ANSWER TO THE CAMEL LESSON.

AMONG the useful beasts
Of which the Scriptures tell,
The camels are not least
That knelt at Syria's well-
When kind Rebekah water drew
For them and for their master too.

Gen. xxiv.

The faithful servant, led
By God, at once discerned
His mission had been blessed,
And with her he returned.

How highly honoured camels were,
Thus Isaac's future wife to bear!

Though quite unfit for food,
By God's Mosaic law (Lev. xi. 4.),
The heavy, toilsome load,
For man the camels draw-
In Asia's burning, desert toil,
Across the dry and sandy soil.

The water may be spent,
Still on the camels go;

They have such wondrous scent,
That distant wells they know-
Though none, as yet, by man are seen,
And miles of desert intervene.

When Israel once transgressed
Against their God's command,
Seven years they were distressed,
By Midian in their land.

The camels with their masters came,
And Israel suffer'd loss and shame.

Judges vi. 1-6.

When they were led to pray,
In this their time of woe,
God by a prophet sent
His broken law to show;
Then, pitying their helpless grief,

By Gideon's arm he sent relief.

Judges vi. 7.

And now the battle's o'er,
Their haughty foes o'ercome;
Those who were slaves before,
Have conquerors become.

Ornaments from their camels' necks

Are 'mong the spoil that Israel takes.

Judges viii. 21.

How gracious is the Lord
Such various gifts to send;
His mercy doth afford

To man this humble friend.

His goodness here may we adore,

And sing His praises evermore.

RHODA ALEXANDER.

TIME AND ETERNITY.

Ir was a fine saying of Lord W. Russell, who was beheaded in the reign of Charles II., when, on the scaffold, he delivered his watch to Dr. Gilbert Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury: "Here, sir," he said, "take this-it shows time. I am going nto eternity, and shall no longer have any need of it."

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