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Religious, ;«m£K£CT^ —C 'for the Lr \ »n»n Visitor. had been her portion, hot nbe waa PM weary of the w orld as some mi* i — 1 — ■ ■ W't -i- 1 1 ItaMlth.' n; t have only a ij act seas to i« m drtiit to paw* ti|ion it in peace, love; ill* to to peace, uuo ivUst know how i weary. Among her blcssiiiqi were j. U ia vary difficult, in uar ihwegiiU | a godly huabaud and denoted off oi doolU, for ae U> rennh the atMe m aprmg. but, above all, the pence of which the apuaUee and diaetphw God rated in hat heart; her life lived. Paul wrote o* death and showed forth LI is praiee, aud the Ch net* corning with gkming detail light of hie countenance rested upon I io hie eerly rpiatteo; hei bear with the sou of tl liis own , he loved then your hear many thiiifPS None are per 1 have faulta-j-each man in bordeu on others, foul love only the weight light. If you not bear with yjrar brethren, cau yarn breth font It is written fli-v: “A* ho had hidi were iu the to the end.” u which are in the world, uud them to the end. Love ia itis inexhaustible— Kres aud is born a£ain of itself; the more it diffuses itself, tire iKdRpWP ne who loves more than bis [brother. Is uot y of Christ, who died for hia Have you given your 1—give also youk life, aud love give you back ail. I tell you truth, the heart of nlm who lovea a Paradise on earth! He has God himself, God is live. The evil loves not; t»is eyje, like the eye a serpent, fascinates aud attracts Jj to devour. Love rests in the ‘ of pure souls (ike a drop of * m the chalice of a flower. Oh ! you knew what it is to love! Vou tk*t you love, and many of your nave uot fojntl enough ttf |sustain life, are naked and homeless, while you fcjave all in abuudauce. Yen sa> that you love, and numbers of sick lauguish ou tl^eir beds with out help; many unhappy oues, who weep with none to sympathise; little |chi!dreu shivering with cold, who go from door to door, begging from the rich a crumb from their and obtain it not. Yon say at you love y^ur brethren ; aud hat would yon do^ then, if you ed them ! Aud verily I say unto , whosoever being able succors Ins brother who suffers, is the i iy of his brother; and whoao- ver being ab|e, feeds not liia brother [trio is famished, is his murderer. Cheerfully *bo served God, ia hia later apiatlra, that he waiting for the word of the Master torward to awatiug wuh tk to call her to an iuhrntaucr incut Jrau* Chiiat, awl death wi raptibla, which thilath net away. Lord Fur the Latheran YUiuur. , U> lu». W» thiok of it aa a | | phy auhftml late—religiously. clothe it with God giving —Cknstmm lla/Jy Ths Blwf Otrl of Dtfoo Uaujt j of tbs fair enutv of i tolapewd ft W# I from villaga to village hi my aatlve France, ptoach teg ia the open squares the kingdom of God, and distributing the Bible the change aa V lea dais Minot WW bapi*eoe«l to take up a scatter pap<'r, published in a neighboring town, and edited by a professed Christian. Judge, then, of our surprise to And iu the editorial column*, a notice that somebody would iu a short time, in the said town, give instruction in daaWap, accompanied with the reconum-octetioa that parents |mtron- ize the saiil dancing master, by sew! ing their children to him lor instruc tion. If the editoi had made no pretention to reiigiou we would not have been so much surprised ; but for a Christian editor to recommend dancing, wecoufcss we were aston ished. How a Christian can recorn mend such an iirengkms tking aa dauciug, to an enlightened com am nity, we fYaukly confess we can not tell. The modem style of daneing, we are told, is derived from the ancient Pagans. They were very fond of this amusemeut; bat they were not enlightened Christian*, and were uu .icijoaiuted with the rales of holy- living. The most euligbteoed of them, however, had oo a»|a*thy with this Vnlgar amusement. Cice- of lhJ—, I entered a little wide kitchen. I ful music.in the soulf The exorediug ry, rich ness of fHendahi|w in lifo v.e have Ml. Thro* friem!ships, sod the en joy merit of them, lielong to youth, hwf they ought not to die out of old age or mhldle life. Tbi» follneas of love no cau facl iu roapect to the laml Iran Christ There are those. w|»o walk in the most intimate real! sation of the |>cewei»ee and Wire of a HCr of faith. He U always with them j n«-v< rtheleas, wr are to see Him as He is. N>w we sew Him. ^ ^ M W(wkJ ate taught, that it is a cunanmma M wo imagine him to be. -As He , ^ _ look the risk j *he dim lights will be ktera, or ss the JJ •o great t we Ami tl is an awfal thiug j risteg son in the morning lie will y**? ?*. . to dm. || involves eeparatftba from j \ K nearer, dearer, and non the desired things in this world; the —there will than be a d letting go is ban!—the heiug ua compared, to whmh this ia aa a torch clothed, as (he apostle rails it, is to light to mid day. os bard. lint iu the primitive church — they had not threw tboaghu and **I B Mtega. Dying to them was going —— to sea the Lord. There ia a graend A little child pent up m a city the church has lost home—in narrow quarter*, with few early power; that it U no ptev things—in straightened cimtui vital a gram I father and grand days achieves Hs ancient . . m half DIM dna.nrt of lh.tr palptl. *»«■ >* an eloquence that All up their empty henrhea: aih! depend spun Intellect aal pya>tcohw»r* to -apply the apirtt uul warmth which alone can give life aud comfort to the human heart. Art is invited to oooporaP with rhetoric. Whatever an met mm do to ;ir»% idr elegant churehe* ami ex quiMte uiwmc. ia <l<me ia the bo|M to draw hi the atirwetanns of taab Faith Its T Dijon, la its beautiful . . . , , saw a middle sged woman ironing, a boy jret too young for labor, and a girl of son ssventcen or eighteen, of a a west, serious aspect, platting straw. Hhe did wot raise her eyes j aa 1 entered, sod oa a nearer ap I |«erre*ved that she was l*oor sight lean Marie I how if of its 1 the I mother living ia a large farm boose in the country. There Is the big bam—ell manner at things in the barn yard, and tin- wide Acids about the house. He has socii liberty, such a wide range. Xoa the days aiw never long enough. The fraud- parents never scold if be plays all the tiose. There are no tanks, no stndy—all is pleasure, lie comes book to the city, where he he* to go to school, and do this sad that. t,»( II .M « AuuMoUr 01 hl " * bo W"! «** ».»»• rf «««■ " y j blind. »»d nd In brr ho. bNnd 1 n—T •“. W Wr ••••Mr \mt his sight longing, a Spring come parents say round again, aud his to the house of God. to him: “If you are a vast uf the fart that good boy, next Jane I will take you ('atbotie 4‘horrh to yonr graudpa's again.” Ilia im gvegatteo. lark* a , aginatloa Alls ap that prootiwr with piwwasioa*. her uitnaed delight aud ecataey; he rrjotees ia it | altars, even thing bat her faith: aad ’ hope by imitating a dying aywtrm coocruirate* all that la heavenly for u» inaugarate a Hvteg one. “foci the hand and VO saki, “Ko Man will join the dance ^ * (bat’s the place where thought l».»pe by imitating a unless he is either drank or craxy.* * And Scipio said, it waa inarh to ft ^oy uu earth, aad that represrata ety” h invited to be regretted, that in his day, the the feeling of the early diaeipka about maid of religion children of .esiawtabie parents wvro j d>lBf> j, mrBll| Ul r , wu4 be mitk MlTO , ^tc becoming fond of tbc dnnor, »bco ,h r Und fnnrcr It van I be coming 11« ifc. Ini I their UMOT looked «|«H. it n* (of the Hon of man. The lho««bl «m not .I..,. •tnut degrading. Reason taught these ile to >er dashed by any uncertainly. For the Lutheran Visitor The Beauty of Holmes* ’ i David prays that lie may see tbc beautv of the Lord, ami that * % 3b, p it might rest nu him. Holiness is 'beautiful and lovely in itself, win- uiog the worldly to stand still and wonder. It is a manifestation of the of Odd. The heart is so desperately wicked, tbsit it is a mar- wben it thru* to any good, and i the ami the in n ^ All ap the eh no. h of 0**1 by iM II wan a disgrace ami | 'ftwre tn mlj one stlntton to doubt the pilgrim l*atb leml to Vanity Fair, tin to dance; bat botli reason and j j,, ^ U { HM alr** wonts, aud that ana On the other hand it ia remarked revelation together *eeu» to le insuf- ^ doubt ful; it was with Tv that our reoted pen* are locked Hcient to teach »>mr, w ho ought to t to ki* nafoitbfhluews as a chit* against the stranger, and that only tiun minister, lie said. “I Ibcie- he who can afford to bay the golden for*- no raw. etc., le*t that l*> any key that onl* Its tbetu. kuow better, (hat dancing ia dim I graceful to a chriuliuu, sinful in the I sight of God, ami degrading to any j oue who engages in it. aiul to any ; c.uuntuuity that tolerate* it. Atiaii- ] done«l women were generally tl»« dancer* among the Pagan*. And dancers now are iterpetnatinga prac tice originated with such character* as they would how idnsfa to W aaso dated with. Men. free |wwa, and « mtbnrred dour* a when I have preached to ! adnmuu«Hi I myself should be a nssim tcayf With eoatacy ami exhiteta tion la not the way the church looks 11 bnrehr* q|m>m the queatina ol death today. It ia i That ia not apt to be the say nwu of God look ti|M»ti it imkt. Oar Ion* nar which al fain tberet*»re, «i rr maiAdeat ill serwte at thus that the church ran rr acquire the power ia lean* of rnrei ved en aa trropmmible aa abc had never longing far God's of v iafoa—aeiaod upon w Mind girl; not that she to aoe the Mae haaveoa, or the golden light, or to look upon her mothers sweet araile. or gasr Iu her brother's laughing eyas; no, not (hear, bat she longed to lead the blessed word of Jean*. Tier*- lived at Dgoo a man uf God, s ho had gathered around him a tew hlwd. whom he had taught to road and work. I sought him out. told him of Marie, teterrated him in bar, and aooa made arrmugeatenta that she should come every morning aad rear*re aa hoar's instruction. I also peaeared for her a Bible with raised letter* for the Mind. Yon should have man her delight aa she started off next morning, a warm, bright August morning, one hand forked ia her little brother’s, and th* other fondly grasping the prr- okmu Bible, to take her And lesson. Alas, poor Marie! It require# a deli cate teach to distinguish the slightly rained surface and tbu nice outline of the letters, ami her Angers aero hard amt callous with the constant putting of straw. Again and again waa Hie effort made, twit to no pur- !H> ’ j t'hn*t ia not so large as to excite an d»y«. N'ot by eloquence, nor by ecstatic leeltag. that it hi latter to sortel attrartioaa, nor by ntnalhrtir Partkmais. Sm>| III nM*. ^ , llh , hri ., th . rk.rrk nf CkrlM tan* *(tk the ie**Hgeeee nml. ra.il t |j Vl . t y r) , ,,«,• in .ny .irmti'pnt m tt. .11rngib: tel by a *h*w BMsIern society. A .> . - * * .1^ .* .a U d« to it. The its rosy tiut*, ( from It is now routined to con»- wbo kni>w its secret wiudDitga tetinenienf of mmlcrn woriety. , u„ n . is no strait -Unit it. Wrncaror im orantlan the divine Spirit; _ *in acknowledge tlris to be tbtie.! krmo gentleman or lady of tV high ^ M for »»ar*Hves; ami even if new indwelling of God in the hearts Uoliuess leaves its lpffm*ss on tlie|Md typ»* will tint da aoe, because it B j, ,^) t jmmI we believe he tatof his pcofde When the tire of an 'xxiy as well the w»nff It shim-s ‘ *» H disgrace, anil sinfnl. A reading u, b«-u\eu. hi *|Nte of all the anient piety Has gone oat and left pke” light through ;» trans|»urcnt, a|,< l intelllgeat population i* n«»t a ympi^ni awslitiaw <f Ills, we ay ^ mAMg Ml the aahti Of a eoftd wt*- <Agect, giving to the human f«ce Its dailuilil one. The Mghcdt^fffffhr^ atK | fo,.; it i» a |»ity to bate hiot die. t m«»mali*u> or a s|*»ritlra* orthodoxy dHMe beauty. It is tasting. Time 1 wrnt ot our *v>nntry has scj*nrated Fhir heaien must lie verv |«o»*r au«l on th*» altar, it i* u**t a new altar but jfrteheess of youth, ihanspareucy of skill and delicacy iof feature, will tbott^L slowly yet ’sorrfy change with tin* advancing iitide of yearsbnt whjere the springs f* action are holy, tlieni aris-s a strange and most attractive beauty . form may betnl, Irani make its arrows, or disease ivaste. but the ; barren to our thought! Is «*m man j w ora tire from on high that ia need paratively few jienmtiw. Ami thi* h*ssl ot *n»-h a pattern, that we are t w| to kindle the sacriffee. roll back bocanse it is cniunfiaily '**lg*r, eoutent to have it no bigger? Are tin* thh* of roretouanea*. which ii and cmanttelly stoftet. It bus ih» uf- Wf Ml well fed hen*, that we ha\r no hlotatry , ami re-establish in power finity with tip* highest culture. or 1 dhqsmiliou U» taste angels’ f*>od ? Is the religion of the *mm* true (rod. with a sonml telesf morals. Keen every thing *u good here, are our so The Philurtiue* belw*vedtf they oonhl worldly gentility no longer espouses ii asserts its snpreijiacy. Gf the many instances which mem recalls, I will mention one which iresstil vividly imi of a Yady who b I Iwte pions life ’death hadHHH me. It was I I lost a sister, d triumphant friends every ranee of her immortal haiipiucss. SSC*^*' laid in the qriiet pe lady I speak of w gr^ve, aad a mission bf comfort to a frieiijd iu affliction. Two strangers passed street. In ; and her in the youth she had l»een wbtfftf pave attraerted tint years had made a Benffe inroad on that sweet face, was no gaudy attire—a simple, only, I • wbfaaii only, idressed in the of woe. Yet Mur the verdict. P^of the passers-hiy remarkt**l to the other: “if that is not a good °®*n, there is no reliance in pliysi- , gaomj'. w I saw lier when she bad turned from lier vis t to the afflict friend. The glorit ns hojic of the . lever made her ^>uiiteuanee to ltie. X 0 murmuriig, no tears; ; v eye was lustrous with feeling, i 11 angelic smile of jierfect re iu God rested oil her lips. The ^ 0, *e had left her for a little j °®^j gone iefoce, aud had p to r ** 8t ’ to happiness, and to | alofle ofh farge family \ ,^ ryive d- Many ohi dten, a small r3f% M ^12 ‘Vted daughter rial «ondtlkMM mi good, that we have its cause with it* former ardor. > ^ tMV< i | W gy pito tin* purer |>re*rocc And if it did nt»t receive the couu ^ p at | 1< , r j teuance. now ami then, of some j flow little ari- we ohmuIoI in the worldly minded professor of religion, <|calh of thu-r n e , ovtJ . NTb< . u i1m . and the Imtatering tip of a few cam go try new spapers, whicli arc paid far : a , |f j r | Bn advertising, dancing maatera «tUW ere long have to starve, or change their employment. The influence then of the daneing master and of the tfunsi Christian is day previous (his sister had hostile to virtue, and to morality in it* highest sense. ^nT** 4 ^’ <*>*u- manitie* where there is most dan cing then* is least vtrtne. tt often leads to the seductum and ruin of the innoaent. It is an ill preparu tion for dyiug mortals. It may af ford a momentary gnitiflcation to its devotees; bnt it will afford them uo pleasure in a dying hour, or when they have gone to perdition through its influence, to reflect upon their momentary hilarity with the patrons of the dance. 1 8ioma. Body awd 8oui..—“Two things a master commit* to his servant’s cure,” sailh one, “the child and the child’s clothes.” It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master’s return, “Sir, here are.all the child’s clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lout!” Mnch so with the account that many will give to God of their soula aud h<»me to God. men mourn i aud pine, and womlet at the tayste- rious providence ! I think the iuj* fen i*. that anybody is bora, and, that vre stay auav trow.heaven so i * long! Dying ia more to U* desired than liviug, for dying ia to be clothed upou 1 If one ha* a desire for a higher life, and kuows, that here our , experience ta one of mtefortune, and trouble, aud conflict, and that death | calls us to a higher life, a nobler manhood, than it would be longed for. We must have cliecrfulneaa uu der trouble, patieuve under pro* oca tion, and Christian faith lor the sol vation of tneu. Oue of the uiost powerful exhibition* before the world, is this w illingness and joy at dying.., It should be like.the Yale of Temple, full of uightingaloa, fruit* and flowers. Such au exhibition shows the power of our faith. This wake* men fed, however, they live. “Let me die the death of the right eous, aud let uiy last end be like hi*.* • • VJET?. * * * I live lu the ho|w of seeing Christ iu a sense iu which I never have yet. There is mischief ia the literalness of ■■■■■ ■ bodies at the r eat day. “Lord^ licit* is my taxly ; [ incu’s expectations of seeing Christ wi/iu, uric ie ‘nnij y , wa* very grateful for it; l neg \Ve arv U> focted nothing that belonged to its mw in him Iffrt, com •buI, that 18 lost and emit »»*) for 1 . ,U * u . ,. W L f“ ever. I took liule care and thought hot had tyjeudahip and th| thought ■ capture the ark uf Gwl, Israel could no longer pm ail sg.unst then; aitil they were right. Sow, no leas than of old, tin* power ot farad i* in the ark of God: when 'this m taken away it ia invincible no Lniger. Faith in Clirbl constitute * the look* which arc at once the glory and the strength of the young teuamxi.— When tin* trcacheions I folds Ii baa ahotu the skeptug t Lurch of these, it ia a gtent ia aiieugth uo longer; it* power has gone. Men wonder at tha power uf so August me, a Chrysostom, a White Add, a Nettletoq, a I haiwars, a 8|Hirgwou, and study thoir rbatonc aud vainly hope by adopting thoir methods to secure their power. They forget too often to study that which aloue constitute* the true secret of the power of the pulpit; the earn eafue** of a genuine faith born of the Spirit aud fed by the word of God. if the church and the min istry have a living and a life givia* faith ia Christ, if they ao believe in him that they cau impart their faith to others, the pew will not be empty, nor the churches weak. Wherever the foantain really flow* the thirsty people will crowd to drink. **Oui Gospel,” say* the Apostle l'aul, writing to the Tbeasaioamoa, “ram* not onto you in word only, but ateo in power and in the Holy G busty . ami in much asauraixte" T^at jpower which cornea with the U<%,rGh£>t aud with the strogg tailh, can j ‘ c^mvb wgji its One day she sat alone, sorrow fully chipping with her tittle knife the rough edge of the attaw, a happy thought occurred to her. Coakl she not cut away the thick hard skin from her Angers, ami then it would grow anew, smooth and soft, like the rosy Augers of a child ? And so »he pared the hard skin from her fingers, heeding not the pain. W hen the reading leawdh was tried again, warm drops trickled from the bleed ing Auger* along the sacred line. It would not do. After the firwt hitler oeo* of her disappointment. Mane ntrove hard to be cheerful. “God had o|iciied the* eyes of her mouI,* sin* said, “and ought sin- nut to prais* him f* And thru the new Wilde! ah, aurely she must carry that Itsuk; some hsp|»ie4 blind girl aught be able to pluck the f ruit from thi* tree of life, and Aad healing ia its blessed leaves. And hold tug the dear volume to her beatiug heart, she knelt by her white oat to pray : “Deat and blessed Jesus, who forest the poor, and opanest the eyes of the blind, 1 thauk thee that thou hast uot hidden thyself from a pool blind girl. And mace l can uot rend thy heavenly wonts, 1 pray that thou wilt whisper them into my tool, that my Spirit m *> »ot be dark like my poor eyes, ft can see with my heart, dear Jeaa*, and thou knowest that-1 love thee and love thy book;” and she touched the open Bible with her Ups. Oh, joy! To the soft lipa the slight indenta tions of the raised surface are clearly perceptible. With a low cry of joy she passes line after liue across her eager lips. She turns the leaf; the Ups lose not their power. It is all clear—all eaay bow ; the lipa coo do what toil-hardened Angers could not; she can now read God’s holy Word! A twelvemonth after, 1 visited Dyoti The old kitehea bore its old look, but what a beaming, happy foee wa* Marie’s, a* she aat la Iter r*d« duut bet *u4*C«f S'*" *» her ww Oh. it «** tuU o( light to bci it not Trtn- faith hs* respect not simply to the truth * i *out Jeans. Uut to Je- *n« Himself It is to a Hrinf person we malt “trust,” not to a doctrine, a fort, or abstact truth. The knowl edge of the truth, as it Is ia Jesus, 1* precious, just as it lead* to the knowledge of Jesuit Himself. When we truly know Him, we can not but tront Hint, knowiug ouraelves to be lost and perishing, aud Josuh to be the only aud all sufficient Saviour. “f believe that Jeans died for an Derm, and that He is the only 3a nr,” said a wife one day in my bearing, wondering at the new found “lieliering* wWrh Ailed her Husband with peace and joy. “O woman T said he, “the devils believe that, and they only tremble” The faith that leads the soul to trust all to Jesns, believes that too, bat rests not there; it Ktrsightwsy flees to Him, lays bold oo Him ; cries, “Iiord, save me; undertake for me; say unto my aonl, I am thy salvation * Then, io the e^enuM-utal knowledge of His love and power, of fits truth aud faith fulness, the believing sool takes up the glad language of assurance. “The Lord Jebm ah is my strength aud in v sung : He also i* become my nalvalfott.” Yes, He whose name is Faithful and True, is Ooe who may indeed be trusted. He ha* never proved a broken reed to any fainting Moot who learned upon Him. None wa* ever ashamed who waited for Him; and no poor lost one who came to Him for salvation wa* ever cast oat. lfosr reader, come, taste aud see how good He ia, and how blessed is every one that trusts in Him. The woman of 3amana told her fellow citizen* about Jesus, and many of them were thus led to come to Him, aud (wove Him for themselves; and then they said, “Now we believe upt Itecanae of thy naying, for we have heard Him ourselves, aud know that this is iudred the Christ, the Saviour of the world." The faith that leads to appropria ting Jesus, is the only faith that saves. It is uot enough to aay, “I believe that He is the only Saviour, and that He is able and willing to save." Have you made nia yours by accepting Him. by committing yourself to Him? The profession of faith that leaves the sool a* carries* and se cure in am as ever, or as heavily la den and hardened as ever, is no faith at alt In ooe case there has been no frit burden to roll upon Him. in the other, no real rolling of the bar den which wa* weighing it down. Just in proportion, as we truly trust all to Him, oar souls are Ailed with joy and peace iu believing. The believer trust* Jesus with faith which is the 6ubsUuoeof things hoped few, the evidence of thiug* uot seen. He had learned 1<* rest calm Iy oo Jesos, whom not liaving^cen he fovea, aud in whom, though now be sees Him not, yet believing, be rejoices with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of his faith, even the salvatfou of bis soul. (1 l’et, i: 8. ti.)—•Word* of Truth, Jacobs* Lad deb.—We may re gard thin vision a* in some measure typical of the Lord Jeans Christ. He i* certainly referred to in the premise addressed to Jacob; and when be *|waks iu St J (din's Gospel of “the augels of God ascending and d cm-ending upon the Son of Mau” he seems to have this ladder in his tniud, and to view it as au embleifl of himself. Just as that communi cated between heaven aud earth, so does he. Through Him and him alone, angels come down to us with blessing*; . through him mercy and grace descend; through him the Holy 6iunt is giveu. He is the way also from earth to heaven. By him onr prayers ascend to the. Father, and by him may we ourselves do the same. Far a* we are from God, he cau bring us nigh. High as the heavens are above the earth, he can raise us up to them. And he is wil ling to raise us op to them. That ladder may be climbed. Its top is io the utmost heavens; it rests on the throne of Jehovah; bat its foot stands on the earth, aud not on some distant inaccessible mountain of it, but here by our aide. Christ has opened for ns a way to God, and there is not a sinner here, who may not this day enter it as freely as be may outer his own door. Through Christ we may see^Gqd; throo* Cfari# we may Uf4 God; ia GUnst* ‘pofcutfJ’R through jus human tehiti ipft up jtetNb.jml ***** m * * In this age of wonders scart-* l.\ anything is too strange to be expet-i ed. What would have filled our fa tbers with surprise, strikes ns a* only a matter of course. The w hole order of things, farming, building, traveling, printing, everything is so changed, that if some Kip Tan Win kle, who died fifty years ago, should return to oar world, he would have difficulty in identifying it as the om- he had left. Even oar churches are not au ex eeption to the great law of change which has been at work. Then, in such sacred edifice*, there used to be a plain pulpit, a little green screen in front of it to conceal the precentor, high backed, and hard-seated pews, plainly plsslsrsfl ssilings, good old tin-jdate store*; sow, all the arrange meat* and appointments of chnrcbes' are on a scale of the highest beauty, convenience aud comfort. Nfcr i* this all; the pews, by a sort of tere grapby. have got to talking. TYie pew just before mine, io oui church, speaks very softly to it* oc cupants, but by close attention I cau bear what it utters. Last Sabbath t said to the father of the family, “O what a wandering mind you hare! Shame! here you sit, and seem to be listening to the preacher, but all the while your thought* are roving like the fool’s eyes. Remem ber yon will have to account for this. You say you can’t help it, but you can. Don’t you Ax your mind intent ty on your business during the week f How is it then, that you can not lis ten to what is said to you about your undy ing soul f Oh, if you are so absorbed with earthly things that they hang around yoa on the Sab bath, and prevent your receiving the Word of God, this is a fearful state! Soon you will have to leave secalai interests; what then, will they profit yon, if you have neglected to pre pare to meet God f Don’t let them cheat yon oat of heaven.” At this point the sermon ended, and prayer began. The father bo* ed his bead and that was all. “There, now,” continued the pew, “why do you not stand up in this holy exer rise, and show some reverence to ward the glorious Being whom you profess to be worshiping? You stand in your office or counting-room often, for half an hour, why then, can’t you stand a few minutes whilst the man of God is sending up petitions to the heavenly thronet Oh! disguise it, as yoa may; it is laziness and a want of proper conception of the Di vine jiresenoe- and glory that keep.- you ia this self-saving posture. The day will come when yon will-bitterly regret this trifling with the holy or dinance* of the sanctuary, and influ coring, by your example, your fami Iy to the same.” 1 hiring all the communication from the pew, I could easily see that the man was more or less uneasy. He turned, and turned, wiping his face with his handkerchief, and changing his position every few minutes -evi dently indicating that he wa* not satisfied with the run of thing-. What will be the effect upon him I can uot tell. But would it not be well for him to hearken obedienth to the kind voice that is floating around him, before hi* eur is deafen ed in death ? -Of Pbayke and Blessihg.—When the sun rises, there is light Why. I do not know. There might have been light without the sun. and then- might have been a sun that gave no light, but God has been pleased to put &ese two things together- sunrise and light So, whenever there is a prayer, there is a blessing. I do not know why. There might have been prayer without a blessing, for there is in the world of wrath ; and there might have been a bless ing withont prayer, for it often is sent to some who songht it not. But God has been pleased to make this a rale for the government of the moral and spiritual universe, that there shall be prayers first, and that then there shall be the answer to prayer.—%srystm. Repeated Afflictions.—I fool that they come not as the lightning* on the scathed tree* Masting it yet store; bat as the strokes of the soalptor oa the marble block, form ing it to the image of life and love lines*. Let butAhe divine presence ha frit, and no lot is hard. Let me hat aoe his hand, aad aa event is ore