path. And what else? My bed. And what does He spy out? He spieth out all my ways.

Teacher.

Let me hope that your religion will be real and sincere. The remaining part of the gospel you have now been learning, relates to mildness and kindness of temper so necessary in every true Christian. By them of old time, who said "thou shalt not kill," you are to understand the law of Moses. The Christian religion not only says, "thou shalt not kill," but it strikes at the root of malice and revenge by making it sinful, even to think of such things,-much more to use angry words, or to practise revengeful deeds.

"Hard names at first and threat'ning words, That are but noisy breath,

May grow to clubs and naked swords,

To murder and to death!"

Questions.

What have I hoped your religion will be? Real and sincere. What does the remaining part of the gospel you have been learning relate to? To the mildness and kindness of temper so necessary in every true Christian. How does the Christian strike at the root of malice and revenge? By making it sinful even to think of such things. Repeat as many of the verses as you can remem

ber, and let me advise all who have the book, to learn the whole hymn, it begins with

"Whatever brawls disturb the street."

Teacher.

By being in danger of the judgment and the council is meant, the courts of law established among the Jews. Raca is a Syriac word, and means light or vain, or any word of reproach, any contemptuous or railing language. "Thou fool," is yet a more sinful reproach. It ill becomes either man, woman, or child, to reproach another for the want of that understanding or power of acting and speaking, which is the gift of God alone. You could neither see, hear, or speak, unless He gave you the power and permission. Ought you therefore to reproach any one for wanting what God has not chosen to give? Pride, self-sufficiency, and anger, all are most hateful in the eyes of God; and whoever among you, gives way to them, could not be happy even in Heaven. A heart that harbours such feelings can be fit company only for the Devil and his angels.

Seventh Sunday after Trinity.

ST. MARK, viii. 1.

"In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples unto Him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way for divers of them came from far."

Teacher.

If you give yourself a moment's time to think of the particulars concerning this miracle, (that of creating or making food) you must have hard hearts and thoughtless minds not to feel the great goodness, as well as the great power of your Saviour. His goodness was shewn by a tender consideration for the wants of the multitude, and His power by being able to relieve those wants.

Questions.

In having a

How was His goodness shewn? tender compassion for the wants of the multitude. And how His power? By being able to relieve those wants.

Teacher.

In the 15th chapter of St Matthew's Gospel the same miracle is related with some particulars not mentioned by St. Mark, from whom the Gospel of this day is taken. St. Matthew says that your Saviour departed from the sea coasts of Tyre and Sidon, and came near to the Sea of Galilee, and went up into a mountain, and sat down there and healed the blind, and lame, and sick, of all descriptions.

Questions.

In what Chapter in St. Matthew is the same miracle mentioned? In the 15th. From which of the Evangelists is the Gospel of this day taken? St. Mark. Where did your Saviour depart from? From the coast of Tyre and Sidon. And where did He go? To the sea of Galilee. And when He had gone up into a mountain, who did He there cure of their diseases? The blind, the lame, and sick of all descriptions.

Teacher.

How delightful it must have been to see the joyful countenances of those who had been restored to the blessings of health and of activity, and to the power of being useful to their families and neighbours! But your Saviour's kindness did not stop there. He had compassion on all the multi

tude, and commanded the people to rest their wearied limbs, after which He took the small quantity of provisions brought by His disciples for their own and their Master's use, and then by His divine power He caused it to increase, so that the hunger of every person was fully satisfied.

Questions.

Must it not have been delightful to have seen the joyful countenances of those who were healed and restored to useful labour? Yes.

Did your

No.

How did

He com-
Was it a

Saviour's kindness stop there?
He shew compassion to the multitude?
manded them to rest their wearied limbs.

large quantity of provisions that had been brought by the disciples for their own and their Master's use? No. How then was the hunger of all this multitude of people so fully satisfied? By our Saviour's divine power.

Teacher.

Whilst we gladly wonder at this miracle and adore the kindness of our Saviour in performing it, let me advise you to reflect upon your own condition, and whence it is that your hunger is satisfied daily. The Israelites you know were fed with manna in the desert and this multitude by an instantaneous, or immediate creation of bread and fishes. These were things out of the common