Her eldest brother, who is married, came to look at her through the window. She caught sight of him, and called him to her, saying, "George, come and kiss me. I want to bid you good-bye, for I am going to die to go to heaven. Give my love to Lizzie (his wife), and tell her I am going to glory." Her mother said, "My dear child, should you like to go to heaven? She said, "Yes, mother, but I do not like to leave you."

She then became exhausted, and wished to lie down again. She was in great pain afterwards and much convulsed, but when her pain ceased she said, "Dear father, pray for me that I may go to Jesus," and shortly fell into strong convulsions for half an hour; she again recovered, and tried to sing, but so weak I could not catch her words. She called for a little drink, and instantly breathed her last. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."

Thus ended the life of Hannah Jacob, aged ten years and a few months.

At the same time, for the benefit of your young readers, I will say a few words concerning my daughter, Sarah Jacob, aged sixteen years, who died two days after her sister Hannah with that fearful disorder diphtheria, after the fever. I trust she also has entered into that rest that remains for the people of God. When she was first taken ill I was attending upon her. She was not aware I was near. I heard her, as if in prayer, saying, “Dear Lord Jesus, do look down upon me.' Shortly afterwards she became so unconscious I could not speak to her on her eternal state. A few nights afterwards she was lifted out of bed into an easy chair, but very unconscious of anything. In a short time she came to herself a little. We were watching her, and she put her elbows on

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her knees and rested her head on her hands. We heard her say again, 66 Do, dear Lord, have mercy my poor soul! do, dear Lord, look down upon me!" when, to our surprise, she asked her mother for the Bible, when she opened it on the 143rd Psalm, and read the first verse as distinctly as if she were in health: "Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my supplications: in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness." Her mother said, "6 Sarah, my dear, do you know anything of that verse?" She said, “That is what I prayed unto God. I did not read it only, but I prayed it," and then she became She dropped the Bible, and only recovered at short intervals to be perfectly understood any more, though once in the middle of the night I heard her say, "Dear Jesus." She appeared to be in prayer, but I could not understand what she said. The night before she died in the morning her countenance brightened up, and with a sweet smile she said, "I am coming! I am coming!" twice, and in a few hours she died in strong convulsions. Thus ended the life of Sarah Jacob, aged sixteen years, and I trust she has gone to that place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. I said trust, but I sincerely believe she is safely landed on that shore where winds and waves distress no more, and where the inhabitants thereof shall no more say, I am sick. It was much to be regretted that when well she was so deaf she could not often hear the preached Word. Though the faithful servant of God, Mr. Garner, whose ministry we attend, is in general loud, she could not always hear him; but with God nothing is impossible-He could speak to her soul by His Word without outward hearing; and I believe He has done it, and I desire to bless His name for it.

I have sent the above accounts as an encouragement to believing parents to pray and not faint for the eternal welfare, if the Lord's will, 'of their children. May a blessing attend the LITTLE GLEANER, and may the hands of the Editor be strengthened for his labour of love, is the desire of yours affecHENRY JACOB. tionately, for truth's sake,

DRINKING is a main cause of insanity. Alcohol flies to the brain, and not unfrequently dethrones reason, and leaves its victim a helpless idiot or a raving maniac. Drinking parents often have imbecile or insane children. Dr. Howe, of Boston, tells us that out of 300 inmates of an asylum there he knew that 147 had drunken parents. In addition to deranging the mental powers of otherwise perfectly sane persons, drinking develops tendencies to insanity that already exist. As there are grades in insanity, so there are grades between perfect mental soundness and insanity. Every one knows people who are" eccentric," "flighty," or weak-minded." Alcoholic liquors readily affect such, and numbers of the inmates of our asylums are people of this class who have had the tottering balance of their reason completely upset by drinking. Many are driven mad by anxiety on account of losses and deaths caused by intemperance." The Drinking System," from Macmillan's Magazine.

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ERRATA. A portion of July issue was printed without Lines 9 the corrections of the press made on page 211. to II should read, "He passed through Egypt, went through the Holy Land, and was taking Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy on his way home." In lines 34, 35, the reading should be, "They doubt not the tender Shepherd of the sheep," &c.