is placed on a high form (thus neglecting her own lessons) to pencil down the names of disorderly children before the time of prayer and praise; but what think you when I tell you that the Governess is all this time talking and laughing with a Teacher, and it has been well said of this school, that "before and after prayer it is a perfect riot"?

I have long since learnt that discipline must go hand in hand with religious instruction, and believe, therefore, that every Teacher ought to be in school at the appointed time, and, having saluted his or her fellow-helpers with Christian fellowship, then to sit down with the class. Where this is the case, order is maintained, if maintained at all.

Sickness, weather, and other things sometimes threaten to hinder early attendance, yet, where the heart is truly engaged in this noble work, self-denial will be a bright gem among the ornaments of a Sunday-school Teacher. Another evil of immeasurable magnitude is for the Superintendent to hasten into the school-room at the last moment, or even after time, ring the bell, give out the first verse of a hymn, before the Teachers or children know where to find it, or what tune is to be sung

How profitable may a few minutes previous to opening school be spent in directing the minds of children even to a single text! Such a simple thing has effected more real good than even years of instruction with coldness and apathy.

The last great day alone will make known the extent and usefulness of the devoted Sunday-school Teacher; even in that day he will have boldness to lift up his head, and with joy and triumph exclaim, "Behold me and the children whom thou hast given me!"

Praying that the richest blessings of our Triune Jehovah may rest upon your labours, both as a minister of his Catholic Church and as the Editor of the "Teacher's Visitor,"

I beg to remain, in Christian bonds,

Bath, April 16th, 1845.

R. B.

ON RECEIVING PENCE ON SUNDAYS.

REV. SIR,-On reading the letter respecting the receiving of pence on the Sundays for charitable purposes, which you have permitted to appear in the "Teacher's Visitor," in the number for November, I do not perceive a satisfactory answer. The letter was inserted as being a powerful illustration of the evils resulting from receiving pence on the Lord's day. The question is, whether it accords with the spirit of the day to receive money from children for charitable

purposes? and this is illustrated by receiving weekly pence for a juvenile clothing club at the Sunday-school. A purpose being charitable does not of necessity cause it to be religious. Receiving pence for boots, shoes, and clothes is a charitable, but not a pious purpose; and therefore ought not to be encouraged on the Sunday. But, on the other hand, receiving pence for Bibles, prayer-books, and hymn-books, I should think no conscientious teacher would scruple doing. If it is wrong to receive pence for pious purposes, such as for Bible and Missionary Societies, &c., then it cannot be right to have collections in churches.

A satisfactory answer will greatly oblige

A SABBATH-SCHOOL TEACHER.

SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS.

"There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord that shall stand."

THE second reading of Lord Ashley's bill in behalf of the children employed in calico printing came off in the beginning of this month. We intimated in our last that the government would not pledge themselves to support it in all its details. The principal points which were objected to were the extension of the measure to the bleaching, dyeing, and calendering trades, as well as the printing, on the ground, we presume, of their being different systems, and not reducible to the same general principle, and the stipulation that children should work only eight hours per diem, or twelve hours on alternate days, for the reason that this branch of the trade requires a certain continuous amount of labour to be bestowed on the manufacture, and if it be interrupted the work is spoiled. These points, then, were yielded. The bill, in its modified state, still interdicts all night work-that is, between the hours of nine, P. M. and five, A. M.-for children of both sexes under thirteen years of age, and all females, and gives an entire exemption from both night and day work to children under eight years of age. As the continuous employment between nine and five would, however, preclude children from the benefit of education, a main object of the noble Lord's measure, it is proposed that three or four hours during a fourth part of the year (in round numbers, one hundred days) should be devoted exclusively to the purposes of education.

CHURCH EDUCATION IN IRELAND.-A numerous meeting of the advocates of Church Education in Ireland met a short time

back in Dublin, when it appeared that the society is educating a gross amount of 103,883 scholars, 32,963 of whom were Roman Catholics, and 13,510 Protestant Dissenters. The Bishop of Cashel gave a very excellent speech on the principles and prospects of the society-mentioning the pleasing fact, that 1500 out of 2000 Irish clergymen were in connection with it, and consequently in opposition to the so-called national scheme which does not make the Scriptures a fundamental part of its instruction. May God pour down a blessing on that system of education which is most agreeable to his will, and on those who are engaged in it.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.-We are sorry to find that the Government have refused to continue any support to Negroes above the age of twelve, who are declared free in Sierra Leone. This determination has-and rightly, we think-called forth a protest from the Church Missionary Society, detailing the extent and excellence of its efforts hitherto in behalf of that unhappy class of people, and shewing the evil consequences which would probably follow from such a course of policy. It appears that 52,616 Negroes have already been emancipated and registered in Sierra Leone. They have been settled in villages, civilized, and brought under the religious instructions of the society. Some have become teachers and seminarists, and some have been even ordained to carry the message of salvation to their heathen countrymen. Their schools amount to 46, and their scholars to 4,974. The evils, then, which would arise from abandoning the poor crews of liberated Africans to their fate, (except, indeed, they wish to emigrate to the West Indies,) far from their own home, without money, clothes, or any of the appurtenances of civilized life, to be cast out and perhaps die with the stamp of freedom on their brow, but without the least semblance of its reality—such a policy, when coupled, or rather contrasted, with the efforts which were once made in England to liberate the Negroes, and to civilize and Christianize those who were so, seems inconsistent and unwise. -The troubles in Switzerland, we trust, are drawing to a close, as the Infidel and Radical party has been defeated, with great loss, near Lucerne.—India mails have been received, from which we learn that an expedition into the Punjaub is expected in the spring. The policy, however, of the new Governor-General has hitherto, as far as we can judge, been peculiarly pacific. We trust it may continue so.-Dr. Wolff has returned to England, after all his hardships and privations in Bokhara.

FOSTER, PRINTER, KIRKBY LONSDAle.

THE

TEACHER'S VISITOR.

No. 14.

JUNE, 1845.

VOL. II.

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION NOT LOST.

How inscrutable are the judgments of the Most High, and his ways past finding out! (Rom. xi. 33.) “Behold we go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but we cannot perceive him; on the left hand, where he doth work, but we cannot behold him; he hideth himself on the right hand, that we cannot see him." (Job xxiii. 8. 9.) How often, when perhaps we least observe or expect it, does his blessing, unseen and gentle as the dew of heaven, descend from on high to visit and comfort some weary soul! And, on the other hand, how frequently at times do we feel ready to say, like the prophet, "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought;" (Is. xlix. 4.) compelled to acknowledge, that, though Paul plant and Apollos water, God alone giveth the increase. (1 Cor. iii. 6.)

But it is well it should be so, were it only to teach us humility; to make us feel that "we have this treasure in earthen vessels;" (2 Cor. iv. 7.) to keep us ever mindful who it is that causeth to differ, (1 Cor. iv, 7.) who it is that gives "the hearing ear and the seeing eye;" (Prov. xx. 12.) and thus preserve, both in teacher and people, an abiding sense of dependence, leading them to wait in faith and prayer upon Him who "commanded the light to shine out of darkness," and by the same Spirit now shines "in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." (2 Cor. iv. 6.)

While, however, we thus learn the duty of entire submission, and are made to feel that we are in the hands of One who is " wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working," (Is. xxviii. 29.) but "giveth not account of any of his matters," (Job xxxiii. 13.) we should both

gladly and gratefully make mention of the loving-kindness of the Lord, as often as we are permitted to trace his hand, in order that we may "give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name;" (Ps. xcvi. 8.) and also, that many may thus be stirred up and encouraged to seek him, and trust in him with their whole hearts, hearing how others have obtained "the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of their salvation.” (Ps. xxiv. 5.) For this end, may he accept and graciously bless to the furtherance of his own glory, the following simple narrative:

Mary K- - was born in Ba town in the south of Ireland, of poor but respectable parents; and educated in the parish school of K- under the paternal care of the Rev. H. T. N. In common with many others, the promotion of whose spiritual welfare, by unwearied kindness and constant catechetical instruction, was the anxious endeavour of this devoted minister and his excellent lady, it was thus her privilege the very greatest, as St. Paul tells us, that young persons can enjoy"from a child to know the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” (2 Tim. iii. 15.) And oh who can tell the value and importance of early Scriptural instruction, when education is considered not merely with regard to things seen and temporal, but in its true light, with regard to those things which are unseen and eternal! (2 Cor. iv. 18.) In the great day, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, who can say how many shall rise up to call them blessed, who were thus the means, in the hands of an all-wise Providence, of laying the foundation of their everlasting happiness? But in this, as in every other respect, God's ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts our thoughts. (Is. lv. 8.) Often is the precious seed cast into the ground, when he who sows it is not permitted, in this life, to witness its growth; or when, perhaps, another is employed as the instrument of the Holy Ghost, in communicating that spiritual life, which causes it to spring up and grow and bring forth fruit to perfection; practically exemplifying the truth of our Saviour's words "One soweth, and