answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

3. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

4. The woman saith unto him. Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go call thy husband, and come hither. The wo `man answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband; for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband;-in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

5. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet in Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship, ye know not what: we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth,— for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit, and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ; when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

1. O THOU, to whom, in ancient time,
The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung,
Whom kings adored in song sublime,
And prophets praised with glowing tongue,-

2. Not now, on Zion's hight alone,
Thy favored worshiper may dwell,
Nor where, at sultry noon, thy Son
Sat, weary, by the Patriarch's well.

3. From every place below the skies,
The grateful song, the fervent prayer-
The incense of the heart-may rise

To Heaven, and find acceptance there.
J. PIERPONT.

QUESTIONS.-1. Who was the Lord, and who, John, spoken of in the first verse? 2. Where did Jesus go? 3. What did he ask of the woman? 4. How was she surprised? 5. What conversation followed? 6. What was said in regard to her husband? 7. Whom did she consider him to be? 8. How should God be worshiped? 9. What is meant by sixth hour, close of the first verse? Ans. Twelve o'clock or noon, since the Jews began to reckon their time at six o'clock.

When different persons are introduced as speaking, how are their remarks to be read?" "How do you account for the capitals, used after the comma at some places in this lesson? What inflection is to be made before these quotations? (Rule IV. Rem. 2.) What do the Italic words denote? Are they the same as in the Bible? What do those in the Bible denote? What inflection prevails in the second part, and what Rule for the same?

LESSON XXVI.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Wends, goes. 2. Exile, (egz'ile) one banished. 3. Novelty, newness. 4. Rigid, severely strict. 5. Harassed, vexed with care. 6. Fabled, feigned; false. 7. Baseless, without found. ation. 8. Wary, timorously careful. 9. Envious, harboring grudge on account of another's prosperity. 10. Delusions, faise appearances calculated to deceive.

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Remembrance.-SOUTHEY.

"The remembrance of youth is a sigh."
MAN hath a weary pilgrimage
As through the world he wends,
On every stage from youth to age
Still discontent attends;

With heaviness he casts his eye
Upon the road before,

And still remembers with a sigh
The days that are no more

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2. To school the little exile goes,

Torn from his mother's arms,— What then shall sooth his earliest woes When novelty hath lost its charms? Condemn'd to suffer through the day Restraints which no rewards repay,

And cares where love has no concern,
Hope lengthens as she counts the hours
Before his wish'd return.

From hard control and grievous rules,
The rigid discipline of schools,
In thought he loves to roam,
And tears will struggle in his eye,
While he remembers with a sigh
The comforts of his home.

3. Youth comes; the toils and cares of life Torment the restless mind;

"Where shall the tired and harassed heart
Its consolation find?

Then is not Youth, as Fancy tells,
Life's summer prime of joy?
Ah no! for hopes too long delayed,
And feelings blasted or betrayed,
Its fabled bliss destroy;

And Youth remembers with a sigh
The careless days of Infancy.

4. Maturer Manhood now arrives,
And other thoughts come on,
But with the baseless hopes of Youth
Its generous warmth is gone;
Cold, calculating cares succeed,
The timid thought, the wary deed,
The dull realities of truth;
Back on the past he turns his eye,
Remembering, with an envious sigh,
The happy dreams of Youth.

5. So reaches he the latter stage
Of this our mortal pilgrimage,
With feeble step and slow;
New ills that latter stage await,
And old Experience learns too late
That all is vanity below.

Life's vain delusions are gone by;
Its idle hopes are o'er;
Yet Age remembers with a sigh

The days that are no more.

QUESTIONS.-1. Are we ever satisfied with our present state? 2. How does man regard the future? 3. How the past? 4 What cares and troubles attend the school boy? 5. What Youth? 6. What Manhood? 7. What attends old age? 8. How do they all remember the past? 9. What does old experience learn too late?

What have the lines of English poetry generally? (Les. XII. 2.) Does the metrical accent occur regularly in this poetry? What cau es the accent in the last line of the third verse to vary from that in the n ceding line? (Les. XII. 3.) What that in the second line, fifth verse? Why do Youth, Fancy, Age, et... begin with capitals? Does the final pause occur at the end of every line in this poetry?

LESSON XXVII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Perch, to light or settle down in order to rest. 2. Penance, voluntary suffering for one's faults. 3. (Upper dip, the sky.) 4. Lays, songs. 5. Dome, literally, a house; here means, earch of the sky. 6. Consecrated, set apart for any service, as of God.. Soar, to fly up very high.

The Winged Worshipers.-C. SPrague.

[Addressed to two swallows that flew into church during divine service. GAY, guiltless pair,

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What seek ye from the fields of heaven?

Ye have no need of prayer;

Ye have no sins to be forgiven.

Why perch ye here,

Where mortals to their Maker bend?

Can your pure spirits fear

The God ye never could offend?

Ye never knew

The crimes for which we come to weep:

Penance is not for you,

Blessed wanderers of the upper deep.

4. To you 'tis given

To wake sweet nature's untaught lays;
Beneath the arch of heaven

To chirp away a life of praise.

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Then spread each wing,

Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands,
And join the choirs that sing

In yon blue dome not reared with hands.

Or, if ye stay

To note the consecrated hour,

Teach me the airy way,

And let me try your envied power.

Above the crowd,

On upward wings could I but fly,
I'd bathe in yon bright cloud,
And seek the stars that gem
the sky.

"Twere heaven indeed,

Through fields of trackless light to soar,
On nature's charms to feed,

And nature's own great God adore.

QUESTIONS.-1. What are addressed in this lesson? 2. Where had they come? 3. What does the writer command them? 4. What would he fain do? 5. What would be regarded a heaven by the writer, last verse?

What inflection at pair, first verse? What inflection do commands require? (Rule VII. Les. VI.) Which lines in this poetry have the cesural pause, and which not? Between which words in the second and fourth lines of the first verse does it occur? What inflection has the question, first verse? In what respect do the questions, second verse, differ, and what Rules for their inflections? What example of antithetic emphasis, third verse? Why the rising inflection on deep, third verse? (Rule IV. Note I.) Point out the different uses of the apostrophes in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth verses. Which has the more intense degree of emphasis the first or second far, fifth verse?

LESSON XXVIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Ricks, large heaps or piles of hay or grain, in the fields; stacks. 2. Exhales, sends out; emits. 3. Buttress, a wall built to support another on the outside; a prop. 4. Gossip, an idle tattler. 5. Hospitals, houses for the reception of the sick, infirm, and helpless persons. 6. Rapine, (rap'in) the act of plundering. 7. Stanch, to stop the flowing of blood. 8. Decrepit, broken down with age.

Contrast between Peace and War.-ATHENEUM.

PEACE.

LOVELY art thou, O Péace! and lovely are thy children, and lovely are the prints of thy footsteps in the green val