Tersonal igen. Jar te vert de bunu te ne of rizons koks is in andary, und sent or ames if : Zursuasive ma Counces lice and Ingress, vien le ent fom amir o amir. til Dey were vom HC. 35 1 TL ETS A SU Kcurred, winter uter vinter. mai ac omney came mcwn is te reen not at BUL vere is man is try my ren this users p that murch, mi ter sac.net Traver-neetmus or mies round. Is expertence areas i ze uwer if personal Loversation, mis JORS, repet mapcrectare ziportage, m nunced am a levote nmself a L.

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His ve vas smitten icwn in mi jesica.

hurs vas 1 corpse. ience, mis teath gave way, mun respondence je pressed to us agter he purpose to commit to VINNG a statement of us veridiy urfairs or as midren, u ie town and e. He vent to the grave i is wie overvieimed with us sorrows, where le vas ollowed by us pastor, vno sud, Zu must not be here: the Lord las 1 work for you to io, in a man has come to cail cu into t The Ber. Lit. T————, a general agent of ne socery, vo vas providenciaily jetained mci nac Sacuath, preached in Jenaif one Tract Society. It opened excre is mind a new and inviting jead of sfort congenial with he lacours ns Cristian course. The and he Lord was sie in rnging such an enterprise before um at such me: and vichout a moments delay, he responded to the call for his personai

Distracted his men rovi

services is a ciporteur.

But what should be done with his family? Provi

dence avoured arrangements for the temporary care of them, and in the spring his eldest daughter was married to a pious young man, who immediately took his place in the care of the farm and of his little ones, leaving him free to prosecute his work without hindrance.

"He commenced his labours in Western Pennsylvania. He encountered difficulties and discouragements which almost tempted him to abandon the object. But he prayed night after night, and the desire to persevere was irresistible. He went out among the people with a broken heart and with weeping eyes. Soon the clouds broke away, and the power of God was manifested through him in the conversion of souls. A revival began in the place where he commenced his labours, and fifty-seven souls rejoiced in Christ during his stay. About one hundred were added to the churches there during the year. Similar results followed his labours in other places. In B county, where the sanctuary was greatly neglected, there were about one hundred accessions to one church. In a wicked village, the people secreted themselves as he passed from house to house; but he conversed with all he could find, and put books and tracts in all the deserted houses. The next day he had a crowd of people to hear him, and a blessing followed.

"After a few months' labour in Western Pennsylvania, he was invited to visit an adjoining county in Virginia. He was told by a minister that twenty pounds worth of books would be enough for the summer. But he induced a young man to accompany him in his visits, and in two days his books were all gone. Returning to P., he procured a waggon-load of books, and took them to the mountains, which he scoured in every direction, holding two meetings a-day, and visiting all the families in his course. There were then but two Sabbath-schools in the region now there is not a neighbourhood in that district of Virginia without schools, and books are everywhere in demand.

"Soon he found occasion for helpers, as the work was 'too heavy' for him. For the purpose of sustaining them, he commenced raising funds. In one little village,

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where nothing had been previously contributed, he secured twenty-five pounds in two days. in free months, besides his coiporteur acours, be resized a hundred and fity pounds in donations. Additional abourers. suited to the feid, were soon raised up around him. The work grew mon his hands from day to day, and has contimed to expand to the present hour. He found it necessity to have a more central point for his merations, and souse two years since, removed to this vilage. No ever than from thirty to fity eciporteurs have been associated with Mr. C. in this state, during the last three years, temporarily or permanently, and the whole enterprise has grown steadily in favour with God and man, unci it has become one of the most prominent and hopefni or ail the enterprises for enlightening and evangelizing the masses of this scattered mountain population.

“Look at the statistical resnits of this movement, and then trace back its brief history, and see if there is not occasion for devout praise as the Almighty hand is manifested in the rise and progress of coiportage in Virginia. Within these three years, no less than 24,322 families have been visited; and I know enough of the ‘magnificent distances' in these mountains, to presume that 50,000 or 80,000 weary miles must have been traversed to find so many. With 15,603 of this number, the colporteurs have heid religious conversation or prayer: and ir all have performed this duty with the earnestness and fidelity of the superintendent, their warnings and instructions will not soon be forgotten in these habitations. The spiritual condition of these families may be inferred from the fact, that about one-seventh were destitute of God's Word, and about one-fifth of all were without any other religious book. The number of volumes sold exceeds 50,700, for which 12,695 dollars were received; and 10,280 volumes, of the value of 1,713 dollars, have been distributed gratuitously to poor and destitute families; making a total circulation of more than 1,000 volumes. I hazard little in saying, that an equal number of religious books did not exist in all Western Virginia, previous to this visitation of mercy. Besides this, they have supplied nearly 3,000 families with the

Scriptures, and held 1,464 prayer-meetings or public meetings. Oh! if such a sowing of the seed of the kingdom of Christ had taken place a quarter of a century ago, we should not have had to weep over such moral wastes as now cover these mountains! Thank God, that at this late day he has raised up a band of men who go forth weeping, bearing precious seed,' and who' come again with rejoicing, bringing their sheaves with them.'

A HYMN AT PARTING WITH A TEACHER
OR SCHOLAR.

HEAR, gracious God, a prayer
For one we know and love;
Bestow on him thy tender care,
With blessings from above.

Where'er on earth his place,

Be thou his guide and stay!
Give him to grow in love and grace,
Increasing ev'ry day!

May he, a child of light,
Copy his Lord in all:

And in consistency shine bright,
Whatever may befal.

Give him with careful heed,
To keep his heart alway;
And in thy holy paths to tread,
Nor thence to dare to stray.

May thy preserving grace

Him to the end maintain!

Nor let him find when close his days
That he has run in vain.

D.

FOR THE WEEK-DAY TEACHER.

WANT OF VIVACITY IN EXAMINATION.

In this and at other training institutions, I have moreover observed a want of vivacity in examination. The vagrant thoughts of the children constitute the chief obstacle a master has had to contend with in teaching them. This unsettled state of the mind in children, the skilful master-knowing it to be proper to their years→ rather seeks to turn to his use than to contend with. To keep alive the interest of the children in the lesson, he varies it by frequent examinations; his questions follow in rapid succession; they tend to a drawing out of the reason rather than the memory, and he shifts continually the point of view in which his subject is pre sented, giving prominence to those features of it by which it is related to things familiar to the children themselves. All that he does is founded on a careful study of the characteristics of child

hood, and a just appreciation of them. He has carefully observed the ways of children, and the efforts they make to reflect, reason, and understand. Of the knowledge he has thus acquired he avails himself to command their attention; and when this fails, he calls the sympathy of numbers to his aid, or throws in the element of emulation. Warming with his task, the interest he feels passes to the children, and the whole group glows with the desire to know. The new condition thus induced in the mind of each individual child, whilst the lesson lasts, is not necessarily transient-the lesson is repeated daily; it becomes, therefore, a state of mind in some degree habitual.—Rev. Mr. Mosley's Report on St. Mark's College, Chelsea.

OUGHT TEACHERS TO STAND IN THEIR SCHOOLS?

[We think the query suggested in the following letter well worthy of attentive consideration.]

To the Editor of the English Journal of Education. SIR.-Having read the communicatlon of "J. W. M." in your last number, and fully approving the sentiments therein expressed on the subject of the hour of closing school, I beg leave to follow up his suggestion with another scarcely less important, I imagine, and which bears on a practice of which he seems to have felt the inconvenience, but considered it either desirable or unavoidable; I allude to the practice of Teachers standing during the whole of the exercises of the school.

Many conscientious Teachers think that a seat in the schoolroom for the use of the Teacher would be such an incentive to indolence, that they object to the introduction of such a thing, lest it prove too great a temptation. My impression is, that where a Teacher's conscience is so susceptible, and his resolution so firm as to do this, he might, with comparative safety, avail himself of this occasional rest, and feel but little inclination to abuse it.

From what I have gathered in my intercourse with Teachers, I should suppose there was scarcely any pain from which they suffered so much and so uniformly, as that which they experience in their legs and feet, more particularly during summer; and I believe it is an established opinion among medical men, that standing in one position for any length of time is highly injurious to the muscular system. If so, why should such a practice be persisted in, if based