XV.

IN the entry, Donald met Charlie Perkins, a little boy about six years old, who lived in the second story just over Mrs Fraser's. His father was a policeman, a sober, temperate man, of good moral character, but without God. Little Charlie had never been taught to pray, or to reverence God's holy day, or to go to the Sabbath school or the sanctuary. to read, but had told him nothing about his relations to God or eternity. He was a bright little fellow, and very fond of Donald. He said, as Donald came out,―

His mother had taught him

"Where are you going?"

"To Sabbath school."

"Oh!"

Donald looked at him lovingly for a moment, and then said,

"Wouldn't you like to go

"What do you do there?"

?"

their poetry in the Song of Deborah and Barak, Judges v.

"But will you please read Moses' blessing?"

Donald read Deut. xxxiii. 23: "And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south."

"Moses' blessing," said Mrs Fraser, "refers to their possessions, and Jacob's to their character.

Josephus describes their territory as 'an earthly paradise, where the choicest fruits grew luxuriantly, and where eternal spring reigned.' Instead of reading the west and the south,' it might be translated the sea and the south, referring, no doubt, to the fact that they had so much of the coast of the Sea of Galilee on their eastern border.

"Now we come to the blessing on Joseph, which you see is much longer than any of the rest."

"What is meant," said Donald, "by Joseph is a fruitful bough?'"

"It was a prophecy. His descendants were to be very numerous. Two of the most important tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, were descended from Joseph. Ephraim became more powerful than

When they reached the school, Donald took Charlie to the superintendent, who placed him in the infant class.

He sat very still; but his bright, black eyes fairly sparkled with interest as he watched all that was going on. At the reading of the chapter he listened very attentively. It was the second chapter of Matthew, giving an account of the birth of Christ. When prayer was offered, Charlie did

the same as the other children.

The hymn was one that he had heard Donald sing, and so he could sing it, too.

When all the preliminary exercises were over, the glass doors of the infant-class room were closed, and the work of instruction began. Miss Bates was not present, but a very delicate-looking young lady was in her place.

She began by telling them that Miss Bates was sick, and that she had requested her to take her place. "Now," she said, "I am very sorry that your teacher is sick, but I am glad to have an opportunity to talk to so many dear little children."

When she began to speak, her voice seemed very feeble, but as she went on it grew stronger. She was so much in earnest that she made all the