LITTLE EMMA. LITTLE Emma was ten years old. She had been for two or three years a constant scholar in the Sabbath school. Opposite her name, in her teacher's class-book, every Sabbath, was the number of a book noted-taken, returned. She was taken sick. Day after day she was confined to her little bed. The disease assumed a more malignant form. The skill of her physician was baffled. The anxiety of her parents for her recovery was written in their countenance. Little Emma discovered it, and asked her kind mother-' Do you think that I'll get well?' Her mother replied-' I cannot tell you, my dear child; you are very sick.' 'I know I am,' little Emma said; 'I know, too, if I do not recover, I have a home in heaven, which my dear Saviour prepared for me.' The disease was accomplishing its design upon her little form, She grew more feeble, but her hopes grew brighter and brighter, and her conversation more heavenly. Of death she spoke without a tear-of her Saviour with emotions of love. ters around her bedside. Taking each, separately, by the hand, she asked their forgiveness, wherein she had wronged them, and said, I forgive you." After she had thus forgiven, and asked the forgiveness of her family, she took her mother affectionately by the hand, and requested her to distribute her toys and articles of dress to this and that member of the family. Hav. ing disposed of her little possessions, she said: 'Now, I am prepared to die. I never more shall meet you upon earth-never more go to Sabbath school. I am done, soon, with the pain of this life. I go to meet my dear Saviour. My desire is that you may so live as to meet me in heaven. Farewell.' DEACON TODD. SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE ROAD. -Going out to church in the country, one sabbath, we met a company of boys playing in the road. Says the old man, 'We'll open a Sunday school here. I see several pupils that need teaching.' As we rode up the deacon checked his horse, and called them around him, telling them that he had I know,' she would say, 'that something to say to them. They he died for me.' The last day of her stay upon earth was at hand. She said "Mother! I know that I never can get well. I soon must die !' Her mother asked, 'Do you want to die and part with father, mother, brother, and sisters, or live ?" 'Oh, mother!' she replied, 'I love you much, my father, brothers and sisters much, my Sabbath school, playmates and companions, but I love my dear Saviour more, and with him I desire to be.' She was sensible of her approaching dissolution, and called her parents, and brothers and sis readily came; for there was something so bland in his manner, that even children, to whom he was a stranger, seemed to ap proach him with confidence. 'Boys,' said the old man, '1 want to teach you all two pretty lines of poetry, and I'll not charge anything for it.' The boys stared at each other, and at him; but the deacon was in earnest, and they saw it. 'Now, I want you all to repeat together-We,' said the deacon. We,' repeated one or two boys. 'Must.'' Must,' said all. 'Not.'' Not,' said they all. 'Either work or play. Now, all together. 'We must not either work or play, Because it is God's holy day.' 'There now, boys, that's a good lesson. Run home, like good little boys, and tell your mothers that old Deacon Todd taught you those two pretty lines." As we rode off, the old man I called out, "O boys, you must teach them to all your little brothers and sisters.' 'Y-e-s sir,' shouted they, every one at the top of his voice. 'There, now,' said the old man. 'didn't I tell you we'd have a Sunday school?' DEAF AND DUMB BOY.-In a lecture on institutions for the deaf and dumb, lately delivered at Louth. Mr. Collier read several letters written by deaf and dumb children, one of which, by a pupil at the Claremont Deaf and Dumb Institution, was addressed to his late majesty George IV. on occasion of his visit to Ireland; and which we transcribe for the amusement of our readers :'My dear George, I hope I will see you when you come to Dublin, I never saw you. I am sorry that you never did come here to see the deaf and dumb pupils. Did you ever see the deaf and dumb in London? The boys and girls are very much improving and very comfortable here. All the soldiers in the armies belong to you. I think you give a great deal of money to them. You are very rich. I am very much pleased with writing a letter to you. am much polite and very fond of you. How many brothers and sisters have you? Should you like to see me in Dublin? I could not go to London, for there is too much money to pay to the captain of the ship for me. I am an orphan, and a very poor boy. I love God very much, because he is the Creator of all things, and sent his Son to save us from sin. He supports and gives us every I thing, and makes us alive in the A LITTLE GIRL'S PRAYER O FATHER, bless a little child, May never falsehood in her heart, LIFE'S FIRST MORN. Hymn written for and sung by the Children of Ram's Episcopal Chapel, at Homerton, Middlesex, on 16th May, 1847.-Sermon by the Bishop of Oxford. In life's first morn of early youth, O Lord be thou our guard and guide: And may we never turn aside. With failing strength and fading Still may thy love our hearts engage, And sanctify life's closing hours. And when we come to yield our breath, Prepar'd for that last mortal strife,, May we be faithful unto death, And then receive a crown of life. July 4.-An aged christian was once asked, by some thoughtless people, why he deprived himself of so many worldly pleasures. It is all very well,' said they, 'to serve God, but you ought to serve yourself too.' That is the very thing,' replied he, 'that I am trying after; for I have long since found out, that I get ten times more in obeying God, than I do in obeying my own evil heart.' Walk humbly with your God, In paths of truth and love; I. SAMUEL VI. 9.-'It was a chance that happened to us.' July 11-A careless sailor, on going to sea, remarked to his religious brother :-'Tom, you talk a great deal about religion and providence, and if I should be wrecked, and a ship was to heave in sight and take me off, I suppose you would call it a mer ciful providence. Its all very well, but I believe no such thing -these things happen, like other things, by mere chance, and you call it providence, that's all !' He went upon his voyage, was wrecked, and remained upon the wreck three days, when a ship came to their relief. He returned, and when relating the circumstance, said to his brother, 'O Tom, when that ship hove in sight, my words to you came in a moment into my mind, it was like a bolt of thunder; I have never got rid of it; and now I think it no more than an act of common gratitude to give myself up to Him who pitied and saved me.' Thy wisdom, power, and goodness, Lord, ZEPHANIAH iii, 17.- The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.' June 18.-A little child, during her last illness, was wont to say to her mother, 'I long to be there,' meaning heaven. There we can praise him all the time; and the blessed Saviour will rejoice to hear us too; it makes me feel very happy.' Zion! how glorious to behold! And let the faint be strong! Sing, sing ye pilgrims on your way, PSALMS XXXiv. 9.-O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.' June 25.-A pious woman, in the days of persecution, used to say she should never want, because her God would supply all her need. She was taken before an unjust judge, for attending the worship of God, who rejoiced in seeing her, and said he often wished to have her in his power, and would now send her to prison; and then,' asked he with contempt, 'how will you be fed?' She replied, If it be my heavenly from your table. This was literFather's pleasure, I shall be fed ally the case; for the judge's wife, being present at her exami. the firmness of the woman, took nation, and greatly struck with care constantly to send her food His eye regards the just; Who make the Lord their trust. Printed and published by Joseph_GILLETT, of No. 3, Clarence Street, Chorlton-upon Medlock, in the parish of Manchester, at the Office of GILLETT and MOORE, No. 2 Brown Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster-JULY 1st, 1847. 170 PENN'S TREATY WITH THE AMERICAN INDIANS. became a preacher, and shortly after an author of various works. We cannot here trace him in his further sufferings in Newgate, his travels on the continent, his labours at home, and his domestic union and settlement. His father being dead, to whom a debt was owing from the govern ment, Penn, in 1680, petitioned Charles II. for letters patent for a certain tract of land in America, in lieu of the debt. His chief object was to spread his principles on the new continent, and to establish a sort of new empire on an improved model. In the following year, the grant was made under the name of Pennsylvania, which the king gave the state in honour of Penn's father. He next published an account of Pennsylvania, and offered lands for sale on advantageous terms. He then drew up a frame of government, carefully guarding the rights of conscience, and having sent over commissioners and a number of passengers in three ships, he wrote an admirable and interesting letter to the Indians, explanatory of his intentions and views in settling among them. He afterwards obtained a fresh grant of land called the Territone, and sailed himself for America. middle section of the State is very mountainous, and only partially settled. The population of Philadelphia is 200,000. The whole city has an air of neatness, repose, and contentment. The population of the entire State is 1,347,672. From a recent census, it has 1633 churches, 1046 ministers, and 179,904 communicants. The ministers are supported by rents and voluntary contributions. The following passage from Buckingham's America, will illustrate our Engraving:-' After an interchange of congratulations, Penn addressed the Indians, through the medium of an interpreter; and the following was the substance of his address:-He appealed to the Great Spirit, whom both parties acknowledged as the searcher of hearts, for the sincerity of his desire to live at peace with all men. They had come unarmed, because it was not their custom to use weapons of any kind. He desired that whatever was done between them should be for the equal advantage of both races. He read the terms of the purchase agreed to by them for their lands, the amount of which has never been ascertained; but having obtained their assent to the sum as sufficient, it was then paid, and the various articles of merchandise which the Quakers had brought, were then tendered to the Indians as presents or gifts, At over and above the purchasemoney, which they also accepted. They were further offered the common use of the land for their own purposes, as long as they might need it. They were assured that they should be considered as of the same flesh and blood with the white race; and the parchment roll being presented to the Indians, to be by them preserved for their posterity, they signified their cordial assent to all the conditions it contained, and declared their determination to live It was in the year 1682, that Penn made his great treaty with the Indians, and founded his new city of Philadelphia, on the west bank of the Delaware, and 90 miles s. w. of New York. this period, he found about 3000 people on his territories; Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and English. The settlers and the aborigines were continually skirmishing, and this state of warfare continued till the time when the American states declared themselves free of England. Philadelphia is rendered memorable from its being also the city in which the declaration of independence was made. The State of Pennsylvania is twice the size of Scotland; the |