"Rest comes at length, though life be long and dreary, And HEAVEN, the heart's true home, will come at last." PUZZLES FOR CHILDREN. BY UNCLE GEORGE. ANSWERS. 22. (1) Exodus xxv., 14. (2) 2 Sam. vi., 7. (3) 1 Chron. XV., 2-13. 23. Nazareth. 24.-Matt. ii., 23. 25.-(Rat, Gedaliah, Homer, Delilah). Ramoth-Gilead. QUESTIONS. 27. How many flowers are mentioned by name in the Bible? 28-Mention a passage in St. Matthew's Gospel where Jesus confesses Himself to be of earthly and of heavenly origin. 29. When Christ was crucified the chief priests, scribes, and elders bore testimony to a certain aspect of His private character, and in so doing showed that He had fulfilled a particular prophecy. Give the references in the Old and New Testament. 30.-Fourteen letters give the name of a monarch by whom Judah was conquered and the Jews led into captivity. 3, 4, 14, 8, 10, 1, another name for a load. 11, 2, 3, 14, 7, a wild animal. 3, 10, 13, 14, a native of the Polar regions. 5, 6, 4, 14, 9, a dairymaid's utensil. 12, 2, 10, 3, a prince slain beside a wine-press. JARROW-ON-TYNE.-On Whit-Sunday our School anniversary sermons were preached in the morning by the Rev. W. Howard; in the afternoon by the Rev. J. P. Goodwin; and in the evening by the Rev. B. S. Chambers. At each service the children sang select pieces, under the able leadership of Mr. A. Moody, accompanied with several instrumentalists. The singing gave such satisfaction that it was repeated, by request, the next Sunday afternoon. On Whit-Monday a tea-meeting was held in the school-room, which was well attended. After the adults were supplied the scholars were treated with tea, &c. Then a service of song was held in the chapel, under the presidency of the Rev. J. Coultas. Addresses were delivered at intervals by Messrs. J. A. Hall, T. M. Bittleson, G. H. Dexter, and the Rev. W. Howard. The whole of the services were a great success. The children collected as follows:-F. Moody, 11s. 8d. ; J. Moody, 10s. 7d.; J. Parkinson, 10s.; J. Scott, 9s. 1d.; Jane A. Bittleson, 3s. 8d.; Isabella Ridley, 2s.; Isabella James, 28.; E. M. Looney, 1s. 10d.; Ann Watson, 1s. 9d.; Mary Mitchell, 1s. 3d.; John Watson, 18.; Isabella Patterson, 1s.; Thos. Trotter, 18.; Others, 2s. 2d.; Total, £2 19s.; making in all, including collections, tea, and service of song, £15 108., being £10, within 1s., in advance of last year. We are happy to say our school is in a better condition than it has been for many years. A Band of Hope has been commenced in connection with it, which we believe to have been of great benefit to the school. With the blessing of God we hope for still greater success in the future. R. TINN, Secretary. 226 M THE CARAVAN. [AN has ever been a migratory being. He is such by the impulses of his nature and the necessities of his condition. If all stayed at home, and lived and died where they were born, the whole earth would never be peopled and cultivated. Then commerce, with all its advantages, could not be carried on unless there were those who were ready to go abroad and compass sea and land in the pursuit of trade. I was once asked by a widowed mother to see her son and dissuade him from his desire to follow a seafaring life. For the sake of the mother, who was distressed at the thought of her boy going away from her, I complied with her request; but I found I had no easy task to perform. The boy was a good and thoughtful boy, and he truly loved his mother, and it was for her sake partly that he wished to leave home. He thought he would in a few years make her more comfortable by taking to his proposed course of life than by staying with her to be a weaver or spinner in a cotton mill. Then he asked, how we should do at home, how England could keep all her manufactories agoing, if no one would go to foreign parts to fetch the required raw material? Yes, we believe it is God's will that we should go to and fro in the earth, and interchange with each other the products of its different parts. Let our readers, when they sit down to a well-spread table for breakfast some morning, just inquire where their tea, coffee, sugar, and other nice things which they see before them, come from, and then they will understand how much they owe to the enterprise of merchants. A caravan is the name of a company of travellers in the East, more particularly of merchants, who for their greater security proceed in a body through the deserts of Arabia, or other regions infested with robbers. Such a company have often more than a thousand camels to carry their baggage and goods; and as they walk in single file, the line is often a mile long. Proper officers are appointed to regulate everything during their march, the chief of whom has the title of Caravan-Bachi. The perils of a journey through an Arabian desert are very great even when it is taken by such large numbers together. In addition to their exposure to attacks from banditti, or bands of armed robbers, there are what we may call natural dangers quite as formidable. The extreme heat of the parched deserts and sandy plains generates a hot suffocating wind, called the simoom, which blows with disastrous effect to every living thing which it touches. Its approach is indicated by a redness in the air, and its fatal effects are to be avoided by falling on the face and holding the breath. Then the want of water is a privation most painful to endure, and sometimes nature sinks under it and death ensues. Pools are occasionally passed, and these the camels can sniff when at a great distance from them. On doing so they begin to quicken their pace, which increases in speed till they reach the water at a full run, and are instantly on their knees to quaff the cooling and refreshing element. In different parts of the desert large buildings or inns are erected for the reception of travellers and the caravans-these are called caravanseras, or caravansaries. The building forms a square, in the middle of which is a spacious court, and under the arches or piazzas that surround it there runs a bank, raised some feet above the ground, where the merchants and travellers take up their lodgings, the beasts of burden being tied to the foot of the bank. In the upper part there are generally private apartments, the use of which is costly. In many of them, however, the hospitality is gratuitous, it being by no means uncommon for a pious Mussulman to establish, during his life or by will, one or more of these caravansaries. Perhaps the Psalmist refers to one of these inns when in Psalm cxix., 54, he says, "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." By TOM BROWN, Author of “ A Year at School," &c., &c. XV. THE DUNCE WHO BECAME A GREAT BOTANIST. HE subject of our present sketch, though a foreigner by birth, has attained such a world-wide fame, and has laid our own and other civilised nations under such obligations by his scientific labours, that he may fairly be taken as belonging to science rather than to any particular nationality. There needs, therefore, no apology for admitting him to the companionship of the British "dunces" who have preceded him in these pages. |