Father, I ask not cloudless day To shine o’er all the untried way Appointed for these tender feet Ere they may walk the golden street; Whate’er the path Thy love assign, Hold fast this little hand in Thine. I dare not say for this young heart So much of earthly bliss impart; From thine it caught its earliest thrill, Each throb but answers to Thy will, So in Thy tender love I rest— Whate’er betide, Thou knowest best! Not wealth I crave, its unseen “wings” Rank it amid earth’s baseless things; Not on the scroll of worldly fame I ask to write this well-loved name; One book I know than all more fair, The “Book of Life,” oh! write it there. Saviour of little ones, I bring To Thee this priceless offering, This one sweet lamb, nor let her stray Far from thy heavenly fold away; “By the still waters” cool and sweet, “In pastures green” oh! guide her feet. */ ALL ALONG THE LINE. R. M. ALDEN (_Editor_). /# GREETING to all the Pansies! In this Department we are to have news from Churches, Sunday-schools, Mission Bands, and all such things. And we want to invite all the Pansies to contribute some news. If your Sunday-school or Mission Band has had an entertainment, write and tell us about it, or tell us about what you did last Christmas, Easter, or Children’s Day. Address, R. M. Alden, Winter Park, Orange County, Florida. #/ THE Arabic Bible is completed, and is said to be selling at a great rate, in Alexandria, Egypt. THE room in which the infidel Voltaire once predicted the speedy overthrow of Christianity, is now used as a Bible depository. THREE missionaries have been recently murdered: Rev. John Houghton and wife of Golbanti, East Africa, and Bishop Hannington. NOT long ago, a Mr. Green, president of a temperance society of England, destroyed the contents of his wine-cellar, valued at three thousand dollars. WE are glad to hear that the government of Japan has forbidden the lecturing against Christianity, by “Yaso Taiji,” or Jesus opposers, believing it to be damaging to the country. WE hear of a church in Iowa which is very new, and not yet furnished. Just now the Sunday-school scholars are seated on rough boards resting on boxes. But this is a good beginning. A LITTLE over twenty-five years ago Sunday-schools were introduced into Sweden. Now there are two hundred thousand Sunday-school scholars and twenty thousand teachers in the country! THERE is a saloon in the city of Cincinnati, called “The Spider Web,” with a picture on the sign of a spider in his web. How appropriate this is, when the business of the saloon is to entangle men’s souls and bodies! BEFORE the war, a slave was beaten terribly by his master for being “religious,” and the cruel man afterward exclaimed: “There! what will your religion do for you now?” “It will help me to forgive you, Massa,” was the reply.