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A CLINCHER.
Jjpffi UT one scholar in Miss Jones
\ls3Py Sunday- school class. The
mills had stopped, so the rest
of her scholars had moved away.
“ Jane,” she said to her one schol
ar, “I will give you a bit of work to do
for Jesus. Try and find this week
somebody to join our class. Do you
not know liltle girls who would love to
come, —children who have no school
or anybody to lead them to Jesus?”
“Yes,” said Jane, “I know a good
many, but I do not believe I could per
suade them to come.”
“Will you not try ?”
Jane now bit the end of her glove.
She did not like to promise, perhaps ;
but would she not try? Miss Jones en
couraged her, and handed her some
bright cards to give the children. Jane
looked pleased, but still said she was
afraid she could not succeed.
“ Only try, Jane,” said her teacher,
“ that is all all you can do ; and I think,
if you try, you will get one scholar in.
We shall be very glad of anew scholar.”
“We want more than one,” said
Jane. “ I would not try for one.”
“ I think one is worth trying for,”
said Miss Jones, u That makes a be
gining.”
Did she bring a scholar ! Well, no.
Next Sunday came, but Jane had not
tried. The Sunday after; not tried.
“0, I can’t, I know,” said Jane. That
is not true ; nobody can know until they
have tried. Success must depend upon
trying. If you want to succeed, try, try
again. And if any boy or girl, or man
or woman, will not do that, of course
they will do nothing ; and that is poor
business.
Jane did not try. I wonder if she
had heard of Sarah Colt. Sarah Colt
lives in Patterson, New Jersey. When
she was eleven year3 old, she started a
Sunday-school by herself. She gather
ed some of the mill children together,
and taught them from Sunday to Sun
day, until she had as many as sixty
scholars under her care. Think of that I
That is what Try does. “ Can’t ’ nev
er got into her company, you may be
sure.
Sarah is an old lady now ; and not a
very great while ago there was a Sab
bath-school celebration in Patterson,
when four thousand teachers and schol
ars marched by her house singing to the
dear old lady their best and sweetest
songs.
Childs P'apcr.
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
A GROUP OF TREES.
jSvSw R° y° u know what they
are? Some of them are
not familiar to little read
ers at the South, because they are
found almost exclusively in more
Northern localities. The tree with
broad, cone - like leaves, which you
see in the left of the picture, is the
Spruce—a beautiful evergreen which is
found in great abundance throughout
the Northern States and Canada, and
also to a certain extent in the mountain
regions of Georgia and other Southern
States. The timber of the spruce is
valuable in building.
The tall, straight tree, in the centre
of the picture, is the Beech, a forest
tree, common in most parts of the Uni
ted States and Canada, but most abun-
dant in the Northern States. It is a
very beautiful tree, growing frequently
to the height of eighty feet.
The tree on the extreme right is the
Elm, a favorite shade tree in most parts
of the United States. It is a majestic
tree, generally distinguished by its long,
swinging or pendulous branches. There
are many of these beautiful trees in
Macon, and their shade is most agree
able during the long, hot summer days.
They are so abundant in the city of New
Haven, Connecticut, that it is known as
“the City of Elms.”
* Copied, by permission, from Wood’s Class
Book of Botany, published by A. S. Barnes
& Cos., New York.
Time.
Few among the m6st thoughtful of us
have the least idea of the vital impor
tance of small portions of time. “I
will take but a moment.’ “We shall
be back in an hour,” is the thought
less apology for a waste of time.
"Time, by moments, steals away,
First the hour, and then the day;
Small the daily loss appears,
Yet it soon amounts to years.”
The Forests of the Sea.
l taf RE sea has not only its moun
tains, its fountains and streams,
r its forests, with their peculiar
plants, their splendor of color, their
lovely flower gardens and extended
prairies ; it has its landscapes, that are
more splendid and fairy-like than any
that are to be seen on earth. Let us
take the sea fire-garden for example.
It grows in such a beautiful form, and
its color is so lovely, that those who
have seen it growing out under the wa
ter say it surpasses their powers of de
scription.
The fire-gardens at the bottom of the
sea stretch over the prairies of the
ocean and climb up the mountain sides.
They are covered over with the beauti
ful gold-colored coral moss, and their
leaves wave to and fro with the cur
rents. The largest forest in the world
A GROUP OF TREES.*
is in the Sea of Saragossa, between
the Azores and Antilles, and it is six
times larger than Germany ; so that
Columbus needed fourteen days to sail
over it.
Rich and Noble Relatives,
I was reading lately of a good answer
made by a very little boy, who after
wards became a distinguished minister
of the Gospel. One of his school-fel
lows was boasting one day about the
number of rich and noble relatives that
he had. Then he asked the future
minister if there were any ( Lords in
in his family.
“Yes,” said the little fellow, “I
know there is one at least, for I ha\e
often heard my mother say that the
Lord Jesus Christ is our elder brother.
Rosy Cheeks.
“0, where do you get the red for
your cheeks?” said a pale, wan young
lady to a bright, laughing minx.
“ Where the roses get theirs—in the
air and sunlight,” was the quick reply
of rosy-cheeks.
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