and the hills and mountains sitting in rows like friendly giants.

Recollect how many rivers and ponds there are, and how beautiful and wonderful water is in almost every place that you can think of. Think of all the rivers running to the sea, thousands of rivers, all over the earth, doing this every day, rolling along, and getting wider and wider, and at last mixing with the ocean.

Then you must shut your eyes for a minute, and try to think of the sea in a picture all round the round world, always moving and rolling, with a ship here and there, like a dot, on the great waves.

Then try to think of some things which you have not seen of the ice at the top and the bottom of the world, at the places they call the Poles, where the wolves and the white bears are.

Think of great forests of fir trees and pine trees such as you have seen, only a great deal larger; and think of palm trees and great bushes, or jungles, where there are lions and tigers and panthers and dreadful snakes.

Think of the heat and the cold, and the difference the sun makes in a day to the different parts of the world, and the people in different parts of the world.

Then think of the thousands of millions of men and women, and children there are: white men, black men, red men, brown men. Think of the different

sorts of food they eat, and the different ways in which they make their shelter from the weather.

Some eat rice, and some eat meat, and some eat fish, and nearly all eat bread. Some live in tents, some live in brick houses, some live in wooden houses, and some live nearly always in boats. Some fight with daggers, some with guns, some with bows and arrows, and some with tomahawks.

Then think of all the shops, and the places where people make things, and the churches and other places where they go to say their prayers.

And remember all the different sorts of music, and yet how alike they are; because in nearly every place where there are men and women they have found out how to make a flute, a harp, and a drum, although these are sometimes made very badly.

Then you can think of all the fires the people light all over the world to sit by and to cook their food by; and all the fish going about the sea and the rivers-whales, and sharks, and salmon, and trout; and all the coaches and carts, and the reading and the writing, and the sitting down and the standing up, and shaking hands, and the rubbing of noses (for that is the way in which some savages make friends with each other), and all the mothers nursing their babies, and kissing their little boys and girls, and the fathers working, and the beautiful wind blowing, and all the different goings on.

Now you will have to shut your eyes, I dare say, to be able to think of some of these things; but when you have done it as well as you can, you will have thought of the meaning of the word "world."

As the day broke, one fearfully stormy morning, a large bark ran on a bank of sand, eight miles from the British coast, and lay there at the mercy of the tempest, filling with water. She rapidly began to settle, the waves breaking fiercely over her.

Her boats were knocked to pieces, her hatches were stove in. Eighteen men were in the rigging, clinging to the shrouds of that broken foremast; the mainmast was gone. No hope was in their hearts, no help was nigh.

But is there no hope, no help? They are seen from shore. No sooner is the word passed, "A wreck! a wreck!" than the gallant boatmen spring to the beach. "Man the lifeboat!"

Yes, but the waves are driving furiously in to the shore.

"Man the lifeboat!"