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' )ear Childrenon the 1st of April
Fickle Arttil, 1 most fitting type of
human life, with its winds and clouds
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and sunny days, representing bodily
afflictions, mental, sorrows and
soul
rejoicings just ope monm ago-i
-we
launched our little Life' Boat upon the
broad open sea of esperuncnt. Is not
every human enterprise' an experiment
us to whether it will accomplish in its
progress alnd results the good, that was
proposed? Still we were strong in the
belief then, and we are more' confirmed
in it now, that the children of our good
old. North' State, Lwcre entitled to have
and that they would cheerfully support
at . least one paper published inj this
their native ' State, which I they could
call their own. Are we not right Chil
dren ? 'I believe every one of you! wTill
!say yes! . Well then, this is! your pjjiper,
gotten up expressly for you, and we
want' every child in the State to read
the Life Boat now how shall we mau
age to do this ? i Will you not tell us ?
How will this i plan do? Suppose
evfery child, in every neighborhood! who
gets this copy, will take it over to his
neighbor and show it to his little jboys
and girls, and thus' get one! neyv sub
scriber ' each don't you see, -this jplan
wilTdoiable the mibscription at oiice
ancl tne" 5,000 or.thlst4iiiberTwili; be
come 10,0t)0 in the next number ? INow
how many, of you will try this plan?
All who will, say I ! Well, a good number
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my
V,-,W. . .
vl - litinn ihn Tnfe. Tiont. we. have mn.rta the
3k tr V .T :' ' . . :
U trial trip lor April ana our jjoat is
1 still right side up with care,' and she is
L putting on' more! steam and urffurling
h her canvass to i batch the favorinc:
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uy xms moniU' derives us name irom
mi j i i . . e I-
Mam, or Jiajcsta, yvno was reputed tne
p- yife of Vulcan', because a priest of
C?) f Vulcan onereel a saennce to ner on the
lf- ! ! ! . - r-J f
Is ; first" of Trn.v. Rhfi is Rnmefimea wTpn-
j.
tified with Maia, daughter pf Atlas
and Pleioney the eldest of, the seven,
sisters called the Pleiades, or sseven
!r stars. She was also the most beauti-
il ful of them: The ' risincr of the iPle-
1 IJU1HN III II.MIV. ,i,!S ILDIHII, II1H lll'lllMIMir
Ti.i. l i. 4.1,1- :iz;
7 0 o
of .May. Our Saxon ancestors called
j-J this month by a less pagan and poeti-
t" cal name,' Trimilhi because tbey be
gan to " inilk their cows three times a
1 i day in this month of grass and flo-ers
f1: m Jiingianu vnere iuay invests iiier-
1$ self with a more beautiful attire than
. in this country) from time immemor
T! viol Arcirr lioa lioon nclinTAr? in wi rrov
i -r -.1-1 i ii-i -r. . 5 1 . , 'l ;
and joyous rural' rites. .Thus Wcxjjj
worth says, !i
This sweet May morning '
The children are pulling
On every side, - !
' ,In thousand valleys far and wide
Fresh flowers - .! I
And Sir Richard Vernon ! represents
the Prince of Wales, " As' full of spirit
as the month of May." Indeed, the
British poets generally make a vast
amount of ; capital out of .thb merry
month of lay. We have imitated
them to 'some extent in this co'untry;'
and though we have notour May-poles
andi morris-dances which we can do
very -well without -we have our May
day ipicjnics and our May-Queetis too.
Well, wje have no objectipn to. this in
factj we rather i like it. i Our :Mayof
life," though we ate not quite as young
as iye used tol he, has' not yet "fallen
into the sear, the yellow leaf" of age
so as not to allow us to "enjoy those
rural pleasures which so delight the
young.; . ;. . .
Enjoy, " the May-moon of youth,"
children; .but let 'all your amusements
and i recreations be: innocent and vir
tuous. Il Remember,'43rbd gives you this
beautiful season, ahel all the means of
enjoying it which you possess. Be like
;the llowers expand your petals and
send forth your1 fragrance to the skies.
Xtet : the Spring, the May-day of life,
be devoted to God; then when you
"shall i hear the rain
and wind beat
dark December,"
you shall not be
rorceu to say, r tne. evil clavs are come
in which I have no pleasure?, " but iii
the retrospect of-, a well -spent life and
in the hope of i a blissful eternity, "you
shall realize the : truth of the poet's
paradox; whicli you sometimes sing,
'-December's as pleasant as May."
BltlGHTNING ALL IT
CAN.
The day had. been dark, and gloomy,
when suddenly: toward night the clouds
broke,' and the sun's rays streamed
.through, shedding: a flood of golden
lights Itspo thewhslecpixeVJ
sweet ivoice ai.aiie wmuow caneti out m
joyful tones: T
"Look! ohi look, pa! the sun's bright-
ning all it can." . ' r
, "Brjghtning all it can? . so it is;"
answered papa;- "and you can be. like
the sun, if you: choose." ... .
"How .papa? tell me how'
. "By looking haj)py, and smiHng on
us all day, and never letting any tear
ful rain come into i the blue of those
eyes; only be happy and good: that is
all." i ! . ,
V The next day the music of the child's'
voice filled our ears . from sunrise to
dark: the little heart seemed full of
light ! and love : and when asked why
she was so happy, I the ; answer came
laughingly, "Why! don't you see, papa,
I'm the sun! I'm brightning all I can!"
. "And filling tbe house with sunshine
and jov," answered papa.
Cannot little ichildren be like the sun
every day brightening all they can ?
Try it Ichildren. Child at Home.
TWO AND ONE.
Tiro eakand only one moutl have you,
The reason, I think, is clear:
It teaches, my child, that it will not do
To talk about all you hear.
Tico vyes and only one mouth have you,
;The reason of this must be,
That you should; learn that it will not do
, To talk about all you see.
Two Jiands and only one mo idh have you, .
And it is worth while repeating, (
Tlie tico are for work; you will have to do,
The oeis enough for eating. (
: : Golden Harp.
A LlrfTIfe SERMON OF OUR
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PASTOR.
rrov.. 20: 11.
ven a child mav he known
by his dointrs."
Hf.RE
are many ways, my
tljeir childen, 'of knowing
persons. We inay knowT a
Terson.by sight. Vemay
iow persons by names; we
Knoy persons (leJcrip
fttm. But the I best! way to
Hhow. persons lis bv their
(tihwitioyis and - actions.
Now we'e 'oing to tell you how you
may knowyalad child, and a good one
too; and wh you see howuglV aJ bad
one is, wq utye you will never
him, buttry be a good one.
bei nxe
The --fird? iark of a bad child s an
ill temjcr;' ri.tempcr that' makes one
get mad, am;! cry make' mouths, and
quarrel aiid sight. You know, liovkbad
it is to bqiJ a house - full of !stinin?r
smoke, sp-btl it is to be j with i ah ill
tempered boj. ' I had rather ivalkwith
a gravel in1 llrv . shoe, or sleep j with a
thorn bush, ? fa- wear -ahain shirt, ithan
to carry abtt vn ih. me an ilj, temper!.
Whenever van see
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mad
hinij
at every'littll thing, that crosses
vou will mioiY ium uv
that i mark . as
llei
ig a
ba'Jl boy, Hissmg snakes,
stinginghoietSj growling dog bears
and tigers, have ill tempeis.- INow
children, you don want to be like ug
ly animals,- ko you ? No, you say well
thenj don't jc'herish ill tempers: k j - .
; The m-m0jnark w;hich shows f a bad
chaldis idhe Lazj- children love
to sleep in I Jd in the morning; ! they
lovW'to da nothing all davl Thev. think
it mighty-hard - tp do the
little work
which t3iev:'e told to do.
They tell
Torn, or yallje,' or some one else to do
it, XiazmesssfUwavs leads to ignorance,
poverty andmvorthlessness: - r
'yi it" it irever f nnrtntti' tot ttt
Kf!!!.
or any bod v else. We call bubli per-
sons siotnu-i. Jjiko tnac lean; iiffiy,
monkish, nastj:: animal called a s1oth;'
that is too 'hfzy. to crawl !down'a'trce,
so he doubles himself up and l falls
down. Pity 'but that he would kill him
Belli isn't it f. Now what bo wants to
be like a gdct-for-nothing sloth. ' v
erv j tiling thi? world 1 but a' feloth
shames a la? :bo3T? The sun is Always
ousy sniniigui)oii me woriu;; Tne riv
ers keep busy 4in rolling on j towards
the sea; thVy little -birds jareji busy in
singing ah4. -nyihg through i the 'air;
the siiie'i weaves a nice! little jweb;
the ajit builps1, up a little red flpuse,
and the beautiful butterfly sviins up
on tlje waVeJ, of the air. Alnd I shall
boys, who mpe minds to think and'get
knoAvledge , ikiidfeet to wralk, and hands
to workj rustiiwaj' in idleness.! j ,NOj
go out into fihis lovely world and work
andi be wise iii head, gobjd in' -heart,
and full-hatlied in propertyl tThen
you will be pit man, an ornament to
your., familv and a ..blessing ho the
world. ";?J.; I !
xthii'd m'tfk of a bad child is disobe
dience. WEen a dhild disobeys his
mother, or father, or Sunday school
teacher, he shows a bad mark. ! y Chil
dren obey yourarents" is1 a go0d and
wise c6mma Children ought to
obey' their.rrparents. -Disobedience'
aoes a gronr.neai oinarmin tne ?yoria.
It turned AcHm out of thelflowierv gar
den into a tyajrny wilderness. ! Xngels
lost their jbrit diomes in heaven by
dlsobediehce;( George Wdshiigton,
you know; wasa great man: . when he
had won gre?t -.victories, and droye the
British troofrom our country! and
made this land free ' from" thei r rule of
England; evfi',vbody was praising him.
His good ol mother said,! "George al- j
ways was m&pbedient boy..
For fhe Life Boat.
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For the Lifo Koal
A WORD TO PARI: NTS1,
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the face of the treinentl-
Mice o iy ami f rf rrrr xt1in Jm.
v babbatli bchools have ehect-
j 'ar eu mine iima. 11 w omti seem.
S 'i-J that, -all intelligent parents
WQiild give to them the
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weight of their whole influ
ence; woidd see,k to j ad-
i n k.
vance tnem m every possi
ble way, and
make them.
what they (are
designed
to .bethe
great nurseries of tlie Glmrch of God, -'-
Pious parents are 'apt to do this, for, -having
received their i relifrious train- T'
ing in thesei nurseries they properly Jj
aireci'ate iheir jiowcr for good. But CJ
irreligious peojue do: not It is tljen, Is l
I to the irrehifious fathei-s and mot! prs iti
those parents who have hitherto taken
little or nci interest in Stibbath Schools
that we .would , most affectionately
commend, ior their reflection, the fol-'
lowing significant statement: - I
In a certain village there wfcre ninety-eight
settled ' famines having chil
dren over ten years of age. In . tii;en-
ty-seven of them both parents were ' pi
ous '! In these twenty-seven families-
there were one hundred and twehty
five children over ten years old. Eighty-four;
or about licb-thirds of these
children were pious. 1 .
In nineteen of tlie nmety-eigM fami
lies only on'ext the parents, the iriotli
er with a single exeeptioar-was pious.
Of the ninety-five children they con
tained, thirty-one-one-third were pi-,
ous. '
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, In the remaining fifty-hvo families h
neithei parent was ' pious ! Of theii (l
one hundred and thirty-nine children
only thirtv-1 nnt lnn.tiwtti Tl fn, ' !t
illustrate iwmmenso power of 3
I)arentai mnuence lor good or ill. i Pi
ety in both parents; won . two-thirds of
their. little ones to Christ; in on!e pa
rent one-third; where no piety existed,
only one-tenth and they were saved
by the Sunday school) were lovers of
God ! - - ' i
WHAT ONE SABBATH SCHOOL
TEACHER CAN Z0.
About ten miles from Borden town,
Newi Jersey, 'is a villiage named Ileck-lesstown.-
lis name speaks its charac
ter. It has, for a long time, seemed to
bejorgotten by God and man. . One
earnest Christian oiened a. Sunday
school, having pity on the children-
For twelve years he toiled in that school
alone. A short time since there seem
ed to be some tokens of seriousness.
The pastor of the Baptist church of Ja--
cobstown wast called in. ; This pastor W
and the Sunday-school teacher were
the only known i professors of religion
in the town, j Among the dissolute and Sj;
mrniotis a work of rrace beo-an. ' . Fjftv r-v
three persons; have been baptised, sevr
enty(are hopefully converted, and the
work is spreading. Recklesstown has
ceased to be a reproach in the 'land.
Care bF DAUGnTEES.f-AcCording ,to
the old German custom, the" sons were
to walk to church after their father; fej
oui uie aaugnxers oeiore -tneir mom-;
er, to show that her eye should never
be off them. V
,i(ei.