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ADDRESSES FOR JUVENILE MISSIONARY MEETINGS.

I am told I'm expected to-night to appeal
For your help, on the general ground

That as Christians we ought for strangers to feel,
And to help them are equally bound.

I know there are some who will stoutly deny
We've a right foreign missions to send,
While at home there's such misery meets every eye,
And so many great ills to amend.

I know the old adage says- Charity should
Begin at our homes; " but, of course,
It does not mean we ought to limit its good,
Or exhaust there its life-giving force.

I imagine, if foreign missions should cease
(Which I hope may not be in my day),
Our home mission funds would have little increase,
Notwithstanding what these people say.

And then there are some who will boldly maintain
That the heathen don't need our assistance-
That they'd do quite as well if there never had been
A missionary cause in existence.

And others there are, while admitting the need
For evangelisation abroad,

Will deny that our own particular creed

Is one likely to do them much good.

Now, if you all offer to-night in excuse
Any one of the arguments stated,
Our mission'ry meeting will be of small use,
And not gain what we anticipated.

But if you can feel for the sorrows and woes
Which abound in idolatrous lands,
If gross superstition you wish to depose,
And release its poor slaves from its bonds,

And if you believe that the Bible contains
Great truths to enlighten and bless-
That religion has power to sever their chains
And relieve them from greatest distress-

Oh, help us to-night by your prayers and your purse
To send out our missionary bands,

With the hope of revoking the terrible curse
Which rests on idolatrous lands.

1 The Resurrection from the | 1 Cor. xv. 41-58.. Peter's Confession [Dead Matt. xvi. 13-28.

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Golden Texts for Repetition.

Ver. 2.
Rom. x. 9.

Luke xviii. 22.
Zech. ix. 9.
John xv. 8.

Golden Texts for Repetition.

Ps. lxxii. 12.
Matt. xv. 28.
Ps. li. 7.
Prov. xv. 27.
Ver. 16.

OUR PRIZES.

CCORDING to promise, we send this month the books awarded to our young friends for their answers to the questions and puzzles furnished during the last year. We have done our best to find books suitable for them, and worthy of their acceptance. Had they been personally known to us we should have been better able to have judged what would have met their taste and desire. However, we hope none will be greatly disappointed in what they receive.

If we tell our young friends a secret, will they keep it to themselves? How can we, perhaps, some reply, for in telling us you also tell everyone else who reads the magazine? Now that did not strike us till we had written the question down. However, it does not signify; we will tell our secret without any condition of the kind suggested. It is this: We take great interest in this business of questions and answers from a recollection of what befell us when we were very young-nearly as young as the youngest who answers the questions in our INSTRUCTOR. Children's magazines then were very scarce, and very different in their character to what such magazines are at the present day, and very few were to be had for a penny. We subscribed to one published by Mr. Winks, of Leicester, who belonged to the Baptist denomination. In this magazine a prize was offered to the boy or girl who gave the largest number of Scripture passages proving the divinity of Jesus Christ. When we read it we thought, we can win that prize if we try, and so we did try. But did we win? Well, we must answer both yes and no. We told no one of our intention, but worked away in secret till we thought we had got all, or nearly all, the passages in the Bible which showed that our Saviour was divine. Then we wrote them out on a large-sized sheet of paper, and in as neat a hand as we could. And now we had to save our pennies to get enough to pay the postage, for letters cost something in those days. Besides sending the Scripture passages we had selected, we thought we would send a few verses on Heaven, which we had written for insertion in the magazine. When all was despatched and we had to walk four miles to post the letter-we wondered what the result would be. Should we get the prize? Would they print the verses? These questions were in our thoughts continually, and sometimes we were glad for what we had done, and sometimes we wished our letter had never been sent. But, in due course, our suspense ended. The magazine, which was to us as the book of fate, came, we opened it eagerly and anxiously, and there we saw the verses with our name at the end of them. But the prize? Ah, that we had missed. Our selection of passages was the most judicious, but the prize was offered for the largest number of passages, and so it

went to another.

We confess to having been much disappointed, and we are not sure that we did not shed a few tears over it. But we soon got

better of this feeling, and were glad we made the trial though we did not attain success, for we were amply compensated for all our trouble by the Biblical knowledge we had gained through searching the Scriptures.

This little story of ourselves we intend as a parable for our young friends whose names do not appear on the list as prize-takers. Though we have not the pleasure to give them a book, nor they have the pleasure to receive one from us, we hope they will find that they do not go without their reward for what they have done in trying to Let them try again, and their perseverance will in the end be very likely crowned with success.

win one.

We have a few things to say to those who send answers, to which we hope they will attend. In the first place, all answers must be addressed to the REV. J. HUDSTON, BALTIC LODGE, EVERTON ROAD, LIVERPOOL. Let all take particular notice of this. Secondly, in giving the answers, not only the word must be supplied, but also the place in the Bible where it occurs. Attention to this is necessary to getting a prize. The answer to the enigma in January, which is given next page, will show what we mean. Thirdly, those of our correspondents who have not given their ages, must do so. Most have done it; the few who have not will, please, give the information the next time they send answers.

Because our young friends receive their prizes this month we have given a picture of a prize distribution. Of course, it is not a correct representation of the twenty to whom we have sent books, for it will be seen that there are no girls among them.

And now, to all of our dear young friends, whether they have gained a prize or not, we send our kind love and good wishes. While those who have succeeded we hope will not be made proud by their success, those who have not succeeded must not thereby be discouraged. Let all resolve to do their best for the future, and in making the effort they will obtain a blessing which will repay them.

PUZZLES FOR CHILDREN.

BY UNCLE GEORGE.
SCRIPTURAL ENIGMA.

1. A CITY that once Kirjath-arba was named ;
2. The tenth judge of Israel, for family famed.
3. A mountain in Ephraim whence blessings proceed;
4. A temple-musician, quite noted indeed.

5. A mountain whence Balaam surveyed Israel's host;
6. Sennacherib's chief, who vainly did boast.
7. He who was the son and successor of Saul;
8. He whom, as a prophet, Elijah did call.
9. The son of Elkanah, and priest of the Lord;

10. The king who did Absalom refuge afford.
A minister of holy things

Among the Jews, the initials brings.

ANSWER TO ENIGMA IN JANUARY.

1. E-uphrates, Jer. xiii., 5.-2. U-lai, Dan. xiii., 2.-3. R-amah, 1 Kings xv., 17.-4. O-ak, Gen. xxxv., 8.-5. C-aleb, 1 Sam. xxv., 3. -6. L-aban, Gen. xxiv., 29.-7. Y-outh, Job xxxvi., 14.—8. D-an. Ex. xxxviii., 23.-9. O-nesimus, Col. iv., 9.-10. N-ehushta, 2 Kings xxiv.

EUROCLYDON, Acts xxvii., 14.

BETHESDA BAND OF HOPE, PENDLETON, MANCHESTER.-On Saturday evening, the 14th Oct., this society held its sixth annual meeting, when we were honoured and gladdened by the presence and support of all the three ministers of the Circuit, viz., the Rev. J. Young (resident minister), who presided over the meeting, the Rev. T. Scowby (Superintendent of the Circuit), and the Rev. W. F. Newsam, all of whom gave earnest and instructive addresses on the teetotal question-a question which, happily, seems to become daily more and more "the" question of the day. The meeting was further plentifully supplied with recitations, interspersed with melodies by the Band of Hope Choir, and which, on the whole, gave great satisfaction to an audience filling the schoolroom. The society has taken 918 pledges since its formation, and has now 258 subscribing members on the books. It may, perhaps, be interesting to know that, except in one or two instances, the committee (acting upon the maxim that God helps those who help themselves ") has never gone outside its own borders for speakers at the ordinary monthly meetings, but each member has "addressed" in turn, and that still the supply is fully equal to the demand; in fact, as the committee has now received a fresh accession of earnest young men to its number, there are several members who have not yet had an opportunity of astonishing us with a display of their oratorical powers. With an expression of gratitude to God for past, and of hope for future, success-I am yours truly, JOSEPH TAYLOR, Secretary.

EBENEZER SUNDAY SCHOOL, BARNSLEY.-We held our yearly teameeting on New Year's Day, when about two hundred sat down to wellfilled tables. The trays were presided over by Mrs. Atkinson and Misses Carroll, Buckley, Worral, Hammerton, Taylor, Goodyear, Woodruff, Ashworth, Mallinson, Grey. After tea a meeting was held in the large schoolroom under the chapel, which was tastefully decorated with evergreens, flowers, mottoes, &c.; the latter were all enclosed in neat banners, and were the gift of Mr. D. Fish, of Halifax, formerly one of our coworkers in the Sunday school at Barnsley. The Rev. S. Smith presided. After a hymn had been sung, the chairman offered prayer, and then called upon Mr. Earral to give the report, which was satisfactory. The chairman then called upon Mr. Thomas Nall, teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class. Messrs. Geo. Kaye, E. Liversedge, Wm. Potter, and J. Evers also addressed the meeting. The chairman then called upon our junior teachers, D. Bailey, J. Wainwright, S. Haden, and J. Cooper. All of them gave instructive addresses. Our gathering this year had additional interest, in consequence