OUR Engraving represents a group of armour, as gathered from the pictures and sculptures of Egypt, where the forms of several parts first used were discovered. We may not know fully the use of some, but in the general there is a resemblance to the armour of Greece and Rome. The banner, the standard, the helmet, the arrows and bow, the spear, the breastplate are all prominent. We like to study these ancient weapons of war, not that we may employ them and become the destroyers of our

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| fellow-creatures, but that we may the better understand the allusions to them in the sacred scriptures. As christians we are not only the servants, but the soldiers of Jesus Christ; and if we are not found in the whole armour of God, we shall soon be the sport of our foes, falling, not standing, in the evil day. A conflict with the various forms of error is evidently before the church of God. Let us all buckle on our weapons, and fight manfully under the banner of truth.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARMOUR.

REV. xix. 5.- And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.'

October 17.-The Rev. Mr. Hargreaves was greatly delighted with his visits to a little Sunday scholar. On one occasion when he was present, the child's mother was deeply affected. The dying boy perceiving it, said, 'Mother, don't cry, I am going to Jesusto sing

'Songs of praises,

I will ever give to thee.'

ECCLESIASTES i. 14.- I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'

October 24.-Mr. Locke, about two months before his death, drew up a letter to a certain gentleman, and left this direction on it, 'To be delivered to him after my decease.' In it are these remarkable words:-'This life is a scene of vanity that soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life. This is what I can say upon experience, and what you will find to be true, when you come to make up the account.'

This life's a dream, an empty show; But the bright world, to which I go, Hath joys substantial and sincere, When shall I wake and find I'm there.

ZEPA. iii. 17.- The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy ; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.'

October 31.-A little child during her last illness, was wont to say to her mother, 'I long to be there,' meaning heaven. There we can praise him all the time; and the blessed Saviour will rejoice to hear us too; it makes me feel very happy.'

Zion! how glorious to behold!
We shall be there ere long,
O let the timid now be bold;
And let the faint be strong!

Sing, sing ye pilgrims on your way,
Let joy fill every breast!
Our King will all our toils repay
When we have gained our rest.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
IF a little lamb should stray
From the Shepherd's fold away,
He would seek it all the day,
Till he found it, and would bring
Back the little wandering thing,
Which would wander still, and go
Further from its quiet home,
Nor return again, nor know

All its dangers, but would roam
Till hunger, or the stormy blast,
Or beasts devour'd it at last.
Such is Jesus, Shepherd kind:
Children are his lambs which stray,
And he seeks the lost to find,

Watching for them all the day.
You He brought to this his fold,
Here to you his love is told;
You he sought and led you here,
Is not such a Saviour dear?
'Twas for you, his lambs, he died,
Cruelly was crucified.

What can you to Jesus give?

What return upon your part? He who died that you may live. Give Him, what he asks, your heart. Honour Him in all you do,

Hear his word and keep his ways, Do his will and speak his praise, Love Him as He now loves you. Homerton. JAMES EDMESTON.

'GOODNESS LIKE THE DEW.'

FOR A CHILD.

Where is that sparkling dew-drop gone,
That shone so bright at early morn?
I've searched in vain on every leaf;
What is that dew-drop like, so brief?
'Tis like myself! for well I know,
My best resolves thus come and go;
With shining promise first they're seen,
Then vanish, as they had not been!
And so my life, itself, will pass,
Like dew upon the morning grass!
May Heaven! that doth drink up the
dew,

Recal and keep my spirit too.

A CHILD INVITED TO JESUS. COME to Jesus-little sinner,

Come to Him this very day; Bend upon your knees before Him, He will teach you how to pray. Come to Jesus-for he loves you, He's so great, and kind, and good Come to Jesus-He will wash you In his own most precious blood.

Printed and published by JOSEPH GILLETT, of No. 3, Clarence Street, Chorlton-uponMedlock, in the parish of Manchester, st the Office of GILLETT and MOORE, No 2 Brown Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.-OCTOBER 1st, 1847.

OUR Engraving represents a group of armour, as gathered from the pictures and sculptures of Egypt, where the forms of several parts first used were discovered. We may not know fully the use of some, but in the general there is a resemblance to the armour of Greece and Rome. The banner, the standard, the helmet, the arrows and bow, the spear, the breastplate are all prominent. We like to study these ancient weapons of war, not that we may employ them and become the destroyers of our

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fellow-creatures, but that we may the better understand the allusions to them in the sacred scriptures. As christians we are not only the servants, but the soldiers of Jesus Christ; and if we are not found in the whole armour of God, we shall soon be the sport of our foes, falling, not standing, in the evil day. A conflict with the various forms of error is evidently before the church of God. Let us all buckle on our weapons, and fight manfully under the banner of truth.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARMOUR.

School Room.

QUESTIONS ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PEOPLE. (Con

tinued.) By JOHN SUTHERLAND, Barnard Castle. [Fourth Paper.]

The Pentateuch-continued from p. 175. 1. DID Moses continue to reside at the court of Pharaoh ? Yes, he did so till he was about forty years of age, when he went on a visit to his brethren, the Hebrews.

2. While on this visit did any thing particular happen to him? Yes; one day seeing an Egyptian smiting one of his brethren, he slew the Egyptian and hid him

in the sand.

3. Did Moses not endanger his own life by such an action? Yes; when Pharaoh the king heard of it, he sought to slay Moses, who thereupon fled to Midian, a country generally supposed to have been in Arabia-Petræa, on the eastern coast of the Red Sea, not far from Mount Sinai.

4. How did he occupy himself in Midian ? Here he married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, (also called Reuel) the priest or prince of Midian; and some suppose it was while here that he wrote the book of Genesis. After he had been forty years in Midian, and while attending to his fatherin-law's flock, at Horeb, God appeared unto him in a burning bush, made known to him His gracious purpose to deliver the Israelites from the severe oppression and cruel bondage they were groaning under in Egypt, and commissioned Moses to go and deliver them.

Israelites, to declare the purposes of Jehovah towards them, and afterwards to Pharaoh to require him, in the name of the Most High, to set the Israelites at liberty.

6. Did Pharaoh let the people go? No; so far from doing so, he resolved to keep them in bondage, and made their burdens still more grievous.

7. How was their deliverance effected then? It was not till God, by ten extraordinary plagues, convinced Pharaoh of His Almighty power, that the Israelites were freed. At each plague Pharaoh had said he would let the people go, but no sooner was one plague after another removed, than he as often refused, till after the tenth one, when he not only consented, but, with his people, became urgent to send the Israelites out of the land, and at their request gave them raiment, jewels of silver and gold, and whatever they desired.*

8. What were these ten plagues which God sent upon the Egyptians? 1st. He turned all the waters of Egypt into blood. 2nd. He caused innumerable frogs to come over the whole land. 3rd. He afflicted both man and beast with immense swarms of vermin. 4th. Afterwards with a multitude of different kinds of insects. 5th. He sent a grievous pestilence among their cattle. 6th. Smote both man and beast with boils. 7th. Destroyed their crops with grievous storms of hail, accom

ites had been enslaved and defrauded for many generations of their just wages, and on leaving the land they were directed of Heaven to ask or demand of the Egyptians such aid as granted with as much alacrity as it was their exigencies required, and it was asked.

panied with rain and the most terrible thunder and lightnings, in a country where these scarcely ever occur. 8th. Desolated the whole land by innumerable swarms of locusts. 9th. He spread dark ness over all the land of Egypt, so thick that it could be felt making one long dreary night, which lasted for a period of three days. And, 10th. In one night he slew all the first-born both of man and beast throughout the whole of the Egyptian territories.

9. What were the Israelites commanded of God to do before the last plague was sent? To kill a lamb in each family, and sprinkle the blood on the door posts of their houses.

10. Why? So that the destroying angel, when he went through the land of Egypt to destroy the first-born of the Egyptians, might pass over those houses on the doors of which the blood had been sprinkled.

11. What was to be done with the flesh of the lamb ? The Israelites were to roast it with fire, eat it in haste, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, having their loins girded, their shoes on their feet, and their staves in their hands, ready for departure. Thus was the feast of the Passover instituted, just as the Israelites were about to quit Egypt.

12. When did they leave Egypt? In the month of Abib 1491, B.C. The month of Abib, which answers to a part of our March and April, was the first month in their sacred or ecclesiastical year.

13. How long did the Israelites sojourn in Egypt? Four hundred and thirty years, Exodus xii. 40.*

14. Were the Israelites a numerous people when they left Egypt? Yes, very numerous, they numbered about 600,000 men who were able to go to war, besides the old, the young, and the infirm, who altogether are generally reckoned to be about three millions.

15. What does this remind you of? God's promises to Abraham, that he should have a numerous posterity.

16. When they set out on their journey how did they find their way to Canaan? The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light.

17. In what direction did they go? By the way of the Red Sea. eastward from Egypt.

departure of the Israelites from Egypt took place in the year 1491 B.C. showing the actual time the children of Israel dwelt there to be two hundred and fifteen years. In conformity with the above passage the apostle Paul in Gal. iii. 17, also states the time to be four hundred and thirty years, but he reckons from the promise made to Abraham, when God commanded him to go to Canaan, down to the giving of the law, which soon followed the departure from Egypt. Agreeably with the apostle's reckoning, the Samaritan Pentateuch, which is allowed by many learned men to exhibit the most correct copy of the five books of Moses, in all its manuscripts and printed copies, reads the place thus-Now the sojourning of the children of Israel and of their fathers, which they sojourned in the land of Canaan, and in the land of Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.' Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint, also allowed to be one of the most authentic, as well as most ancient has the same reading as that in the copies of this version which we possess, Samaritan, the additional words in which, and of their fathers,' and 'in the land of Canaan,' are lost out of the

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present copies of the Hebrew text. Taking these statements to be correct, as they doubtless are, we have the four hundred and thirty years, thus: From Abraham's entry into Canaan in 1921 B.C. to the birth of Isaac, was 25 years: Isaac's age at the birth of Jacob, 60 years: Jacob's age at his going down to reside in Egypt, 130 years: The time he and his children continued there, 215 years: Making in all 430 years. See Dr. A. Clarke's comment on the verse.