Last January and February my sufferings were so great, and brought me so low, that often I could not hold a book, nor see to read, and sometimes was not able to speak. I was brought to seek the Lord in the days of my youth, and have found that none can seek His face in vain.' I have proved that rather than one of His promises shall fail, He fulfils them double. I am forty-three years old, and have had eleven children, the youngest is nearly seven years of age."-H. R.

What a case to draw out our sympathies, to strengthen our hands, and, above all, to encourage the full unreserved reliance of the heart upon the faithful promises of a faithful God! Dear seeking ones, dear comers to Jesus, fear not! Jesus is true; He will fulfil every faithful word that has gone out of His lips.

Hail, ye happy mourners!

How blest your state to come is!

Ye soon shall meet with comfort sweet;
It is the Lord's own promise."

My young friends well know my anxiety upon the subject of the spread of popish errors in our land. What sad enemies to the rising generation are those abettors of the papacy who are eating Protestant bread to strengthen them to do Popish work! I mean the ritualistic teachers in our churches. How grievous that a ritualistic hymnbook and tunes is said to have reached a circulation amounting to nearly a million! I am

anxiously engaged in furnishing the young with a larger Hymn-Book than "Hymns of Truth," teaching the pure truth of God, and am also having prepared a Book of Tunes, which will contain a selection of some of our sweetest ancient melodies, with many written expressly for this work, in order that a simple and sweet style of

tunes, free from repetition, may be found in our Sunday-schools and congregations at a moderate price, without connection with what is of a popish tendency. We should be pleased if our friends would at once send orders for the Tune Book, that we may have some idea of the number we may print without loss to our fund. The price will be 1s. The book will contain about 120 tunes, arranged in full vocal score, and revised by an experienced organist, and perhaps the trebles of some twenty or thirty more.

BIBLE ENIGMA.

THE father of a heathen king, who sent letters and a present to a good king of Judah.

A foreigner, who put his trust in the Lord, and was therefore delivered when Jerusalem was taken.

A probable companion of St. Paul in some of his travels.

A faithful friend to a king of Israel in adversity. Paul's first convert in Achaia.

A woman of great beauty.

The man to whom Mount Seir was given for a possession.

A runaway servant.

A threshingfloor noted in the history of David.
The wife of the firstborn of a son of Jacob.

A man who overthrew the counsel of a traitor.
A king whom the children of Israel served eighteen
years.

A place where a king of Judah was slain by con spiracy.

The man who delivered Israel from the king of Mesopotamia.

A woman who showed kindness to the dead.
A nurse who was buried under an oak.

A man who Paul said had been a comfort to him.
The first city.

A priest who was slain at the destruction of Jeru salem.

A king of Judah who loved husbandry.

The dwelling and burial-place of a judge of Israel. The king whom God called his shepherd.

A brother of Nehemiah.

A man whose descendants were noted for their obedience.

The tribe to which the third king of Israel belonged.

A man who was punished for blasphemy.

The uncle of Absalom.

A man who said to Abraham, "God is with thee in all thou doest."

A false prophetess.

One whose affections were set on things below.

The place where a lion was slain.

A prophetess who dwelt in the college at Jerusalem.

A son of Judah.

A river, near which a prophet saw a vision.

The king whom David called, "The Lord's anointed."

A celebrated queen.

A Canaanite who was a friend of the first Hebrew. A giant, and the brother of a giant.

The accuser of a servant of the Lord.

The place where an angel appeared to a woman. A fellow-prisoner of St. Paul.