A few days later, a chaise drove to our door, and my husband, eager to welcome his old friend, met him in the hall, where I also was waiting to receive him. He was an elderly man, but with a firm step, a strong frame, a pleasant smile, a kindly voice, and a benevolent countenance. "Annie, my dear, this is----" I cannot go on to describe a scene in which I became all at once and unexpectedly so personally interested. In my husband's friend I recognized, at a single glance, my stage-coach companion, though he had no recollection of me. It was a happy meeting--the faint foreshadowing, it may be, of such meetings innumerable in that general assembly in the heavenly Jerusalem above, when they who have sown, and those who have reaped, shall rejoice together with "joy unspeakable and full of glory."--_A Tract issued by the Religious Tract Society._ ANSWER TO BIBLE ENIGMA. (_Page 275._) "_I am the Rose of Sharon._"--SONG OF SOLOMON ii. 1. I ssachar Genesis xxxv. 23. A biram Numbers xxvi. 9. M icah Judges xvii. 1. T irzah 1 Kings xvi. 6. H oreb Exodus iii. 1. E bal Joshua viii. 30. R ehoboam 1 Kings xi. 43. O g Numbers xxi. 33. S hammah 1 Samuel xvii. 13. E dom 2 Samuel viii. 14. O nan Genesis xlvi. 12. F elix Acts xxiv. 25. S imon Mark iii. 18. H adadezer 2 Samuel viii. 3. A maziah Amos vii. 10. R aven Leviticus xi. 15. O bed-edom 2 Samuel vi. 11. N adab Numbers iii. 4. ADA WILLERTON (Aged 9 years). _Corby, Grantham._ I HAVE found, by a strict and diligent observation, that a due observance of the duty of Sunday has ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time.--_Sir Matthew Hale._ OUR BIBLE CLASS. THE CROSS OF CHRIST. The "cross of Christ" is mentioned by the Apostle Paul in his Epistles to different Churches, but we may confidently say that the wooden gibbet upon which the Saviour suffered was never loved or reverenced by that honoured servant of the Lord, or the people to whom he wrote. The brazen serpent, that divinely appointed means of Israel's cure, was broken in pieces by good Hezekiah, who contemptuously called it a bit of brass, because the Israelites worshipped it; and their idolatry is described as a base crime in 2 Kings xviii. 4, although it was a figure of Him that was to come; and Jesus Himself declared, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John iii. 14, 15); and the "true cross," if it now existed, would only be a bit of wood--a thing in itself worthless--and the adoration of it would be nothing better than idolatry. "Christ and Him crucified" is the sinner's hope, the believer's joy, and this is what we are to understand by the apostolic mention of the cross of Jesus.