... they men h:gh culture ? Where they taken from high positions ? No, they came from the shore* of the Sea of Galilee. They were fishermen. Jesus selected his disciples from the common walks of life, as they from their intercourse with men were well qualified ...

... in the receipts from the telegraphic service is we may hope pledge that this department of administration is oh its to become more remunerative But these are from a financial of view insignificant matters compared with the returns from Customs duties Excise ...

... completed in 1863. Some of the Chinese Very much dissented from the teaching of the Bible, although it was of inestimable value to them. Mr. Moule, in conclusion, read extracts from letter received from his brother, who is at present missionary China, and which ...

... dolls and and animals, dolls' bottom, scrap-books, and illuminated texts, the sole and unaided work of children—readers of Little Folks Magazine. The dolls, dm., have been sent in from every quarter of the globe—from Java, Egypt, Canada, the West Indies ...

... top-hats and trousers, 'it is from tyranny of this kind that we find a temporary emancipation in the fancy dress balls, for in them at least, if we cannot be what we like, we can look what we like, and dream we please a little world of dreams-nightmare and ...

... excited considerable discussion, namely : That persons who desire to abstain from all meat of quadrupeds and birds, though they decline to bind themselves wholly to abstain from fish and marine animals, should be reoeived by the society into an intermediate ...

... mules from Zululand, presents from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Queen, have arrived at Pertain mat. A telegram from Const tntinople state. that the distress in Diarbekie is on the inereace, and that thousands of peaaants arrive in the town daily from the ...

... Sunday-school teachers throughout the world. No agency, he said, had ever called forth much voluntary assistance Sunday-school work. He then traced the progress of the Sunday-school in connection with the R.E.C. in Yeovil from its commencement, and stated that ...

... the temperature of which is kept up by warm water. The bite of this spider—which comes from South America —is said to be very injurious to both man and beast. A FROM THE TOMB.—A singular discovery was made in Paris one day last week during the alterations ...

... discharged.—The Rev. R. W. Enraght WWI released from Warwick Gaol on Monday morning. He was received outside by a deputation from the Birmingham branch of the Working Men's Society, and upon his departure from the railway station for Borde.ley he was ent ...

... calla attention to the following meleotious from hie stock of BOOKS IN BICH BINDINGS. CARD GAMES : Pinafore, Nabbing the Nikaitt.' GENERAL GARFIELD AT MENTOR. (From the World.) At about an hour's journey from Clevedon, Ohiothe Railroad City, upon which ...

... service was held iv the eh p.m. A strmoii was preached Miss tenall, from the words, T.:ou crownest tie year wit Thy goodness.*'—Tsalm lxv., 11. A selection pie. was readered by the choir from the service song, entitled Harvest-Tide. At the close of tht ...