He requested God that he might die. This is the very same petition which Elijah, in a moment of weakness and depression, made. Both forgot that they had work to do for God, and that if they would glorify Him, they must do that work in His own appointed way. Such conduct on the part of Jonah was very ungrateful. He seems to have quite forgotten what God had done for him when he cried by reason of his affliction unto the Lord. God asked him, "Doest thou well to be angry?" Jonah seems to have made no reply. He betook himself to the east side of the city and erected a booth or tent that he might see what would become of the city.

The Lord God, however, was not unmindful of His servant Jonah. Much as he had grieved, Him, He would not desert him. He, therefore, caused a gourd or palmerist to come up over Jonah that " it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief." Truly He is a gracious and merciful God and of great kindness. The prophet was glad because of the gourd. He rejoiced with great joy, and, doubtless, his angry feelings gradually subsided, and there was a calm in his troubled breast. He was not to enjoy his repose for long. He who had prepared the gourd likewise prepared a worm which smote the palmerist so that it withered. Again did God bring the wind out of His treasury. A strong east wind blew," and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted, and wished in himself to die." "Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd ?" asked God. Jonah must indeed have been very wroth, because he answered the Lord in a manner which appears very awful when we consider that it was to God he said, "I do well to be angry, even unto death."

We must not suppose that Jehovah thus treated Jonah for no other purpose than to punish him. He wished to teach him a wholesome lesson, and we are told what that lesson was. It was this. Jonah had pity on the gourd which came up in a night and perished in a night, but he had none for the city of Nineveh wherein were "six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left (i.e. between good and evil), and also much cattle." Jonah was angry with God, because He had not utterly destroyed the city, and all that was therein, but he spared the gourd because it had sheltered him in his grief,

tion without a tear. He asked for mercy for himself, but justice for the inhabitants of Nineveh. He did not understand how that Justice could be satisfied, and Mercy assert her sway. It was only on the Cross of Calvary that Justice and Mercy met together, when the Incarnate Son of God uttered the words, "It is finished," and, bowing His sacred head, gave up the ghost.

There is one point in Jonah's character which is worthy of notice. We refer to his surrender of himself on board the ship, and his readiness to bear the punishment which his own wrong-doing had brought upon himself and others. As we remarked of Jacob, one of the great lessons of his life was "Be sure your sins will find you out." So it was with Jonah. He disobeyed God, and the result was that he had to pay the penalty of his sin. We must also remember that we may not only bring punishment on ourselves, but also on others. We have many instances of this in the Bible. Achan alone took of the spoils of Jericho, but all Israel suffered. David numbered Israel, but seventy thousand died because of that one act. And so it ever is. We are members one

of another, and as St. Paul tells us, if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it. So if we do wrong, we often bring punishment not only upon ourselves, but even upon those whom we love.

We hear nothing further of the prophet Jonah. Having reproved him, God doubtless had a work for him to do, and we can only hope that he did it cheerfully and well, and that he is now in that Presence from which in the days of his flesh he vainly tried to flee; in that Presence where there is joy and peace for evermore, where the rays of the sun cannot scorch, and sin and death cannot enter.

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NEW ROSS.-The loss of a Conservative seat at Maldon, has been balanced by a gain of one at New Ross. The polling resulted as follows:-For Col. Tottenham (C), 96; for Mr. Delaney (Home Ruler), 90. The register contains 219 voters. The late member, Mr. Dunbar, was a Liberal, and one of the Home Rule party. In 1874 he polled 122 votes, and Col. Tottenham, the Consevative candidate just elected, polled 81.

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