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16 AN ENGLISH SAILOR

Being at Smyrna, went into an open mosque at the time of prayer. Seeing the Turks kneeling and bowing, he flnng down his hat and knelt down too. After prayers they seized on him, and took him before the Cadi as a convert to Mahometanism. As he could not be made to understand their questions, the dragoman of the English consul was sent for, through whom he was asked if it were his wish to become a Turk. " No ! no !"-" Why then did you go into the mosque?" " Why, I saw a church door open, and I thought any body might go into a church. I had not been in one for three years before, and my old mother's advice just then came to my mind-' Wherever you go, Jack, go to church !'"

THE CHRISTIAN'S POSSESSIONS.

A gentleman one day took an aequaintanee upon the lead of his house, to show him the extent of his possessions. Waving his hand about, “ There," says he, " that is my estate." Then pointing to a great distance on one side, “ Do you see that farm ?"-“ Yes."-" Well, that is mine." Pointing again to the other side, " Do you see that house?”-" Yes."-" That also belongs to me." Then said his friend, “ Do you see that little village out yonder ?"-" Yes."-" Well, there lives a poor woman in that village, who ean say more than all this."-" Ay ! what ean she say ?"-" Why, she can say,' Christ is mine.'" He looked confounded, and said no more.

HOW TO ACT IN CASES OF DOUBT.

In cases of doubtful morality it is usual to say,-Is there any harm in doing this ? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another,-Is there any harm in letting it alone ?

THE SCOFFER CONFOUNDED.

A gentleman in a stage-eoach attempted to divert the company, and to display his hostility to the Seriptures by turning them into ridicule. " As to the prophecies," said he, " they were all written after the events took place." A minister in the coach who had previously been silent, replied, " Sir, I must take leave to mention one remarkable prophecy as an exception,— ' Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers.' Now, sir, whether the event be not long after the prediction, I leave the company to judge." The mouth of the seorner was stopped.

" A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."