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RAGGED, dirty, ugly. hands and face were

LOVE FOR LOVE.

He had fallen in the muddy gutter. His black, his mouth wide open, and sending forth sounds not the most musical. A rough hand lifted him up and placed him against the wall. There he stood, his tears making little gutters down his begrimed cheeks. Men, as they passed, laughed at him, not caring for a moment to stop and inquire if he were really hurt. Boys halted a minute to jeer and load him with their insults. Poor boy! he had not a friend in the world that he knew of. Certainly he did not deserve one; but if none but the deserving had friends, how many would be friendless?

A lady is passing. Her kindliness of heart prompts her to stay and say a kind word to the boys who are joking their companion, and laughing at his sorrow. Then she looks fixedly at the dirty, crouching lad leaning against the wall. Why, John, is it you?' He removes one black fist from his eye and looks up. He immediately recognizes her; she had taught him at the ragged school.

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'O, ma'am, I'm so bad?' She has him examined, then takes him to the hospital. Afterward she visits him kindly and frequently. A year passes by. There is a fire one night. A dwelling-house is in flames. The engine has not yet arrived. The inmates cannot be rescued. A boy is looking on. Suddenly he shouts: O, she lives here!'

Then he climbs the heated and falling stairs. He fights against the suffocating smoke. He hunts about till he finds what he sought. She has fainted; is dying, perhaps. No, he will save her! Five minutes of agonizing suspense, and she is safe in the cool air.

The bystanders are struck with the intrepidity of the boy. He only walks away, muttering: 'She didn't turn away from me when I was hurt.'

O friends, the stone looks very rough, but it may be a diamond.

GUM ARABIC.

THE most familiar objects about us are often the least understood, and probably few pause to ask the question, "What is gum arabic, and whence comes it ?' In Morocco, about the middle of November, that is, after the rainy season, a gummy juice exudes spontaneously from the trunk and branches of the acacia. It gradually thickens in the furrow down which it runs, and assumes the form of oval and round drops about the size of a pigeon's egg, of different colours, as it comes from the red or white gum tree. About the middle of December the Moors encamp on the border of the forest, and the harvest lasts a full month. The gum is packed in large leather sacks, and transported on the backs of camels and bullocks to seaports for shipment. The harvest occasion is one of great rejoicing, and the people for the time begin almost to live on the gum, which is nutritious and fattening.

TREBLE.

Winter's Days of Gloom are Past.

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WINTER'S DAYS OF GLOOM ARE PAST.
(A Sunday School Song for Whitsuntide).

Fine.

ALTO. Winter's days of gloom are past; Happier hours are come at last.

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Winter's days of gloom are past,
Happier hours are come at last.
Flowers and blossoms brightly spring;
Birds amids the branches sing.
Winter's days, &e.

Oh, how great the love and power,
Which protecteth bird and flower!
At the time appointed, still
Bidding each its station fill.
Oh, how great, &c.

Bird, they do not understand,-
We will own the guiding hand
Which hath led our youthful way
Safe to this rejoicing day.
Birds,-they do not, &c.

As with melody and song,
Joyously we pass along,

Let our hearts with rapture swell,
All our Father's love to tell.

As with melody, &c.

There are brighter paths than these,
Ways of sacred pleasantness,
Pastures ever green and fair:
Are our spirits travelling there?
There are brighter, &c.

Thorns sometimes may strew the road,
Yet it leadeth on to God:

Let us go, a pilgrim band,

To that bright and better land.

Thorns sometimes, &c.

YOU WILL BE WANTED.

TAKE courage, my lad. What if you are but a humble, obscure apprentice-a poor, neglected orphan-a scoff and a bye-word for the thoughtless and gay, who despise virtue in rags because of its tatters ? Have you an intelligent mind, untutored though it be? Have you a virtuous aim, a pure desire, and an honest heart? Depend upon it, some of these days you will be wanted The time may be long deferred; you may grow into manhood, and you may even reach your prime ere the call is made; but virtuous aims, pure desires, and honest hearts are too few not to be appreciated-not to be wanted. Your virtue shall not always hide you as a mantle; obscurity shall not always veil you from the multitude. Be chivalric in your combat with circumstances. Be ever active, however small may be your sphere of action. It will surely enlarge with every moment, and your influence will have continued increasement.

Obituaries,

ELLEN LAURA, the daughter of John and Ellen Berrett, was born at Steeple Ashton, in the county of Wilts, on the 22nd of September, 1848, and died in the same village on the 11th of May, 1873. From a child she was steady and thoughtful, and when about fifteen years of age, whilst hearing a sermon from the late Mr. Smith, of Chippenham, she was convinced of sin. Her parents being leading members of the society at Steeple Ashton, she at once joiued with them there. After some time she entered the mariage state with Mr. G. Gunstone. After several years her health began to fail, and it was found that she was in a decline. During her illness her sufferings were great. She had many temptations and troubles. Just before death her faith was tried severely, but her end was peace. Her last words were, 'O, Lord, have mercy upon me, and forgive me all my sins. Do, dear Lord, receive me. Dear Jesus, what keeps thee back? I'll give my all to thee. Get thee behind me Satan. I will trust in thee, dear Lord. Glory be to God, all is well, all is well! Not one pain too many, all is well, all!" May we meet her in heaven. G. BURBIDGE.

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HE purpose of this pyramid was neither a burial-place, a granary, nor an observatory. As a barrier to the encroachment of the sands of the desert' it would have been absolutely useless. When we prove what the purpose was not, we have at least eliminated some difficulties from the problem, even though we may not be able to prove positively what the purpose was. But men of capacious minds and large study have encamped for

months together at the base of this giant structure, and with the best of instruments, profuse expenditure of money, and that patience of investigation which true science demands, they have measured its lines and angles, within and without; they find but one theory which can satisfy the fact, viz., that the Pyramid of Cheops is a Monument of Measures, a metrological standard, a means of verifying the inch, the pint, and the pound, the latitude and longitude, the barometer and thermometer, and other metrological matters for the human race to the end of time.

Some of the data of the mechanism, as settled upon by the late surveys, will serve as an elementary paper. The pyramid stands on the edge of the rock-ridge, 120 feet above the valley of the Nile. As it was itself 484 feet high, the view from the top is very commanding. The entrance is upon the north side, 25 feet east of the centre, 49 feet above the base, and at the sixteenth course of stone from the bottom; the entrance roof is strengthened by cyclopean stones most admirably laid together.

The entrance passage, which we call Herodotus Avenue, is a square tube 320 feet long, 49 inches high, and 41 wide. This makes a tall man stoop. The passage descends at an angle of 26 degrees (and a fraction) a distance of 320 feet, and terminates at a point 102 feet below the base of the pyramid, into the vestibule, 27 feet long, of what we call the Primeval Chamber, which is 46 feet long, 27 wide, and 11 high (omitting fractions). Herodotus Avenue, therefore, is a

long stone telescope, through which, once a day, the eye of an observer could see (3,700 years ago) the then polar star, ‘Alpha Draconis,' three degrees below the pole (omitting all fractions). In other words, the sides of this tube were tangents to an angle of three degrees.

Returning back to a point 86 feet from the entrance, we climb up through a hole in the roof into a second avenue, that rises from the level at an angle of 26 degrees. Up this, which we call 'Pliny Avenue,' we pass the distance of 124 feet. The dimensions of Pliny Avenue are the same as Herodotus, viz., 41 by 49 inches. Striking off horizontally to the south, we see the corridor of a chamber which we call 'Ergasterion,' or workshop. It is probable the drawings, &c., of the architect of the pyramid were preserved here. Upon the eastern wall of the 'Ergasterion' a series of niches are seen, which, under the critical eye of a competent geometer (Prof. H. L. Smith, of Hobart College, Geneva, New York), have yielded every essential angle used in the draft of the pyramid. The 'Ergasterion' is square, but with a peaked roof. Dimensions 18 by 17 by 14 feet. I neglected to say that the corridor, or entrance passage to the 'Ergasterion,' is 136 feet long, and of the same dimensions as Pliny Avenue.

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Returning north along the level corridor, 136 feet to Pliny Avenue, we find it suddenly to enlarge into a noble gallery, 28 feet high and 7 feet wide, and 156 feet long. This is Cheops Gallery.' Our present space does not permit a description of this strange avenue. terminates in a horizontal passage, 22 feet long, lined with red granite, which proves to be a vestibule to what we call the Occult Chamber of the great Pyramid.' Its dimensions are 34 by 17 by 19 feet. This apartment is constructed entirely of red granite slabs, very massive and strong. By measurement, we find this room to be 140 feet above the base, 180 feet from the sides, and 340 feet below the original apex of the building. It was originally ventilated by two air-channels, now stopped up. On the western side of the room is a stone chest or coffer (not a coffin)-dimensions in inches 77 by 27 by 34. This gives a cubic capacity of 70,000 inches, which is the measure of the ancient English chaldron, four quarters wheat measure.

Above the 'Occult Chamber' there are five small, rude chambers, or rather cavities, called Chambers of Construction, one above the other, reaching through 70 feet, ingeniously designed to relieve the apartment from some of the immense pressure which otherwise might have crushed in the roof.

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