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Morality. 41 Work while ye have the l'ght, /or the night cjme*/b when no man ca.fi work.." ? St Juhv How solemn t lit? admonition of our Lord ; with what imposing force should it find its way ttf the human heait ? How strongly is marked the necessity of a spec- - dy prcparatto i for .that dread hour, when the rtflcction consequent upon a weli spept life ?*q Alone yield i^^0D^>l'J"on and support ? And yet how strange it is 1hat man should travel on regardless of the sole warning in our text. Poor deluded mortal ! hovT vain are thy hopes of re?e*v-_ |ing the reward of an immortal inheritance, unless thou tk Workest while ye have the light." Thy work too must he such as will stand the tuchstone of tru'h, even " the law and the^'testimony;1' Kxamine whe-, I her all thy knowledge of (io%pel truths have reached any farther than only to en lighten the head, and not betier the heart. If saiiciifying fcri*ce does not accompany enlightening grace, and ye have not yet broke ,oflf youi sins by repentance, 41 Ye 1 ahoUced in va?n and ? sp*m your strength.. for nought," and the night will come when you cannot work. fi The things >Kat belong to thy peace will be hid from thine eyes." Even a Balaam could see the star that^raa t6 come out of Jacob, but not for himself ; and an abandoned jAhasc had the cieartst prophecy of the Re dee mer't birth declared to him, even that - e-Virgin should conceive 4*ndl>ear 2f Son ; and yet we have no reason to believe that either of those two were benefited by him ; i ings with Nf/?ucb adkkzzar . after his celebrated dream, though he owned the God of Israel and honoured his servants, yet would he have been just as God found him. ' The Gospel of the blessed Redeemer is deplete with instructions at in the 41 work1' which. will direct the footsteps of his crea tures in the road to_ sals^'on* T*ike heed then, Oh, man, and 14 W ork whilst ye have light, for the night come lb when no man can work*" Have we tiyt daily impressive ?lessons to admonish us of the truth of these cmphulic lines ? ? Our fathers, wtieTe are~ "they V' gohe 'to the silent tomb : They ?re sleeping ui that House prepared for all the livitog. HoW nfnny solemn ideas, af fectionate ^and profound, does this subject yield to tW rhind which contem plate s it With gravity and consults it with serious ness. u The rtlght cometh when no m*n worketh." r ' When we consider vhat numbers young er than ourselves now moulder in the dust ; ; that sotne of 'our families, oilr nearest 'and dearest connexions, have made their exit from ihis vide of tefcrs, and brinpj to mind ' the incertitude of all earthly enjoyments ; \hat xrt know not what a Jay or an hour , wiU taring forth?what awful ifoprets'.ohfc J crowd jo upofeour minds I awful because . they are hostile to otfr wishes, and corrode our guilty consciences I awfyl because we j are ! unprepared to mejt the tribunal of Heaven,* and be welched at the gates of eternity 1 awful because, we see our folly in neglecting to improve our priviliges until vhe netting sun of IV** ? because we M work not while" we "l>ave light."* , " Our fathers, where arfc they V* We have followed them to the grave ; we have committed thetn to the bowels of the earth j they have taken their subterraneous pas ^nterrtity, and ths places which once knew them* will know them no tftnre . for ever. Where -are the living ? Ciotog down the rapid tide of time ; and accord ing to the invariable Jaws of nature, must 9001% sleep in the dust. The 14 night" will toon come whtn they cannot work. Do, not thfese considerations suggest a necessity of preparation ? Do they not^c&riy the ai Ynonition of our Redeemer forcibly to the Jjeavt ? Can any harm accrue from having our lamps trimmed and burning, readV fof our departure hence ? If not, let us esta blish cfur principles and conduct by the rules of Christianity . let the criterion of . oar actions be in consonance with the ora cles offt ruth, 'which require us to renounce 1 all ungodliness and cupidity, and to live j righteously and soberly ; to do justice, to lo.e mercy, ati(J to walk humbly in the ' world. Let us jji fine u YVoik while we j have thfc light." , j Let him ^ho vaunteth in his youth, his 1 tyrength, activity,' and prospt ct of long life, 1 r<> to the silent tomb and learn that the mon*\er death is ambitious and insatiate, and discriminates not between youpg and I J<?fd, bwr sfclects his victim from every apre. J from every rank and condition m life : and that the 11 ni^hi" may be near at hand 1 when we cannot woi k. I W MS LEV. . ? j Somr'hinx Currou* ? On the- 25th April j last, the C hief Judge of the Suf?eme Court of the State of Ohio, was fined one I dollar and fifty cents, for not attending a fnitifa muster^ as a private sentinel, in] at ?et conformity to the laws of the 8t*te ?f Ohio*? IVcrtrrn Chronicle . Mafijdum. ? \Thalevcr . Dromotes end sir enghtens virtue, whatever calms and , veUulaUs the temper, is a source ol hap- - pitiess.. Devotion poduces these effects in a remarkable dc^'ec. It wi?pires compo sure of spirit, roiMnes* and ? benigiuty , v weakens the painful, and., chensbes the pleading; emotions ; and bf these means cat ties o<v the l.ie of a p.ous man, in a sm?xith and placid tciuire. Beside* exerting; this habitual inlluenre >? on the niind^ devotion open* a field of en- J merits, to which rhe^vieioos^ tire entire strange rs ; enjoy ments, the more y al uab 1 e , as tliey |>eculiarly belting to retirement, wu^tv the world leaves us, a nd to adversity, when it becomes onr foe. These are the < two 'seasons, for which every wise * man would most wish to provide some hidden store of coihfort ; for let hi in be placed in the most favorable situation, which the hu man state admits, the world can hither always amuse him. nor always shield him f?om distress. There will beYnany hotirs of vacuity, and many of dejection, in this lite. If he !+ a stranger to God and To de- . votion, ho\v dreary will the gleam of . soli tude often prove 1 With what oppressive weight will sickness, disappointment, or old age, lall upon his spirits ? But. foi those pensive periods, the pious man has a relief prepared.* Fof the tiresome repe tition of the common vanities of life, or from the painful corrosion of <** res and I sorrows, devotion transports him into a new . region^ And^iiyounds him there with such objects, as are the most fitted to chcer the^ dejection, to calm fche tumults, and to heal ' the wounds of his heart. If the world has been enrfpty and delusive, it gladdens hi in with the prospect of a higher and j better order oV things, about to arise. If men have been ungrateful dhd base* it, cUs j plays before Him the faithfulness of 0tk Supreme Being, who "though every other triend fail, will never forsake him.? Con sult your experience, and^ you will find, ; that the two greatest sourses of inward joy are, the exercise of low directed to\v;irds a deserving object, and the exercise of Miopia : [terminating on sqme high and assured (happiness.* Both those are supplied by devotion ; and therefore we have no reason to^ be surprised i if, on some oceasions, it fill the he arts of good rhen with a satisfac- * tion not to be expressed. t ? J ^ I passions of youilt are consolidated into, a settled affection ; for the lawful obj<*ct of lovs unites every care in itself; and makes even those thoughts that were painful be fogs, become delightful. When twomind* are thus engaged by the ties of reci procal esteem, each alternately receives and communicates a transport that is in conceivable to all, but those that are fn thi* . situation ; from hence arises that hearl 'ennoblint; solicitude for one another's Wel fare, that tender sympathy that alietistes ; affliction, and that participitedi pleasure that heightens prosperity and joy itself.. , v This is a full completion of the blessings of humanity ; for if teason and society ant the characteristics which distinguish us from other an)mals;and excellence ih thedb two great privileges of man* which centers in Wedlock, must raise us in happiness a bove the rest of our specie*.. ~ It is here that the noblest passions #f Which the human soul is suscep' ible join together, virtuous love and friendship; th% one supplying* it with a constant rapture, and the other regulating it bj the rules of. reason. ? V ? * * i J Ztbulon Rtckwood , of Lyfiie, 1 Connecticut, calls on his creditors j in the following good humored ] ?tyle : ? <c firant. ? Perhaps there is ho word better understood. than want , I for all persons have their wants.*? 1 Seme want a new governor in Coa- I necticut, some want to continue I rh$ old one ; some fvant petty of- I fices (if they canrtot ? tt better*)] some want stoch to be disappointed ; I some want wives, and some want 1 to get rid of them, some want one I thing, and some want another. I lvor my own part I wdnt my pay 1 of thosift Wftb we me j the reason I is, my creditors want their pay of I me, and I want to pay them. I The lawyers want busir.ess, and I they may want for all me, if those I indebted to me will settle their ac- I counts by the, first June next : I but if they do not settle by that I time, 1 shall think they want to be I ^ued, and WANT will compel me 1 to supply such win ts without ftii ? 1 J thtrr optice.'* | ' T':r Ifei&icH /*.'</? ? This scelion of cmis try has been visited by an insect, well known f >r lit destructive qualities in the northern sta4:i, railed the \ieasian /7y. To most of the inhabitants, It is a no^vel oc currence and has excised considerable a kinm. The fcrtrdt scarcity kfready p?cva lent, has natua'ly wrought uf> Lhe minds oT the people lo the highest pitch of appre hension ; and perhaps upon no octasi(?n ever before exf>erienced in this country. have more devout piayers -been put upTur^tbe Jidurnof a plentiful harvest. In this situa tion of the public mind, every circumstance that threatens to blast their hopesrirever^ fails to be heightened beyond the reality, and its aspect is painted with still more t*;r^ rifyrng colors as the report circulates. , This appears to be the case with regaid to the fly. ' * Small Grain (particularly Wheat} is much injured, but evidently not so greatly as was apprehended ; and the people, con trary to their expectations, now think they will be favored with tolerable harvests. It is also certain that the destiuction of the fly would not fcave beert halt so great, had it not been for the drought which happen ed about the time that wheat was beginuing to shoot. The fly and drought have thus ynited in their operations; but with all* the prospects are now cheering, and no doubt, the people will be^fhil as thatfkful, this year, for a small tartest* as they woufd in many another, for the most abundant. t ?The principal circumstances in favor of wheat, (as to Us beibg effected by the fly,) see nrx to be these: late sowing and a rich suit. Hence that which was put into the ground early and in poor tend, is generally good for nothing, whilst what w^s sown late and ? in rich land, will nu.ke good wheat. On rich soil wheat is of a st' onger and more rapid growth, which must be the reason that the fljyhasnot injured it so much an wheat on poor land ; for, when the wheat is not so flush of growing nutriment as to afford ? redundancy, for the support of . the fly, over and above what must * go to koe(> up its growth, the communication between the parts above and below the fly will be cut oft* ; and when" communication ceases, Hie upper part^ cannot receive the necessary supplies of growing nourish ment, and of course must perish. Siar.~Lii9Co/n County , At C? - EVer-sibce moralist existed they have written against public manners. Ours~ are certainly not those of the golden age, hut it is some consolation to reflect that our J neighbors are Vio better than ourselves. For instance? London is generally allow ed to he the terrcstial paradise of husbands ; English wives are regarded as models' of | tendern .ss and fidelity. -The following calculation which we extract from an Eng lish paper, is not a little curious : ^ State of mnrriaje* in London ft 1816. Runaway wives, - - - 1,1 S3 K una way husbands, - ' ? % 348 Married persons legally divorced, 4J75 Lining in open warfare, - \T 345 Living in private misunderstanding, \3 27<> ; .MhtuaUy in?Hflferent, - - - 55,240 ?> Regarded as happy, - - 3, 175. Uf?arly happy, , " ... ? ? 127 Perfectly happy, ? - ? - ~ 13 Totali ? ? - 9 ft, 8 34 iThis it a new kind of stariftits, We ire assured, that one of our first moralists is engaged in drawing out a similar account of the citybf f^aiis^pK will far^urious to see 'Vhich country msy claim the advtfh* tage of the matrimonii balance. - - o , fct Singular escape. ? On Saturday last, an infant, but i or. 3 years old, unpeTceived by its family, got out of the scuttle or dorjn^nt win dow of & a story housfe ift Chrrry street, and crawled down the roof f n . * to the back gutter. In this perilous situation the child was discoveied by a man in Water-st. and the^ arm given to its affrighted parents, who regained in an agony of sus pense for some time, until, by the activity of a cabinetmaker, at work^ in an adjoining yard, the little ad-* venturer was reached and handed into the garret window in safety. Columbian . | Mind. ? The3gentle mind is like the smooth stream, which reflects every object in irs fairest colors. The violent spirit, like troubled waters, renders back the images of things distorted and broken-? and communicates to them thatdis dMcred motion, whidh arise* sole ly from its own agitation. ? * * JLonMon phper. poetry. The fallowing cn<] lisi'e brt llhin fr% rf t . 'pioys "spirit, are taken horn j luiic poem called k* Mac! or ot ihc Moor" by J arm* THK PALMER'S MORNING HYMN. J, Lauded be thy name forever, Thou, <?f life the guard and v?\v? r ! Thou canM guard 1 1 ? y creatures sleeping, Heal thebemtk>ng broke with weeptt?g> Rule the ouphrs and elves at wiU Thai vex the air or haunt the hill, A,mi all the fury subject keep Of boiling cloud and chaled de^p 1 1 have been* aYiti well I know it ! Thou, h est clones and thou wilt Ho it ' J God of stillness and of motion ! Of the rainbow ami the ocean 4 Of the mountain, rock, and river 1 Blessed be thy name forever ; 1 have s^en thy n&ond'rous might Through the sha* >ws of tfyii night I Thou, who slumber's* no?, nor sleepeit \ Blest are they thou kir.dly keepesti Spirits, from the ocran tin<& r, ? Liquid (lame, and levelled thunder; Nt?.d not wuktn Yior alarm them? All combined they cannot harm them* God of evening's yellow ray ; God of yonder dawniug day. That rises from the distant sed Like breathings of eternity ! Thine the flaming sphere of. light ! Thine the darkness of the night 1 Thine are all the gems of even, God of angel* 2 God of Heaven ! God of life that fade shall neverl Glory to thy name forever! CHATHAM-STREET WIT. At Tate through Chatham-street a Lady passed She Mopp'd " Have you ''Blue Levantine /" she ask'd Yes Miss, Walk in# and if you please this way," * " Wiry, that's not MUgy sir : It is pink, I'd say1'? - Now Mr, Quiz, to sweetly 41 crack a joke/' Thus courteously* he Very rmartly spoke? " Only imngine , Miss, tlie color's blue . " " uind it will an*v)+rju9t as welt for yon," Said Mr. Quiz, with a half stifled laugh, And smiVd- ? 44 Three or four yards, shall I cut off?" __ ? x 4f .| tL | 1 . ...i 'i a ves, says tnr lauy r With a quit* reply, " Three and a half will Ue enough to try./ To work then shears and finger* went* He roll'd it up? u Miss will you have it sent?" . 19 No sir, J thank you, it is not worth while * 1 -'?* Then turn 'd to leaVe him with a scorn l\if k smile.; M Stop ;Mis*t ilop. Miss," now ftfr. Ouie SlW'OHt, And veiy iiimfily turned bimself about? ?*4 Why tr?iyi Miss, you haire forgot to pay; And 'tis the only sale .We've made to day.*, " Imagine it Is f*did) Vepjied the belle, 44 Jtnd it Ml answer for yon just at weir. * /. - _ . 'v. ^ . - fePIGRAMS. On a beaut {/ul young Lady ttfho wore ft thick mT / So when the sun, with its Vneridian light, J'Too fiercely dart* upon our feeble sight, | We thank thv officious cloud by whose kind aid, We view its gtory, lesfen'd in t shade ! * ? . y ^ ' * * Written by a Gentleman Mo had r7i*ec , Wives. Though ritatrUfte by most folks be reck* oned i curse, Three wives did 1 marty for better for worse t # The first for her person ? the rtefet for hep .. purse? ? And the third for a warming pan, doctreat, and nurse. * ? ? IMPROMTtTi On the Afar ringe oj Afiei tarter /? Mr. Mile*. . ^ , While others take ittpi for IS hatband* Kati imilftt ? i Let who will take rr*n? ?h e*? content to take Mii.ks! Anecdote of Vernon.? -During the run of the comic opera of Cimon, when Vernon was in pursuit of hit . supposed Misstres Silvia, and came on singing. M 7 om from me* torn from me, which way did they take her 9*' f . A wag, in the pit, replica in timr and tunc, " They're gonr to Long" Acre t thctfre gone to l.ong-Acre. ru house was in a roar of laughter; and Vtrnon, with great presence of 9\iod, as soon as there was, silence, song. " Oh, oh, ire I ?h*U toon over tat. '^rm P*5?-- ' ? * *jjg >it^ . ??