Spa'ring-ly, moderately; func'tions, powers; a-gree'ably, pleasantly; par'ti-cles, little parts; e-scape', get away; pu'tri-fy, corrupt; Cal-cut'ta, capital of British India; dis-or'ders, diseases; or'i-gin, beginning.

IF, after exercise we feed sparingly, the digestion will be easy and good, the body lightsome, the temper cheerful, and all the animal functions performed agreeably.-Sleep, when it follows, will be natural and undisturbed; while indolence, with full feeding, occasions nightmares and horrors inexpressible. Observe, however, that the quantities of food and exercise, are relative things. Those who move much, may,

and indeed ought to eat more. Those who use little exercise should eat little. In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.

Another means of preserving health to be attended to is, the having a constant supply of fresh air in your bed-chamber. Sleeping in rooms exactly closed, and in beds surrounded by curtains, is a great mistake. No outward air that may come in to you is so unwholesome as the unchanged air, often breathed, of a close chamber. As boiling water does not grow hotter by longer boiling, if the particles that receive greater heat can escape, so living bodies do not putrify if the particles, as fast as they become putrid, can be thrown off. Nature expels them by the pores of the skin and lungs, and

in a free open air they are carried off; but in a close room we receive them again and again, though they become more and more corrupt. A number of persons, crowded into a small room, thus spoil the air in a few minutes, and even render it mortal, as in the black hole at Calcutta. A single person is said to spoil only a gallon of air per minute, and therefore requires longer time to spoil a chamber full; but it is done, however, in proportion, and many putrid disorders have their origin from this source.

Fore-fa'thers, ancestors; scep'tics, persons who doubt; pi'ous, godly; par-o'chi-al, parish; me-chan'ics, workmen; rev'er-ence, awful regard; af-fec'tion, love; ex-am'ple, pat

tern.

WHAT an invaluable blessing is it to have the Bible in our own tongue! It is not only the oldest, but the best book in the world. Our forefathers rejoiced when they were first favoured with the opportunity of reading it for themselves. Infidels may reject, sceptics may doubt, and the licentious may sneer; but no one who ever wished to take away this foundation-stone could produce any other equal to it on

which the structure of a pious mind, a solid hope, a comfortable state, or wise conduct, could be raised. We are told that, when Archbishop Cranmer's edition of the Bible was printed in 1538, and fixed to a desk in all parochial churches, the ardour with which men flocked to read it was incredible. They who could, procured it, and they who could not, crowded to read it, or to hear it read in churches, where it was common to see little assemblies of mechanics meeting together for that purpose after the labour of the day. Many even learned to read in their old age that they might have the pleasure of instructing themselves from the Scriptures.

It is recorded of Edward VI. that, upon a certain occasion, a paper which was called for in the council-chamber happened to be out of reach: the person concerned to produce it, took a Bible that lay near, and, standing upon it, reached down the paper. The king, observing what was done, ran to the place, and taking the Bible in his hands, kissed it and laid it up again. This circumstance, though trifling in itself, showed his majesty's great reverence for, and affection to, that best of all books; and his example is a striking reproof to those who suffer their Bibles to be covered with dust for months together, or throw them about as if they were of little value, or only a piece of useless lumber.

Buck's Anecdotes

17.-The Excellency of the Bible.

Great God! with wonder and with praise,

On all thy works I look;

But still thy wisdom, power, and grace,

Shine brightest in the book.

Here would I learn how Christ has died,

To save my soul from hell;

Not all the books on earth beside,
Such heavenly wonders tell.

Then, let me love my Bible more,

And take a fresh delight,

By day to read these wonders o'er,

And meditate by night.

Watts.

Cat'er-pil-lar, worm; cors'let, armour; gen'er-al-ly, commonly; con-cealed', hidden; dis-cov'er, observe; por'tion, part; sphere, globe or ball; lus'tre, brightness; brilliant, sparkling; di'a-mond, the most precious of all gems.

THE butterfly, like most other insects, is first produced as an egg; from this egg proceeds the larva, grub, or caterpillar; which, as soon as it is perfected, takes a new form, that of the chrysalis; and lastly, from the chrysalis emerges the perfect animal. The butterfly may be said to consist of three parts; the head, the corslet, and the body. The body is the hinder part, and is composed of rings which are generally concealed under long hair, with which a part of the animal is