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the English Church bell heralds forth the riches of the sanc-
tuary. It was not, however, by death "the golden-mouthed"
was about to be separated from those whose hearts he had
led to the Throne of God in Heaven. His course was not
yet run, and for him the Divine Master had chosen out a
loftier, yet a more arduous sphere. God had designed, he
should succeed Nectarius, as Bishop of Constantinople. In
this post he was consecrated A.D. 388, by Theophilus of
Alexandria. (To be continued.)
R. E. B.

A GOOD IDEA.

IT was related by a traveller recently, that in a Parish of Savoy, the following religious admonition, on the subject of Eternity is printed on a folio sheet and hanging in the public room of the village inn, as well as in the private houses:

"Understand well the force of the words,-A GOD, A MOMENT, AN ETERNITY. A God who sees thee; a Moment which flies from thee; an Eternity which awaits thee.-A God whom you serve so ill,-a moment of which you so little profit, an eternity which you hazard so rashly."

It would not be amiss if the same were hung up in some of our houses, and pondered over carefully.

OMICRON.

WE may not either hope or strive to escape all crossessome we may;-what thou canst, fly from-what thou canst not allay and mitigate. In crosses universally let this be thy rule, make thyself none-escape some-bear the restsweeten all-Bishop Hall.

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TALES FOR MY GOD-CHILDREN.

No. VI.

THE LOST GLOVE.

My dear little God-children, and other young people who read these tales, will, I am sure, remember Joanna Wicklow, the youngest of Colonel Wicklow's daughters. She was, in many things, a very nice and agreeable child; but she, too, had her faults, and some of these, though they might seem trifling, were such as rendered her sometimes very troublesome to others.

She was very lively, and she had a habit of tearing through the house, without thinking of whither she was going, or why she was going. And then she would leave the door open, being in too great haste to close it after her; or if Miss Cartwright called, perhaps close it with a great noise, which was very unpleasant to those left in the room. If she met her sisters on the stairs, while in one of her hurries, she would push by them quite rudely; and she once ran against the nurse and her little brother with such force as almost to throw the child out of the nurse's arms. What Miss Cartwright complained of the most in her little pupil, was that she never knew where anything had been left.

Eleanor and Margaret were always ready for their walk when Miss Cartwright desired them to be; but Joanna had usually something to look for, when her sisters were waiting. Miss Cartwright was very good-natured, and would often assist Joanna in finding what she had mislaid; but this she found only increased the little girl's carelessness. And

GATHERINGS FROM SCIENCE,-No. II.

WORK OF THE SUN PERFORMED BY EVAPORATION."

"THE heat of the sun is continually raising water with the atmosphere by evaporation. The vapour which is thus raised forms clouds at considerable elevations above the earth's surface; the rain, therefore, that falls from these clouds may be taken as the measure of the work of evaporation. In the Torrid Zone the annual fall of rain, at a medium, is 105 inches, while in the extreme parts of the North Temperate Zone, it is not more than 15 inches. The mean of these quantities will be 5 feet, which may be presumed to be about the mean depth of the rain falling upon the whole of the earth's surface. Now, if we suppose 1000 feet to be the mean height from which rain falls, we have the work performed upon one mile, equal to about 502 horse-power; therefore the work upon the whole of the earth's surface equals 98,894,000,000 horse power.

Now, Arago states that all the steam engines in Great Britain are equivalent to about 1,000,000 horse-power; hence it follows, that the work due to the sun's evaporation is more than 98,894 times the work of all the steam engines of this country. Such is the stupendous scale upon which the operations of nature are conducted. We raise water by our machines to revive the vegetation of some arid spot of the earth, so the beneficent God of nature by the process of evaporation scatters refreshing showers over every portion of the globe.-Tate's Mechanics.

Sloth is the mother of poverty.

SOME TALK ABOUT BISHOPS.

"I was indeed shocked with you last Sunday, Ellen," said her teacher, "that you could not tell me how many Orders there are in the sacred ministry of our Church. I hope by this time you will be able to answer me, and that you have looked through your Prayer Book, and found out the appropriate services for ordaining-what"?

Ellen Gunthorpe timidly replied, "Bishops, priests, and deacons."

"Yes," said Miss Douglass, "you are quite right, but I shall reserve further questions in connexion with the Ordination Services, for the Ember-days: however, as this morning is wet, and you cannot go out to play, and I have a few minutes to spare, I will endeavour to show you in what light you should regard the Bishops of our Church: I am induced to do so from hearing you say one day to Ruth Findlay, "Oh, do come and see the Bishop, for he is a great man, and as rich as a duke, and has four horses in his carriage ;" now you must remember that a bishop differs from a duke in possessing something far beyond temporal grandeur; he is one who holds a high and holy office, he is God's servant, and appointed by Christ to watch over His Church militant, and he has to do the work of an apostle. You must learn to reverence God's ministers, from the lowest to the highest office in the ministry. The Bishop, in whose diocese you reside, comes from time to time into the neighbourhood in which VOL. VII.-No. 6.

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you live, to hold Confirmations, and occasionally to consecrate a Church, and beside that, you know little of him ; but he has full employment for his time, in looking into the conduct of his clergy and attending to matters spiritual and ecclesiastical; he has great demands upon his money, being expected to aid in every charitable undertaking advanced upon true Church principles; he is the medium by which the wealth of the pious, who have sunk to their rest, is to be distributed according to their wishes, to the honour and service of God. People will tell you, some of our Bishops in England, are careless and lukewarm, and I fear it is true: not so with our Colonial Bishops; it may be, ease and comfort tend to forgetfulness of God, whereas, self-denial purifies the character. The first step in a colonial bishop's career is one of pain and suffering; he is called upon to leave the land of his birth, and to break most if not all the ties he has long held dear; he has to endure hardship, peril, and fatigue, and to go into a far country among strangers, where he cannot expect to meet with one familiar face. The work is engaged in for Christ's sake, and the promised blessing descends upon those, who have forsaken "houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My Name's sake;" their labours are blest and their lives purified.

During this year, my dear child, you may see the good, the indefatigable Bishop of Cape Town; he is just one of those bright ornaments of our Church, whose example encourages young and old, rich and poor, to perseverance in the path of duty; and to hear of the exertions of such a man as our South African Bishop rejoices and gladdens

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