JUVENILE MISSIONARY MEETINGS. 135 But see a full Is it right to take part in Lotteries ?—It is the duty of Christians to shun evil, and even the very appearance of evil. answer in Volume of Queries, page 449. What is the sin of Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost? (ARTHUR BURNLEY). Answered before in the large Magazine, Jubenile Missionary Department. LOUGHBOROUGH.-We held our annual Juvenile Missionary Meeting in Wesley Chapel on Lord's-day, February 28th, 1869, when our esteemed minister, Rev. A. Collinson, presided in a very able manner, and also gave us a very interesting address on the missionary work. Addresses were also delivered by teachers and friends, and to add to the interest of the meeting the following pieces and dialogue were recited by the scholars-viz., The Bible says I may," by H. Grudgings; "Son, go Work in My Vineyard," by S. J. Widowson; "The Field is the World," by Elizabeth Widdowson; "Your Mission," by A. Meays; "Appeal for the Heathen," John Martin; "O Christian, Awake," Sarah Jane Bexon; Christian Missions," Annie Cooper; "Mighty to Save," Harriett Hoares; "Sympathy for Missionaries," Elizabeth Bexon; dialogue by William Harris and Edwin Cashmore; "The Departing Missionary," Maud Perkins; "Tis Blessed to Give," Mary Ann Priestly; "Oh, Let me Ring the Bell," John Grudgings; Cheerfully Give," Mary Jane Bexon. The week previous a number of the scholars collected by missionary cards the sum of £4 6s. 1d., and the collection at the chapel amounted to £2 7s.-total, £6 13s. 1d., which was in excess of previous years; and at the meeting a thorough missionary spirit was manifested, and the congregation retired appearing greatly interested and enlightened with the afternoon's proceedings. W. H. BAILEY. 66 BETHESDA, LEEDS FIRST CIRCUIT.-We held our annual Juvenile Missionary Meeting on Easter Sunday afternoon, March 28th. The attendance was good. We were favoured and much encouraged on the occasion by the presence and assistance of our kind friends from Ventnor Street, who closed their school and came with their scholars to the meeting. Mr. J. W. Dixon presided. The secretary presented the report, and addresses were delivered by our beloved superintendent, the Rev. W. Dunkerley, Mr. Firth Stringer (resident missionary), Messrs. J. Gowing, E. W. Whiteley, A. Iredale, and G. Chadwick. Several pieces were recited by our scholars. The meeting was of a very pleasing and profitable character. The following is the financial statement for the year :-Share of proceeds of the Circuit Juvenile Meeting, 15s. 2d.; collected by books, lecture, and boxes, £5 Os. Od.; collection at the meeting, £1 1s. 11d.-total, £6 17s. 14d. This is in advance of last year. ALFRED HEPWORTH, Secretary. 136 Biography. ELIZABETH LOWE WAS born at Preston in the month of December, 1849. At the tender age of five years she was taken to a Sunday-school in the village, where she continued for about six years. Early in the year 1861, for justifiable reasons, she left this school, and with the consent of her mother she became a scholar in our Sundayschool. From the first she felt at home in it, and there sprang up an attachment to it which grew as she increased in years and experience. Her conduct and attendance were truly praiseworthy, and won the esteem and affection of her teachers, and were a model for the whole school. The language of her heart was the prayer-meeting which followed the service she found the Saviour. The class-meeting and the other means of grace, which before she had occasionally attended, were now seasons of refreshing to her. We met in the same class, and never, I think, have I heard experience that satisfied me better. It was related with remarkable earnest ness and simplicity. She was always hopeful. Trials and difficulties she had both from without and within, but God was her helper. A year ago our sister began to droop and wither. It is thought that last Easter (1868) she took cold, and failing to get rid of it, a cough and loss of appetite were brought on. It was hoped, however, that as the warm weather came, health would return to her. But such was not the case. The delightful days came, and the balmy zephyrs played wanton, but they bore no healing to Elizabeth. Her strength declined, and her face grew wan. By July she was unable to work, and after November she rarely crossed the threshold of her home. During her illness she said but little, and occupied the weary hours, as far as she was able, in light and easy employment and reading. The visitations of Christian friends were heartily welcomed and en At Christmas, 1865, our sister was appointed a teacher. She was young, but we believe she discharged her duty conscientiously and creditably. It was early in the year 1867 that she gave her heart to Jesus, and entered into the sacred relationship of an adopted child of God. All her life long she had seen a loveliness in religion, but for some time, and more especially from the period of Miss Limb's death (whose memoir appeared in the April number of the Large Maga-joyed by her. zine for 1867), she had powerfully felt the strivings of the Holy Spirit, and at length she did yield. Under a sermon preached by Rev. S. T. Nicholson, she was thoroughly broken down, and in Whenever I called to see her, I found her cheerful and glad to see me. Knowing each other well, we conversed together freely. She made particular inquiries after the chapel, the LEARN TO SAY "NO." 137 Christ; he was the anchor of her soul and her rest. I read with her and prayed, and then bade her good-bye. I saw her no more. The last day she spent on earth was the Sabbath. To her mother she said, "I should like us all to go to heaven together." When asked if the thought of death troubled her, she said, "No; I am going home. I shall soon be in heaven." On Monday morning, February 22nd, just as the day began to break, she entered peacefully into rest. Her death was improved by our esteemed friend Mr. T. Dalley, of Stapleford, on Sunday evening, March 22nd, before a large and attentive congregation. May the impressions then received be lasting! WILLIAM LIMB. Our Children's Portion. THE DYING WORDS OF THE REV. T. SCOTT TO HIS GRANDSON. "God bless you! I have often preached to you, and sometimes talked to you; but I have prayed for you a hundred times more. Seek and serve God. Religion is all that is valuable. You may think it does little for me now, but it is all. May you be a blessing to your parents, to your brothers and sisters. You are the eldest; should you outlive your father, be a father to the rest. I have always particularly wished you might be a minister of Christ, but this I must leave. God's will be done! Once more, my dear grandson, God bless you, and make you a blessing-a 66 was or the billiard-room, or the dancehouse. Do you think it would be well to go? No. Well, then, how will you answer him? "I-I-I think I won't go to-night." He will collar you, and say, "Oh, come along, now." If you add, with bated breath, ་ I brought up not to go to such places," he will say, Be your own man; I wouldn't always be tied to my mother's apron-string; come on ;" and on you go like a dumb ox to the slaughter. A decided and emphatic "No," which would have made your tempter feel that your selfrespect was touched by his proposal, would have sent him away to return on such an errand no more. in Now, a large part of virtue lies in resistance of evil. There is an exceedingly important part of the education of every young man which is often neglected. If any young man whose eye glances over this paper has not attended to it, let me say to him that this lesson will be worth more to him than all he has yet learned: Learn to say No! The power of moral resistance embodied that little monosyllable of only two letters has saved millions of souls. It has kept Christianity alive in the world. It has vanquished tyrants, and persecutors, and demons. Let me be armed with this invincible "No," and I am mightier than earth and hell. Strong in conscious integrity, and reliant on Omnipotence, I cannot be conquered. This "no," sitting mildly on the lips of the three Hebrew children made them mightier than Nebuchadnezzar ; and Darius, with all his lions, was not half so strong as the positivelynegative Daniel. This "no," gently spoken by the martyrs, was proof against all the rage of their persecutors. It overcame malicious men, and wild beasts, and boiling oil, and flaming fagots, and red-hot pincers, and all the infernal cruelties of the Inquisition. Those who tormented the martyrs wanted, not their lives, but their obedience, and that they could not get. Delicate women and tender children, by their unshaken constancy, defeated utterly the purposes of hoary-headed emissaries of the Pope and the devil; and every time a happy spirit, released from its tormented body, went singing up to paradise, the tormentors must have scowled and felt, "We have failed." GAMBLING. "GIVE me a cent, and you may pitch one of these rings, and if it catch over a nail, I'll give you six cents." That seemed fair enough, so the boy handed him a cent and took a ring. He stepped back to a stake, tossed his ring, and it caught on one of the nails. "Will you take six rings to pitch again, or six cents ?" "Six cents," was the answer, and two three-cent pieces were put in his hand. He stepped off well satisfied with what he had done, and probably not having an idea that he had done wrong. A gentleman standing near had watched him, and now, before he had time to look about and rejoin his companions, laid his hand on his shoulder. "My lad, this is your first lesson in gambling! Gambling, sir?" "You staked your penny and won six, did you not ?." "LOVEST THOU ME?' "Yes, I did." "You did not earn them, and they were not given you; you won them just as gamblers win money. You have taken the first step in the path; that man has gone through it, and you can see the end. Now I advise you to go and give him six cents back, and ask him for your penny, and then stand square with the world, an honest boy again." He had hung his head down; but raised it quickly, and his bright, open look, as he said, "I'll do it," will not soon be forgotten. He ran back and soon emerged from the ring, looking happier than ever. He touched his cap and bowed pleasantly as he ran away to join his comrades. That was an honest boy.-Young Pilgrim. 139 was once a baby in this world, is there; and the angels who are nearest to him take all the little children who leave our side, and love and care for them just as if they were their own. When baby passed through to the other side, one of the angels held him by the hand all the way, and he was not the least afraid; and when the light of heaven broke upon his eyes, and he saw the beauty of the new world into which he had entered, his little heart was full of gladness." "You are sure of that? The grief had almost faded out of the child's countenance. The 'Yes, my dear, very sure. Lord, who tenderly loves little children-who took them in his arms and blessed them when he was on earth-who said that the angels do 'always behold the face of my Father,' is more careful of the babies who go to him than the. tenderest mother could possibly be." "I'm so glad," said the child, "and it makes me feel so much better. Dear baby, I didn't know who would take him on the other side."-Children's Hour. "LOVEST THOU ME?" IN one of the general associations, held in South and North Wales, of different Sunday-schools to be publicly catechised together, a young girl answered the close questions put by the Saviour to Peter: "Lovest thou me ?" When she came to answer the third time, she was overcome by her feelings, and burst into tears, in which she was accompanied by the larger part of the congregation. Silence continued for a few minutes, all the people solemnly waiting her reply; when, recovering herself, she cried out, "Thou knowest |