But it was not enough. Negligence in her studies was not her only fault. She did not honor her father and mother as she ought to have done, and she was often rude to other elderly people. Before she got through her task, her mother called to her to come down stairs and assist her.

21. "I can't come, I'm busy with my lesson," said Julia.

22. "Oh, you can learn your lesson byand-by," said her mother.

23. "No, no; I can't come now," replied Julia. "I've got my lesson to learn, and I won't come."

24. Mrs. Wright felt very much hurt by this conduct of her daughter. And the more so, as Mr. Walker, her minister, who had just called to see her, was within hearing.

25. "My dear madam," said he, "it will never do for you to submit to this. You will ruin your child if you allow her to be so disobedient. She is breaking the law of God, which commands her to honor her father and mother. If you allow her to grow up so, she will be equally disobedient to her Maker as she now is to you.'

26. "But what can I do? You see she does not mind me.'

27. "You must make her mind you. If you wish it, I will assist you, although I assure you it is very much against my inclination.' 28. Mrs. Wright and Mr. Walker accordingly went up stairs together,

29. "Julia, my dear," said her mother, "you have been a very naughty, disobedient child lately. I cannot allow you to be so any longer. Mr. Walker says that you will be entirely spoiled, if you do not change your conduct immediately.'

30. "Why, mother," said Julia, "what would you have me do? Mr. Hale said I ought to learn my lesson as soon as I went home. And now you say I mustn't."

31. Mr. Hale did not intend that you should disobey your mother," said Mr. Walker. "He must have meant that you should attend to your studies if your mother did not want you. Do you know that you have just broken one of the commands of God?"

32. "You don't say so," said Julia, looking a little alarmed.

33. "You have, indeed," said Mr. Walker. "Did you ever learn the ten commandments?"

34. "Yes. I recited them for my lesson at the last Sabbath school."

35. "I am afraid," said Mr. Walker, "that although you said them by heart, you have not laid them to heart. Repeat the 5th, if you can recollect it now."

36. After some little hesitation, Julia said, "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."

37. Now, don't you see, my dear girl," said Mr. Walker, "that you have broken

that command? You have not honored your mother. You have not even obeyed her. A child who honors his parents truly, will not only obey them, but will respect them, and do every thing he thinks they wish, whether he is told or not. He will not wait for their orders. He will try to think whether they would like it. But I hope you did not break God's commandments intentionally. I trust it was only through thoughtlessness."

38. Julia shed tears, but no longer refused to obey her mother.

39. "You see, my dear," said Mr. Walker, after Julia had assisted her mother, "that you have honored your mother without disobeying your teacher. And now let me advise you, never to let any thing hinder you from obeying your parents. God has expressly commanded you to do this; and a child can hardly go wrong, if it is only obedient."

40. From this day forward, Julia was an entirely different girl. She became as dutiful and industrious, as she had formerly been disobedient and negligent. And she allows me to tell you, my dear readers, that this change has made her much more happy.

Repeat the substance of this lesson. Is it right, or wrong, for children to speak of their teachers as Julia Wright did? Is it right, or wrong, for them to speak of any person so? Is it our duty to respect older persons, or not? What does the Bible say of old age ? "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God. I am the Lord." Lev.

xix. 32. Does a child injure itself when it neglects its studies? Whom else does it injure? Is this right or wrong? What is meant by honoring our parents? Would a child be happy or unhappy who acted as Julia did? Would such conduct make her beloved, or not? Does God see and notice the conduct of children? Would He be pleased or displeased with her conduct? What does the Bible say of God's seeing us? "The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." Prov. xv. 3.

LESSON XXII.

Happiness the Result of Virtue.

1. "COME, Jemmy," said a bare-footed, curly-headed boy to his brother, "come; we must fill mother's wood-box before we go to school. You know father had to go off to his work as soon as it was light this morning."

2. "Well, Johnny," replied James O'Kane, "if you'll cut the wood, I'll carry it up stairs. But here's little Willie-what shall we do with him?"

3. "Oh! he'll sit quiet enough on the door-step till we've done. Won't you, bub? Won't you sit there, and see brother chop the wood?"

4. Willy said not a word. Indeed, he looked as if he were too young to talk. John began to cut the wood, and James sat down on the step, and took the little boy in his lap, to try to amuse him, till

his brother had cut an armful to be carried up stairs.

5. These were three little Irish boys. Their father and mother had brought them from Ireland to the city of New York a few weeks before. Their parents were very poor. The boys had neither stockings nor shoes. Their clothes were not in the best condition. They were clean and whole, but they were all patched and darned.

6. The food of these Irish boys was not the very best. It was not often that they had any thing better than potatoes, with sometimes a little milk to them. They had never tasted tea nor coffee. And it was very seldom that they had any meat, or gravy, or butter, to eat with their potatoes. At many a meal they had nothing but potatoes and salt.

7. These boys had very little time for play. They had a good many chores to do about the house before they went to school, and after school they went home to stay with brother Willie, or to help their mother to take care of their little baby sister.

8. These little Irish boys never had any money to spend. In Ireland, their parents could hardly earn enough to live on, and they had not been long enough in this country to have any money to give away to their children.

9. How would you like to be no better off than these Irish boys? To have to go