to unfold to your little minds as you may be able to receive them: be attentive children then; don't distress and grieve them who are wishing to do you good, by looking at other things and thinking of other matters, while they are telling you of that one thing needful, which as it is unsafe for you to be without, so it must be foolish in you to reject.

I remember, when I was a Sunday-school teacher, the greatest trouble I had to struggle with was the-I will not say bad behaviour— but the inattention of my children; it threw a damp over all my patience and zeal, although perhaps it ought not to have done so; yet, we cannot but feel hurt at your disobedience, just as we cannot but be pleased with any favourable marks of good in

you.

But I shall be talking too long, if I don't now say a word or two upon the subject of our instructions. "Come ye children, hearken unto me, I will teach you"-what? how to spell? no: how to read? no: we do indeed teach you these things, but only that they may lead you to a greater matter," I will teach you the fear of the Lord." Now, I don't

know what hymns you use here, but I remember that when I had to open school in London, I often used to give out one of Dr. Watts' hymns, which began thus:—

"Let children that would fear the Lord,
Hear what their teachers say."

Now mind this; the way to fear the Lord, is to listen to your teachers. But what will the fear of the Lord do for you! The fear of the Lord! why, it's the beginning of wisdom! Men may be very learned, very noble; a child may be very quick, very clever; but he's no wise man, he's no wise child who does not fear the Lord. The fear of the Lord, I think Solomon says, preserveth from sin; and this is just what every boy and girl wants. How are you to guard yourselves from falling into temptations-how are you to deliver yourselves from the deceitfulness of your own heartshow are you to save yourselves from wicked companions who would laugh at you for saying your prayers, and entice you to join them in sin and folly? Each and all of these things, must be done by the fear of the Lord. Re

member, God Almighty's eye sees you every where. When no one else can hear

you, God can hear you; when no one else is by you, he is by you; and he knows, strange to say, not only what you speak and do, but what you think and feel! You may deceive father and mother, and pretend to be a good child—you may deceive your teachers and ministers, and appear to be attentive Sunday-school children, but God can never be deceived! Let this great and holy Being be your fear then, and your dread; think of him as watching all your motions-counting all your thoughts-noting down all your words!

Moses told the Jews that, they should “fear the Lord their God for their good alway:" and this we would say to you. You are only children, but you are capable of suffering; you are only children, but you are capable of sinning; but if you wish to escape suffering, you must flee from sin, and the only way to fly from sin, is to fear the Lord. "Thou, even thou," said David, "art to be feared, and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry?" A dreadful day, my dear children,

is coming for ungodly men, and for wicked children too; for it is said, "I saw the dead small and great stand before God." If at that day you be found to have lived and died without the fear of God in your hearts, it had been better for you if a mill-stone had been hanged about your neck, and that you were cast into the depth of the sea; yea, better had it been for you had you never been born.

But, we will not anticipate this; rather would we entreat you to watchfulness and prayer, -to a prayer which has been often offered and as often answered, “I am thine, O Lord, save me, and thy judgments shall bless me: O knit my heart unto thee that I may fear thy name!" Amen.

This Address was delivered to the Sunday-school Children of St. Sepulchre, Cambridge.

SIXTEENTH ADDRESS.

SOME short time ago, my dear children, I had occasion to call at a house in this district with one of your teachers, the mistress of which, among other things, stated to us, that she was in want of a young female servant; and continued by expressing to us a regret that she could not take one of our Sunday-school children into her employ, for that Sunday-school children had now become so proud, that taking them into service was with her quite impossible. Now, without waiting to inquire into the probable truth of the statement, I consider that the remark, though made entirely by chance, suggested to me a most important subject to bring before you: I considered it a point which, if correct, was closely connected with your temporal, as well as your immortal welfare, and that it had been uttered in the presence of one who, as he was permitted to address you on the Sabbath, was bound in