ment, that in your humble retirements you may render your most important services to the kingdom of the Messiah, secluded from the observation of mortals, and known only to Him who seeth in secret.

To female disciples of Christ, permit me to say, here is employment to which your souls are attuned, and in which you may be instrumental in producing great and lasting good. In your closets and circles for devotion, you may be the means of qualifying and commissioning faithful ambassadors of Christ, to carry the tidings of great joy wherever the curse of sin extends; and your may, in the same manner, secure the listening attention of multitudes to the heavenly message. The Gentiles will join in that divine song, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth." You may clothe the prowling inhabitant of the wilderness with the robes of righteousness, and make the desart vocal with Emanuel's praise. You may bid the benighted pagans forget their miseries, and unite with you in drawing living waters from the wells of Salvation, and in exploring a country beyond the boundaries of mortality.

Say not that you move in a sphere so circumscribed as to exclude your usefulness. Verily you have much to do." Your assistance is urgently required and needed, in erecting the house of the Lord, and adorning it with the beauties of holiness and praise. Without passing beyond your proper bounds you may render essential service to the cause of Christ, as the faithful" legate of the skies," who proclaims the glorious truths of the gospel to listening thousands. You love your Lord; you love. the souls for whom he died; and you prefer Jerusalem a◄ bove your chief joy. Frequent, then, your closets, and

breathe to Heaven your fervent supplications for the coming of that blessed day, when the Rose of Sharon shall bloom in the desert, and every solitary corner of the earth shall reverberate the songs of Zion. In these favoured seasons of intercourse with God, you will affectionately bear on your hearts the ministers at the altar, and the missionaries of the cross; for surely they need your prayers. Fail not to pray ardently, that they may have divine support under all their peculiar labours and trials; that they may be enabled to preach the truth, in a discriminating, solemn, and faithful manner; that they may be led by the Holy Spirit to select those subjects which shall be most appropriate and useful to their hearers; and that their ministrations may be abundantly blessed to the edification and consolation of true believers, and the awakening and conversion of formal hypocrites and stupid sinners. Realizing that" The harvest truly is great, but the labourers few," you will entreat of your Lord to multiply the heralds of salvation, that great may be the company those that publish his word, and that the gospel may be preached to every creature. Be exhorted to let no opportunity of usefulness escape unimproved. Devote not your inestimably precious hours to visits of ceremony, where trifling conversation so lamentably prevails, but redeem them to spend in the too much neglected cottages of the poor, in the chambers of sickness and affliction, and in encircling the female social altar of devotion. Those of you, who are possessed of a moderate share of learning, and have time at your disposal, may be eminently useful in the benevolent task of instructing ignorant and indigent children. The rising generation ought to be near your hearts; and such, especially, as have few or no advantages for mental culture and the acquirement of religious knowledge, urgently claim the exercise of

of

your compassion. It is believed, that Sabbath schools, well conducted, may be largely conducive to the interests of morality and piety; and that so many have been formed is matter of gratitude to Him, who works in his people both to will and to do. Those of you who are engaged in these delightful acts of charity, may reflect, for your encouragement, that if you entered upon your employment with right feelings, and are faithful to the souls entrusted to your care, though you may not witness the happy fruits of your labours, your prayers, and your tears, yet at the bar of God many may rise up and call you blessed, regarding you as the instruments of their eternal salvation. But it is not my design to enumerate the various ways in which you may effectually subserve the interests of your Lord. If your hearts are warm with grateful affection to the Redeemer, you will readily observe and diligently improve the opportunities of glorifying him, which continually occur. Let me affectionately urge you to live for God,-to live for eternity!

My Christian friends, patronize, as far as possible, every plan and institution, calculated for the benefit of society, and the glory of your Maker. Direct all your energies to the cause of Heaven. Be willing to labour and suffer in the vineyard of the Lord, not counting even your lives dear to you, so that you may accomplish your assigned work, and " finish your course with joy." Mark the signs of the times.. Consider how eventful is the day in which you live; and say, can he deserve the appellation of Christian, who now indulges in slothful inactivity and indifference! May the Lord refresh his.. children with abundant effusions of grace from above, and hasten that divinely glorious day, when Zion shall shine. n renovated and transcendent beauty; when the reli gion of the cross shall pervade eevry land, arraying this:

apostate earth in all the immortal charms of holiness, peace, and sublime felicity. Let every pious heart breathe to Heaven the ardent aspiration, O thou Desire of nations,

"Come; and added to thy many crowns,
Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth,
Thou who alone art worthy."

MISSIONARY HYMN.

1 THAT to rapture's boundless strains,
The subject world would raise

One sacred shout of "Jesus reigns!"
And fill her shores with praise.

2 Hark! the reverberating song
Already strikes the ear,

And the vast echoes, sweet and strong,
Shall soon surround the sphere..

3. From torrid climes to either pole,
Through each resounding sky,
The thunders of His praise shall roll,
And His dominion fly.

ON THE

Fascinating and Deceitful Pleasures

OF THE

WORLD.

AS you have entered, my dear friends, upon an existence

that must run parallel with eternity, and are blessed

with powers and faculties capable of everlasting improvement in glory and excellence, it must fill every benevolent heart with pain to behold you living without hope and without God in the world; to behold you indifferent to your own best interests, and pursuing a course of conduct, which, unless timely repentance intervene, must inevitably sink souls in endless woe. Standing as you do your upon the margin of the invisible world, it is astonishing beyond expression, that you should bound your views by the short term of mortal life, and as though earth were your final residence, your everlasting home. Your attachment to things seen and temporal, while you neglect. those which are unseen and eternal, is a convincing, though lamentable proof, that "the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." You are by nature children of wrath, enemies to the great and glorious Jehovah, and obnoxious to the penalty of that holy law, which thunders in the ears of transgressors, "The soul that sinneth it shall die." But from the cross, pardon, peace, and salvation smile on a dying world, and invite the acceptance of all, "without money and without price.” The gate of Heaven, barred by the lapse of man, is now opened by the hand of the Saviour, for the admission of