the wisdom and goodness of God,

and looking with delight to the ultimate result of his divine coun

sels.

TRUE HAPPINESS.

Extract from a Sermon of the Author's.

It is not the momentary sparkling of a volatile imagination, nor the illusive attraction of a gay exterior, nor the noisy pomp, nor the glittering pride of life---it is not any of these which confer true happiness, or command lasting esteem. The silent, steady march of duty; the constant unbroken flow of right

and good affections; the life filled up with acts of real kindness, and solid usefulness, diffusing harmony and comfort through each social and domestic scene; glorifying God alternately by cheerful obedience, and placid resignation; amidst the tide of flowing fortune humble and benign; serene amidst the decays of nature; in death itself peaceful and happy---these are indeed just claims to our affection and respect, that deserve to live in our remembrance; proofs of sound judgment, and substantial worth; the result of

daily study and delight in God's holy law---of following its dictates with conscientious care; of transcribing the best of precepts, the divinest of examples, into the tablet of a pure mind---and is not this true happiness? The soul which dissolving nature and the hand of death cannot unharmonize, is it not strung high, and attuned to a loftier

tone than they, who know no other

than earthly and transitory good, can reach or easily imagine? Beneath the world's smiling aspect, happier than the happiest of its

votaries are the children of virtue, and piety; and when the world

dissolves, there yet remains a happiness to which all its splendors are but vanities, and shadows! When the scanty rills of transitory enjoyment are dried up, Lo! the overflowing ocean of eternal goodness rolls before them. When earthly glories fade, like glimmering starlight, Lo! the day-spring from on high! the sun is about to rise,

that shall never set.

FINIS.

J. and R. Childs, Printers, Bungay.