Ver. 15. Who stood up in the midst of the disciples? How many disciples were there?

Ver. 16. What did Peter say?

Ver. 17. What is said of Judas? Who was he? Ver. 18. What had he done? What happened to him?

Ver. 19. To whom was this known? What was a certain field called?

Ver. 20. What is written in the Book of Psalms? Psal. lxix. 25.

Ver. 21, 22. From amongst whom was a witness to be ordained? Why a witness of his resurrection? Ver. 23. Whom did the Apostles appoint?

Ver. 24, 25. What did they then do? What did they say? Define the terms "ministry" and "apostleship?

Ver. 26. Having prayed, what did they give forth? Upon whom did the lot fall? With whom was he numbered? Can you tell me how the lot was given? EXPLANATIONS.-Ver. 14. Prayer. Asking bles

sings.

Supplication. Repeating, urging, and pressing our requests.-Ver. 18. The reward of iniquity. The thirty pieces of silver.-Ver. 20. Desolate. Deprived of inhabitants; laid waste.Bishoprick. Office or charge.-Ver. 22. Ordained. Appointed.-Ver. 25. Transgression. Going beside; departing from a right course.

LESSONS.-1. We should study the providence of God under the guidance of the holy Scriptures. Verses 16, 20.

2. In entering upon any important work, we should seek divine direction by prayer. Ver. 24.

3. It is our duty to pray that the Great Head of the church would raise up a succession of holy and well-qualified Ministers of the Gospel. Verses 24-26.

EXERCISE III.-JANUARY 25th.

Acts ii. 1-13.

THE DAY OF PENTECOST.

Ver. 1. Where were the disciples on the day of Pentecost? What do you mean by Pentecost? Ver. 2. What came from heaven?

Ver. 3. What appeared? What followed?

Ver. 4. With what were the disciples filled? What did they do? What is signified by the cloven tongue?

Ver. 5. Who were dwelling at Jerusalem?

Ver. 6. When those facts were made known, what did the multitude do?

Ver. 7. What did the multitude say? Where is Galilee?

Ver. 8. What surprised the multitude?

Ver. 9, 10. Who were the people that heard the Apostles? Can you point to these countries on the map?

Ver. 11. What did they hear the Apostles speak? Ver. 12. What effect had these things on the minds of some of the people?

Ver. 13. What did others do and say?

EXPLANATIONS.-Ver. 1. Pentecost. A festival of the Jews, so called because it was celebrated the fiftieth day after the second day of the passover. -Ver. 5. Devout men. Serious religious men.

Ver. 8. Our own tongue. Our own language.Ver. 11. The wonderful works of God. Such as the incarnation of Christ; his various miracles, preaching, death, resurrection, and ascension; and the design of God to save the world through him.

LESSONS.-1. In order to obtain answers to prayer the people of God should be of one accord, and united in their supplications. Verse 1.

2. The Holy Ghost can fully qualify the servants of God for any work they may be called on to perform. Verses 4, 6.

3. The operations of the Holy Spirit frequently confound and fill with amazement the unenlightened part of mankind, and therefore we must not be governed by the opinions of the world in matters of religion. Verses 7, 8, 12.

EXERCISE IV.-FEBRUARY 1st.

Acts ii. 14-21.

THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT.

Ver. 14. Who stood up? Whom did he address? Ver. 15. What did Peter say of those on whom the Spirit had descended? When is the third hour of day?

Ver. 16. How did he explain what appeared so marvellous? Show me the passage in the prophecy of Joel.

Ver. 17, 18. What was to come to pass? When? On whom was the Spirit to be poured out? What results were to follow? What days are specially referred to?

Ver. 19. What was God to show? Where? And what on earth?

Ver. 20. What is said of the sun and moon? When?

Ver. 21. What is it said should come to pass? Who shall be saved? How ought we to call upon God?

EXPLANATIONS.-Ver. 15. The third hour of the day. Nine o'clock in the morning according to our manner of reckoning the hours of the day. It was not common for the Jews either to eat or drink much before this hour, being the hour of prayer.-Ver. 17. In the last days. The time of the Messiah. Prophesy. Teach, proclaim. Visions. See Gen. xv. ; 1 Kings xix. 11, 12. Dreams. Gen. xxxvii. 5, 9; Gen. xxviii. 12; xlvi. 2; Dan. iv. 10-17. God frequently revealed his will to his servants by means of visions and dreams, of which the above are examples.-Ver. 18. On my servants and on my handmaidens. Literally those who are in a state of servitude, to show that under the Gospel dispensation, neither bond nor free, male nor female, is excluded from sharing in the gifts and graces of the divine Spirit.-Ver. 19. Wonders. The calamities that fell upon the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem.-Blood, &c. Skirmishes and assassinations over the land, and wasting the country with fire and sword.-Ver. 20. The sun, &c. Figurative representations of eclipses; intended most probably to point out the fall of the civil and ecclesiastical state in Judea. See Matthew xxiv.

ALPHABETICAL AMUSEMENTS.

No. I.

INTENDED TO CORRECT DEFECTIVE PRONUNCIATION.

CHILDREN inclined to stammer, usually find considerable difficulty in pronouncing words beginning with certain consonants: and even where no such impediment exists, it is not uncommon to hear some letters imperfectly uttered.

A frequent and very distinct perusal of the following Exercises is calculated to correct faults of this kind. To those who possess the power of speaking fluently, they may be highly beneficial in another way; such as by exciting the ingenuity in relating the little histories in other words, excluding, for the most part, the principal letter. BARNABY BOND AND THE BEGGAR-BOY.

AN EXERCISE ON THE LETTER B.

BARNABY BOND, from Banbury, was busily baking a batch of brown bread and the best Abernethy biscuits in his comfortable abode, which he had built a little beyond the beach, when a barefooted boy, with nothing but a burnt and blackened blanket bound about his body by a broad belt, bashfully begged a bit of broken bread, because he had had no breakfast. Barnaby Bond, being beneficent, bestowed the broken bread, beckoned the boy to sit on a bench in the bakehouse, and bade his wife Betty bring the bone of boiled beef and a basin of broth.

Now Betty was in a back building, boiling bacon, beans, and cabbage, basting a baron of