salvation of others. He was "not slothful in business; but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." He would not neglect prayer. "The gray of the morning," says his biographer, "saw him preparing, in the secrecy of his closet, for the duties of the day. Amid the silence of the night-watch the voice of his prayer was heard, as he pleaded with God for preservation from evil and for purity of heart. In the market, he was the prudent prosperous man of business; at the mill, the kind master; in the domestic circle, its life and joy; in the school, the patient instructor; in the more private means of grace, the flame of fire;' in the pulpit, the earnest and eloquent preacher of the word; in the Church court, the wise steward; in the cottage, a frequent almoner; and to the whole neighborhood a loved and liberal man. The cry of the heathen was heard by him, as well as the appeal for charity at his own door. In little more than half a century he lived an era of the lives of common men." May we not, therefore, learn from Jonas Sugden what our merchants and operatives all might be had they such Christian decision, such benevolent affection, such untiring industry, and such strict integrity?

Religion's all. Descending from the skies

To wretched man, the goddess, in her left,
Holds out this world, and in her right, the next
Religion! the sole voucher man is man;

Supporter sole of man above himself;

Even in this night of frailty, change, and death,
She gives the soul a soul that acts a god.

Religion Providence! an after-state !
Here is firm-footing; here is solid rock!
This can support us; all is sea besides;
Sinks under us-bestows and then devours.
His hand the good man fastens on the skies,
And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.-Young.

DUDLEY A. TYNG,

THE CHILD OF PRAYER.

"And if I c'er in heaven appear,
A mother's holy prayer,
A mother's hand and gentle tear,
That pointed to a Saviour dear,

Have led the wanderer there."

THE stirring of nations by the late wars in the Crimea and in India brought out many striking Christian characters among British soldiers, and men who "lived unknown" till carnage

"Dragged them into fame,

And chased them up to heaven,"

are now recognized by the Christian Churches, and pointed out to youth as bright examples of faith and of good works. In like manner, a different stirring of our own people-the blessed revival of religion-which it pleased God to vouchsafe, pressed out individuals, who from the character they displayed, and the labors they performed in it,

are now

"Familiar in our mouths as household words."

An interesting illustration of this was brought to light by the sudden death of the Rev. Dudley A. Tyng, M. A., of Philadelphia, and by the brief

sketch of his life, which came from a bereaved father's pen.

On the eighteenth of April, 1858, the Rev. Dr. Tyng was to have preached the anniversary sermons of the Sunday-schools connected with his Church in New York, when sixteen hundred scholars and one hundred teachers were to be addressed by him from that beautiful expression of Hannah's gratitude: "For this child I prayed: and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him; therefore also I have lent him to the Lord as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord." A sudden interposition of Providence postponed Dr. Tyng's design, as he was called to stand by the bedside of his dying son, a youthful minister in Philadelphia; but the bereavement, sad as it was, afforded a most striking illustration of the text. Recalling the history of his sainted son-the child of many prayers, all amply fulfilled-Dr. Tyng was enabled to add his own touching testimony to Hannah's ancient gratitude. The record of it can scarcely fail to encourage parents and Sabbath-school teachers, therefore we do not hesitate to present it in these pages as a practical illustration of the power of prayer, and of the grace of God.

DUDLEY ATKINS TYNG was born on the twelfth of January, 1825, in a quiet parsonage in Prince George County, Va. He was the first son of his parents, and a "child of prayer." At the time of his birth, various circumstances conspired to

make his parents observe a gracious Providence, and to call forth their fervent gratitude for a living mother and a living child. In 1829 Dr. Tyng removed to St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, where he first became interested in the work of Sundayschools, and where he placed his little Dudley in an infant class, "taught around the chancel of the old church by a teacher who still labors in the work." It enhanced a pastor's zeal in the right training of the young when he saw his own child among the scholars. "I must bear my testimony," he says, "that the Sunday-school has ever been to my children an unspeakable blessing. The child that learns to love the Lord will always find happiness there, where faithful, pious teachers are truly engaged in the effort to bring the little ones to Christ."

Dudley found increasing joy in the school, and never ceased to take an active interest in its lessons and its scholars. From a seat among the taught he rose to be a teacher, and afterward the faithful and affectionate ministerial superintendent. Those are likely to be the most efficient teachers who have themselves been taught in a Sunday-school. It is like a home to them; the place of their warmest affections; the scene mayhap of their new birth to God, and of their early desire to aid in the work of their Saviour. Over hopeful and pious scholars every teacher should watch with fond affection, with a view to send forth from his class faithful and earnest laborers in the same benevo