and the steps by which we ascend to the platform. On the left of it is seen the top of the beautiful marble pulpit, peeping over the wall.

"LITTLE LYDIA."

THIS is the name of one of the useful and good tracts which is sent forth by that excellent society, "The Religious Tract Society."

A good lady who was very active in distributing tracts in a little town in Wurtemberg, gave one of these tracts to a poor Jew. He was very glad to receive it, and read it eagerly.

Several texts of Scripture were quoted in the tract. This excited the desire of the Jew to read these truths for himself. He therefore went to a friend, who lived in a village near the town. He asked him to lend his Bible to him, and he at once began to look for these texts.

He now became anxious to get a New Testament for himself, and came to this lady to ask for one. This she gladly gave, but some weeks passed ere she again saw the poor Jew. At last he came to her. He sighed very heavily, as though some heavy burden was upon his heart.

When the lady asked him the reason of his grief, he said, "I wish I were in heaven." "Oh,

sir," said she, "that is very easily said; but have you laid hold of eternal life? Have you cast your sins upon the Son of God, who died for us upon the Cross?"

His

The Jew then told the lady how he had found forgiveness of his sins. He said that he had learnt to believe in the Lord Jesus as the only true mediator between God and man. heart was full of gratitude to her, for he said that she had been the means, in God's hands, of bringing this about. And how had this been done? The New Testament and the tract which had been given to him by the lady had been the means of his conversion. Since that time the poor Jew has died. But he had become rich in faith. He fell asleep in Jesus as a true Israelite, in whom was no guile.

The lesson for us is, that God may bless us in any little thing which we do for His glory. He may make us the means of bringing a poor sinner to the Lord Jesus Christ.

THE BOYS' SCHOOL AT TUNIS.

MR. FENNER writes pleasingly of the boys of this school :

"They have manifested their sympathy and attachment towards me, both in seasons of gladness and in the hour of deepest grief. On

the occasion of my birth-day, the whole of the boys in the school, together with others that had left, came to offer me their congratulations, and recited suitable pieces both in poetry and prose. And some months after, when that solemn visitor, Death, entered my family, removing from us our youngest child, and the sad duty devolved upon me of committing her loved remains to the silent tomb, upwards of thirty of these same boys, with other adult Israelites, gave a public proof of their affection and sympathy, by heading the mournful procession and remaining to the close of the funeral service. At another period I was invited by the leading members of the Leghorn synagogue, to attend the examination of the boys of the Talmud Torah, and as I had promised to reward some of the most deserving pupils with a copy of the Hebrew Haphtorah, the head rabbi then present requested me to examine the boys myself in the sacred tongue; they being summoned, advanced one by one, and after reading a passage from the Pentateuch, and replying with more or less exactness to my inquiries, received at my hands the promised gift. No circumstance could be better calculated to extend my intercourse amongst the great body of the Jews than this public countenance and respect paid me by the leading and most influential men of their party."

GOD SPEED.

MR. SCHLOCHоw gives us an interesting fact in his report from Mülhouse :

“In M—————, I went first to the house of the Jewish teacher, who accepted two tracts and a New Testament: then I went to another house for more than an hour. A young boy would have liked to buy a Pentateuch, but his father was upstairs asleep. However, they awakened him; the mother invited me to sit down.

The father, the mother, a grown-up daughter, and another woman sat around me. They looked carefully at my books, asked the price, and finally wished to know the reason why they were so cheap, and why even some were given gratis. I told them frankly, that love was the true reason which moved many Christian friends of Israel to care for their spiritual wellbeing, and to hand them over the Word of God. We had then a conversation, in which I quite forgot that I was amongst Jews, almost fancied myself in a Christian house. When I had finished, the boy paid for his Pentateuch; the daughter had all the while a New Testament in her hand, I therefore left it with her. I gave the father and mother a tract each, and went on. They wished me Glück,' (God speed.) I could, however, do nothing more in this village.