An officer of Pharaoh. A city built by Cain. A son of Solomon. A precious stone. The mount where Joshua built an altar. A queen of the Ethiopians. The land of Haran's nativity. One of the seven Churches of Asia. A duke of Edom. One whom the Lord raised up to deliver Israel. A daughter of Zelophehad. The initials of the words do show What Christ on earth had to pass through; And all His people may prepare, While in this world, to have their share. THOMAS TYLER (Aged 13 years). _Potton, Beds._ ADVERSITY borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.--_Bishop Horne._ PRIZE ESSAY. THE BLESSINGS CONFERRED ON ENGLAND BY THE ACCESSION TO THE THRONE OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE, AND BY THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION THEREBY SECURED TO US. The blessings conferred on England by the accession of William of Orange ought long to be remembered by all those who love to worship God in the way their conscience tells them is right. He came to England at a time in its history when it was especially in need of help. He restored liberty, both civil and religious, and backed up Protestantism. The Protestant people were greatly burdened by the cruelties of James II., who, it is said, had a mind more devoted to the infliction of pain than had been since the Romans conquered England. Here he persecuted those who held fast to the "common prayer," and in Scotland put to death as many as would not adopt it. He had two women tied to stakes and drowned in the Solway Firth, because they would not repeat the Apostles' Creed. By these incidents of his cruelty, we plainly see the great blessing of liberty which God, through William III., bestowed on England, and the great blessing which Protestantism is to the land. James having thus shown himself to the people, and his cruelties being so great, it is naturally to be expected that they would readily accept this new sovereign, who was a good man, and who had supported the Protestants of Holland all his life. He had a right to the crown by his marriage to Mary, the daughter of James II. England received a great blessing in the year 1701, the Act of Settlement being passed by the consent of William and his Parliament, which shut out from the English throne all persons who were Roman Catholics, or persons married to Roman Catholics. The successor to him was Queen Anne of Denmark, and when she died, leaving no child, another agreement was formed, placing the crown on Sophia, Dowager-Electress of Hanover, and her posterity, if they were Protestants. Since this Act was passed there has been no Roman Catholic on the throne. If it had not been passed, several Romanist sovereigns might have reigned.