plainest and simplest forms; and wherever preached, crowds flock to hear the Word. In almost every place the congregations are in excess of the accommodation provided for them. Thousands have thrown off the yoke of Rome, and professed their adherence to Protestantism."

The book is really one of "Pictures." Its historical illustrations-pen and pencil pictures-relate to many subjects. We commend it cordially, not only for the drawing-room table, but for careful reading.

The Mile Stone of the New Year. By the Author of "The New Leaf." London: The Book Society.

WRITTEN for the most part in the form of a dream, and very well fitted for distribution among the young at this

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engage the sympathies of children. We especially recommend Mr. Conder's book to parents and Sunday-school teachers.

The Magic Shoes, and other Stories. By CHAUNCEY GILES. Edinburgh: Oliphant & Co.

The Wonderful Pocket, and other Stories. By CHAUNCEY GILES. Edinburgh : Oliphant & Co.

The Gate of Pearl. By CHAUNCEY GILES. Edinburgh: Oliphant & Co.

Drifting and Steeoing, a Story for Boys. By LYNDE PALMER. Edinburgh: Oliphant & Co.

THESE are good story-books, nicely got up, attractive in style, and their moral teaching thoroughly sound and whole

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THE "Leisure Hour" is as rich and varied as ever. It contains tales by Frances Brown, Mrs. Prosser, and others; Contemporary Biography, as of Miss Burdett Coutts, Ruskin, Dickens, Moltke, Thiers, Trochu, Jules Favre, &c.; Travels, including thirty-two papers on the Peninsula of Sinai; Home Travels, ten papers on Cambridge and its Colleges; fourteen papers on the Natural History of Dress, including Wool Clothing, Cotton, Flax, Silk, Leather, &c.; with some learned criticism, brought within the reach of ordinary readers, such as that of Professor Rawlinson on Mr. Gladstone's "Juventus Mundi ;" and a variety of themes in prose and poetry, which it is impossible to classify. Among its many rivals, the "Leisure Hour" retains its distinctive character, and, we hope, will long continue to enjoy popular favour.

The Sunday at Home: a Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading, 1870. London: Religious Tract Society.

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alongside its elder, the "Leisure Hour," with equal step in its own style of things. It is full of matter to interest young and

old. "The Pulpit in the Family," and "Pages for the Young" minister to their respective classes. Dr. Merle D'Aubigne writes a life of the orator of the Goldenmonth, Chrysostom, in ten chapters. The Dean of Chester writes fourteen "Meditations on the Miracles of Christ." The principal tale for 1870 is entitled, "Within Sea Walls; or, How the Dutch kept the Faith," and is founded on that illustrious history of conflict for Freedom and Truth, which furnished materials for our own Sculptor of Bruges," published in the Christian Witness last year.

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'Sunday at Home," like the "Leisure Hour," is full of pictorial illustrations, which no doubt add to the popularity of both.

The Cottager and Artisan, 1870. London: The Religious Tract Society.

WE can imagine nothing better than this monthly penny serial for the great end which it seeks to serve. Full of beautiful pictures, of Gospel truth set forth in a variety of forms, and of instruction for every-day life, it cannot be recommended too strongly for the homes of working families, and for those who visit them.

The Chatterbox, 1870.
ERSKINE CLARKE, M.A.
W. Gardner.

The Children's Prize. ERSKINE CLARKE, M.A. W. Gardner.

Edited by J. London: W.

Edited by J. London: W.

WE have in these two nicely bound annuals a storehouse of interest and amusement for the little folks, containing a great variety of papers in prose and verse, fact and fiction, all wholesome in tone, and with numerous illustrations and engravings.

The Keepsake Scripture Text Book, with Preface. By the Rev. J. C. RYLE. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.

The Soul's Inquiries answered in the Words of Scripture. A Year Book of Scripture Texts. Arranged by G. WASHINGTON MOON. London:

Hatchards.

THESE little manuals have this in common, that they have a blank Diary opposite to the Texts, intended for the autographs of friends under their respective birthdays. The idea is a very good one. And a volume full of autographs procured and preserved in this way may be a precious relic and heirloom when its owner is in his grave.

CONGREGATIONAL REGISTER.

October-November.

[To prevent mistakes and delay, all communications for the Register should be addressed to the Editor, 2, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, E.C., and marked on the envelope, "For Congregational Register."]

ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

Oct. 26-27. Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Association, at CIRENCESTER. Sermon by Rev. A. Hannay. Discussion on "Sustentation Fund." Addresses by Rev. S. Hebditch, on "Use of Money;" Rev. G. Wood, B.A., on "Work of Laymen;" and J. P. Allen, M.A., on "Christian Work." Oct. 26. Hull and East Riding Association, at HOWDEN. Paper on "Congregationalism and the Age," by Rev. W. M. Statham. Oct. 26-27. North Devon Congregational Union, at BRAUNTON. President, Rev. E. Roberts. Paper by Mr. W. Rooker, on "The Elementary Education Acts." Addresses, by Revs. W. Clarkson, on "Lukewarmness; "R. A. Bertram, on "Public Worship; and S. E. Dodge, on "Evangelistic Work."

Nov. 7-8. Dorset Association, at STALBRIDGE. Chairman at Public Meeting, C. Jupe, Esq.

Nov.

Aberdeen and Banffshire Association. Revs. D. Wallace, J. Wemyss, J. Murker, D. Arthur, and other speakers. Nov. 15-16. SOUTH STAFFORD. SHIRE. Rev. J. G. Jukes, R. W. Dale, M.A., R. Ann, and others, read papers and spoke on the occasion.

NEW CHAPELS OPENED. Oct. 18. NEW HAMPTON (Pastor, Rev. D. Horscraft), by Revs. J. Parker, D.D., and Ll. D. Bevan, LL.B. Nov. 7. STALBRIDGE, Dorset (Pastor, Rev. S. Rogers), by Revs. S. Hebditch and J. Mabery.

Nov. 20-21. BURNGREAVE CHAPEL, Sheffield. Revs. Dr. Falding, C. C. Tyte, and W. J. Gate.

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SCHOOLROOM OPENED.

Oct. 19. WORDSLEY ROAD, Leeds, in connection with East Parade Chapel, by Rev. E. R. Conder, M.A.

Nov. 2. School Chapel, WORSLEY, near Manchester, by Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, B.A.

Nov. 9. FELSTED (Pastor, Rev. Mr. Raven).

CHAPEL FOUNDATIONS LAID.

Aug. 16. MEMORIAL CHURCH,
Hobart Town, by H. Hopkins, Esq.
(Pastor, Rev. W. C. Robinson).
Nov. 3. SOUTHSEA, by Mr. J. Kemp
Welch (Pastor, Rev. H. E. Arkell).
Nov. 16. NEW COURT CHAPEL,
Tollington Park, by S. Morley, Esq.

ORDINATIONS.

Nov. 1. J. LEWIS PEARSE, Burdett Road, Stepney. Introductory Discourse, Rev. J. Halley, D.D. Questions, Rev. W. Bevan. Prayer, Rev. J. Bowrey. Charge, Rev. J. Kennedy, M.A.

Nov. 2. T. SIM, Burry Point, Llanelly. Sermon, Rev. T. Davies. Questions, Rev. J. Johns. Prayer, Rev. W. Jones. Charge, Rev. J. H. Lochore. Address to Church, Rev. T. Thomas. Nov. 7. W. M. BEEBY, Newcastleunder-Lyne. Discourse on "A Christian Church," Rev. G.B. Kidd. Prayer, Professor Barker. Charge, Rev. C. Clemance, B.A. Sermon, Rev. R. W. Dale, M.A.

Nov. 9. FREDERICK HALL, as Co-pastor to Rev. James Gregory, Kipping Church, Thornton. Address, Rev. R. Bruce, M.A. Prayer, Rev. James Gregory. Charge, Rev. Professor Fraser, LL.D. Sernion by Rev. R. D. Wilson.

Nov. 9. THOMAS NICHOLSON, Cleckheaton. Discourse on "Congregational Principles," Professor Newth. Prayer, Rev. J. R. Campbell, D.D. Charge, Professor Scott, LL.B. Sermon, Rev. E. Mellor, D.D.

Nov. 9. J. T. WESLEY, York Street, Dublin. Address, Rev. W. Urwick, M.A. Prayer, Rev. N. Shepherd. Charge, Rev. A. Mackennal, B.A.

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