food in winter than a particular kind of moss, which grows plentifully in Lapland, even under the snow. I am too tired with writing this long letter to relate anything more concerning the Laplanders at present. Adieu, my dear Laura, your affectionate brother, THEODORE. A LAMB OF THE SAVIOUR'S FOLD. MARY SOUTHON was born at Handcross, Sussex, on the 26th of September, 1840. At a very early age she learned to read, and was remarkably fond of her bible and such works as were suited to her capacity, especially the Children's Magazine edited by Mr. Winks, the Juvenile Missionary Herald, and the Bible. It was a source of trouble to her that she lived in a village where there is no chapel or Sunday school, but happily she had kind parents who were careful respecting her education, and gave her good instruction. For several weeks in each of the last three summers she took up her abode with her grandfather at Forest Row, where she went to the Sunday school, with which she was highly delighted. She learned cheerfully and correctly the lessons assigned her, and generally committed much more to memory than her teacher required. She longed for the Lord's-day to come that she might go to school, and would suffer neither rain nor dirt to keep her away. At the close of her last visit to Forest Row, she was very unwilling to return home, arising solely from her love to the Sunday school. She said mournfully, "Mother, I shall have no Sunday school to go to when I get home." Her father once said to her, "I wish we had a Sunday school here," to which she replied, "If there were I should go. I shall go when I go to Forest Row again." She frequently talked about the Sunday school, and of the kindness of her teacher, to whom she was strongly attached. She accompanied her parents to chapel until she was too ill to attend; one day, on seeing her sister ready to go, she burst into tears, and said, “Dont go without me!" Her disease was hooping-cough, which led to inflammation of the chest, and to decline. She loved her books to the end of her life, and when she became too ill to read aloud, she would read to herself a few words at a time, and then lie and look at them, and when she came to anything which she had learned at Forest Row Sunday school, she would point it out to her elder sister. At first she wished to recover, and expressed her fear that she should die, and one day prayed to God that she might not die that night. She soon, however, became quite reconciled to the thought of dying, and said, "I am not afraid to die now. I hope I shall go. to heaven," and a few hours before she died expressed a hope that she should die before morning. The day previous to her departure, still retaining her love to her books, she desired her father to read to her, when he read some hymns and portions of the Children's Magazine. She distributed her treasures, for such they were to her, as follows:-to her father her Bible, her hymn book to her mother, and her smaller books to her only sister. She died on the 21st of February, 1847, aged six years and nearly five months. Dear young reader! You, perhaps, can go to a Sunday school all the year round. Are you sufficiently thankful for the privilege? And do you avail yourself of it as you ought? Do you manifest similar love to good books and kind teachers? Can you say, “I am not afraid to die now ?" Remember, you too must die! and possibly very soon. Are you prepared? Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you pray for pardon and for a clean heart, entreating the Saviour to make you holy, and thus prepare you for a happy death? Forest Row, Sussex. G. V. BEHOLD the spring comes gaily forth, In varied forms now wait around Heaven's choicest gifts on man bestow'd; Luxuriantly they spread the ground, And speak the hand from whence they flow'd. Trees, plants, and shrubs, once more appear, And buds, and blossoms, bright and fair, The slumbering flowrets ope' their eyes, The verdant hills rejoice around, And woods, and groves, with mirth abound, The warbling songsters fill the air With joyous and melodious strains; And flocks, and herds, with pleasure share So beautiful, so fair is all, That Eden seems restored again; But scenes more noble and sublime Unwith'ring fruits and flowers supplies. In that blest land no change is known, Nor chilling winds, nor winter's storms; But spring in one perpetual bloom Displays its rich unfading forms. Newport, Isle of Wight. H. C. THE GENUINENESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. IN considering this subject we shall notice-I. The external evidence. II. The internal evidence. I. The external evidence.-1st. Contemporary writers, and those who flourished soon after, knew those books, and admitted them to be genuine by quoting them. n the first century, Clement of Rome quotes several passages out of Luke. Barnabas quotes Matthew seven times, and John once. Hermes quotes Matthew nine times. This is a proof that these books were written at the time they profess to have been penned. In the second century, Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, has eight quotations from Matthew, one from Luke, and several from John. Polycarp of Smyrna, in an epistle to the Philippians, has eight quotations from Matthew and one from John. Justin Martyr quotes thirty_passages from Matthew, nine from Luke, five from John, and one from the Acts. Irenæus quotes Matthew 251 times, Mark seven times, Luke 100 times, John 120 times, and the Acts several times. The quotations from the gospels and the Acts made by Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian, in the third century, are too numerous to mention. The genuineness of the epistles is also established in the same way. Clement, of Alexandria, quotes all the epistles. Irenæus quotes all but three. Justin Martyn quotes 2nd Cor., 1 Thes., Titus, Phil., Heb., James, 2nd Peter, 2nd John, and Jude. Polycarp quotes ten of the epistles of Paul, James, 2nd Peter, 2nd John, Jude, and Rev. Ignatius quotes all the epistles of Paul, the epistle of James, and 1 and 2 of Peter. Clement of Rome, quotes several passages out of Romans, 1 and 2 Cor., Phil., Thes., 1 Tim., Titus, James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Rev. Indeed, it has been said that almost every passage in the New |