of God to hear you for Christ's sake. God appoints this way of approach to him in compassion and love to us, that we may come boldly unto the throne of grace, and throw all our care upon Christ, for he careth for us."

CHAPTER XXVIII.

"The glorious sky, embracing all,
Is like the Maker's love;

Wherewith encompass'd, great and small
In peace and order move."

THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE.

"You told us the other day, ma'am, that we ought to love all the world; but surely we are not to love bad people?"

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Yes, my dear girl, you must love even bad people. You must pity them, and try to make them better; and that is called loving them. sin, but love the sinner."

Hate

"But we need not love black people? There is a black man that lodges next door to us, and I dislike him because he is so ugly."

"Though he appear ugly to you, he may be very good; no person is to be disliked for what he cannot

help. If his looks were to depend on himself, I dare say he would choose to be very handsome."

"But you know, ma'am, that all black people are bad."

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What, my dear girl, could have put such an idea into your head? There are good people among the blacks as well as there are among the whites. The colour of the skin has no effect upon the heart."

"But are not the blacks the children of the wicked Cain, who killed his good brother Abel?"

"I am inclined to believe it is the heat of their climate which produces that effect upon their skin, though the talented Doctor Lawrence thinks otherwise. I had a near relative who resided many years among the blacks in India, and he observed that those castes among them, who are most exposed to the climate, are ever the most black. The Parias, for instance, who are the lowest caste of all, and do all the menial work of the country, consequently are more exposed to the heat than higher castes, they are all quite black; and each caste, according as they are less exposed to the climate, are less dark; and the higher classes, who never go out but in palanquins, are of an olive colour. From these remarks of my relative, I am led to believe, that their hot climate is the sole cause of their colour." "that I was not

"I am glad," said the girl, born in a hot climate, for I should not like to be black."

"You have every reason to be thankful for having been born in this climate for a more weighty reason than that of colour. The inhabitants of this happy Island have many privileges which the natives of barbarous climes are deprived of; and that of the noon-tide light of the gospel is by no means the least. Many of the poor benighted Indians sacrifice their lives to their false gods, while we, who know the true God, frequently neglect to bend the knee to him in worship! Those poor blacks, like the people of Nineveh and the Jews, will rise up in judgment against us; for they implicitly obey their false god Vishnu, and, behold, a greater than Vishnu is here."

"Poor people! I am now very sorry for them, and I shall not dislike the blacks any more. But why don't they leave their nasty hot climate, and come to live in a cold country?"

"Poor people, my dear girl, cannot afford to leave their country. But do you know that very intense cold, and great heat, produce nearly similar effects upon the skin. Intense cold dries the skin and gives it a tawny or a brownish colour, according to the degree of intenseness. People who are born in very cold climates have much to endure which we, in our temperate clime, know nothing about. Here is a little Poem, written by a Laplander: read it, and you will see how fortunate you are in being a native of this happy, happy land."

POEM.

With blue-cold nose and wrinkled brow,
Traveller, whence comest thou?

From Lapland woods, and hills of frost,
By the rapid rein-deer crost;

Where, tapering, grows the gloomy fir,
And the stunted juniper ;

Where the wild hare and the crow

Whiten in surrounding snow;

Where the shivering huntsmen tear
His fur-coat from the grim white bear;
Where the wolf and arctic fox
Prowl among the lonely rocks;
And tardy suns, to deserts drear
Give days and nights of half a-year.
From icy oceans, where the whales
Toss in foam their lashing tails;
Where the snorting sea-horse shows
His ivory teeth in grinning rows;
Where, tumbling in their seal-skin boat,
Fearless the hungry fishers float,
And from teeming seas supply

The food their niggard plains deny."

"So dreary an account of their clime, is calculated, I am sure, to give us a due sense of the benefits we enjoy in this happy land. Providence, you see, has been very kind to us; should not we then be grateful for the blessings we enjoy, by doing all the good we can ?"

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But, mistress, we are poor little girls, and can do no good to any one."

"No person is so lonely, or so insignificant, but

You can read to other times, an

that he can add to the comfort of some one or other. You, Lucy, have a mother that is very sickly; you can add to her comfort in many little ways. You can make a little gruel for her when she is sick, and carry it to her bed-side. her, sometimes the Bible, and, at entertaining tale to amuse her. And as for you, Mary, you have two little sisters younger than yourself; you can help your mother to dress them, and you can be kind and attentive to them yourself, and that would make both yourself and them happy. And, as for you, Ann, as you have no mother, I hope you supply her place as well as you can. You can make a fire in the morning, get your father's breakfast ready, take care that it be hot and comfortable, and, in short, do all you can to make your poor father happy. The more comfortable you make his home, the more he will like it, and the less he will seek for amusement abroad; so that the happier you make your father, the happier you yourself will be. Nothing is lost in this world, that is, nothing is annihilated: there is a remnant of every thing left which is productive of something else. The coals, for instance, which we burn, are not all consumed-for there remain ashes. The ashes spread upon the soil, cause it to be productive. Thus, there is a sort of reproductive chain running through all the works of nature. Seek, therefore, my dear girls, to be useful to your friends and fellow-creatures, and, be well assured, that the more you sow