Lord, he gives me grace and patience to bear my afflictions."

About eight weeks before she died, she was seized with inflammation on the lungs, when the medical attendant said she would not get better. After his departure her lips were seen to move: her mother asked what she wanted. She replied by repeating the 320th hymn, beginning,

"Be it my only wisdom here," &c.;

and added, "O that I may learn this thoroughly!” She said she was not afraid to die, because Jesus had made her very happy in his love. She often said,

"There is beyond the sky

A heaven of joy and love;"

and trusted that her gracious Saviour would keep her to the end. This confidence she maintained until death. One day she said to her mother, "I love you; but I love Jesus better: I love him because he first loved me."

About three hours before she died, she had severe pain. Her mother said, "O my love, this is hard work." She looked earnestly at her, and said, "No." When she had not power to speak, she appeared to be sensible. It was evident that her end was near. Her parent knelt by her side; and while praying that the "wings of love, and arms of faith, might bear her conqueror through," she lifted her hand in token of victory, and shortly after entered into rest. She died September 17th, 1843. MARTIN JUBb.

APRIL, 1846.

"THE SCHOLAR'S GUIDE."

THE title of this little book

Is charming to the mind;
And all who in it deign to look,
May sweet instruction find.

For where's the child who knows quite well
The path he ought to tread?
Though I've lived long, I cannot tell;
Of that one, I've not read.

This book assumes to be a guide:

'Pray tell me where unto?"

It points to Jesu's wounded side,
Who suffer'd death for you.

"Why did he die for me?" you ask,
"And where is this truth told?"
To "EARLY DAYS" belongs the task,
The mystery to unfold.

It tells you, in the Bible true

That gracious word is given; And shows how such a child as you May find the way to heaven.

Then read this little book with care,

By Christian friends supplied;

And neither dirty, lose, or tear

"THE WESLEYAN SCHOLAR'S GUIDE."

Doncaster.

AZILE.

SERPENT CHARMING.

THERE are a few passages in the holy Scriptures which allude to the commonly received opinion in the East, that serpents are capable of being rendered docile, or at least harmless, by certain charms and incantations. The most remarkable of these texts are those of Psalm lviii. 4, 5, and Jer. viii. 17. Dr. Shaw says, that a belief that venomous serpents might be rendered innoxious by songs or muttered words, or by writing sentences, or combinations of numbers, upon scrolls of paper, prevailed through all those parts of Barbary where he travelled. Mr. Forbes, in his "Oriental Memoirs," appears to attach some credit to their powers of alluring the cobra di capello, and other snakes, from their hidingplaces by the attraction of music. Mr. Johnson, in his "Sketches of India Field Sports," doubts this. He says the professed serpent-catchers in India are a low caste of Hindoos, wonderfully clever in catching snakes, as well as in practising the art of legerdemain they pretend to draw them from their holes by a song, and by an instrument somewhat resembling an Irish bagpipe, on which they play a plaintive tune. The truth is, as he declares, this is all done to deceive. If ever a snake come out of a hole at the sound of their music, you may be certain that it is a tame one, trained to it, deprived of its venomous teeth, and put there for the purpose; and this may be proved by killing the snake, and examining it.

Enough, however, remains to surprise. It is astonishing to witness the command which these