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. | (/ x _* ^ ?' * * * *j ~~ * *mmjWgffM!" ...I.. . J- ...Jfy.'".1 JJ1.JU.UM-.U, -,uTOm^....Ml. ?! ? II I , "I I I HI I II , I I I III I ? _ ' '' M ^ VOL W GltEENYlLLK, & C.: l'lUIUY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1855. NO. 49. LJ f'ljr ?nutljfni (But&ijmsp, A REFLfcX OF POPULAR EVENTS. T !??v?hMmi9]9 EDITOR AND PROPRIEJOR. 9? ' ......... V r'M_^ mm. rrnu^mm 5?. payable in advance ; ?2 if delayed. CLUBS of FIVE and upwards ?1, 1ho money in every instance to accompany the order. . ADvKKTISF-MKNTS inserted conspicuously at the rate* of 75 cents per square of 3 lines, and <^nt* for each subsequent insertion. Oo-v tracts for yearly advertising made reasonable. (frigiitnl |ktnj. For the Southern Enterprise. Jo Iffis** runnic. On! is it not n pretty name? Tho fairest flower, a garden yields Hie huds which well adorn our fields, Boast not the beauteous tint*, which deck Thy cheeks, Miss Fannie. In^^t it is a lovely nntno, I've sWfi tho Spanish beauty's eyes. The bine which English maidens prise, Tho grey of bonnie France, bnt none To equal thine, Miss Fannie. I wonder who first had that name? Raphael in all his palmiest days, Thoagh aided by great Vidns' lays, Ne'er on his canvass threw, a form Liko thine, Miss Fannie. Really there's music in the name? ' V J'vo often read of Eastern dames, From fancy drawn, or seen in dreams. But none e'er had a brow to match Thiuo own, Miss Fannie. In truth, I dearly love thee name, I would that 1 could call tho mine, Could hear thy lipa pronounce mc thine, How happy, happy, would I bo, 4 To aay, dear Fannie, CLARET. GrmniHt*, 8. C., March 18fK, 1855. ^ Siiic-Sltuakt $ton|. Jf cle r)Q Cqlrl isle. A STORY FOR THOSE NOT "WIDE-AWAKE" BT JANE EYRE. ''By one judge all? But of the dead apeak only good." * "A girl lost!"?so said tlic morning paper ?"a girl lost, aged eighteen ; tall, slim, and good looking?blue eyed, and with brown curling hair, dro., &c. WelL the notice was read by hundreds? perhaps thousands?and then the paper was ckftt aside, aud with the lost girl forgotten. At the corner of Street, near St. J 's Park, a little after dark one autumn eve, walked up and down, with rather an impatient step, a tall and handsome gentleman. Oentlemin, I say, for such we must call every man, until we have proved him other. The evoving was somewhat chilly, and the stranger had thrown over his shoulders a short Spanish clonk, which his folded aims now clasped tightly in his breast, as he muttered between bis closed teeth :?(elegant white teeth they wore.) "This foolinghnust come to an end ; I cannot be dancing attendance to <|er whims much louger. Borne one will discover our meetings next, and then there will be a fine muss, and I lose my prise before I have fairly gained it. Where can ahe lie now f?she promised t<> be h^rc, or at the gate by scycn o'clock, and it is now twenty minutes after. Ah, here she comes, my charmer 1" and with quick steps he hurHw a young girl, wjio caine timidly toward him from tho opposito corner. "You are late, dear Lena," said ho, as he drew her hand through his arm. "I feared something had taken place to keep you astray from me altogether, and this is always my fear, if you are not with rac at tho precise moment appointed. "I came very near being prevented from leaving home this eve, for father is quite nnwell, and does not go out again to-night, pad he wanted m? to road t<> |,jm rill illis evening, atfd then was no one else to do it. I hated to iayPho,' to my dear father, but I could not disappoint you if it were possible t?%e!? it, aft I told him 1 had something very important, which 1 had promised to nttead-Uv this evening, and if ho could spare ine, i snouio nave 10 g > out lor an nour or two." "HAh, my sly one'.-?but lie did not ask yon what that very important business was ?" "Ye*, eir, lie did ; but I told him 1 could not tell any one about itiust now, as it was. to bdltiM A great secret ttfl it was ready to l>?k told, lie only laughed and told me to givo A lifin a kiss fcnd be off, l?ut J^Like good care Wr and not get into danger/ wwlnitkchieb?so w here 1 am ; and you won't let-any hum be fall mc, I am .sure; hut btillI>VnStfnter, 1 I feel end to be unable to ten my dear father . and mother anything about ou; ffr . * ' Jr m ^ ' Doubtless, my dear child, but you must] reflect that I am the best judge abou> what is prudent in our co.sc. 1 know your father ' well, and although ho is a noble gentleman,; and no enemy to mo personally, as you arc at full liberty to asccrtian by questioning him, (only bo careful not to let fall a word that can show your knowlogo. of tne,) yet he is j such a mortal enemy to the Catholic religion,1 that I am convinced he would prefer to see you lying dead at his feet rather than to have you become the wife of a Calbolio? even tny wife, Lena." .1 ? ' "? ' 1 <? n?k mull Jiro ? u lO <_IO i qUCSUOnCU Lena, with eyes full of tears and sorrow. Hr. Uuutcr drew a key from his pocket, and unlocking tlio park gate, led his companion in and relocked the gate before he answered her question. ^ lie then turned, with Lena, down the deepest shadowed path, and said? "I will tell you soon little one?but first cotne with mo into our arbor, .and* favor me in the same sweot manner that you did your father just before you left him. I cannot talk to you furthor till you have reassured of your love, by at least one freely given kiss." They wcro in a secluded arbor; Hunter stood at her side and bowed gracefully toward the young girl. llis words?as such words from him always did?sent a thrill of half fl ighted joy to her innocent heart. She knew 6hc was blushing scarlet, but he could not see that, for the darkness covered it?ah, the darkness !?it covers many things?but "There is nothing Covered that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not he known." Lena's lips were pressed lightly upon Hunter's cheok?her touch was like the stroke of :i magic wand upon him, and he caught hor instantly and forciby to his heart. Ilis lips limited not their kisses to cheek, or white brow. The warm red lips which had yielded timidly indeed, but not unwillingly, to his desire, were largely repaid for their gentle grace. ivisses arc curious things. Who is there that cannot testify to that ? "Lena," said Dr. Hunter, as lie sat with hor folded in his thick cloak, "do you know that this is'the last time I can meet you so ? The leaves are all falling from theso trees, and our place of refuge will soon be exposed to public view, I cannot go to your house. I think too much of your dignity, and my own, to ask you meet meat other houses, or about in different places any more. Now, little girl, stop this sighing if you please and listen well to what Tarn going to say to you. You are bound to mo by all vows of love, as I am to you?should you not then, give me a husband's right to claim you?to take you to my homo without shame or fear? Your parents will never give their consent; but when wo nrc one flesh without it, they must needs forgive us, or, at I east they will soon do so, when they see we arc happy in oach other, as we shall be, shall wo not, my own? You can satisfy yourself that your father thinks only well of my character, and of me every way, except my religion?that is the rock upon which our happiness will certainly be wrecked, if you refuse to hear me; and then if at the end of three days, you decide for me, send a note through the post-office, and I will meet you wherever you may name, and take you to my sister's, in Albany, where wo will bo married; and then nil these anxieties and dangers will bo at an end, and 1 shall have my darling with inc night and day." A few more words?a flood of perplexed tears?another long encouraging embrace, and Dr. Iluntcr led poor Lena out of the park, and left her near the house of her parents. ****** "Fathor," said Helena Carlisle, as he rose from the dinner-table one day, "father, what do you think of Dr. Hunter as a man and a gentleman ? 1 heard you tell ine tho other day that you could never feel reconciled to the idea that he was a Catholic." "What put him in your wise little head just now, my child if" said tho kind hearted parent, and then, without observing the deepening color upon his child's rosy-checks, lie added, earnestly, if from the depths of his heart?"Dr. Hunter is otto of nature's noblemen. In character, principles, and dis{>osition, he is all that man should he , lrow te has been able to live thirty-fivo years a Roman Catholic, is a perfect paradox to mo." "Thirty-live years old !" exclaimed Helena "Dr. Hunter cannot be thirtv five years o!4!" I should like to know how you know how old ho can be. Miss Lena?whore did you over sec him /" said her father, laughing at l\cr apparently horitied surprise. "Oh, I was introduced to him not Ions: ago, and I thought he was very handsome, but not very "Very old! thirty-five! Oil, theic children?what a net thc^' arc!" and Lena'* father winked at his ivifo, and shook his head at his daughter, aud hurried down stairs and down town. r ? # ? * * The night boi^g|as about starling from her pier, when ft Wan iage drove hurriedly down, and a gentleman leading out handed a clot.ely vieled hudr across tfie plank to the steametijfr crowded deck. Mriof lime pausedhe to oCC fhc trunk , A/C., and then he led the ' is Ijuly to her stale room. When the door had closed upon them, and the shawls and bonnet were laid aside, tli<*pal<vhut s\vcet and interesting face of Helena Carlisle Was reveal cd. She turned to her companion, who stood leaning Against the door, and silently! watching her movements saying?"There, are two births in here, and hero are some, person's things, I'm sorry that any one is to ' bo with me hero to-night?I feel so strange- j ly?1 had rather bo alone." "It can't be helped, Lena. There were ' onlv two vacant state rooms ami I lia.l n.. choice. I will leave your to yourself awhile ' now, and when the bell rings for supper I will; come for you. See, iho boat moves, wo are ' off, my darling, and uouo can trouble us now.'' "Oh. dear mo! what will my father and! mother say ? I wish you had allowed me 1 to leave a note to tell theflTnot to be worried I'm afraid they'll bo frightened to death," "Oh, no danger of that in so short a time, you may mail your note to morrow morning, and they'll get it as soon as needful, so don't bo unhappy about them, Lena. I've left word, in your name, that you went homo with a friend from school, and would be safe. Won't that make all easy ?" "Yes, it will do, for I often do go homo with Mary Hrown, and it is not a lie either for are not you my friend, and am I not going from school; home with you ? Oh your way was best, after all." "1 thought you'd say so. Now be ready when I call to take you to supper." As Hunter opened the poor of the stateroom, Lena saw that which she had not before observed, that they were close to the machinery. She called Hunter back. 'What an awful noise that machinery docs make, and I'm afraid to be so near the boilers. Wo may blow up," said she. "Oh, no fear of that," laughed Hunter 'don't bo nervous, pusv," and ho stroked her, cheek, as ho spoke, while a strange, dragonlikc exptcssion, darted like forked tongues from his eyes. lie went out, closing tho door with a chuckle. Poor Lena! After supper ho left her again in her room, but she noticed, and she thought strange ot it that he locked the door when ho went away. ''What if tho other occupant of this stateroom should want to come in while ho is gone," thought she. Put no one came. In an hour Hunter returned. "No ono is coming here; this room is all for yourself," said he. "Put whoso things are these!" asked Lena. "Oh, never mind things; come and sit a while with mo, mv little wife. 1 am going to stay here a while with your for there is no one outside that I care about, and I am not sleepy yet." "Put if any ono should know you were in here, what would thev say ?" "No one does, or can know. No one saw mo enter, and our voices, even aloud scream, cannot be heard amid the din of the machinery outside. We are very safe. Lena niino ?mine, my own. Do you love very much, my little wife 1" "Oh, I do indeed, sir," said the trusting and most imprudent child. "How can you ask mo that, when you know that 1 have left all for your sake, and when I am with you here all alone ? Ah, sir, 1 begin to he afraid of what 1 have done; L think I >huulj not boon so hasty. Was it well for me to come with you?is it well for mc to have you hero f" "Lena, you have indeed placed yourself wholly in my power, but do not be afraid of me, fur I will never prove ungrateful, you arc as much mine now, in the sight of Iloav-1 en, as if the Messing* of iho church had uni ted us, therefore you have no cause to fear. Lena, 1 am too happy to hold you thus securely, and with no four of interruption; 1 shall not not leave you, my own dear little trembler, ail (hit whole long night." The poor girl besought him to leave lior state-room?her words worn all in vain, llo threw otl'tho heavy traveling dress which be wore, and when lie had almost made her , believe that it was altogether for her own comfort he did so, and that it was no harm at all for him to stay beside her all night,if j ho was so disposed, ho arose, and -with his arms around her, walked under the.gas light, burning over the mirror, and made#hcr look upon the pair reflected in the clear glass. Tito excitement and terror of the moment before had given a new, and almost startling brightness to her eyes. They looked larger and deeper than ever Irelbre, and Hunter reveled in the beauty, lie saw also how the color on her cheeks had increased, that the love which his caresses and soothing words had to it* overflowing height, was lending a soft and dreaming loveliness to her expressions, notwithstanding her doubts and fears. ller heart was throbbing so wildly that he could see her bosom vise and fall, with every beat. Hunter stood gazing with a charmed, bewildering smile, in the eyes bf ' the beautiful girl, and as Lena, no longer able to endure the ouehaiiting gaze, turned and hid her blushing face in her lover'* bosom, he bout toward the light, and put ill out.' ' ' Lm. > - li The scicams ami cries ami prayers that were heard in that small sttate-room, were heard no where else, unless they reached to Heaven. lint, before morning dawned, Lena, learned from the lips of the tiend who had destroyed |ier, that ho was not Dr. Hunter, hut 1 >r. 1 luntor's lather-coulessor, a Human Catholic Priest. "I pretended lobe Hunter, for the purpose of gaining vour good opinion, Lena," said Itenshaw, the priest. "I loved you from the first moment I saw you, ami I vowed that you should become mine. I am forbidden to marry, but .not to love, and now that you know all the truth,you will not hope that I will not atone the harm I havo done l>y inaking you my wife?that drenm must he forgotten, but if you can love mo still, you shall have no reason to regret it, for I will never cast you from me never. You are dear to me. .Lena, as the breath of life, for all you think-me so brutal?and I will do all I can to* vendor you happy. Would 1 could do more, poor Lena; do not cry so bitterly. I am sorry to have nfficted you so, but it can't be helped now. Can you not forgivo mo? Will you not answer mc one word Lena 1 Will you never speak to mo again ?" ' Lost, lost!" groaned the miserable girl. "Oh my father, my mother, you can see vour ruined child no more." "Why will you tortureyoursolf to no purpose, Lena ? Do try and recover your sclfconwnand. You shall go homo with me, and it may bo that you can return undiscov erect to 3'otir parents if you cannot be happy with inc." "Where do you live?"said Helena, suddenly. "What is your name since it is uot Hunter ?" "My name is Lawrenco Ilenshaw, and 1 live in tho city from whence we came." "Then take uie back with yon, to-morrow ?1 will go to your home, for the doors of my father's house 1 will never enter again ?never shall the threshold of my childhood be dishonored by iny footsteps. Take me to your homo." "I will, Helena; and may I never find mercy, if I do n?>t try to make vou happy. Whether the holy father would have been as good as his word, time never proved. For the second day after his return to the priestly mansion with his poor victim, she was not to bo found. After a protracted search, Renshaw at length gave up tho idea of ever again seeing her and tried to banish her image from his mind, by seeking a new victim. * * * * * * Upon the rocks in a little cove, sonic fishermen wcro seated mending their nets. They wore talking merrily, in their rough wav, of things interesting to tlieni. "Here are the hooks 1 brought from town," said one brown-checked fellow to another. i.> be passed a paper package to him. He to whom the hooks were handed, opened the paper which held them, and after careful examination, pronounced them good. Them lie began carelessly to read aloud from the torn paper? "A girl lost?aged 18. Tall slim and good-looking." Jlear now, will you. boys somebody feels bad about that girl, I'll bet ?I'm glad it ain't my darter that's lost in that great citv. "Father, father !"' screamed a white-headed bov, rushing round a rocky point and toward the group of fishermen. "Oh, father, do come here, there's a drowned woman on the rocks, out Miind the point." No other call was needed?dl hurried to the spot to which the child led on. There slept .poor Lena, whito and still. The sea-weed was clinging closely round her, anu was mixed with her long tangled hair. Tlio curls of that brown hair wore creeping about the stones and rocks on which she lay, and her white dress was all torn and soiled by the damp and heavy sand. 1'oor child ! tin miseries of earth could trouble her no more. She was bevond tlio reach of the destroyer; or the tempter now. Wo will notjuugo the dead. I low &!ic Catnc to that snot none ever knew; but a letter written the day before she left K'?nshaw's lioine, and left hy herself iu tlie oflico told tlie outline of her sad story., to her parents, and bid tliein nn eternal farewell, ilor body was reclaimed by hor father, and harried by the side of her mother, who died almost instantly upon learning tho fate of hor child. The .sloop of death is tho only sloop which can refresh the broken-hearted. As for tho priest?he lives, and moves, and has his being yet in this word, and I know not that hi* sleep is loss sound, or his heart more troubled ih.in beforo Helena Carlisle crossed his path ; but this I do know, that tho guilt, of a three fold murder is upon him, and its cursowill follow him, until at last he meets his due reward. Tho slayer of the hotly is a murderer, but tho slayer of the immortal xoul!?what monstrous name shall be called. Eternity must answer. .\ HxoKBiriXfi.?Tim not uncommon custom of pelting ti friend allcr he haa left the company, sccmfto hrtVfc been derived from tho prnilfco'^or^tlic ancient tribes, w ho crocted J* nioiiumeitt to a. departed hero, by throwing stuncJ upon it T Snftrcsliiig Bllisttllnmj. Ti iU o 10 f i 11 (j 8 p o I; c ?i. Many years ago, in a revival r.f religion, a little 1 xi_v seven years <?f age became a snli- j joot of the work, lie had a sister much ol dor, who obstinately VesisVed all the means] of salvation. Though accustomed from her | childhood to attend divine service, she would ' not now he persuaded to heay a sermon or ho present at any religions meeting. With a settled determination not to be conversed .1 i ! . .? 1 __i: - - i i "iiiiuii i ins suiycct ui personal ri'ii^inii, sue shunned, so far as possible, all rcligons society. If she saw the pastor of the congrega J tion approaching the house, she would scud j out another way, "repair to the barn or hie to a neighbor's, and there remain until she j was satisfied that the minister had taken leave. One Lord'* day, during the morning scr-j vice, the little brother's heart was intensely i fired with the love of Christ. In tho joccss of worship, he hastened homo, and entered the house before any other member of the family. Seeing his- sister in a listless atti- j tude, he immediately approached her, and! clasping hor hands in his, exclaimed, t4< >li, dear Julia, why will you go to hell 1" This j was the arrow which was to do execution.? It was made sharp in the heart of the King's enemy. In the afternoon Julia was at church,smit- i ten and writhing with deep conviction. Her distress continued for a season; when hi.s[ proud spirit yielded, and she "humbled her-1 self as a little child." At a proper lime she' entered into a covenant with (5od and bis' church; and in the same pew, those hands,1 which had boon clasped as above described,, passed to each other the emblems of a Savior's death. Whs not the address of that ' little convert "a word fitly spoken ?" ? t! i c n b e ir g. No fact in history is more interesting than tho invention of the printing press bv Outten berg. It is ascribed indirectly to the influence of religion, as is thus set forth : 'Guttenberg traveled alone, on foot, carrying a knapsack containing books and clothes, i like a mere student visiting the schools, or n journeyman looking for a master. lie thus went through the Konish province.*. Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and lastly, Holland, not without an object, like a man who lets his imagination wander at the caprice of his footsteps, bdt carrying everywhere with him a fixed idea, an unchanging will led by a pre sentimont. This guiding star was the thought of spreading tho Word of God and the Bible among a vast number of souls. 'Thus it was religion which, in this young : wandering apostle, was seeking the soil ; j wherein to sow a single seed, of which the ! i fruit hereafter was to he a thousand various , | grains. It is the glory o'.'pr'n ieg that it was ! given to the world by religion not by industry. Religious enthusiasm was alone worthy to give birth to the instrument of truth.' S 1 ? n i\ .? c ' ? t; i if if v t i i/i A I'krson* of whom the Greeks showed .1 Jeep appreciation, when they made the word synonomous willi evil. Slanderer:; arc ar I ail events economical, for they make a little I good excuse for being defamatory, if it be scandal go a great way, and rarely open their months except at the exp 'ii?c of other people. We must, allow that tiiev have n their object to bring down others to their own level. It may be further urged in their extenuation that they arc driven to ihcir trade by necessity. They filch the fair character of others because tiiev have none of their own, and with this advantage, that the sto! Ion property can never ho found upon them. | There is a dclcnso also for their covert and 1 jcowardly mode of attacking you, for how! 1 can you expect that hlackbiters should meet ] you face to face ! Nay, they have a valid 1 plea for being so foul mouthed, considering ! j how often they have been compelled to cat) 'their own words. Hang them! Let us do ' even the slanderer justice. ti C 1) i If 3 . Genius has often been defined as some-1 thing inseparable connected with the </eui?i I nature. If this definition be correct, J'oe! was not a genius anymore than Swift, fori geniality neither he nor his writings pos sensed. Hut if genius mean a compound j of imagination and inventiveness, original thought heated by passion and accompanied by pow er of fancy, 1'oc was a man of great genius. . In wanting geniality, however, lie wanted all that makes genius lovely and be loved, at oneo beautiful and dear. A man j of genius, without geniality, is a mountain j rnuiin mow,compnninneu nv leiupcsiH, ami visited only hy hardy explorers who love sublime nakedness, and to snatch a fearful j joy from gazing down blnok precipiecs; n j man w hose genius is ateepod in tile genial, (nature, is an autumn landscape, suggesting ' j not only images of bounty, and giving (In ill., j j of deHght, but yielding peaceful ant pleiile-1 j oas fruits, and in which the hc.ut find, a' rest and a h me. From the one, the timid, the weak, and the penile iclire in h terror which ovci power their admiration ; but in the oilier the lowest and feeblest lind slielMr and repose. ? (ViIjilhut. 1^1 wi ii mm 11 m m j u m **? '.?? i m ? mfwwm .fttiiimtj ill calling. 0 i| i* S'd b i o i| i'. Tiiiiki; is something incxprot^ibly sweet in these words, and their sweetness arisen from their meaning. Happy is lit .at man who possesses that faith whose appropriate expression is >fy Saviour. Hut who is this Saviour? He is Clod's eternal son?his only son his well beloved son, whom he freely resigned, that he might die the accursed death of the cross for us. He is (Jod man, possessing (ho sympathies of the human, and Vet all (ho perfections of the diviuo nature, that lie might he a suitable mediator between heaven and earth.. His heart glows with the purest lo\o that ever burned upon earth, llis generous bosom heaves with compassion for perishing men. And what has In' done ? lie lias given his life a ransom tor us. lie humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the cursed death of the cross. lie wept?ho bled?lie submitted to insult and approach ; lie wore a crown of thorns?he suffered the lash?he felt the hidings of his Father's face, his greatest; mul all that we, ungrateful rebels, might have peace with Hod, and become the heirs of eternal life. And what does lio promise? "CVmio unto me all ve that labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest"?all, all, without exception, "Whosoever will, let him take tho water of life freely." Hut where is this blessed Saviour?? lie is in heaven, where "he livetli to make llll(?h'iK<U\n C. ?r 111^ *' I?.-* 1.J-. . v/ . . n?l 11.7. il\> IO 1 llVil V> llj'Ull 1113 throne, as 4,a 1'iinoo and a Saviour, to give repentance and remission of sins." ButsTiall we ever see him again ? Oh, yes, when he comes to judge the world, every eye shall sec him?all his enemies shall see him, and shall quail before the majesty of his presence; while all his own redeemed shall rejoice in the brightness of his face. Reader, have you any love for this Saviour ? l>o you remain unmoved under the sweet invitation of his glorious Gospel? Have you never felt a soft emotion in contemplating the wonders of his love? lie is the loveliest character in all the universe of God. The Father loves him?holy angels love him?and who, who has greater cause to love him than you and 1, for whom he shed his precious blood, and poured out his soul unto death. My friend, 1 love to plead the cause of my groat Redeemer. Will you not givo him your heart, and help to plead his cause?? Will you not. approach him, and placo your,elf under his fond care and protection. Oh, do m vjjfneudnnd till the temple of God with melod^md praise, and your own soul with peace that lloweth like a river. When our Saviour says, Come unto me, and the sindistracted soul replies, Lord, I come, it is but the signal for a general scene of exultation among the inhabitants of heaven.?Due IVesl Ttlcxcopc. ? Tile Eii\$j i>7 % Eqtyii'J* On the banks of H reside an interesting family, consisting of father and mother, two sons, and three daughters. It was a beautiful spot; the mansion was spatlous an ! elegant ; the grounds around it were ample and tastefully laid out. Everything without was en banting, everything within was ]>lc;is'ilit. The church in that place was \ isitcd with an extensive work of grace, in tlio progress of w . ich there is reason to believe that not loss titan two handled were added to the bord. After the work ha<l commenced the t wo oldest daughters, who hail boon hopefully converted at a boarding school a few years before, wop much exercised in mind about their parents, especially their father. One evening, :m the family wore gathered around a eh-orful lire, they expressed their feelin g, and prupo <'d to t heir father to set up family prayer, lie was taken by snr- m prise, but gav? hi> consent. v One of them immediately opened llioJargc l>iblo?nd read a ehaj>ter, the other led in prayer ; it was a solemn time. This was the ft rat prayer of fered ill the family. The efl'eot was great.? * Tlio father was peweifimy awakened; lie was at length bronchi to the foot of Jesus. - - ? I'iii; Sriuii <>* ti:k Lords Prayeii.?The spirit of llie Lord's prayor is beautiful. That form of petition breathes Ji/ial spirit? "Father* A catholic spirit?"Our Father.'. A rercrcntinl spirit?'*1 tallowed* be tliv name." A m<ssionary spirit?''Thy kingdom come." v, s An obedient spirit-?'"Thy will be dohe on earth." A dependent spirit?"(dive us tin's Jay our daily breath" A forgiving spirit ?''And forgive our tro? passes ;is we forgive those that 11 ess pas a gainst us." # A cautions spirit?-''I <osd us not into temptation, but deliver us Iroiu evil." A conJi(Cf>- tiol and adoring spiiit?"For thine i> the'kingdom, and ttic power, nrel thegloiy, foiC\e. .u !'e. . Am*! ." j . i