Barkness made Light.

BY

REV. E. PAYSON HAMMOND.

"LIGHT IN DARKNESS."

|ITTLE Thomas lived away beyond Lake Ontario in Canada. But little children there among the cold snows and warm

furs look just about like children here. And if you could look into their hearts you would find them just about the same as yours. They love to frolic and play, just as well as you do. You would enjoy seeing them, with their great snow-shoes on, walking right over the high fences on the snow. You would see them, once in a while, when they chanced to make a miss-step, with their heads four feet down, and their snow-shoes four feet above

their heads, like the boy who put corks on his feet, and so thought he could walk on the water. And so he did till his feet came out from under him, and then his head went down and his feet were still on the water; but he soon got tired of that kind of walking. His feet were well enough off, but his head was not in a comfortable position. That is about the way the boys in Canada find themselves when they are sporting with these great big snowshoes.

But I am not going to take up your time talking of the plays of the Canadian boys; for you want to read about how this little Thomas found the way to get a new heart. He will tell his own little story.

Dr. Robert Irvine, who used to preach where this little boy lives, tells me that the dear little children who found the Saviour at the same time that this dear boy thinks he did, are still clinging to Him, and that numbers have joined the Church of Christ.

Have you, my little friend, ever spent a week

DEEP COAL MINE IN SUNDERLAND.

seeking the dear Saviour?

You need not spend so

long a time seeking Him.

You can find Him to

day, if you will only seek Him in the right way; for Jesus says, "Ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." (Jer. xxix. 13.) He is far more willing to save you than you are to be saved. Only think of what He has done for you! How He bled on the cross for you! If you will but look to Him, you will find light. Your heart is full of darkness.

I once went down into one of the deepest coal mines in the world-one-third of a mile straight down, and then three miles under ground. One part of it went out under the ocean. It was in Sunderland, in England. Oh, how glad I was to get to the light of the sun once more! The one

hundred and ten horses down there after a while get blind, and they do not seem to care anything about getting out. Oh, how I did pity them! They sometimes run against the great blocks of coal, and make themselves all bloody. They made me think of blind boys and girls who have never seen the