sides; exhorting, encouraging, reproving, as he saw need; when there was strife, the peacemaker; when there was want, the cheerful giver. His duty seemed

to be his delight; his piety an instinct.' With how much love he was surrounded you may well suppose. But he was not to close his life in the quiet of the English rectory. In 1823 he was appointed Bishop of Calcutta. It was on Easter Sunday he preached his farewell sermon,-bade farewell to the low-roofed church, and the old, round buttressed tower, and the peaceful country people to whom he had grown so dear.

And Heber's life, as Bishop of Calcutta, is filled with the same devotion as it was when he laboured in his little parish among the green lanes of England. For it is the same springs of love make men faithful in great things as in little. The Bishop was true to himself when he laboured with an apostolic spirit' in the beautiful, strange east. He had an open and quick eye for all the vivid beauty around him. Of the rich and luxuriant scenery,' he writes to a friend at home; of 'the sky which gives to every object a glow beyond anything seen in the old Italian paintings;' of the great white marble buildings, with their splendid Moorish carvings, gleaming through the dark, fern-like foliage, and making fairy visions.

But, most of all, his heart was filled with thoughts of the poor dusky people, who were so far from God. And he worked unweariedly-travelling through Bengal, through the Deccan, through Ceylon and Madras never sparing himself-counting nothing too much to do, or to attempt.

'I am far from repenting my coming out to India,' he wrote, 'where, I am sure, I am not idle, and hope I am not useless, though I have, alas! fallen far short of my own good intentions.'

Who that had good intentions ever felt otherwise than thus ?-few, indeed, so causelessly as the earnest and beloved Bishop Heber. But the work he did so well was very near a close. While his friends were filled with high anticipations

of all he would do for India, and he, too, was full of hope and health, the last days

came.

He had written, while absent from his wife, a little poem in his journal.

'If thou, my love, were by my side,
My babies on my knee,
How gaily would our pinnace glide
O'er Gunga's mimic sea.

I miss thee when, by Gunga's stream,
My twilight steps I guide,

But most, beneath the lamp's pale beam,
I miss thee from my side.

Yet, when of morn or eve the star
Beholds me on my knee,

I feel, though thou art distant far,
Thy prayers ascend for me.

Thy towers, Bombay, gleam bright, they say,
Across the dark blue sea;

But ne'er were hearts so light and gay
As then shall meet in thee.'

In every home-blessing he was rich as he could desire to be; and none dreamed that so very soon he must leave all.

On the first of April, 1826, he visited Trichinopoly. There is in Trichinopoly a fort in which were many soldiers, and among them many Christian Hindoos, whom the bishop went to visit.

On Sunday, the day after his arrival, he attended service twice, and early on Monday morning went to visit the Christians at the fort. It was the last duty of his life. He returned to the house of a friend; and almost immediately afterwards was found by his servant in his room-still for evermore. He had died of apoplexy.

It is said that 'his course in life, from the moment that he was crowned with academical honours till the day of his death, was one tract of light, the admiration of Britain and of India.'

The poem by which he is most widely and familiarly remembered is his 'Missionary Hymn.'

'From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand:
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain.

What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile!
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strewn;
The heathen, in his blindness,
Bows down to wood and stone.
Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,-
Shall we, to men benighted,
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! oh, salvation!

The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation

'Has learned Messiah's name.

The Dayspring Bible Class.

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QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW'S GOSPEL.
Chapter X.

What were the names of the twelve apostles? What miraculous powers did Jesus confer on them?

To whom did Jesus send them at this time? What was to be the burden of their preaching? Why were they forbidden to provide gold, or silver, or food for their journey?

When they entered a city, how were they to choose with whom they should lodge? What was the first thing they were to do when they entered a house?

By what symbolic act were they to testify against those who would not receive them? In what terms does Jesus describe the awful guilt of those who reject His messengers? What comparison describes the position of Christ's messengers in this evil world? Why did Jesus bid them beware of men? Why were they to have no anxiety what they should say when brought before kings? In what way do persecutors treat even their nearest relatives?

What is here mentioned as the distinguishing mark of those who shall be saved?

Why ought Christ's servants to expect persecution?

What considerations should keep them from the fear of man?

Why should God's care of the sparrows keep His children from fear?

What does Jesus promise those who confess Him before men?

When does the love of parents or of children become sinful?

For whose sake ought we to receive Christ's ministers?

What saying of Jesus teaches that the smallest act of kindness done for His sake will be rewarded?

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(1) Pro. 16. 21: (2) Micah 7.8, 4: (3) 1 Cor. 4. 5: (4) Jer. 17. 11: (5) Acts 26. 9: (6)1 John 5. 21; 1 Cor. 10. 14: (7) Joash-2 Kings 13. 18, 19: (8) Haggai 1. 6: (9) Obadiah 12: (10) Pro. 11. 29: (11) Pro. 18. 23, or Pro. 23. 21: (12) Benhadad-1, Kings 2016 (18) Jehoiakim-Jer. 36: (14) Saul 1 Sam 22, 18, 19; Solomon-1 Kings 2. 27: (15) Num. 12: (16) Jer 32. 9-15: (17) Phil. 2. 2: (18) 2 Cor. 8. 23: (19) Phil 2. 25: (20) Micah 5. 7: (21) Obadiah 11-14.

The names of the successful competitors for the Prize Questions will be given in the January No. of the 'Dayspring'; and proposals' will also be made for interesting our young readers in competitive study. Several contributions have been received from our young friends for the Boys' and Girls' Own Corner,' which are reserved for future Nos.

Competitors to address their communications to Rev. JOHN KAY, 11 Teviot Row, Edinburgh.