CONSCIENCE, OR NO CONSCIENCE.

It sometimes happens that children who are educated at the missionary schools, after they have spent a number of years in studying, and have got to be large enough to engage in business, leave the missionaries and go off and settle among the heathen, and become bad young men and young women. Then the missionaries are very sorry, because they had strong hopes that these their pupils were going to be good, and love God, and be useful in the world. In every part of this world, however, those who try to do good, will sometimes be disappointed. But they ought never to be discouraged, for if they cannot change the hearts of men, God can. And sometimes those who seem to be hardened in sin, are at the very time altogether uneasy in their consciences, because God's Spirit is speaking to their hearts, and showing them how evil and bitter a thing it is to sin against him.

A missionary in Ceylon tells a story of a young man who had been educated at their Seminary, and afterwards greatly grieved his teachers, by going off and living among the heathen again, like one of them. This young man, however, could not get rid of the impressions a Christian education had made upon his mind, nor could he flee from the Spirit of God. "O," said he, "I should be very happy if I had no conscience." Pray, dear children, that his conscience may never rest until he has given himself wholly to Christ.

CHRISTIAN POWDER TO CONVERT THE HEATHEN. Mrs. Porter, a missionary from England, writes from India thus:

A few evenings ago I went to a village a short distance from this; and, knowing the children might be frightened at my strange appearance (strange to them), I took some sugar

candy with me, which I knew would soon allay their fears. It did so, and many of the people promised to send their children to school if we would begin one. All were most civil, but one old Brahmin was pleased with nothing about me but my glasses. “Oh,” said he, "why do you come here? when are you going away?" and when these questions were answered, he asked if I could see well through those glasses. I told him yes. "Well, then," he said, "I wish you would be so good as to get some for me." But alas, for the sugar candy! The inhabitants of another village not far off, who are violently opposed to the truth, heard of this, and immediately circulated a report that the Padre's wife had mixed Christian Powder with sugar-candy, and that now the people of that village would all become Christians, and lose caste. I thought, "Well, if this be true, oh for Christian powder! there should be no want of that." Poor people, they do not know that the "kingdom of God is not meat and drink."

HOW CAN CHILDREN HELP THE HEATHEN?

Let the little Choctaw girls at Pine Ridge answer the question for any of their more favored sisters in our Sabbath schools, who do not know how to answer it for themselves. Mr. Kingsbury, who has been a missionary of the Board among the Choctaws a great many years, has sent to Mr. Hill, the Treasurer, twenty-five dollars for educating heathen children. He wrote a letter to accompany the money, which will explain where it came from. He says to Mr. Hill:

"The girls of the Pine Ridge Boarding School, Choctaw Nation, together with their teachers, have devoted one afternoon in each week to the manufacture of various articles of needle-work, to be sold, and the proceeds devoted to objects of pious benevolence. Having themselves enjoyed the advantages of a Christian education, and being desirous that others should share in the same blessed privilege, they have requested me to remit twenty-five dollars for the Chil

dren's Education Fund, for the benefit of those who are now destitute of the means of instruction."

"Where there's a will there's a way," says an old proverb, and surely if those poor Choctaw girls, who were lately heathens themselves, could find out a way to teach other heathen children about God and Christ, by working with their needles half a day every week, all the little girls who read the Youth's Dayspring can do as much, and some of them perhaps, if they loved the heathen children very much indeed, might dò a great deal more.

STORY OF JARCHA, A HEATHEN CONVERT.

North of Bengal lies a country called Cassee. An English missionary there gives a very interesting account of a youth named Jarcha. This youth came one day to the missionary and said:

"Sir, do you know I have given myself away to Jesus? and I have come now to tell you that I wish to give myself to his people. I cannot stay any longer, and I think at present that no one can stop me; by God's help, I feel certain." Mr. Lewis then asked, "But when did you give yourself to Jesus ?"

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Only a few days ago."

"And how did you give yourself to him?

"I felt my sins, and confessed them all to him, weeping. I kept nothing back. What would be the use of that? for Jesus knows every corner of my heart. O, I fear much to be deceitful. When by myself also, by prayer and meditation, and through faith in all the words that speak of Jesus, I trust I believe quite fast that I am his."

"Did Jesus accept of you?"

"O, yes."

"How do you know that, Jarcha ?”

"O, sir, my soul is brimful of peace and pleasure; for I have found my sins, and an Almighty Saviour. My pleasure runs over to our Cassees; for I want very much to do them good. Sir, I stand with all my soul on the word of

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Him who cannot lie: For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.' I am lost, and cannot save myself, and did not know that till lately; so are we not fit for each other? That word I like much also, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' O, that has been for a long time now a very sweet and spicy word to my soul."

Jarcha was afterwards received into the church.

THE LITTLE GIRL, AND THE CHEAP SCHOOLS. Mr. Poor, who has been more than thirty years a missionary of the American Board in India, was lately addressing some children in one of our New England towns, on the subject of schools for heathen boys and girls in India. He stated that in some of the day schools under the charge of the missionaries, the cost for the boys is only one cent a week, and for girls, three cents. A little girl present handed Mr. Poor $1,624, which she had been collecting for some time, saying that it was to pay for the education of one girl for a year. Mr. Poor said to her, "$1,50 of it will be enough for one girl; what shall I do with the 12 cents?" “O,” said the little donor, "let that go for the boys."

CHEERLESSNESS OF HEATHENISM.

When a true Christian loses a friend by death, although he feels very sorry, and weeps over the affliction, yet he has great comfort and even joy in the precious hopes of the gospel. But how cold and cheerless is heathenism in the hour of trial. Said a missionary:

Many times since I have been in this country, have I met with heathen parents who have been bereaved of their children; but oh! the fearful blank which hung over their minds. I asked one poor man who had lost his son, Where he thought his spirit had gone? "What do I know?" was

his reply; "all I know is, he is gone

from me,

and I am too

much sorry." I endeavored to show him that "life and immortality are brought to light by the Gospel," but it was no consolation to him-all he would say was, "He is gonehe is gone from me."

HOW MUCH SHALL I GIVE ?

Some children, as well as older people, seem sometimes to be perplexed to know how much they ought to give to deliver the heathen from darkness and ruin. How much do you value your own Bibles, and Sabbath schools, and other Christian privileges? And if you were deprived of these, how much would you wish others to give to put you in possession of them? How much do you think the soul is worth But more than all, how much did your Savior give to redeem you from sin and death?

CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.

One of the good things that God is going to bring out of the discovery of so much gold in California is, that China and Japan are to be brought very near to the United States, and many of their people will come to get gold, and will go back, we hope, with a knowledge of the gospel of Christ, which is far better than all the gold in the world. The ship Amazon was to leave Shanghai soon after the 20th of July, with about one hundred and twenty Chinese emigrants on board, for California.

A NAME TRAVELING ROUND THE WORLD. Mr. Taylor, the Secretary of the Southern Baptist Board of Missions, wrote a letter from Richmond, Virginia, to one of the missionaries in Shanghai, China. This letter went by steam to London; thence up the Mediterranean to Alex