ped in India, and consecrated to Vishnu, one of the false gods. Here we may learn that some people seem to have more graces and attractions than others, can give more pleasure to those about them, being able to work, and read, and sing; if this is so, we must try and use the gifts which come from God, and so, as the sweet Jasmine spreads itself and its perfume far and near, must we try and let our influence for good be felt by all around, and particularly by those amongst whom our lot is cast. As the root of the Jasmine is bitter, so let us remember that however pleasant and attractive we may appear, unless our graces are the fruit of careful training, in the garden of the Lord, there will be a "root of bitterness" which will "spring up," and "trouble" us, and lead us to forget Him, from Whom we receive our good qualities, and perhaps lead us to worship them instead of Him to Whom we owe all thanks and praise.

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Freely ye have received, freely give."

The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be

gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient."

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness."

The Daisy.

There is a flower, a little flower,
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.

It smiles upon the lap of May,

To sultry August spreads its charms, Lights pale October on his way And twines December's arms.

Within the garden's cultured round
It shares the sweet Carnation's bed,
And blooms on consecrated ground
In honour of the dead.

The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild bee murmurs on its breast, The Blue-fly bends its pensile stem That decks the skylark's nest.

'Tis Flora's page; in every place,
In every season, fresh and fair,
It opens with perennial grace
And blossoms everywhere.

On waste and woodland, rock and plain

Its humble buds unheeded rise, The Rose has but a summer reign,

The Daisy never dies.

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The Daisy.

INNOCENCE.

E all know the lowly pure little Daisy, with its circle of white petals tipped with pink, which appears in the fields in the

month of April dotting the dotting the ground with its snow-white stars. From our having known this pretty flower in the days of our earliest years each petal seems to speak to us of home, and from its look of childlike innocence we may call the Daisy the youngest member of our "cheerful family." It is a flower which is dear to every heart. We have one friend, a lady, who was called to make her home in Canada, who had so great a longing to see the flower of her childish days that she wrote to her friends in England to have some Daisies sent out to her. She wished to transplant them to the land of her adoption, and planted them in her Canadian garden. What was her disappointment, when the flowers blossomed, to find that they were double! The double Daisy is a handsome flower but fails to speak to the heart the same

lesson which is taught by the common white Daisy of our childhood, which seems to speak of the pleasure, and happiness, and childlike joy, which is too often lost as years of sorrow, and perhaps of unresisted sin and forgetfulness of our Father's Home, creep on, and we lose the lessons, and neglect the prayers, taught at our mother's knees. But we may still learn from the Daisy, that as each petal is tipped with pink, so, if we strive that each thought or word of ours be beautified and purified by the sweet influence of God the Holy Ghost-we may hope through the work of true repentance to receive back much of the innocence given us in our baptism, and renewed again and again in our souls through the other means of Grace so liberally supplied to us in the Fold of Christ's Holy Catholic Church.

Occasionally may be seen the Daisy growing in a cluster with a large bloom at the top of the stalk and several smaller ones below, and often called by the cottagers, "Hen and Chickens."

"Keep Innocency and take heed to the thing that is right-that shall bring a man peace at the last"