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the sun shines towards them, so that in the daytime they care 

 not to go abroad, unless it be a cloudy, dark day. But notwith- 

 standing their being thus sluggish and dull in the daytime, 

 yet when moonshiny nights come they are all life and activity, 

 running about in the woods and skipping about like wild bucks, 

 running as fast by moonlight even in the gloom and shade of 

 the woods as the other Indians do by day." s. 



A Congregational Union. 



Congregationalism reminds one, said the Rev. T. T. Lynch, 

 of what the naturalists sometimes talk about, and a queer thing 

 it is. There is a composite creature called the king-rat. It 

 is not common, but it is to be seen in certain museums. It 

 appears that rats, which are very fraternal creatures after a 

 fashion, associate with one another in such a way that their 

 tails get fastened together, and there are sometimes as many as 

 twenty rats making up one king-rat. Their heads are all 

 stretched outwards in a circle, and their tails all compacted and 

 agglutinated together, nobody exactly knows how. Congrega- 

 tionalism is very much like that. All the tails are agglutinated 

 together ; it is a compound creature, the heads all outwards 

 ready to run different ways, the tails amalgamated in this queer 

 fashion, so that no individual can move freely, and neighbours 

 hamper instead of helping one another. Behold in figure a 

 Congregational Union ! T. L. 



The Conscience. 



The hour of the day can be told between the tropics by the 

 motion of the magnetic needle as well as by the oscillations of 

 the mercury in the barometer, the mysterious march of the 

 needle being equally influenced by the course of the sun and 

 change of place upon the earth's surface. There are regions of 

 the earth where the seaman, enveloped for days in fog, without 

 light of the sun or stars, without all other means of ascertaining 

 the time, can still accurately determine the hour by the variation 

 of the dip of the needle, and know whether he be to the north 

 or south of the part towards which he would steer his course. 

 And does not every enlightened man carry with him an inward 



