"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise.''

MATTARW xxi, 16.

VOL, VII.-NEW SERIES.

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Adelina G-; or, the Pow. Heart, Following the Master's 129
er of Divine Grace shewn Hold, The Last

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in a Little Girl

6, 17
Africa, Letters from 22, 25, 49 “I am doing the Best I can 90
Alexandria, Our Missionary at 130 Idea, An Infant's

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Anecdote of Mungo Park 69

ILLUSTRATIONS-
Adelina G- 3

or, the
Beginning to be Useful 53 Power of Divine Grace
Book of Thanks, The

20 shewn in a Little Girl 6
Bread on the Waters
56 Child Prisoner, The

121
Buds of Promise

125 Desert Village School, The 136

Letter from the Calcutta
Calcutta Orphanage, The 21 Orphanage

73
Another Message from 79 Letters from Africa : 25, 49
Letters from
64, 73 Light in the Dark

37
Can no one Stop the Wheel? 75 Little Freddy's Perplexity 13
Child (The) in His Coming Missionary, Wanderings of
into the World

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Child Prisoner, The
121 Single Thread, Å

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Christ, The Law in

70 Tabernacle, The Model of
Christian Hero, Death of a 35 the

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Cross, The
63 Importunate Asking

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Crying “ Hosanna i”

118 India, Escape from Death in 5
Indian Orphanages

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Death of a Christian Hero 35 Infinitely Precious

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Desert Village School, The 136 Irish Mission Schools-Im.

pressions of an English
Each Pupil
78 Visitor

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Earthen Vessel, The

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Escape from Death in India 5 Last Hold, The

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Escape, The Hairbreadth 30 Law in Christ, The

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Lesson, A Good

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Fact (A), and a Thought Letter of Thanks, A

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upon it

88 Letters from the Calcutta
Faith, The Power of
124 Orphanage

64, 73
Fifty-two Pleas for Success Light in the Dark

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to be urged by Sabbath Light (The) Without and
School Teachers
80 Within

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Fig Tree, The

29 Little Freddy's Perplexity 13
Following

the

Master's “Look on this Picture, and on
Heart
129 That!"

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Fragment : :

132 Looking Back from Heaven 116

Luther's Letter to his Little
Gospel (The) in the South Seas 55 Son

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Grain of Corn, The

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Great Teacher, The

• 101 Maxims for Sunday School
Teachers

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Hard Work

94 Message (Another) from the
Heaven, Looking Back from 116 Orphanage

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THE

JUVENILE MISSIONARY RECORD.

A NEW YEAR'S SERMON FOR LITTLE READERS. “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"

LUKE ii. 49.
BUITTLE READERS,—These words were uttered

by Jesus when He was a child. He was only
about twelve years of age. It is strange

there are just the two incidents told us—the one of His infancy, the other of His boyhood ; then there is a long gap, and we come to the days of His manhood. Why is this? Simply that Jesus having been an infant, we are made sure He knows that beauteous life that is folded up like a sleeping flower in every infant's heart; and Jesus also having been a boy of twelve years, we are made sure He knows boyhood's life tooits tears, smiles, longings, its free generous thoughts, its temptations, and all the perils into which sometimes it so sadly falls. Jesus, then, is not for manhood alone. Jesus is also for the tenderest infancy, and Jesus is specially also for that age of growing youth, of changing tempers, and of deep, awful impressions—that age, my readers, through which most of you just now are passing.

See, then, what He said when only twelve years of age. Consider the words separately; they are very interesting and very solemn :

1. The “My Father.” When told about him who was called his father Joseph, Jesus looked up to the roof of the temple and said, “ My Father !”. One to whom He owed deeper love, larger faith, and holier service, even than to His dearest earthly tie. Father, mother, brother, sister, on earth He had none save in God who was to Him over all and blessed for ever. He saw God's countenance always over Him--He leaned always on the breast of God-He

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