Bill and Andy’s parents silently wondered what had come over their boys, that all at once they grew so thoughtful and studious; but the boys knew what had come over them, and they also knew why it was that whenever they earned any money, a part was saved out from the rest for charitable purposes. “Makes a feller feel quite like a man to help some one else along a little besides himself, doesn’t it Bill, old boy?” Andy asked one day. And Bill replied, “Guess it does! We can’t do much, but even our little is worth givin’, ’specially when a cove saves it himself: guess our Sunday-school teacher was right; let’s see, what was that verse she said?--‘It is more blesseder to--to give away a part, than to receive all inter yourself,’--I believe that was about it, and _so_ much better than wastin’ it on a senseless lark!” * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1880. * * * * * MAINE, $253.87. Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch. $25.00 Brewer. John Holyoke 7.30 Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.82 Farmington Falls. Cong. Ch. 4.03 Fryeburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.30 Gorham. Cong. Ch. to const. F. P. IRISH, L. M. 27.40 Hampden. Cong. Ch. 6.20 Litchfield Corner. Cong. Ch. 10.00 New Sharon. Cong. Ch. 3.80 North Vassalborough. Joseph White 10.00 Noridgewock. Cong. Ch., $30; Rev. B. T., $1.50 _for A. M._ 31.50 Portland. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $54.02; Mrs. David Patten, $5 59.02 Rockland. Miss S. S. 0.50 Scarborough. “A Friend in Cong. Ch.” 30.00 Saco. D. Jordan, $2; Miss C. J. B. and Miss G. L. B., $1. 3.00 Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 South Berwick. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ South Berwick. Friends, Bbl. of C. _for Selma. Ala._ Topsham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Union. F. V. N. and Mrs. H. R. B., 50c. each 1.00 West Falmouth. Ladies of Second Ch., Bbl. of C. _for Selma, Ala._ NEW HAMPSHIRE, $522.53.