was not blessed with a Christian home.

He never knew what it was to spend a happy Sabbath there, or at the house of God and the Sabbath school.

2. The Lord's Day with him differed from the rest of the week only in its being a time when he could roam over the fields or through the woods without thought of lessons or school. This led him to choose for companions those who spent the Sabbath in the same way.

3. Bad boys and worse men became his intimate friends. He learned to hear God's name profaned without a shudder, and soon to swear himself. He went on in this course till he became the pest of the village, and at last ran away from home.

4. Years have passed, and his life has been what that boyhood promised. His whole history is a sad one: he is now in our State prison, under sentence of confinement for life for a great crime.

He

5. I once went to the prison and saw him. knew me, and seemed much distressed as he recalled the past. "Oh," said he, "if I had only been taught not to break the Sabbath! There is where my trouble began. If I had gone to the Sabbath school, and studied and loved the Bible, this prison would not now be my home;" and then he exclaimed earnestly, "Tell all the boys to keep the Sabbath.”

6. Thank God that you have been taught to regard the Sabbath as a day of rest and peace; a day to be spent in holy, happy thoughts of Jesus and his words; in worshiping our heavenly Father, and in works of mercy and love.

LITTLE DAISY'S HYMN.

THE real name of this little girl was Hattie; but,

I know not why, she was always called by the pet-name of "Daisy." At the time when her picture was taken she was five years old.

2. Her mother was Mrs. Mary S. Peake, a colored woman, who devoted the last part of her life to teaching the children near Fortress Monroe. Here she died, after laboring with all her strength to do good to the young who had been released from slavery.

3. She had a school of between fifty and sixty scholars, and among them her own "little Daisy," who learned to read simple little lessons in a very short time. Her mother taught in the Sabbath school as well as day school, and had the children sing beautiful Sabbath-school hymns.

4. One Christmas they had a festival. The schoolroom was adorned with evergreens, and they had singing and speaking of pieces, probably the first thing of the kind that the colored children ever had in the South. Little Daisy sang alone the whole of this hymn:

5. "I want to be an angel,

And with the angels stand;
A crown upon my forehead,

A harp within my hand:
There, right before my Saviour,

So glorious and so bright,
I'd wake the sweetest music,

And praise him day and night.

6. "I never should be weary,
Nor ever shed a tear,
Nor ever know a sorrow,
Nor ever feel a fear;
But blessed, pure, and holy,
I'd dwell in Jesus' sight,
And with ten thousand thousands
Praise him both day and night.

7. "I know I'm weak and sinful,

But Jesus will forgive;
For many little children

Have gone to heaven to live.
Dear Saviour, when I languish,
And lay me down to die,
Oh! send a shining angel
To bear me to the sky.

THE YOUNG SURVEYOR.

T was in the month of March, nearly one hundred

with

a companion some six years older, set out on horseback upon a surveying expedition in the woods and wild lands of Virginia.

2. To this youth, Lord Fairfax, a wealthy gentleman and large land-owner in that region, had intrusted the responsible and important business of exploring his vast domain. The land lay between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, and extended towards the Alleghany Mountains.

3. But how is it that one so young has such matters intrusted to him? He has not wasted his time while at school. He enjoyed play as well as any boy, and engaged in it heartily at proper times, but

in the hours for study he devoted himself as earnestly to that.

4. He became deeply interested in surveying, and laid out parcels of land in the neighborhood of his home, and kept his "field-books" as carefully as if his work were an important transaction instead of a mere school exercise. He did nothing by halves, or in a slovenly way; and thus in early life he established a habit which continued with him through a long and eventful career.

5. During this surveying expedition he gained his first experience of camp-life in the wilderness. He and his companion were out most of the time, by night as well as by day. At evening they rested around a fire, each one being his own cook, using forked sticks for spits to roast their meat, and chips for dishes.

6. At one time their tent was blown down; at another, the straw on which our young surveyor slept caught fire, and he was awakened just in time to escape being burned; and sometimes they were all drenched with rain.

7. Have any of you guessed who this young surveyor was? We see him here a noble boy, with a character already established for faithfulness, energy, and truthfulness. A few years later he performed a brilliant part in his country's service during the French and Indian wars. Still later he stood at the head of the armies of the country in the struggle for liberty.

8. This having been obtained, and with it peace,