war and eaten would appear at the judgment-sest Christ? And the teachers answered, “Yes; all will there-all the dead will be there, and all now living be there, and every one will be judged according to deeds done in the body, whether they have been go or whether they have been evil." The natives be very excited and alarmed as they began to count up persons they had cruelly treated and killed and eaten, and thought, we shall meet these persons again at the bar of Jesus, and the bravest heart was filled with ter The chief was also afraid. He thought of all the pep he had wronged and killed, and the prospect of mating his victims again amazed and confounded him. H inquired how he could escape condemnation, and told only by repentance toward God and faith in Jess Somehow his mind was very dark. He could not us stand the glad tidings of forgiveness; still he could t help feeling that perhaps the teachers could save him in some way from a just condemnation, and so he dare even nod his head to the two messengers, and thus give the signal for the murder of the teachers. At length party separated; the chief and his friends went home, and the teachers retired to rest, knowing nothing of the extreme peril, and of the wonderful way in which God had directed the conversation to the doctrine of thi resurrection, and thus preserved the lives of his servanti Next morning the chief plainly refused to put them to death, and the messengers embarked in their canoe threatening the bitter vengeance of their Warrior-chie The canoe was soon lost in the distance, and the teachers were safe for a little while longer. On their arrivals home, the chief of the Isle of Pines became furious, an commanded that on a given day all his warriors should be ready, with their war-canoes, to sail over to New

brightly as it does now, and the moon by night; ba neither of them ever saw, on sea or land, on hill or plast, one stain of sin in all England during those centuries that separated the Creation from the destration of man by the waters of the Flood. landed on our shores I cannot tell.

When à fent It may have be But I can tell yo

twenty-five or thirty centuries ago. how it came. The first man that landed on these sha brought it with him. It formed a part of the very firs freight that crossed the sea from the Continent the British Isles. And nothing could have kept it if man himself was to come in. Let him do wit might for a thousand years, and then let him sit dhe boat that carried him, and all that it contained, expi his own person, yet yain would be all his efforts to hovy it out: the man has it in his soul; it is as insepabir from him as if it were a part of himself; and, the first tread of human foot on English sand or if the hitherto virgin soil of old England was polluted i became the abode of sin.-Juvenile Missionary Me sine of the United Presbyterian Church.

THE GIPSY TEA-PARTY.

(From the Missing Link Magazine.)

DEAR FRIEND,-I lately had the pleasure of being pre at a tea-party given by some kind ladies and friends a large number of gipsies, gathered together from the distant outskirts of London, These ancient wanders still love, like their forefathers, to dwell in tents. Is that large schoolroom there were (I suppose) sh sixty gipsies, men and women, their black eyes sparkling with a brilliancy peculiarly their own.

Several of the women possessed no small share of beauty, and all had sought by their neat and respectful appearance to do honour to the kind entertainers who were personally waiting upon them. Some baby gipsies were present, and the roving mothers seemed as loving and as tender as their more settled sisters.

Men, and lads, and wild rough boys were there too, enjoying such a tea as some of them said they had never seen before, with their skins brown as the earth they wander over, and their wondrous thick black matted hair, which had never known brush or comb. We sang the grace, and all went on happily till a certain kind lady began to address them, drawing a contrast between the word of God, "the good news," and the certain happy good future it revealed to all who believed it, and the lies the gipsies went about telling concerning fortunes that they knew could never come true. She was right, and meant well, but spoke without tact; and a bright little gipsy, in a scarlet cloak, fired up in a rage, and said, “Many told lies, and fortunes also, besides gipsies, and she was not coming there to be told she was a liar."

This brought the lady's address to a conclusion, and Mr. Burns, the missionary to the gipsies, soon, by a few kind words, put all right again. Soon after this a young gentleman accused one of the matted-haired boys of stealing his pocket-handkerchief, which caused a tremendous burst of indignation.

The tea finished, we all rose and sang the hymn

"O for a heart to praise my God!"

and a gentleman read Luke xi., and Mr. Burns offered prayer. All behaved very reverently. He addressed them nicely on having no continuing city here; and