sively, and reverently, in the sight of our Heavenly Father? As a sheep, are you following Him, as your Shepherd, hearing His voice, and deaf to the call of others, who would lead you astray? Then may you take comfort from every special promise given to His people in times of danger and suffering. In the hour of despondency, open your Bibles, in a spirit of prayer and faith, and you will be surprised to find, how many passages the finger of God seems to point out, for your individual consolation. "Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord." (Ps. xxvii. 14.)

She, who now addresses you, would also desire, that the kindness of friends and relations, were made to redound to the glory of God, when he hath dealt bountifully with you; that like Elizabeth's "neighbours and cousins," they would rejoice with you, because the "Lord hath shewed mercy upon you."—(Luke i. 58.)—Then might all those visits, in some cases but in compliance with the usages of the world, be turned to profit. And especially would she wish, that all would return to the primitive spirit in which the “Thanksgiving Service" of our Church was penned. It was not intended for the drawing-room, or to be used by the rich, from a feeling of false delicacy, when no congregation is present to join in it. They who are ashamed, no matter from whence the feeling proceeds, of publicly thanking God for his mercies, are indeed unworthy of them. Our Church doubtlessly wished, each time this service was celebrated, that all her members should have their thoughts directed, not only to the first transgression of God's law, but to Him likewise who hath fulfilled it for us. Neither did she contemplate,

that in a large congregration, only a few here and there, should be found standing, or kneeling, whilst the majority sit by, impatient for the conclusion of a service in which they have little interest. No-her formularies were penned in the belief that all "Love as brethren.' "That one member cannot suffer, unless all the members suffer with it."

Ye mothers, can ye sit down, unmoved, when ye hear the song of thanksgiving? Ye fathers, have ye no gratitude, no remembrance of the season when this was melody in your ears? Oh! let it be no longer a mockery, when those words are uttered, "We therefore give thee hearty thanks, that thou hast delivered this woman, thy servant, from the great pain and peril of childbirth," but let your cry," and " your prayer," and your thanksgiving really ascend to God on her behalf!

And may it indeed be the prayer of every mother," Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living."

"Ebenezer! Hitherto, the Lord hath helped A. B.

me!"

Neither envy, pride, anger, or falsehood, can exist in the same breast with charity; but forbearance, humility, mildness, and truth, are amongst its necessary constituents.-(From J. G. M's. Adversaria.)

He that is choice of his time, will also be choice of his company, and choice of his actions: lest the first engage him in vanity and loss; and the latter, by being criminal, be a throwing his time and himself away, and a going back in the accounts of eternity.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends but so, that for every hour of our life, (after we are persons capable of laws, and know good from evil) we must give account to the great Judge of men and angels. And this is it which our blessed Saviour told us, that we must account for every idle word; not meaning, that every word which is not designed to edification, or is less prudent, shall be reckoned for a sin; but that the time which we spend in our idle talking and unprofitable discoursings, that time, which might and ought to have been employed to spiritual and useful purposes; that is to be accounted for.

For, we must remember, that we have a great work to do, many enemies to conquer, many evils to prevent, much danger to run through, many difficulties to be mastered, many necessities to serve, and much good to do, many children to provide for, or many friends to support, or many poor to relieve, or many diseases to cure, besides the needs of nature and of relation, our private and our public cares, and duties of the world, which necessity and the providence of God have adopted into the family of religion.--Bishop Tay

Lor.

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