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% * il,. II !? "' ' -m 9 [ it Ciiterjrige, L A HKFLKX OV POVULAtTOVENTS. W3;w t &m k?.. jpaaga^ , EOITOR ANO PROPRIETOR, f rmrxszM^iwmmm. ? ?Wil 60T \>ay?^?K' in ndva.nee i ? if delayed. < CLU1? of FTVK nnd upwards #1, the money t in every instniu o to accompany the ordor. j I Al>vJ21tTWKMRJ^ Inserted conspicuously at fi the rntotof 75 rents per smuyftof ? Hues, and , . "i5 eontf for each HubsenuflBTnisertlon. Con-1 traotit lot yearly v ertisihg'tKhde reason able. I [w. r. pi.ici: .v bcotiikrs, ri^gjpcn*.] ?rirririi ^nrtrtj. from the Southern llnptist. . JI)C 8i7n^M)C iofiok). BY LTHTONFIELD. k; e ,A?bvib?/" ji^f . - ,...j rYr ^tis tilght on Retlik-hen)Verdant plaint, * ' 'IV And shepherds watch beside thair fold, ? 'The moon poors down ft flood of light. The pinifl looks like u sen of gold. "The stars which nefljfthe robe of nighty In regal splcpdor gloom, a.And lend tUo- jmte nud lambent light Jjj" * 7 To mountain, plain, and stream. ^ The faithful shepherds slumber not, J I But watch their charge with jealous Oftrc, ' Best Waits of proy should (Siter in, 1 ^uVud Aoiae tlioir Hocks while resting there. * But, lo, a rustling in the air, tt ' ' Xewr fulls upon the shepherds' cars; \ [y CAn angel decked in robes oflight, JKv ?:* < ' Before these lowly men appears. I i N*u\r terror seizes on them all, ^. And to each other oloso they cling: Fear not,*' the angel mildly says; ^ "^For tidings of great joy I bring." . v..-. . \ "For unto you is born this day, f A Snvioiir, which is Christ the Lord:'' J * The shepherds gn/.o in mute surprise, a While listening to his gracious word. "-Mid lliis ehnll3yp^ign to you? I This night shall greet your waiting eyes, r infant wrapped in sw a ldling*clot!us, It Within n lohejy manger lies." ) VjA New, )??, sweet music, fills the air, "Jltft hcovhily choir descends to earth : Seraphic strains employ their tongues, While singing of their Saviour's birth. , ( "iOlory to God," the angels sang? jjg? ( '3!to shepherd* list, in rapture then, I "Glory to God," the angels sang, i Pence upon earth, good will to men." ^ Then hack jo Heaven the nngols^lfent; js The shepherds hastened on their way, Ami sought (lie city, and the state Where Chi%t, the infant Saviour lay. "To Bethlehem, soon tl?<v shepherds came, ;> ^ And found ltna the angeVsald, "An infant wrapped in swaddling clothes," [* ' ' A manger was Ida lowly bed. *JThe shepherds joyfully hnstenod forth, * I And spread the glorious news around, . s^ Tlovr, in fair Bethlehem's city, tho^ Their long expect. .1 King httd found. to their homes returned again, M * j While nil around were filled with awe; 'The shepherds rendered praise to God, For all they hoard, /or all they saw. of Jo Sqjj. TukrkJr ato.ir of joy and a tear of grief, j The tear g?afy may not be forced by the , same cause which overflowed the eye yeater- ^ day. A tear may be sebt up from the heart \ . by joy or by sorrow. It is the same liquid j diamond iu either c:wc. A little tear-dron ( v? itm the cheek has a language of its own. It , it speaks to persona of all nations. It is inter- j preted by persons of all nations. The tear (Of to;duy means joy or 6orrow. The face | ^jKAdotfn which a tear runs tell whether it . springs from the fountain of joy or griof. A j tear draws forth deep sympathy because ilia < [ ff an Hope, r X Orieft-^j IVhen it is grief our pulse beats faster, for , ?mr heart is agitated and touched deeply.? , jj. The true feeling of thi heart is seen in a tear , which lingehtl7;, tho eye, that little bright I f/L, f -window of tho 'Soul! The tears of tralay, if | W *t*hey do fr(1m g??f, ?Pay u>4K>rr6w be wiped away byth? rainbow hues of peace, " . happiness and p?wpcrity, JV*?J dttptnnuktm. J <N ever despnir. S55 Bliscfllnnij. ' Jhc I iHle 8 isfeM. *>v woro not hero vesterday," said the renlle teacher of a little village school, ns the placed her hand kindly on tho curly head >f ono of her pupils. It waa recess time, but ho little girl addressed hud not gone to frolc away tno ten minutes, not eren ich her eat, but sat absorbed in what seemed a fruit* ess attempt to make herself mistress of at um in long division, Her face and neck crimsoned at theatre- i nark of her teacher, but looking up, she cAWflwKoi ?a * - iL-WEcLi uvinvunu IV-.KTOU1UU VJ tUQv'KIIlU fiance that met hor, and answered?i "No, ma'am, I was not, but^&ter Nelly vas." ' 'sV9f "I remember there was a little girl who mllcd herself Nelly Gray, camo in yesterday, >ut I did not know she was your sistor. Hut vhv did you not come! You seem to love o study very mueh. "It was not bocausc I did not want to," vas the earnest answer, and then she paused itid the deep flush ngain tinged that fair >row ; "but," she continued after a moment >f painful embarrassment, "mother cannot pare both of us conveniently, and so we iro going to take turus. I'm going to school >ne day and sister the ftcxt, and to-night I'm o teach Nelly-all I have learned today, and o-morrow night she will teach mo all she earns while here. It's the only way we can liink of getting along, and we wnnt to study 'ery much, so as to sometime keen school mrsclvcs, and take oure of mother, because lie has to work very hard to take caro of w." With genuine delicacy Miss M for ore to question the child further, but sal lown beside her, and in n tnomout explainscl the rule ov?r which she was puzzing her roung brain, so that tho difficult sum was wsilyrfJnished. "You had better go out and tako the air i few moments, you have studied very hard o-dfty,M said the teacher, as tho little girl Hillside the slate. "I had rather not?I might tear my dress. 1 will stand by the window and watch the Cst.w There was such a peculiar tone in the roico of her pupil as she said, J miaht tear ny drcst, MUs M?- ?was led instinctively o notice it. It was nothing but a nroepenly print of a deep hue, but it was neatly nude and had never yet been washed. And .vbile looking at it, she remembered that luring the whole fortnight previous Mary 3ray had attended school regularly, she had jcver seen her wear but that one dress. "She s a thoughtful little girl," said she to hericlf, "aud does not want to inako her mothir any trouble. I wish I had more such tcholara." The next morning Mary was absent, but ler sister occupied her seat. There was some.hing so interesting iu tho two little sisters, .he one eleven, and the othor eighteen mouths r'ounger, agreeing to attend school by turns, hat Miss M could not forboar observing diem very closely. They were pretty faced hildren, of delicate forms, and fairy like lands aud feet?the elder with dark lustrous lyer and cliesnut curls, the other with orbs iko the sky of J una, bar wbito neck veiled >y a wealth of golden ringlets. She observed in Jwtli tho sntne close attention to their ttudics, and as Mt^ry tarried within, during he play time, so did Nelly ;and upon spoakHg to her as she had*to ber sister, she revived the same answer, UJ might tear my iress" The remark caused MissM to notice the garb of her jtfater. She saw nt once that t was of the same piece as Mary's and upon keratinizing it very doeelv. she became cer aiu that it was the same dress. It did not U quite so pretty on Nelly, and it was too, ong for her too, and she was evidently ill at nue, when she noticed her teacher looking it the bright pink flowers that were so thick y set on tne white ground. The discovery was one that could dot but nteresta heart so benevolent as that which misnted in the bosom of the--village school eacher. She ascertained the residence of iheir mother, and though sorely shortened Sersvlf by n narrow parse, that same ligkt, having found at the only store h. the dace a few yards of tho same material, purposed 11 dress for little Nelly, and seut it to icr in such a way that the donor could not !>e detected. / v * * * Very bright and happy looked Mary Gray >n Friday morning, as she ontored the Kshool at nn early hour. She waited only to place her books in nonl order in her desk, we, she approached Miss M? , and whlayering in a voice that laughed in spite of hor efforts to make it low and deferrental?wAf ter this week sister Nelly is comiug to school ?very day, and oh, I am so glad ! "That I* very good now*," replied the teiwher kindly- "Nelly U foud of her books*, [ sco, end I am happy tOgknow that *be can have on opportunity to study thom every Jay." Then she oontinued, a little good ntiLured piachief encirollng her ey^e -and dimpling hor sweet lipa^?"Hut can your mother ipare yon both conveniently !n 111 happened alio didn't expoet, ntul she re^W glad to have us como as we are to dq so." She hesitated a moment, but her young heart was filled to the^brim with joy, ana when a child is happy, it is as natural to tell thS cause as it is for a bird to ^warble* when the sun shines. So out of ihoTulhiesdt of her heart she spoke and told Iter teacher this little story. She and her sister weraitho only children of a very poor widow, whomlifplth was so vuv< implicate that it was almost impossible to supL port herself and daughters. She was obliged to keep them out of school all winter, because the)* had no clothes to wear, but she told vi anoviwv uiuunvr. pWt't'l WAS LJiC ITllirmur of the mountain stream, as it wended its way, now gilding gently over round smooth pebbles, gloaming white in the reflected sunbeams that glanced down upon the bosom of the rivet let, as if in love with its peaceful beauty, and then rushing to pierce some hid den mystery (tint perhaps it might contain. Then again, w ilh ? jmore gentlo flow, its expanded surface lay spread out like a lake, under the celestial view of the arch on high. In that fait land two mortals journeyed,? the one, a fair young boy, with noblo brow, and clustering curls of sunny hue. One that had jnst learned to look on flowers and sky with a wild ioy?such as the hoart of chi'dhood only knows, and to love the bright beams of the morning sun, as thoy came glancing-through the shady troes. Ilia companion?an aged sire, whose whitened locks and bended form contrasted strangely with the fairness and sprigbtliness of the boy. Sweet emblem of innoccnco and happy childhood ! Methinks I sec him now, as porcliauc? he *.? ?? ?! nside to east, a tiny pebble in the quiet rill, or as lie stopped to gather wild flowers, that grew in such profu sion U|M>n its mossy bank, dreaming naught ot sorrow, but happy in bis childish pursuits. As wsth pensive look tho "Father of the Faithful" wont his way beside the "Child of Promise," what thoughts?what varied thoughts were his. That innocent, that artless one, the pride, the joy, the solaco of his declining years?roust he bo given upl lie ibr whom iu imagination such a bright career had beeu marked out?ho ho young, so fair, so beautiful?he who had eo oft be Iuiled hitu of his grief in many a sad, sad our, and chafed back half his cares?must hie ringing laugh and childish prattle be for* ever hushed in death ? but for a moinom did ho indulge in theee thoughts-?but a moment, and all fear was chased away, for fus faith was strong in the Lord. In all his jottMreyings aoroutho sands of worldly core, ho had ever bee? guided by an uMceh hand. And new, while he guards I , 'j ? ~ ' if v ' ^ ,? ^ ^ ^ I ttlioy could earn enough by doing rcsjfor tho neighbors to buy each of tew dress, they might go in the Very earnestly and very carefully rded tho copper coins which usually repaid them. They hud each nearly saved enough to buy a new calico dress, when Nelly was taken sick, and as the mother had no money beforehand, lior own treasure had to be expended in the purchase of medicine. . *0, I did feel so bad when school opened and Nejly could not go," said Mary. "I told mother 1 wouldn't go either, but she said 1 had better, for 1 could tench si?ter some and it would be better than no schooling. I stood it for n fortnight, but Nelly's little face seemed all the ?ime looking at ine on the way to school,#and I couldn't be happy a hit, so I finally thought of a way by which we could both go, and I told mother I would come one day, and the next I would lend Nelly my dress and sho might come, and that's the way wo have done this week. But last night, don't you think somebody sent sister a dress just like mine, and now site can como too. O, if I only knew who it was, I would {?et down on my knees and thank them, and so would Nelly. But we don't know, and so we've done all wo could for them?tpe'ce prayed for (hem?and O, Miss M , wc aro all so glad now. Ain't vou too!" "Indeed I am," was tho emphatic answer. And when on tho following Monday, little vr.it.. .i- . ' ? . iiciijr, in me new pitiK urcss, entered tlie school-room, her face radiant ns a rose in sunshine, and approaching the teacher's table, exclaimed, in tones as musical its those of a freed fountain, "I am going to school every day. and O, I am so glad ! Miss M felt if she had never done before, that it is more blessed to give than receive. Millionarc, when he saw his name in public prints, lauded for his thousand dollar charities, was never so happy as the poor school-teacher who wore her gloves half a summer longer than she ought, and thereby i saved enough to buy that little fatherless girl a calico dress. From tho Wuverloy Magazine. I be Of fc (ring. by ida i.a VOX. ' Tub morn was up again"?the dewy morn, Beauty, loveliness,rand joy were written upon the fair face of Nature. Each tiny leaflet sparkled in the clear sunlight, and bright dew-drops were weaving webs o'or shrub and flower. The merry songsters were warbling forth tlu-ir joyful songs in strains ?r ??,i^ c" . ? i the sacred tlamo within his bosom, ho is not i forsaken of Hi in who gave that spark of celestial fire. Twice had tlie traveller seen the morning snu gild the hill-top, since they had loft their charmed retreat-^-that hallowed home of peace and love. And 4?ain, for the third lime, ^thr golden glorv of the morning dawned upon their pilgrimage, when, lo! in tho distance they behold the place of sac rince?Monali. 4^v\lono upon tl?o mount went tho (Wilier and the son, and thore they built tho nltnr, and placed the wood thereon. And then tl?e little one raised his soft blue eye, until it met his father's earnest gaze, and with happy look, said, "father! alt is now ready but tho lamb!. Where is the Iamb, my father, lor tho offering r. t i Can pen desctibc the pangs that opproased that father's heart, as ho murmured. ' My son, God will provido himself n lamb!" And then, with trembling hands, lie placed upon the wood his only son. He raised the knife?a moment more?and the souiof his idol would have winged its flight to iieavanIv climes, to bloom amid tho spirit paradise. When, lo ! a voice, "Stay, Abraham, stay thy hand ! The fear of God in with thev:?thou hast not withheld thy son, thino only son, from me ! And then tho father raised iiis eyes, and saw the Iamb that God had prepared for a burnt-offering. And for tho undying faith of that fond parent, God gave him such a bjessing as never man received?that his should bo multiplied as the stars of the Heaven, and iu him should all the nations of the earth be blest. As they travelled homeward froin Jehovnlk-iir f?l J I ""b""! HIWMJj.lW. were theirs ! Thoughts, glowing with love and gratitude to High Heaven. And as, after weary watching, the mother at las', clasped her boy to hor breast, what gratitudo, what joy, filleA her heart! And then the three were bowed before the throne pf grace, and each soul was wrapped in sacrodjoy, as the thanksgivings of gratcfu If hearts ascended on High. And ho whojhad thus been snared, was ever their dearest joy and pride, for his father's (Jod was hi-sTTJod, and his father's faith was also the fifth of?tiie offering. ? <44^ ficHii)tj It is curious to some to note how people's ideas for preparation for this species of amusement vary. Mozeand Lizc"take a notion" to each other. Mozo buys a second hand bedstead, three wooden chairs, a table, a small looking glass and a light stand, while Lize provides a hen feather bed, four sheets and two coverlets, a table cloth, six towels, some little minor arrangements, with a disposition to make the best of everything forthwith ; two dollnrs arc paid for the minister's | blessing upon their joint adventure on liouseI keeping; the scene whereof is a three story back room, with a seveh-by uine chamber attached where the first baby is born before | either parent is of age. Mr. Connt-the-cost, on the other hand, never thinking of the matter until he is thirty, courts Miss Prudence for fourteen years, perpetually putting otl" the "happy day," because he hadn't got quite enough to buy a five storied marble front on Style st., and furnish two suits of recent inn nv>in? in olmnp nml uili-m , - -- - - - ....V. ........ , I ing (for such Acquisition) to wait until both | arc too old?almost to be glad the suspense is ended. They got tho big house, have a j j grand wedding, a grout many enemies, a; few friends, and no children. After two! I sumptuous funerals, and a long lawsuit, tho | property is at length equally divided between the "Timbuetoo Female Moral Reform j Association" nud tho lawyers, who contest the will iu behalf of a blind cousin, who tights it on the ground of "insanity," alleging tli? long courtship of tho parties as evidence thoroof. The cousin being at length ; ruined, tho "Timbuetoo" directors compromise by paying the opposing counsel's fees and costs, and tho marble front, with all it* belongings, is converted into cash. Ten years afterwards the books of tho sexton, and the stone in the cemetery, are tho only records of the existence of Mr. Count-the-cost and his forgotten bride. Funny world, very. ? ?FTr'.i From tho Wnvorley Magazine. Jhe ftiabt ftinS of a iliife. "Wnx, Annabel, I suppose I must hunt up a girl for you, to morrow ; mna'nt I 1"! sakl Edward Hamilton to bin young bride, a* he reined up hi* horse before a neat, cosy little cottage?their future home. "Hunt up a girl ! What do you mean 1" "Why, got iMfirl to do your housework ; for surely yonfau't do it aloue, without sonic help." "Fie! t can do the little work which we shall have, my. I know something else, he sides waltzing and playing the piano, Kdward,"' Annabell gaily answered ; a bright smile lighting up her expressivo foaturos. "But what will the neighbors say t You j will lose caste." \ "1 am sure T d?>nt know what they will say; and as for casts, t don't belong to any ' such society or order," ' V mil I'll I "Well, you inay do an vou pleruo, I only thought it would be making it t!?c more easy for you to have a girl to do tho lioutowork, instead of doing it yourself; and then we could have more time to ourselves for our enjoyment." "Wetvill have plenty of time anyway? for you will be at you^businoss all day, and then we can spend the evenings as we please; for all the day's work will bo done, then. It will be a help to you, also, for you've just commenced business and need every cent that you can spare." I.l 11,1 , , - o "r> rncrs and others the execution ot' the stiingcnt law there is in that State aguunst killing such birds. We have a siniilariaw in this State, and we trust our farmers will see rigidly to the prosecution of all breakers of it. Their coming crop will reap the benefit of sparing the little birds.? Ilurtford Con rant. a o o o s t o u. A certain friend of ours, whose urbanity and good fellowship 'have won him a host of admirers, amused a company a few evenings since, with the following anecdote, which is too good to Iks lost. 8., n Captain of a new and elegant packet on the Champlain Canal, was spending a few days, one winter, at Montreal, and to '"kill time went into the theatre one evening. During the performance the orchestra l?egan playing ''Cod save the Queen.' An important, con- j sequential looking personage, hustled around ! the theatre, touching oue with his cane, and : motioning to another, all the time saying j "hats oft", gentleman, hats oil', our national _ 11 air. Presently ho approached Captains S., who is a diminutive specimen of tho genu* hotno, and called out to nim,"hat off, sir, our' national air !" The Lilliptian captain infused, when tho very consequential busybody, with ! a sweep of his cane knocked tho Captain's hat upon the ttoor. There was a giami rush, the flashing, of a bright blade, and ci hee of a "tight, a fight;" but the bystanders intoifored, and tho parties stood, glaring at each, other like wild beasts. Captain 8. remarked, ?.t .1.-11 i ..?, . A 911*11 KIMMV jUU KWbli Hint! WO lllVt'lj^lUI | was hurried off to prison. In the aQtng j ! following,Captain S., was pacing the deck! | of bis beautiful packet, r? slio lay at lM?r j wharf, at Whitehall. The "United States" had just arrived from House's Point, with passengers hound for Saratoga, New York, Jre. The Captain eyed the party sharply, and among them recognized his Montreal acquaintance. I!e pro- J cceded nt once to the leader of the band, or-1 tiered him, as soon tis the boat was in motion, j to strike tip ' Hail Columbia " and nfter that I "Yankee Doodle." The order was obeyed, j and the Captain appeared on deck swinging a huge bludgeon. As soon us the first note of Yonkco Doodle had been sounded, he CaHed out, "hat* off, gentlemen, hats off, our national air!" vjl 9 jyiiu so cnuea inc conversation. Tho truth Was, Edward llani i! ton was greatly disappointed in his wife?agreeably disappointed, dear reader. She was a gem ill tho rough, he snid a day or two afterwards ; for she could bake and scrub, as well , as waltz and play the piano. She was n good [ wife in every sense of the word ; and think j not that hero ended ull her perfections, tor she was highly refined, and possessed great intellectual powers. She could entertain in the parlor, as well as work in the kitchen ; and before tho waning of the honey-moon, Edward Hamilton came to tho conclusion, that ho had found th- right kind of a wife. He spent his evenings at home, around his own fireside?while Annabel would reach to him his favorite books ; thus endearing him to the place which we should most fondly revere. lioi.AXTIlK. Siot'f ^i111 toSii'Os. As Spring advances, our youthfiif Ximrods feel tlie influence strong upon them to pop away their old fowling pieces at the birds. Not that lliey want them for food? not that they do not relish their songs?but simply to gratify their innate propensity to destruction that marks our Yankee youth. Hut wc beg the boys to refrain. The little birds arc becoming alarmingly scarce in the vicinity of Hartford. We say alarmingly?for tho armies of the palmer worm, caterpillar, and canker worm are alarmingly on the increase. The little birds are the farmer's best friends. Tfiev destroy tho bugs and the worms that infest his crops and his orcliaids. The blackbird may occasionally root up a few hills of corn, but ho daily gath era more insects as lie travels over the ncwly ploughed fields, than all the corn is worth which he destroys, ten times over. The robin may take a tew of your spare cherries, hut he is only hiking pay for the worms ho swallows, which would liavo made your garden a desolate waste. The farmer cannot do without the little birds. They are his best friends. We have no doubt that the Into ravages of various insects are owing to the wholesale destruction of their enemies i tho birds. So important is this subject considered by , Agriculturists, that the Secretary of the j Board of Agriculture in Massachusetts, Mr.; Flint. ll?s n rironlnr nrifiiirr iirwin fiir- 1 His Montreal friend did not heed him, when round came the bludgeon, and away went the Montreal gentleman's hat into the Canal. The gentleman wns itulfgnaht? got mad?blustered awfully?but Captain 8. was cool. "Perhaps you don't know met ( am the man whose hat you knocked otf, last winter in Montreal. Clad to see you.'k ' Quite right, Captain, very right I have a bottle of the genuine below ; come down and wo will pass receipt*. J o hi $1 o o i* c. * Alluding to Toin Moore, Mr. Irving saul that he took extraordinary pains with all ho wrote. lie used to compose his poetry walking up and down a gravel wWk in his gard&U and when he had a line, a couplet, or a stanza polished in his mind, he would go to i little summer house hy nnd wWte it down. He used to think' ten lines a good day's wjrk, and would keep the little poem by him for weeks, wailing for n single word. On one occnsion he was riding with Mr. Moore in a cab in l'aris, and the driver care-1 llesdy drove into a hole in the pavement* which gave the vehicle a tremendous jolt.? Moore was tossed aloft, and on regaining his seat exclaimed: "By Jove! I've got u."?< "Got what ?" said his companion, in some alarm. "My word," was the reply. "I have been trying for it these six weeks, and | now that rascal ha6 jolted it out of mo."? On reaching his room, Moore inserted the word, and immediately despatched the finished song to the publisher in London.? L"Moore," added Mr. Irving," was a most captivating companion, and the sweetest bab lad singer I ever heard. No orie could forI get him that heard him sing. imiktj llfuiniij. t\ o in c 0 Co idc \ o C h lr i p i. FROM A TRACT BY RKV. DR.ri.CMER. Repentance will come, live, as you nr'ay*/ Either you will repent in time, and turn tor l God, and accept Christ, and save your soul* j or you will repent forever in despair. No men repent so bitterly, so long, so hopelessly,'as those who oil earth make a mock at sin, and slight the otters of redeeming grace. Their eternity is spent in fruitless lamentations over their own wickedness and folly.There is a madness in sin which has never been fully explained. No mortal bits ever solved the whole mystery of iniquity. Why will you die ? This life is a vapor that soon vanishes afcayv but the next life has no cud. All the larg1 ost thoughts of endless duration erer formed by man fall infinitely below tho truth. Suicide uiay be oallod in to aid a poor, godless, sinner out of this world, but it can not help him out of eternity. Annihilation, sometimes hoped for by the wicked on earth, shall bring no cup of forgetfulncss to lost souls in hell. While seraphs sing, while saints rejoice, the despiser of tho gospel must lie in sorrow, and mourn with a perpetI ual mourning, and say. "How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised re-* proof, and my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed inc.1' And all this loss and ruin areas unnecessary as they arc terrible. The calls of the tfustiel could uot be more kind, or free, or urgent thru they are. Listen, to a few of tliem "Come new, nnd let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow : though they bo red like crimson, they shall be as white as wool/' IIo, every one that thirstcth, come yo to the waters, and he that hath no njoncy come ye to the waters, buy and oat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without j?riee." Listen, too, to the very words of Christ, while he was on earth; "Come unto mo, all yo that labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest. Take my yoke upon- you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly of heart; nnd yo shall find rest uuto your souls. For iny yoke is easy, and my burden is light." "iliin that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out;" and, "if any man thirst, let hiin come unto me and drink." Even after Christ | had ascended to heaven ho sent out the ! Mime bles*?d offer* In -his own name .* ''liehold, 1 stand at the door and knock : if any man hear iny voice, and open the door, L will come into him, and will sup whh him and he with mo," "And tlio Spirit aud the Bride SAV. Coinc I and let llim that hnnr [oth My, Como; and lot him that is athirst come. Any whosoever will, let him tako the water of life froely." "Kis? tho Son, lost he bo angry, and ye pertllif from the way." will you accept those gracious offers? Have you no heart to lovo tho l<ord Jesus. Christ and ftoar^K) him ? Im n-?l iwide. or uhlrelief, or love of the world, or sinful shame, or anything elso keep you away from .Christ. iirooter grace, freer uicroy, richer blessings . never wero oftnrod. MaRre tk?-ro yours by yielding to God, by iv flouncing all sin, and | by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Come, O, cotuo toCftiwt. iMKuam, however rough, W better than sunxrfh ifWIiuulation. 4