by dishonest means, and such wealth seldom does good. Many a time it is quickly spent or quickly lost, doing harm to those who spend or lose it. If good men get wealth it is likely to be well left, and perhaps well used, benefiting children and children's children. But I think there is another meaning in this text, one that will do us good to think of.

Every good man does leave an inheritance. Perhaps some who read these lines have lost good fathers they are dead, and gone to heaven. Not a sovereign did they leave behind them to help their children to a good position in this world; but if they were. good, they have left you something better than sovereigns.

(1) They have left you the legacy of a good name. A good name is better than precious ointment." Your father's good name will be a blessing to you. It will sometimes help you into good company; people will cling to you and stand by you for your father's sake. A youth was one day travelling in a railway carriage to a town, in which, as a stranger, he was going to his first situation. He unexpectedly met with one who had known his pious father. The gentleman inquired where he was going, and what he was going to do. He was going to the very town where the gentleman resided. "And where are you going to lodge, my boy ?" said the gentleman. "Don't know, sir," said the lad. "Ah! then you must go with me;" and so the fatherless lad got a comfortable home for his father's sake. You boys and girls who have good fathers and mothers, be thankful. Their good name will be a precious legacy.

(2) They leave you the legacy of a good example. We are all influenced largely by example, but especially is it so with children. "I'll take what father takes," said the little boy who was asked what he would have to drink. So boys and girls, no doubt, often say in their hearts, "I'll do as father does."

Sometimes we follow the example of others; but as our parents are the most important people in the world to us when young, so we are most likely to be led by their example. Good fathers and mothers set a good example to their children, and that is a legacy more precious than rubies.

(3) They leave a legacy of good advice and religious training. Much depends during our manhood on the habits we form and the things we learn when young. Good parents will try to train their children aright; and if you have been blessed with a religious training, it is better for you than if you had had thousands of gold and silver left you. Even good people don't always train their children perfectly, but they are sure to teach them some good. If we have been taught to pray and depend upon God, if we have been taught to obey God's Word, if we have been taught the fear of God, that is a legacy of immense value.

But if you have obtained the inheritance of a good name, a good example, and good training, what are you to do with it? Just what other wise people do with their legacies, If a young man has a thousand pounds left, if he is wise he will not rush away and spend it all as fast as he can. They are only fools who do it. There are such fools. But if he is wise he will take care of it. Such a legacy, if well used by a careful person, will bring in a good income, and contribute very much to the man's comfort. So if you have such a legacy as a good man leaves, if properly used it will do much to make you happy.

But you must preserve the good name by doing and being good. And just as it is easier for a man to keep a thousand pounds than to get a thousand, so it is easier to keep a good name than to make one. Preserve your good name as a prize. If you have the legacy of a good example and good training, use them well. Always keep the example before your mind. Follow it out, and try

HE following, from Mr. Edmund About's brilliant book, entitled, "Contemporary Rome," illustrates one of the phases of Roman Catholic piety in Rome in the nineteenth century :—

"While sitting in an eating-house, he witnessed the following exhibition of gambling piety, with his wide-awake eye, at a table where an old man was playing. The cards were obstinately unfavourable to the old player, who finally staked his silver watch, to lose all or to recover everything. Before cutting the cards, he went to kneel before the Madonna of the restaurant, and prayed her to restore what he had lost, with something besides, promising to share the profits with her, and to carry a great wax taper to the church of St. Augustine. Meantime his adversary, without leaving his seat, prudently crossed himself, and murmured a counter prayer to

the same Madonna. The old waggoner lost, as he had lost before. He rose from the table, and took his position in the face of that image that he had just adored. Some violence was to be expected against the Madonna; but the Virgin is honoured in Rome as she is nowhere else. Should the Romans ever become free-thinkers, they may forget or deny God, but in no conceivable case will they renounce their worship of the Virgin. The unlucky gambler, standing before her image, let fall his wrath on the divine child she bore in her arms: 'You wretched baby' (bambino), he exclaimed, Judas served you right when he sold you !' His adversary gathered up the money and the watch, called for another flagon of wine, which he drank at his leisure, examining the point of his knife, stopped at the door to see if anyone was waiting for him on the outside, and went his way."

LITTLE boy named Willie H--used to pass by a lady's house every day as he drove a neighbour's cow to pasture and back again. He was a very bad boy. He used to swear dreadfully, and was very rude. The lady who lived in this house always called her children into the house, if they were playing on the pavement when Willie was going by. She didn't want them to hear the terrible oaths that he swore. One day this lady thought she would try to do some good to this poor neglected boy. And I want you to notice what she did-how little it cost her, and yet how much good it led to.

As he was driving the cow past one morning, she called him kindly to her and

KIND LADY.

said, "Willie, my boy, do you go to school ?" A gruff "No" was the only reply. "Can you read?"

"Not much, and I don't want to.” The lady pitied the boy. He had neither instruction nor example at home. His parents were not only poor, but very wicked. He had no one to help him to do right.

"Will you stop here a minute on your way back, Willie ?" said the lady; "there is something I want to give you."

Willie nodded his head, with a look of wonder. He was not used to have anything given him but kicks, and knocks, and cross words. To be spoken to kindly, and have a present made to him, was something new. As soon as he was gone, the lady got a nice

round, Willie could be seen, with his little Testament in his hand, and his clothes brushed clean, on his way to Sunday-school. His lesson was always well learned. And the rough, ragged, swearing boy, who was a plague to the village a year before, had become one of the best boys in the neighbourhood.

Now, how very little it cost that good lady to speak a kind word to the rude, swearing cow-boy, and give him a copy of the New Testament! And if Willie grows up to be a good man, a Sunday-school teacher, and a member of the Church, and lives a life of usefulness, who can tell how much good will result from this one kind act of that Christian lady?-Children's Paper.

HE answer to the first puzzle in the September number is 7 shillings. The answer to the second is-2 and 4.

The following have answered both correctly-T. E. Wakefield, W. Chapman, J. Cozens-Hardy, H. Townend, C. J. Townend, W. H. Whitworth, H. Tredidga, H, Ll. Snape, E. Nickson, C. S. Butterworth, J. Mitcheson, A. Thackray, H. Ostler, H. Duncan, W. C. Dainty, E. N. L. Henderson, J. Brown, T. Townend, T. Unwin, H. Weddell, J. Hatch, C. Taylor, R. K. Lord, W. S. Lord, Walter Rushworth, Willie Rushworth, R. T. Williamson, F. E. Chester.

The following has answered one correctly:-S. E. Porter.

I. One-third of the trees in an orchard are apple-trees, one-fourth pear-trees, one-fifth cherry-trees, one-sixth peach-trees, and six of other kinds; how many trees are there in the orchard?