ILLUSTRATED TEXTS.

HAT have you brought the great black board out of the school-room for, auntie. Is that a new game for us?" said Robin.

Aunt Myra smiled, then taking a piece of white chalk, she drew the outline of a little frock, under this she traced some lilies, then a man digging with a spade, and lastly a spinningwheel.

"Now," said she, "this is a text written in pictures instead of words. Who can read it?"

For a long time the children puzzled over it, and at last Nelly said, " And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."

"Quite right, Nelly; now we will rub these out, and I will draw another text."

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road winding through a field, several persons walking, and some birds. Arthur was the one to guess this. "A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it."

Then Aunt Myra drew five little birds, and two coins. This was soon guessed: "Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God."

Another illustrated text was a river, a city, and some tents. The children could not think what this could mean, so Aunt Myra bade Muriel turn to Ps. xlvi. 4, and the child read: "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High."

PARALLEL VERSES.

HAT did you mean, Aunt Myra, the other day, when you said to Mrs. Arnold, the Bible explains itself?" asked Muriel one Sunday as the children sat down for their usual

hour with their aunt.

"I meant that one part of the Bible will tell what is the meaning of another, that when you are perplexed about any verse, the best way is to find all the verses you can on the same subject; and then, if you ask God to teach you by His Holy Spirit, you will soon find that you come to understand all that God wants you to know. Now, we will take the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah ; it begins with,' Ho every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.' Can you tell me any text that seems to explain this?"

The children thought a little, then Arthur said: