"FOXES have holes," but He that Those tresses, tears, and holy kisses

Again, we see her in another

scene,

Perfect through sufferings she must become;

O'erwhelmed with sorrow, she is weeping seen,

A COURTEOUS REPROOF.

Two gentlemen having called at a coffee-house and drank together, when about to part, both insisted

Sickness has entered the once on paying. One put a five-shilling happy home.

piece on the table and swore dread

Her brother ill, her Saviour far fully that his friend should be at no expense. The other jocularly said,

away; Believing in his strength, she for "That five-shilling piece is a bad him sends. one;" on which he swore still He came to wake him, and God's more. The master of the house grace display, hearing what passed, came forward Heedless of Jews and their ma- and said, if they would allow him

to examine the money, he would tell them whether or not it was good. Returning soon after, he, in the most polite manner, laid the piece before them on a card printed as follows:

-:

"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme,

Rudely appeal'd to on such trifling theme.

Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise;

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

You would not swear upon a bed of death;

Reflect!-your Maker now could stop your breath."

The gentlemen read it, and he who had sworn acknowledged that

Mary, sweet name, the first and he was justly and properly reproved,

last he knew,

and promised that in future he

Will ever be engraved upon his would be more guarded in his

like burnished gold.

PEKIN is surrounded by wall buildings being slated with yellow within wall. The outside wall is porcelain, gleam in the sunshine sixteen miles in circumference. It is of massive masonry, being sixty feet high and forty feet broad, with nine great ion gates, each surmounted by a lofty tower. It is a proof how much prejudices are being softened down, that foreigners, who, not long ago, were refused admission to the gates, are now allowed to enjoy a promenade on the ramparts. The central space is called Kinchang, or "Forbidden city," because it contains the palaces, and cannot be entered without permission from the emperor.

In the other parts of the city several long streets run parallel to each other; they are broad and dusty, and throw off on either side numberless alleys, where are the private residences, the broad thoroughfares being occupied with shops. These shops are not attractive in appearance, being low and shabby, not a few of them displaying old furniture and old clothes for sale. But the throng of people at once arrests attention: it is so The roofs of the motley, and unlike all to which a

comes a high Mandarin," riding

in a green sedan, borne on the

Whatever is

European eye is accustomed. Here and private dwellings. A low brick wall on either hand is all you see, with ranges of small windows shoulders of eight men. Numerous peeping out like the loopholes of horsemen lead the way, with their a battery. These windows are heads dressed with peacock's fea- glazed with paper. thers and precious stones, while several carts, drawn by mules, and destitute of springs, bring up the rear, and convey the other attendants of the great man.

Yonder comes a caravan of Bactrian camels. They have long hair, and two mountainous hummocks, between which a Tartar wedges himself as naturally as if he had been born there.

rich or beautiful within is carefully concealed from view.

The houses, none of them more than one story in height, are hidden by these blind-walls. They are covered with earthen tiles floored with brick, and supported by wooden pillars. The rooms are usually ranged in a hollow square around a paved court.

Pekin was a fine city once; but it There, under that awning, you is now in a state of sad dilapidation. see a man who is entertaining an It still contains a large population, audience with a tale from the history wholly given to idolatry. Every of their country. Further on a square has one or more Pagan mountebank is displaying the sup- temples; and every family has its pleness of his joints, or exhibiting household gods! When shall these his powers of deglutition in swallow- temples be supplanted by the ing all kinds of indigestible things; churches of Christ, and household and all along the thoroughfare you gods give place to the family altar? may see men cooking and eating in—Church Missionary Gleaner. portable kitchens, or shaving their heads and plaiting their tails in the open air. Indeed, the street seems to be regarded as private property, and used for all kinds of purposes. There the heathen kneel down on the bare ground and perform their devotions. With wedding processions, carrying gay loured people, and in the afternoon banners, and funeral trains, with I went to hear my old friend, Mr. melancholy music and white mourn- Binnie, from Glasgow, dispense the ing habits, and a thousand other Lord's Supper to a few black strange objects, a street in Pekin is a small panorama of the empire.

Turn now into an alley, or smaller street, and inspect the architecture

AN AFRICAN SCENE.

SUNDAY two weeks, our minister was from home, and it happened to be Nacht maal among the co

people. I was never more affected in my life with different emotions. In the first place, there was something intensely ludicrous in the

the number-had on the useful and becoming cappje, or sun bonnet.

This was the ludicrous aspect, but there was another and much higher one. It was cheering, even as an indication of nothing but the elevation of the race, to see these poor creatures who, a few years ago, were almost looked upon as without souls, and who acted as if they had none, seated in their own church, decently dressed, and seventeen of them about to celebrate the Redeemer's dying love; who, even in their low and lost estate, saw them, and had compassion on them. There was something so extremely affecting in the sight, that do what I could, I could not keep from crying. It put one in mind, too, of that day "when they shall come from the east and the west, and sit down in the kingdom of God with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," to see the curious assemblage of races seated around the Lord's tabledescendants of slaves from the Malabar coast with dark faces and long hair; Kaffirs with features almost European, but with crisp hair and of jet black hue; Hottentots with heads not much larger than baboons, and all the marks of a down-trodded and crushed race about them-all surrounded His table "who hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the earth." Those who stood near marked the same peculiarity:

aspect of the blacks. By an arrangement with their masters their Communion was fixed, for the first time, on a different day from the Communion of the Dutch Church, and consequently a very large number of the most faithful servants, those who never can leave the farm when their masters are from home, came swarming into the village. On Saturday the "Dorf" was alive with them; the shops were crowded, and the quantity of goods they bought was something very extraordinary. Three shepherds spent £25 in one shop in clothing for themselves and their wives, and on Sunday morning the turn out was very amusing. Black dress coats, white shirts, and white neckcloths, Paris hats which required a great push to cover the woolly heads of their wearers, constituted the almost universal dress of the gentlemen, while the ladies, as they usually do, displayed a much greater variety. Some one or two, descended from the old slave population, who make lots of money by ironing, were dressed in European style, and, as they came in very gracefully with their dark faces, reminded one very much of the Queen of Sheba. Others had a pork-pie hat stuck on the crown of their heads, and their bushy hair sticking out all around like black coruscations in a total eclipse of the sun. One I saw with an elegant French muslin highly crinolined, a brown cloth mantle, the minister was from Scotland, and a red handkerchief tied round her head. Many and all the women who communicated were of

a man who reminds you of Hugh Miller's account of the late Professor Robertson (he of the Endowment