the time of Noah to this year 1825 ? This great flood was 2348 years before Christ. 3. Moses was 40 years old when he slew the Egyptian, and fled from the land of Egypt; 40 years after that, God appeared to him in the burning bush; and 40 years afterwards God commanded him to go up to mount Nebo, and die. What was his age at his death? 4. The building of St. Paul's church cost 800,000l.; the royal exchange 80,000l.; the monument 13,000.; Blackfriars bridge, 152,840l.; Westminster bridge 218,800l.; and the Mansion house 40,000l. What was the expense of the whole? 5. How many chapters are there in the Old Testament? 6. How many chapters are there in the New Testament? And what is the number in both together? The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men; teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soerly, righteously, and godly, in this sent world. Titus ii. 11. side of she river, and left the child's sister standing some way off to see what would become of the child. And king Pharaoh's daughter was walking by the side of the river, and she saw the basket; and the babe cried, and she pitied him, and said she would take care of him. And the child's sister came up, and said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I fetch a woman to nurse him for you?" And she said, "Go." So the girl went, and fetched her own mother, And Pharaoh's daughter said, "Nurse this infant for me;" and she took the child, and nursed him. And, when he grew up, Pharaoh's daughter took care of him, and she called his name Moses, and she loved him as if he had been her own son. Questions to be asked, after the child has read the Lesson. Q. What did the Israelitish woman do with her little son? A. She hid him for three months. A. She was afraid that Pharaoh's Q. What did she do with him afterwards? A. She put him in a basket of bulrushes, and laid him by the river. Q. Who found him there? A. King Pharaoh's daughter. Q. Who was watching to see what would become of the infant ? A. His sister. Q. What did she say to Pharaoh's daughter? A. Shall I go, and fetch a nurse for the child? Q. What did Pharaoh's daughter answer? A. She said, Go. Q. And whom did his sister call? Q. What did Pharaoh's daughter call the child? A. Moses. Q. Did she love him? A. Yes, and treated him as if he had been her own son. (To be continued.) True religion teacheth us pious and charitable respects to our governors.Bishop Hall. NATURAL HISTORY. THE GALL NUT. It is In that EXAMINE that curious gall nut. formed on the leaf of a tree. part of the leaf in which the female gall insect makes a hole for the pur. pose of depositing an egg, she discharges a peculiar fluid, which, by preventing the sap from passing in its natural course, causes a gradual enlargement, which becomes the habitation of the future insect, when hatched from the egg deposited there by the mother. In the autumn, this caterpillar changes into a fly, and gnaws a passage through the ball. These gall nuts form one of the ingredients of ink, and are also used in medicine.Dialogues on Natural History. AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS. Pray do you know the meaning of the word amphibious? I think I do. Does it not mean an |