Lord, I believe thou hast prepared
(Unworthy though I be)

For me a blood-bought free reward,
A golden harp for me!

"Tis strung, and tuned, for endless years,
And form'd, by power divine,

To sound in God the Father's ears,

No other name but thine.-CowPER.

Q. What account does St. John give of the last judgment?

A. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Q. What does St. James say of the man who keeps the whole law, yet offends in one point?

A. Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

Q. What is said of him who turns a sinner from his wickedness?

A. He which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Q. How is that man disposed to address his soul, who does not know himself to be a sinner?

A. He cries, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Q. What will the saints be clothed in to appear before God?

A. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the

garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.

Q. What did the Lord Jesus Christ receive power to bring about by his death?

A. Wherefore, He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

STORY XX.

"Q. What dost thou learn by these Commandments?"

"A. I learn two things: my duty towards God, and my duty towards my neighbour."

A FEW days after the death of Robert Berry, Mrs. Browne came out of the hospital, and Mrs. Mills being come home, Mary returned to sleep at her mother's: but scarcely a day passed in which she did not come over to see her godmother.

On the Sunday following the return of Mrs. Browne and Mrs. Mills to the barracks, Mr. King gave notice that he should publicly catechise all the children in the place, on the next Friday evening. What a bustle was there upon this occasion among the children in the barracks, from the Sunday to the Friday, conning over the Catechism! and as to Mary, she scarcely ever had her Bible and Catechism out of her hand. Well, at last, Friday evening came: the children were all neatly dressed, to go up to the church; and many of their fathers and mothers went too, as the catechising did not begin till after parade.

The church was lighted up, and Mr. King was standing at a small table, with two wax lights, and three most beautiful Bibles upon the table before him: one of these Bibles was bound in purple Morocco leather, richly gilt;

another in red leather, gilt in the same manner; and the third equally ornamented, in green. He ordered that the children should be placed in a half circle before him, and the parents stood behind the children. Before Mr. King began to catechise the children, he spoke to them after this manner: 'My little children, you see these three beautiful Bibles: it is my intention to give one of these to each of those three children who may answer best the questions which I shall now put to you relative to the Catechism—not to those who merely repeat the words of the Catechism best, but to those who shall prove, by their answers, that they best know the meaning of it: for if we learn words without knowing or thinking what those words mean, we may as well learn words in an unknown tongue; and those people who read the Bible, or any other godly book, without endeavouring to understand the things written therein, might just as well not read at all."

When Mr. King had said these words, he began the Church Catechism, and went through it with the children, putting no questions to them except such as were in the book; and the children, so far, answered very well. Nelly Price was, I think, the only one belonging to the barracks that made any mistake; and, I am sorry to say, she made several.

But now the hardest part was to come. Mr. King was to examine whether they had merely learned to repeat the answers which they had then delivered; or whether they had any acquaintance with the real import of those answers. That part of the Church Catechism in which Mr. King thought proper to examine them was-Our duty towards God, and our duty towards our neighbour.

And first, he asked the little girl who stood at his