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Child’s Morning Hymn.
The morning bright,
With rosy light,
Has waked me up from sleep.
Father, I own,
Thy love alone
Thy little one doth keep.
All through the day,
I humbly pray,
Be thou my guard and guide :
My sins forgive,
And let mo live,
Blest Jesus, by thy side.
Oh ! make me rest,
Within Thy breast,
Great Spirit of all grace—
Make mo like Thee,
Then I shall be
Prepared to see Thy face.
THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY.
8 GENTLEMAN being on
a visit once to a friend,
the conversation turned
on the great blessing
of the deaf and dumb
ns, when the former ex
his incredulity as to
those thus affected really under
p standing what they were taught.
Ilis friends proposed he should
visit the institution, in order that he s
might have the opportunity of judging
for himself. They accordingly went,
and he was requested to write on the
black-board, which was hung up in the
room where the children were sitting,
any questions he wished to propose.
He took the chalk and wrote,
“Who made all things?”
One of the little boys wrote —
“In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.”
lie again wrote,
“Why was it Jesus Christ came into
this world ?”
The answer given—“ God so loved
the world that he gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting
life.”
He took the chalk again, and wrote,
“ How is it that I can both hear and
speak, whilst you are deaf and dumb?”
The little fellow’s e}-es filled with tears
whilst he wrote underneath,
“Even so, Father, for so it seemed
good in Thy sight.”
This touching answer rebuked the un
belief of the gentleman, who retired, not
only convinced, but deeply affected.
Sensibility. —To delicate minds, the
unfortunate are always objects of respect,
as the ancients held sacred those places
which had been scathed by lightning.
Thus the feeling heart considers the af
flicted as touched by the hand of the
Deity himself.
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
AN OLD FBIEND.
boy or girl that
reac * s the eekly wi!i
doubtless recognize the
spry-looking fellow
whose picture we give below. You
fig* have often heard him tapping away
at an old pine tree, and it may be
} y Oll Dave wondered what he
I was doing it for. We will tell you.
The Woodpecker builds his nest in the
hollow of dead trees, and sometimes when
you hear him he is making a hole in the
tree where he intends to build his nest.
But very often ho is after something
to eat. The Woodpecker lives on insects
and worms, and these he finds in the old
trees where you see him at work. When
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he finds an ant’s nest in a hollow tree, he
<>-ocs some distance up the tree and
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digs a hole through the sound part until
he reaches the hollow, up which the ants
are passing in a continued stream, back
and forth. Through this hole he thrusts
his long, keen tongue, which is rough
like a file, and barbed at the end, and
covered over with a glutinous substance,
to which the ants or other insects adhere.
They are then drawn into his mouth, and
this operation is repeated until he has
satisfied his hunger.
There are more than twenty-five differ
ent species of woodpeckers found in North
America, but the one most common at
the South is known as the Red-headed
Woodpecker. He is about seven and a
quarter inches long, and his wing meas
ures four and a half inches. lie is very
prettily marked with black and white,
and has a tuft of brilliant red feathers on
the top of his head, from which he takes
his name. Ho is a friend to the farmer,
and should never be shot, as he lives on
insects which would otherwise prove very
destructive to vegetation.
KINDNESsTtO ANIMALS.
Sig|§'UßlNG the year 1842,
OippSi the then youn g Lord
Dorchester, son of Earl
f' Carnoven, at a meeting
fjgL ** ~ of the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
Jr mals, in Exeter Hall, delivered the
(S’ following address. He was then
iff only twelve years old. It was made
to second the resolution, “ That the sub
ject of humanity to animals • should be
made a matter of special instruction in
all our National Schools
“ Ladies and Gentlemen : lam but a
little boy; but no child is too young to
care about dumb animals, and no child
can grow up to be a good man who
does not treat every animal with mer
cy and kindness. We wish to teach
children to be kind to animals, and I
am sure animals teach us many useful
lessons. The bee teaches us to be in
dustrious, the lamb to be gentle, and
true and faithful; and if all children
were industrious, true and gentle, I al
most think we should give grown per
sons much less trouble than we do.
When God made the world, He gave
a blessing to all the animals. He
created all of them before He created
man. God’s first words to animals were
good and kind words, and God will
not love any man or child who does
not show them pity and kindness. In
Turkey, where I went with papa and
mamma, the little boys and girls will
not hurt dumb animals, and it is a shame
that Christian boys should do what Mo
hammedan boys would not think of do
ing. But when English children are
taught to know that it is wrong to hurt
animals, they will find more pleasuie in
protecting than in injuring them.
“ I hope, ladies and gentlemen, you will
encourage this plan of teaching children
their duty to dumb animals; and I am
sure, if you do so, the animals will be
much happier, and the children much bet
ter than they are.
“I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for
having heard me so kindly, and I beg to
second the resolution.”
JGST’As we go on in life we find we can
not afford excitement, and we learn to be
parsimonious in our emotions.
—
&2T Live honest and be happy.
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