Q. What is written in 1 Corinthians vi. 10?

A. No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God. Q. How are the gods of the heathen described in the Revelation?

A. They worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.

Q. What should be done to an undutiful child?

A. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Q. What will be the end of the child who despises his father, and mocks his mother?

A. The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Q. If we resist the devil, what will he do?
A. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

STORY V.

"The pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts

of the flesh."

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Now the Europe shop into which Mrs. Browne and Mary went was a very large one, and full of all sorts of things. One side was set out with Europe caps and bonnets, ribbons, feathers, sashes, and what not. another side were all kinds of necklaces, gold ear-rings, bracelets, coloured shoes, and many other things of which I cannot remember the one half. Then there were dolls and toys of all kinds. In short, you cannot think of a thing that was not to be found in that shop. In the verandah also were many kinds of gaudy palanquins, and fine furniture; and even wheel carriages, adorned with gold.

The master of the shop was very busy just then in talking to two white women, belonging to the same regiment with Mrs. Browne and Mary. So Mrs. Browne, not willing to interrupt them, led Mary up to that end of the shop where most of the fine things were set out; and she said, "Mary, these are some of the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, which I promised, at your baptism, that you should renounce. We are apt to like fine clothes, fine coaches, fine furniture, together with all manner of gold and silver ornaments-and for this reason, because we are all sinful and earthly, and because it is natural to us to love anything better than God: but we do not please God when we adorn ourselves and our houses with such expensive finery. Do you remember the verse upon this subject which I taught you once?"

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Mary.-O, yes, godmother, very well. adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is, in the sight of God, of great price.' (1 Peter iii. 3, 4.)

Mrs. Browne.-Well remembered, Mary. I hope you will never grow up, my dear child, to love finery and vanity, or to follow after the pomps and vanities of this wicked world. 'Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1 John ii. 15-17.)

Now, by the time Mrs. Browne had repeated these verses, the master of the shop came up to her, and with him the two women, one of whom was Mrs. Simpson, and the other Mrs. Dawson, both sergeants' wives in the regiment. "Your servant, Mrs. Browne," says Mrs. Simpson; "who would have thought of seeing you here? You are come to buy something smart for your little god-daughter, I hope; and to learn the fashions. Well, and it is time, sure enough: for, long as I have known you,-six years, I believe,—I have never seen you with a bit of anything smart about you. And your friend, Mrs. Mills, is just such another, or she surely would have put something rather smarter upon her little girl than that plain white bonnet."

Mrs. Browne did not answer rudely, as some people are apt to do when others laugh at their clothes; but she said, "Mrs. Simpson, my husband likes to see me plain, and I have no mind to be fine; so we agree very

well as to that matter."

Well," answered Mrs. Simpson, "if folks can please themselves, it is nothing to other folks, to be sure. But come, now, do buy your god-daughter a bonnet. Look, here is a pretty straw one, with red roses; and here is another, with yellow flowers: only four rupees a-piece : and what's that to you? You have plenty of money." Then Mrs. Simpson called Mary to her, and pulling off her white bonnet, and putting on the bonnet with yellow flowers, she held Mary up to the glass, to look at herself. Mary, who was a silly little girl, admired herself amazingly in the yellow bonnet. She did not speak, to be sure, but she looked very hard at her godmother, as much as to say, Do, godmother, buy me this bonnet.

But Mrs. Browne went up gently to Mary, and taking

the fine bonnet off her head, she gave her her own little white one again, saying, "Come, Mary, we must be looking for the thimble, or we shall be too late at home." So she led Mary away from the caps and bonnets: and when she was out of Mrs. Simpson's hearing, "Mary, my dear," she said, "if I had thought it right, and it had been proper, I would, with pleasure, have bought you that bonnet: but did I not promise, at your baptism, that you should renounce the pomps and vanities of this wicked world? how then could I act so wickedly as to become the first to lead you into them?"

Mrs. Browne then called to the master of the shop, saying, "Pray, Sir, show us some of your best Europe silver thimbles." So Mary chose a thimble, which fitted her very well, and Mrs. Browne paid for it. After which Mary began to think how she should spend the four pice which her father had given her.

So, after she had considered awhile, she laid out one pice in needles, and one pice in thread, and one pice she paid for a little box to put her needles in, and her thread, and her thimble. Mrs. Browne was very well pleased at the manner in which Mary had spent three of her pice: but there was one pice still left, and Mary did not know how to spend it.

They now left the shop, and went through the bazar, towards home; and, as they were going along, Mary saw some very nice guavas to be sold. Upon which she said, "O, godmother, do let me buy some of those guavas with this pice which is left."

"What," said Mrs. Browne, "have you forgotten your father's charge, not to buy any fruit?"

Mary.-O! I did not remember it just then: but I do very much long to have some of those guavas.—And the stood still, just before the shop, looking at them.

“Come, come, Mary," said Mrs. Browne, "that's very naughty. Have you not read in the Bible, how Eve desired the forbidden fruit, and how she was tempted to take it at last, and how she brought us, her children, to sin and death; ay, and many of us to hell, by her wicked longing after the forbidden fruit ?—and now you are doing the very thing that Eve did. You are wishing for fruit, when your father said you must have none. Come away, and pray to God to forgive you this folly."

When Mary heard what Mrs. Browne said, she was sorry, and came away immediately; for she had not, at first, considered how wicked it was to stand and look, and long for a thing which her father had forbidden her to have.

Then Mrs. Browne looked at Mary, and saw that she was ready to cry. So she said, "Mary, you have but one pice left: give it to the next blind or lame fakeer you see, and that will be spending it well; and it will not tempt you any more to be naughty." So Mary hearkened to what Mrs. Browne said, and gave her pice to a poor blind man, whom she met just as she was coming out of the bazar.

Now, as they were coming home, Mrs. Browne spake thus to Mary: "I have explained to you, my dear, this evening, in some degree, what are those works of the devil which I promised, for you, that you should renounce. You know, also, what the pomps and vanities of this wicked world are, which you must also renounce. I will now tell you what the sinful lusts of the flesh are, which I also promised that you should have nothing to do with. When we long after anything which God has forbidden, as you did just now for the guavas in the bazar, we then give way to one of the