self. She saw the long stick with which her father lit them, but she was far too little to reach them. Down-stairs accordingly she went, and with great labour dragged up a table, and climbed on to it, and tried again, but still she could not reach the lamps. Down again she went to seek for something more to stand on, when her eye fell on her mother's large Bible, which she carried up with great labour into the lantern, and laid it on the table. But now she thought, perhaps it would be wrong to stand upon the Bible she so much reverenced, and she paused a little before she did it, and prayed to God to help her to light the lamps. Then climbing up, she stood tiptoe on the book, and to her joy found she could just reach the lamps. In a minute all the lamps were lighted, and the lantern blazed out, to the joy of the sailors in the ships, the surprise and gladness of her father, and the shame and disappointment of the wicked wreckers on the shore.

Such is my little story. It is quite true; and as I have told it you, I have been thinking of other mariners and other wreckers than those on the coast of Cornwall. I have been thinking of a world of people all in danger of missing their way, and being for ever ruined by the results of folly and of sin. I have thought of wreckers in the shape of wicked men and youths, who would fain blight and destroy those by whom they are surrounded. And I have thought of the Church of God, with the light of truth, and the means of presenting the way of peace and safety in her possession, as a lighthouse for the world, in which even a child may help to kindle the lamps, and save some poor voyager for eternity from destruction and from woe. Look round you, dear child, and see if you cannot light some lamp of truth and love which shall help to save and bless your fellow-men.

"ONLY ONE BRICK UPON ANOTHER."

EDWIN was one day looking at a large building which they were putting up just opposite to his father's house. He watched the workmen from day to day, as they carried up the bricks and mortar, and then placed them in their proper order.

His father said to him, "Edwin, you seem to be very much taken up with the bricklayers; pray what may you be thinking about? Have you any notion of learning the trade?"

"No," said Edwin, smiling; "but I was just thinking what a little thing a brick is, and yet that great house is built by laying one brick upon another!

"Very true, my boy; never forget it. Just so is it in all great works. All your learning is only one little lesson added to another. If a man could walk all round the world, it would be by putting one foot before the other. Your whole life will be made up of one little moment after another. Drop added to drop makes the

ocean.

"Learn from this not to despise little things. Learn also not to be discouraged by great labours. The greatest labour becomes easy if divided into parts. You could not jump over a mountain, but step by step takes you to the other side. Do not fear, therefore, to attempt great things. Always remember that the whole of that great building is only one brick upon another."

USE ME!

MAKE use of me, my God!
Let me be not forgot;
A broken vessel cast aside-
One whom thou needest not.

I am thy creature, Lord, And made by hands Divine ; And I am part, however mean, Of this great world of thine.

Thou usest all thy worksThe weakest things that be; Each has a service of its own,

For all things wait on thee.

Thou usest the high stars,
The tiny drops of dew,
The giant peak, and little hill;
My God, oh use me too!

Thou usest tree and flower,
The rivers vast and small,
The eagle great, the little bird
That sings upon the wall.

Thou usest the wide sea,
The little hidden lake,
The pine upon the Alpine cliff,
The lily in the brake,

The huge rock in the vale, The sand-grain by the sea, The thunder of the rolling cloud, The murmur of the bee.

All things do serve thee hereAll creatures, great and small : Make use of me, of me, my God, The weakest of them all.

COLOMBO, CEYLON.

On the other page we give a view of the town of Colombo, in Ceylon. This field of labour will ever be interesting to the Baptist churches in England, on account of the good men who have lived and laboured there, and of the success which, by God's blessing, has attended their labours. At present our brother Mr. Allen labours there. There are two churches existing in Colombo; one in that part of the city called the Pettah, composed chiefly of burghers and persons of European extraction; the other in the suburb called the Grand Pass, and consisting of native Singhalese Christians. Ten Singhalese churches also exist in various parts of the district around Colombo, under native pastors, but who are dependent on the Society, the missionary at Colombo exercising a general superintendence over them. Mr. Allen's own church consists of fifty members; the other churches consisting of various numbers-one having as many as fifty-one, and another as few as three. It will be interesting to our young readers to be told—as showing that all may do something-that this church of three members made a collection of fifteen shillings during the past year, and gave it to the mission as a proof of their love.

In all the churches God's blessing is more or less apparent. Three have been baptized during the past year by Mr. Allen; eight at Gonawelle, by a native brother, Mr. Sylva; while four have been baptized by another native, Mr. Perera; and even to the church of three members one has been added during the year.

We ought to add, that there is another mission in Ceylon, besides that at Colombo. Our brother Mr. Carter has laboured usefully at Kandy. Especially has Mr. Carter been useful in the translation of the Scriptures into the Singhalese. The printing of the New Testament, under his supervision, has already proceeded as far as the end of the First of Corinthians; and when our brother last wrote, he hoped very speedily to complete the printing of the whole.

Thus modestly and quietly do our brethren in various parts of the world pursue their work. They have no other reward—and they