blessing did Solomon then ask? 1 Kings iii. 9.-4. What great work had he performed since that time?-5. How may we most reasonably expect further blessings? Matt. xxv. 28, 29.-6. What is God's design in giving us religious advantages? Matt. x. 8.-7. How does God deal with those who diligently improve their gifts? Prov. xi. 25. -8. How did God promise to answer prayer in the temple? Mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.'-9. What is the only true foundation for the happiness of a people? Isa. xxiii. 6.—10. What is it that brings ruin upon a nation ?-11. How did God warn Solomon and the people through him of this (ver. 6)?—12. Did these warnings prevent their falling into sin ?-13. When were these threatenings fulfilled? When Nebuchadnezzar burnt the temple, and carried the Jews away captive to Babylon, and when the Romans, forty years after Christ, burnt the temple, destroyed Jerusalem, and scattered the Jews.-14. What should we learn from these sad events? -15. God now deals with us as individuals, is He the same jealous, righteous God he always was?-16. Will He punish sins of the heart as well as of the life?-17. Why are sins of the heart more to be dreaded than any outward crimes?

Entelligence.

Bungay, Suffolk.-The annual tea meeting of the Sunday school connected with the Independent chapel in this town, took place on Tuesday, August 5th. The scholars assembled at about four o'clock in the chapel, where, in connexion with suitable devotional exercises, an address was delivered to them. They were then plentifully regaled with cake and tea in an adjoining field; and, the weather being propitious, they were gratified with various amusements during a considerable part of the evening,

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The teachers and friends of the school took tea together in the vestry of the chapel after which addresses were delivered by the Revds. T. Clark, (pastor;) J. Flower, of Beccles; S. Laidler, of Harleston; G. B. Johnson, of Doncaster, and R. G. Mason. During the evening, it was stated, that nearly 200 scholars had been admitted during the past year, and that there were then in the school 504 scholars, under the care of nearly 60 teachers. A clothing-club has been established in the school, to which about 300 of the scholars make weekly payments. The sum thus subscribed last year, was £102, which, together with £29 added to it by friends, was distributed at the beginning of November, and contributed very much to the comfort of the children during the winter months. The festivity was felt to be delightfully encouraging to all conected with the work of usefulness which gave rise to it.

Birmingham.-SUNDAY SCHOOL RAILWAY TRIP.-A friend at Birmingham suggested to the Sunday School Union of that town the idea of taking the Sunday school children a railway trip. A committee was immediately formed to consider and carry out this design, and the arrangements proceeded with great spirit. Accordingly the line of the Midland Counties railway was selected for conveying the party to Derby, a distance of forty-two miles from Birmingham, the directors of the company meeting the wishes of the committee with a spirit of the utmost liberality. On Saturday morning, the 27th Sep., between eight and nine o'clock, the children of thirty-eight schools, to the number of 3,100, assembled

at the station in Sawley-street, (each school being preceded by a banner, bearing its name and number in the procession,) accompanied by their teachers and friends, making a total of about 4,500 persons. They were then arranged in the carriages as quickly as possible, and at about a quarter to ten the first train, consisting of fifty-eight carriages, containing the girls, moved off from the station, amidst a large concourse of spectators, who thronged the sides and crowded the bridges of the line to a considerable distance. These, in about a quarter of an hour, were followed by the boys in a train of fifty-two carriages. The scene at the time of starting was one of great excitement, and the children testified their glee by spontaneous bursts of shouting and singing during the whole day. On arriving at Derby, a procession was formed outside the station, (the girls going first, followed immediately by the boys,) which extended considerably more than a mile, the party walking close together and four abreast They then proceeded through Derby to the Arboretum, a large and beautiful garden belonging to the town, where each child was presented with a substantial bun; water was also provided for their accommodation. The procession occupied more than two hours in passing through the gates of the Arboretum. About half-past three the procession again arrived at the station, and the children were rapidly seated in the carriages. The girls' train started first, and, at twenty minutes past five, was followed by the boys; both trains arrived at Birmingham at about seven o'clock, when the schools were at once marched off to their respective school-rooms, under the care of their teachers and superintendents. Thus ended a day which will long be had in the grateful recollection of the Sunday school children of Birmingham, and which we doubt not will be productive of lasting benefit. The weather was, on the whole, tolerably favourable, and the day passed off without any accident of a serious nature. The party, we understand, was accompanied by Mr. T. Morgan, J. Sturge, Esq., and various ministers and gentlemen of influence at Birmingham, and was received at Derby by J. Moss, Esq., the mayor, Mr. Britten, secretary of the Arboretum, and other gentlemen. Great praise is due to the directors, officers, and all the servants of the railway, for their obliging assiduity throughout the whole of the day. We may just mention that the fares were as follows:children, 6d. ; teachers, 1s.; and friends, 2s. 6d.

Hull.-The committee of the Hull Sunday School Union having solicited the parent society in London to send a deputation to visit the Sunday Schools in Hull and vicinity, Mr. Henry Althans and Mr. Francis Cuthbertson were appointed. On Sunday, Sept. 28, the deputation visited several of the schools in Hull; on Monday and Tuesday they held meetings at Beverley and Driffield, on Wednesday, October 1st, tea was provided for the teachers and friends, at the Sailors' Institute, Hull, which was crowded to excess. The deputation deeply interested the assembly by communicating much valuable information for the improvement of Sabbath schools. On Friday evening a large attendance of teachers was held at the same place, when a friendly conference on subjects connected with our schools was carried on by the deputation and friends present. The deputation also visited and held meetings at Bridlington, which were well attended. Of the importance of experienced labourers from the metropolis occasionally visiting country Sunday schools, there cannot be any doubt; and from the interest excited by the observations of Messrs. Althans and Cuthbertson, there is reason to anticipate, under the Divine blessing, that good will be the result.

Preston.-OPENING OF THE NEW SCHOOL, GRIMSHAW STREET.-On Wednesday evening, September 17th, the new school attached to Grimshaw Street Independent chapel was opened with a tea party. The building is a handsome brick edifice, two stories in height, with stone cornices, mouldings, and courses. The lower apartment, which is to be used as an infant school, stands upon the foundation of the former structure, the north end, however, being continued to the chapel wall, so as to allow space for a large staircase and class-room. The ground front is lighted by five windows, and the upper school by seven, those in the centre having arched heads and plain stone mullions. The entrances are at the north and south end of the west front, the distinction of boys and girls being signified by two square stone tablets lettered accordingly. The following inscription, cut in Egyptian characters on a freestone tablet, occurs over the cornice:Grimshaw Street Chapel;' and over the lower centre window is placed another inscription:-'Erected 1836,-Enlarged 1845.' A flight of stone stairs, opposite to the north entrance, leads into the upper school, a spacious apartment twenty yards in length by ten in breadth, lighted by eleven windows. A door at the head of the staircase opens into the gallery of the chapel. The building has been erected to accommodate the rapidly increasing number of sunday scholars, the former structure being too small and inconvenient. The total cost of the alteration and enlargement, together with a previous debt, has been £396, the whole of which has been defrayed by voluntary contribution, as follows:-£100 was subscribed at the tea party on christmas day, £210 since that period, and £86 at the inauguration festival. On Wednesday evening, a public tea party took place in the upper school room, which though in a partially unfinished state, was decorated with great taste for the occasion. So much more numerous was the attendance than was expected, that additional tables had to be laid in the infant school. About 400 individuals partook of the elegant refreshments provided, after which the party adjourned into the chapel, where a meeting was held, over which James Dilworth, Esq., of Manchester, presided. The proceedings subsequent to tea, were intended to have been enacted in the same room, but it was prudently determined upon not to submit a room, so recently erected, to the severe test of the weight of so large a body of adults. Several interesting speeches by the chairman, the Rev. R. Slate and others, were delivered, and a subseription which was entered into towards the balance, realized £86. the required sum, the expenses of the erection being then entirely defrayed.

Died,

RECENTLY, AT CAMBRIDGE,

MR. J. THORNTON, BOOKSELLER,

One of the Secretaries of the

CAMBRIDGE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION,

AND A FREQUENT CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS MAGAZINE.

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JEREMIAH IN THE DUNGEON.

How awful a place for one of the Lord's prophets ! We revolt at the thought of the depth and dreariness and mire of the dungeon, where Jeremiah was likely to be parched with thirst, faint with hunger, and suffocated for

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want of fresh air. Thus would his enemies try to destroy him. But there, he tells us, he called on the name of the Lord. And He knew well how to deliver the godly out of temptation. He did it by unlikely means. Ă foreigner, an Ethiopian, in the royal palace, by the exercise of courage and kindness, determined to make an effort to save the Lord's servant. He obtained the royal permission. Jeremiah, probably, was a heavy man, and the Ethiopian, to prevent hurting him by the ropes, put clothes under his arms and drew him up. He was then kept in the court, that he might be protected from popular fury for his faithful warnings against sin, and that he might be fed during the approaching dearth. For this kindness the Lord gave him, by the means of the prophet, an assurance of safety when the city should be besieged. Those who serve God and bless their fellow-creatures are sure to be rewarded.

AN APPEAL TO THE YOUNG.

ANOTHER year is drawing to a close. Its days will soon be numbered, and remembered only as amongst the things which were, but are not.

How rapid has been the flight of the past year! Spring came, and breathed its pure and freshening breath, and waked the earth to gladness, and then passed away.— Summer came, and scattered her rosy garlands, and told her tale of gladness, and then sought other climes.— Autumn came, with her bosom filled with sheaves and plenty, and she too is gone; and now we hear the footfalls of approaching winter,-of winter, with his grizzly beard, and breath of storm and tempest.

What a changeful world is this in which we live! And yet not more changeful than the seasons of the year are the circumstances and states of human life. It is largely made up of sunshine and shade, and sorrow and joy. Now we have tear and then the smile, all the way through this pilgrimage state.

Various and manifold have been the changes experienced since last the dark days of December past their shadow over this earth. Some have changed their habitations, and some have changed their circumstances, some have changed health for sickness; and many, many more, have changed time for eternity. O what fearful havoc hath death made in our world during this period! Many a mother has had to moisten the lips of her darling, dying child; and many a child has had to close the eyes of an