Often will they go, and anxiously watch for this; and at length they will say perhaps, "Please, sir, such a thing has come up; we know it is so, for it is just what you said it would be." Week after week the progress of vegetation will be observed, and the fulfilment of the master's promise will greatly tend to increase _his_ influence.

So great will _he_ appear, that his words and commands will be more regarded; while it will be his object to trace the wonders which he predicted to their divine Source.

I have frequently observed, on such occasions, what I should term an act of infant worship.

Often has the question been put to me, "Please, sir, is it wicked to play ?" as if the spirit were awed, and transgression against God were regarded with dread.

Caution has been also discovered in the use of the divine name; and I have listened with delight to such remarks as these: "Please, sir, when we sing a hymn, we may say Gad, or if we talk about the sun, we may say God made it; and it isn't taking his name in vain, is it?
But when we talk of God as boys do in the street, that is very wicked!" The following facts will illustrate the benefit of scriptural instruction.
A little boy, about four years and a half old, belonging to an Infant School, went to see his cousin, a little girl about his own age.