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IF you have unreservedly given yourself to Christ, you have no reason to doubt that Christ gave himself for you.

THE LATE REV. DAVID SANDEMAN. BEFORE Mr. Sandeman left London for China as one of our missionaries, he made his will. He had a considerable amount of property to bequeath, which his father left him -he being his heir. And now it turns out that he had returned nearly all of it to the Lord who gave it. Our own China mission receives a large share-no less a sum than four thousand pounds. He consecrates himself and all he has to God. The Lord accepts the offering, makes him happy in life, victorious in death, and gives him an early heaven and an immortal crown!

THE JUVENILE REPORTER.

CHRISTMAS is over. Another year has begun, and the Reporter wishes, for all his young friends, a happy and a useful one. May those who have given themselves to Christ have a year of prosperity and progress, more nearness to the Saviour, more likeness to his image, and more resemblance to his holy active life; and may those who are strangers to his love and mercy be led to seek and find Him.

A new year has opened, and there is much to be donemuch for self, much for others, much for God!

Remember China-in your prayers and deeds.

Another Missionary has been appointed by the Committee to China: when will ours be appointed? Of course not till the money is collected.

There is a poor Hindu boy in Madras, in India, who very much needs our sympathy and prayers. He was a

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high caste boy, but he heard a little of the Gospel from a native convert; he believed, and at last resolved openly to become a Christian. He left his idolatrous home, as he thought, for ever, resolving to follow Jesus; but his parents have got him forced back by law, because (they say) he is too young to act for himself. He says he is sixteen. Not too young, surely, to be saved. A mob carried him back to the temple to be purified, and now he is kept in confinement. Poor boy! REMEMBER HIM

IN PRAYER.

Some of the poor Chinese are also suffering persecution for the sake of Jesus.

Remember them also in prayer.

We are glad to learn that Dr. Hirchberg, a missionary from Amoy, is at present in England. We hope to see and hear him before he goes.

The friends in Scotland who help our Mission in China held a meeting lately in Edinburgh. The report showed that they collected for us last year £575 18s. 10d.

Death has deprived us of another of our ministers. The Rev. Duncan, Lennie of Glanton, died about a fortnight ago, after a few days' illness.

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Christ's VI. & VII.-Exod. xxviii. Luke iv.

HOME AND SCHOOL

FOR THE SONS AND ORPHANS OF
MISSIONARIES, BLACKHEATH.

Ir is a sad thing to be an orphan; to be without father, mother, or anyone to love or to care for you; but it is still worse to be an orphan in a foreign land-away among savage or heathen men. And it is sad to return to one's native land, not only fatherless, but pennyless FEBRUARY, 1859.

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and homeless, for even England is but a cold place for those who have neither money nor friends. But such has ofttimes been the hard lot of the poor orphan children of missionaries. Some sudden disease, like a night blast, has carried the father to his grave, and he has left the world with a pang in his heart-not on his own account, but because he did not know what would become of the poor little boys who were weeping by his bed.

But there is another hardship that perhaps you would never think of to which missionaries are often exposed. Even those who are alive and well scarcely know how to bring their children up like Christians. You know that "evil communications corrupt good manners:" You know, too, that boys will play with boys, and girls with girls, and if they cannot find good company they will soon go with bad; but there are many places where the missionary's home is surrounded with heathen men and children on all hands, and he has the greatest difficulty in preventing his own children from becoming heathens in practice too. In addition to all this, there are often no schools for the children to go to where they could get even the commonest education. But you will be glad to know that, through the active kindness of some Christian people in this country, a remedy for these evils has been provided.

They have purchased a nice piece of land at Blackheath, near London, on which they have erected a beautiful building (see woodcut), which they call a Home and School for the Sons and Orphans of Missionaries. The building is truly worthy of the name. We had the

pleasure of being at the opening of it last summer, and a delightful meeting it was. It was very pleasant to hear the speeches to see the school-rooms, the nice playground, the kitchens, beds, and other comforts within that beautiful building; but the most pleasant sight of all was the group of happy, hearty boys in the Home. The fathers and mothers of some of these boys were in heaven, their bodies mouldering on a foreign shore;

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others were still "spending and being spent" among the heathen; and although sometimes they sighed when they thought how far away from them their little boys were removed, yet their hearts would often rise to God in thanksgiving for the blessings of the Home and School.

The building is large enough for one hundred boys. It has cost a good deal of money. Some kind friends, young and old, have worked very hard collecting it, but they want two thousand five hundred pounds to pay off what is still owing.

The Home is open to children of all denominations of true Christians. We believe the Rev. John Prichard, who for fifteen years was the friend and fellow labourer of the missionary John Williams, in the South Sea Islands, is the secretary or superintendent of the Home. Almost the last boy admitted into the institution was the son of a Jew, who was born at Thessalonica. His father is a very devoted labourer in the mission work. A few months ago five boys were admitted-two from Africa, two from China, and one from India. Two boys belonging to the Free Church missionaries in India are there. We hope you will remember this HOME. Can you not help it ? A penny from every Sabbath school scholar would nearly pay off the debt. But perhaps you have an uncle or a cousin who, if spoken to, would be willing to become an annual subscriber. Try if you cannot find some. If you do try to help in earnest you will be sure to succeed. Say to yourself, I must do something this year for that HOME and SCHOOL. Contributions may be sent, addressed to the Treasurer of the Home and School for the Sons and Orphans of Missionaries, Blackheath.

A TRUE STORY OF LUCKNOW. "IN a station in the Upper Provinces of India," says a writer in The British Flag, "I was one morning visiting the hospitals as usual. As I entered the general hospital, I was told by one of the men that a young man of