he said, touching the man's collar, "Take hold, Tiger, and give him a shake!" In a moment the creature's strong, white teeth were fastened in the coachman's collar, and he shook him to and fro, growling threaten ingly all the time. The coachman turned ashy white in a perfect agony of fright, and promised to drive like Jehu if only the barin (the gentleman) would take the dog off. Tiger, at a word from his master, calmly let go of the man, and curled himself contentedly up in the bottom of the kibitka; and the coachman starting his horses in a brisk run, was never suffered to slacken speed until the town was safely reached. Still, on the whole, travelling in Russia is very safe, as regards danger of robbery. Of course, there are other dangers, of which we might tell you some interesting stories. Travellers sometimes have to cross rivers only partly frozen, where the risk of drowning is very great. Then there are adventures with wolves, which often follow a sledge for many miles, made bold by hunger. But we have not time to say more about these. We will only add that as railways and railway travelling become more general, and as thus civilization advances further into the very heart of this great empire, vast changes will take place, even among the rudest population of the wild districts. There is a natural quickness and intelligence about Russians which makes them not hard to deal with in the introduction of new customs; and we trust that as freedom, education, improved locomotion, and last, but most important of all, as God's Word becomes better known, this vast country, with its many natural advantages, will shake off the fetters of its ignorance and barbarism, and become, in reality as well as in name, a free land.-Child's Companion. THE prosperity of the soul is infinitely more valuable than the whole world; it is a blessing for which the universe can supply no substitute. EDITOR'S ADDRESS TO HIS DEAR YOUNG H FRIENDS. ERE I am at Sandy station, Waiting for a Cambridge train; 'Tis by truth that God's salvation This is truth, dear Gleaner, heed it : Justice has been satisfied, Jesus Christ has come from heaven; All for whom the Saviour finished This will prove your soul is blood-bought If through sovereign grace you're love sought, Dear young, thirsting, longing Gleaner, Use the means He hath appointed; All your wants He clearly sees. Look, and in His precious blood You most surely will be lavèd, Blessed, cleansing, healing flood! Oh, I trust I've many readers Who are made, through sovereign grace, Early blood and promise pleaders, Early seekers after peace. "They who early seek shall find me,” I of this firm word remind thee, Surely, too, I'm now addressing Seek, O seek, dear young believer, Hell and earth and sin beset you, Seek to spread the truth around you ; Spread our bundles, scatter freely THE PRINTING OF THE BIBLE.-The Bible produc tion in our time is equal to more than a million copies a year, or say more than nineteen thousand every week, more than three thousand every day, three hundred every hour, or five every minute of working time. At this rate, the press is producing an English Bible or New Testament every twelve seconds. Those Bibles are not wasted-they are required—and more copies of the sacred Scriptures are demanded in the English tongue than in the languages of all the other nations of the world, although the number of versions to which this country gives encouragement and assistance, over and above, is considerably more than one hundred and fifty.-The Day of Rest. NOTICE OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SHAW. EAR EDITOR,-It has been my desire to write a line to you about our little boy, William Shaw, who died June 28th, 1874, aged six years and five months. I took him to chapel regularly from a month old. We ught him to read ourselves, and he did love his book, ough he was very fond of his play; but he would come from his play and say, 66 Reach my Testament, please," ,"Reach my hymn-book, please." He would do this any times in a day, some days, and he would sit and ad like an old man. He would read twelve verses or ore at a time. He used to say, "I shall soon read my estament through, and then I shall begin again at . Matthew." He would often say, after he began to read, "What es that mean, mother?" and I told him as well as I ought he would be able to understand. We had the tle book about William Devonshire, and he was very nd of hearing me read it. He would be as close to e as possible. He never seemed tired of it. He emed to understand it, though he was not more than e years old then. He would not play with the children if they said bad ɔrds. He came into the house one day and sat down, d seemed in trouble. He said, "So-and-so will go in e fire; they are playing with those children that say ughty words." I said, "Don't you play with them." e said, "I shall not." He learned some hymns, and used to repeat some of em when he went to bed; and he repeated them in s affliction as long as he could speak. He called them s prayers. "Gentle Jesus" was one, and "Around the throne of God in heaven Children whose sins are all forgiven, Singing, Glory! glory!" |