"O Lord, how manifest are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all."-Psalm civ. 24.

I subjoin, as an exercise for teachers themselves, the following hymn,-as one calculated to induce reflections on the scenes of nature, and direct the mind to that Being, who is the source of all excellence!

WRITTEN FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN,

By the Rev. John Black, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

3 When darkness had o'erspread the Hast thou e'er seen the

And with a mild and placid

arise,

Shed lustre o'er the face of night?

4 Hast

e'er wander'd o'er the plain,
And view'd the fields and waving
The flowery mead, leafy grove,
Where all harmony love.

5 Hast thou e'er trod the sandy
And the restless roar,
When rous'd by some tremendous
It's billows rose

6 Hast thou beheld the

dreadful form?

stream

Thro' nights dark gloom, sudden gleam,

While the bellowing thunder's

Roll'd rattling

7 Hast thou e'er

the heaven's profound?

the cutting gale,

The sleeting shower,

Beheld snow o'erspread the

biting hail;

The water bound

icy chains?

8 Hast thou the various beings

That sport the valley green,
warble on the spray,

That

Or wanton in the sunny

11 'Twas GOD who form'd the concave

And all the glorious orbs

high;

gave the various beings birth,

That people all the spacious

that bids the tempests

12 'Tis

And rolls the

thro'

skies:

CHAPTER XVII.

VARIOUS ANECDOTES OF INFANT SCHOOL CHILDREN.

THE subjoined anecdotes, will not I am persuaded be found unworthy of perusal by those who are interested in the welfare of young children. They will afford the teacher in particular an opportunity of drawing many useful inferences as to the management of infants

PLAYING THE TRUAN

A little girl, whose mother was dead, was often absent from school. She was never at a loss for excuses, but from their frequency I was at last induced to suspect their truth. None of the children knew where she resided; so I was obliged to send the eldest boy in the school home with her, to ascertain whether or not her stories were true. I gave the boy positive directions to make haste back; but, much to my surprise, I saw no more of him for six hours. When he returned he told me that the little girl refused to shew him where she lived; and had taken him so far, that he at last determined to leave her, but could not find