SCRIPTURE PRAYER TEXTS,

FOR OCTOBER.

SUNDAY.- "Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord." (Ps. lxx. 1.)

Monday. It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer. and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." (Isaiah lxv. 24.)

Tuesday." But while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." (Luke xv. 20.)

Wednesday." I will hasten my word to perform it." (Jeremiah i. 12.)

Thursday"Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me," &c. (Dan. ix. 20—23.)

Friday. God shall help her, and that right early." (Psalm xlvi. 5.)

Saturday:- Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you, that he will avenge them speedily." (Luke xvii. 7, 8.)

SUNDAY.-" God be merciful to me a sinner." (Luke viii. 13.)

Monday."I will be merciful to their unrighteous ness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews viii. 12.)

Tuesday." I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy." (Romans ix. 15.)

Wednesday." He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy." (Micah vii. 18.)

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Thursday. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.' ((Psalm ciii. 11.)

Friday. His merciful kindness is great toward us.' (Psalm cxvii. 2.)

Saturday." My bowels are troubled for him: I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord." (Jer. xxxi. 20.)

SUNDAY." O let me not wander from thy commandments." (Psalm cxix. 10.)

Monday." He will keep the feet of his saints.” (1 Samuel ii. 9.)

Tuesday.—“ Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." (1 Peter ii. 25.)

Wednesday." I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me." (Jer. xxxii. 40.)

Thursday." Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.” (Isaiah xxx. 21.)

Friday." What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?" (Luke xv. 4.)

Saturday." I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble." (Jeremiah xxxi. 9.)

SUNDAY." Remember me, O my God, for good." (Nehemiah xiii. 31.)

Monday."I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness." (Jeremiah ii. 2.)

Tuesday.- -"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." (Isaiah xlix. 15, 16.)

Wednesday." Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him." (Malachi iii. 16.)

Thursday." He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are but dust." (Psalm ciii. 14.)

Friday.-"The Lord thinketh upon me." (Ps. xl. 17.) Saturday." Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still." (Jer. xxxi. 20.)

THE VALUE OF ONE NIGHT IN THE
SABBATH-SCHOOL.

AMONG those present that night was Jessie P—, a little girl about eight years old, a regular and attentive scholar. Jessie heard, believed, and loved. She resolved to give herself to Jesus; and her Lord very soon after took the gift home to himself. The above evening was the last time she ever entered the Sabbath-school; and the blessed effects produced on her mind on that occasion might never have been known, had it not been for the peculiar circumstances connected with it at the time. But, though it was the last time she was to listen to the glad message upon earth, it was to be her portion early to enjoy it in heaven. Before the next Sabbath, Jessie was taken ill, and in a short time was seized with all the symptoms of scarlet fever. It was of a malignant kind, and ended fatally. But hers was a happy death. She talked much of what she had heard on the previous Sabbath, and spoke of having "given herself to Jesus.” As long as she was able, she delighted in singing or repeating those sweet hymns she had been accustomed to sing at the Sabbath-school; and often, when suffering under pain and sickness, did she make the lowly room in which she lay resound with the voice of joy and praise.

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One day as her mother stood weeping by her bed-side she said, "Dinna greet for me, mother, for I'm no fear'd to die." On her mother asking her why she was not afraid to die, she answered, "Because I have given myself to Jesus, and I am going to him." Sweet confidence! It was the language of the trusting love of a devoted child. Are you not sorry to leave us ?" said her mother to her at another time. "I am going to heaven," was her simple reply; but on seeing her mother look disappointed, she added, "I hope to see you all there soon, mother." As if she meant to say, "We shall not be long separated." Then turning to a younger sister, she said, Oh! Tina, be a good girl, and do what mother bids you." She also requested an elder sister to be regular and attentive at the Sabbath-school, and earnestly

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entreated her "to give herself to Jesus ;" and added, "It is a happy thing to do so."

Sometimes during the silence of the night, when all were asleep but her watchful mother, she was heard engaged in secret prayer, and often repeated such hymns as The happy land," and "Oh, that will be joyful!” &c.; and often during the day she requested her sisters to sing them for her. "What hymn do you like best?" said her mother to her one day after she had asked some of those around her to sing. "I like The happy land,' said she; and oh! mother, I like that verse the best which says:

'Bright, in that happy land,

Beams every eye;

Kept by a Father's hand,

Love cannot die !"""

She felt she was dying, but rejoiced that love would never die; and though her eye was now sunk and dim, yet in that "happy land" to which she was hastening, every eye was bright.

Her Teacher, unfortunately, was prevented by indisposition from visiting her all this time. As soon as she was able, however, she repaired to the humble dwelling. She was not at that time fully aware of the happy state of Jessie's mind, and it was with both hope and fear that she arrived at the cottage. Alas! she came too late. "The lily had been gathered," and little Jessie was now beyond the reach of all human aid. But, blessed be that love which hears and answers prayer; the seed so lately sown had taken root, sprung up, and borne much fruit in a little time. The shock of corn had become fully ripe, and was already removed to the garner above.

The Teacher had come trembling and hoping to little Jessie's cottage, intending to sow the good seed: she left it weeping and rejoicing at the rich sheaves which had been gathered in. She had come expecting to find Jessie suffering bodily pain; but, instead of that, there she lay, beautiful even in death, with a calm and placid countenance. Well might it have been said of her, "She is not dead, but sleepeth."-Scottish Sabbath-school Teacher's Magazine.

WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO.

BEING A FEW YEARS OF THE LIFE OF A COLPORTEUR.

We were much struck with the following account of the history and labours of an American colporteur, which recently appeared in a Boston paper

"One of the most remarkable of the band of Christian labourers in these mountains, is Mr. J Cthe superintendent of colportage in Virginia. With a frame of iron, he has a vigorous mind, and a glowing heart. He realizes the idea of a man on fire, as fully as any Christian I have met. His history is marked by striking providences, each apparently suited to train him for the very work he is now prosecuting. In early life he was a leader in wickedness, in a community sufficiently depraved. He was ensnared in the meshes of universalism, from which the grace of God ultimately delivered him after many struggles. As in the case of Baxter, two books, the Crook in the Lot,' and the "Afflicted Man's Companion,' were the means of his conversion. Through deep waters he was led to the rock of his salvation. But when his feet were once planted there, he considered himself called to the work of rescuing others. Though poor, and compelled to work hard for the support of his growing family, he began and persisted in labours for the salvation of the ungodly. He formed a Sabbath-school-having heard of, but never witnessed, the operation of such an institution-sent for a library, and became a Teacher, superintendent, and all. Few of the children could read; but they learned rapidly. He also established prayermeetings, circulated tracts, and soon gathered a congregation, and crowds flocked together to hear him read Burder's Sermons,' and other works. So much interest was excited, that he sent some distance for a preacher, who found nearly a thousand people assembled under a large tree to hear the Gospel. A revival followed; a church was organized, and eighty-three per-> sons united with it in three months-among the number a woman eighty-two years old, who had never heard a sermon. He continued to superintend the Sabbath