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BIBLE QUESTIONS.

As announced last month, we have put this department of the INSTRUCTOR into the hands of a new uncle. We have full confidence that he will make it very interesting and attractive, and so cheerfully allow him to make his bow to our readers.—EDITOR.

DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS, the readers of our JUVENILE INSTRUCTORIn undertaking the task your Editor has assigned us, we beg to bespeak your kind attention. Our intention is to furnish each month a character, a subject, and a puzzle, for the exercise of your intellectual faculties. Twenty prizes will be given for the best answers to the questions during the year. Competitors must be under sixteen years of age, and it must be clearly understood that the answers are given without the help of friends. In answering the prizes regard will be had to the expression as well and the correctness of the answers, when they have to be descriptive. This, we trust will induce our young friends to try to excel in composition, Each month the answers must be sent to the Rev. J. Hudston, 8, St. Domingo Grove, Liverpool, not later than the 24th of the month, and with the first communication must be given the name, address, and age of the sender. Hoping my family of nephews and nieces will be a very large one,

I am yours affectionately,

A CHARACTER.

UNCLE THOMAS.

A man noticed three times in Scripture, each time exhibiting growth in spiritual life. He is first known as an inquirer after truth, second as a partial defender of truth, and third as an affectionate friend of truth. He was remarkable for great caution and great candour, and required to hear both sides before giving judgment. Though he is best known as a very timid inquirer, yet he showed very strong affection in a time of great gloom to the church.

A SUBJECT.

1. What is the first prayer to God recorded in Scripture? 2. Name four Old Testament saints who prayed specially for others. 3. Two persons who prayed three times daily. 4. A servant of God commanded not to pray for a people. 5. A wicked man told to pray for forgiveness. 6. A passage of Scripture which says where we should pray. 7. Give Scriptures which show some of the different places where people have prayed. 8. Give Scriptures which show some of the postures of body in which prayer has been offered. 6. Give the particular hours mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles at which prayer was offered.

A PUZZLE.

1. The servant of a high priest. 2. A river of Damascus. 3. An early king of Judah. 4. A king of Hamath. 5. A chamberlain of king Ahasuerus. 6. The first martyr. The initials give a woman of great energy. The finals give a famous judge and prophet.

JUVENILE MISSIONARY MEETING.

PUDSEY, NEAR BRADFORD.-We held our annual meeting in our schoolroom on the afternoon of November 3rd, 1878. Mr. Samuel Lee, our superintendent, presided, and the room was filled with a respectable congregation. Interesting addresses were delivered by Mr. John Boyes and the Rev. H. Hope. Mr. Boyes spoke forcibly on the introduction by professed Christians of opium into China, and its demoralising effects on the inhabitants. Mr. Hope showed us how we in England here under obligation to send the Gospel to all who were destitute of it wherever they were found. Our young friends took part in the meeting by giving interesting recitations and singing some beautiful pieces. Altogether our meeting was a very pleasant and happy one.

Our efforts for the year are as follows :-By Hannah M. Glover, £1 5s. 3d.; Sarah A. Shoesmith, 16s. 6d.; Lily Ackroyd, 9s.; Mary H. Hinchliffe, 8s.; Sophia Ingham, 7s.; Sarah H. Greeves, 6s.; Annie Lumby, 5s. 91d., Mary E. Pearson, 5s. 2d.; Emma Hinchliffe, 5s.; Mary Ann Foster, 4s. 10d.; John Glover, 4s. 1d.; Willie Webster 4s. 1d.; A gift, 5s.; John Cromack, 3s.; Ralph Petting, 2s. 11d.; Eliza Sutcliffe, 2s. 6d.; Elizabeth Hall, 2s.; Annie Jackson, 1s. 9d.; Mrs. Mitchell, 18. 9d.; Mary E. Hutchinson, 18. 9d.; Mary J. Jessop, 1s. 7d.; Amelia Gaunt, 1s. 7d.; Ettie Lumby, 1s. 6d. ; Annie Gaunt, 1s. 7d.; small sums 68, 4d.; collections, £1 3s. 1d. ; total, £7 17s. Od. Less by 14s. 1d. ; expenses.-JOSHUA SHOESMITH, Secretary.

FOR OUR LITTLE READERS.

E intend during this year to set apart the last two pages of the INSTRUCTOR for our very young readers. On these pages they may from month to month look for something simple and easy to be understood. Perhaps at times they will find something that is funny and will make them laugh. But if they are amused by what they read, we hope they will also learn something worth knowing. Especially shall we try to select little pieces of poetry for them, not only to read but to commit to memory. We love little boys and girls, and it ever gives us pleasure to please them. EDITOR.

ABOUT CHILDREN.

A YOUNGSTER While warming his hands at the fire, was remonstrated with by his father, who said, "Go away from the fire; the weather is not cold." "I ain't heating the weather; I'm warming my hands," the little fellow demurely replied.

A LITTLE boy who had done wrong was sent, after correction, to ask in secret the forgiveness of his heavenly Father. But his mother listened while in lisping accents he prayed to be made better, and then added, "Lord, make ma's temper better, too."

A NORWICH Sunday-school teacher, who was desirous of drawing out the ideas of the children, asked her class what they supposed

Daniel said when he was placed in the lion's den. One of her scholars, who has a practical turn of mind, answered: "Good-bye! I'm a goner."

A LITTLE bit of a girl wanted more and more buttered toast, till she was told that too much would make her sick. Looking wistfully at the dish for a moment, she thought she saw a way out of her difficulty, and exclaimed, "Well, give me anuzer piece, and send for the doctor!"

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PUSSY'S LETTER TO HER MISTRESS.

|Y DEAR LITTLE MISTRESS,— We are just as lonely as we can be, the gray kitty and I. Where have you gone? I have been to your playroom to look for you, and all over the house and the barn. I asked your dollies, and they say they don't know anything about it; only they know they haven't any one to put them to bed, or to dress them in the morning.

I am tired of catching flies and playing with my tail, with no one to trot me on the knee and carry me on the shoulder, or to draw spools around me to run after. No one to toss me up and shake me till my head is almost shaken from my shoulders.

Oh dear, I do wish you would come home. I sat under the table this noon, while your papa and mamma were eating dinner. They pretend they are having a real nice time all by themselves, because they had such a clean table-cloth and nobody to make a noise and drop crumbs and spill the water. They are going off to ride because it is so delightful, they said; but I most know it is because it is so still they can't bear to stay here; and they think they shall cry if they don't do something. So you had better come back before we all get to crying, all but Douglass in the kitchen. I think she is real glad you are all gone, and don't want you should hurry back; but I do. YOUR LITTLE BLACK PUSSY.

OUR BABY.

LITTLE White night-gown

Folded o'er breast;

Little white eyelids

Closing to rest;

Little white fingers
Clasped for prayer;
Little white night-cap
Covering her hair;

Little white girlie
Sinking to sleep;
O God in heaven,
Our darling keep!

Poetry.

LITTLE THINGS.

ONE step and then another,
And the longest walk is ended;
One stitch and then another,

And the largest rent is mended;

One brick upon another,

And the highest wall is made;

One flake upon another,

And the deepest snow is laid.

So the little coral workers,

By their slow but constant motion,
Have built those pretty islands,
In the distant dark blue ocean;
And the noblest undertakings
Man's wisdom hath conceived,
By oft-repeated effort

Have been patiently achieved.

A little 'tis a little word,

But much may in it dwell,
Then let a warning voice be heard,
And learn the lesson well;
The way to ruin thus begins,
Down, down, like easy stairs ;
If conscience suffers little sins,
Soon larger ones it bears.

A little theft, a small deceit,
Too often leads to more;

'Tis hard at first, but tempts the feet,

As through an open door.

Just as broadest rivers run

From small and distant springs,

The greatest crimes that men have done

Have grown from little things.

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