6th. Have we this faith? Have all men it? Alas! Let us consider how many in this sinful world have not this faith; how many have never heard of it; how many have willfully refused to take it when it was so kindly and so lovingly presented to them. Oh, how sad! for without this faith they are the enemies of God, and they shall be condemned. Though in this world they may have all riches, comforts, respect, and much honor in the sight of men, in the eye of God they are “Weighed in the balance and found wanting.” But those who have this faith will have Heaven, and they shall live by the blessings derived therefrom, both in this world and in the world to come. 7th. Brethren and friends, let us get faith; for it is the greatest blessing to us. If we have it, let us live by it; for it is the most vital and most wholesome food our souls can have. Let us hold fast to it. Let us exercise it so as to promote the happiness of men to the saving of their souls. Let us exercise it so as to magnify the love of God, and His Son Jesus Christ. * * * * * CHILDREN’S PAGE. * * * * * CHINESE AND CHINESE CUSTOMS. The longer you live in China and the better you know the people, the greater do your wonder and amazement increase. Their superstitions are as numerous almost as your thoughts. Their religious customs are so many and intricate, that they make burdens for the people more grievous to bear than those the Pharisees laid upon the Jews. They spend as much money on those, to us, useless and silly customs—ten times as much, I fully believe—as we Christians spend on the Gospel. A rich man, I am told, recently spent on the building of a paper house, which was burnt, for the use of the spirit of the head of the family who had died, and on the ceremonies connected with it, $10,000 in hard cash. This is a large sum of money to spend on paper to be burnt simply in what, to us, seem perfectly ridiculous rites. But that is only a tithe of the money spent by such a family, on this religion, which God hates. These people believe that every man has three spirits. When he dies, one spirit goes to hell, the second dwells in the grave, and the third by due ceremonies is invited to take up its residence in a wooden tablet, on which his name is inscribed. This tablet is kept in the house, and the worship of it is the ancestral worship, which is the last thing a Chinaman will give up.