ness in high places-foes, malicious, numérous, ingisible and indefatigable. If Satan could, spare a legion of his subtle emissaries to infest one poor man, he must have a vast number, under his control, all ready to execute his orders. From Scripture we learn, that he possesses very great power, virulence and turpie tude; and surely he knows how to avail him-. self of them to the greatest advantage. He will not fail to suit his temptations to all our various circumstances;, and being acquainted with our most vulnerable part, he will contin ually exert himself to effectuate our ruin. If we have been emancipated from his iron bondage, tho he cannot indeed pluck us out of our Redeemer's hands, yet will he endeavor to ensnare, worry and harass our souls, and impede our progress. If he cannot prevent our enter ing heaven at last, yet he will strew the road that leads thither with prickly briars and goads ing thorns. If he cannot make us leave the nare row path, yet he will do his utmost to make us travel siowly, heavily and despondingly, and make us continual work for sorrow and repent ance. If one stratagem fails, he will try a second; and if that, a third; and so unwearied are his attempts and niachinations, that he is called "a roaring lion, going about seeking whom he may devour;" and if his power were not circumscribed by One stronger than he, we had long since been in utter despair and destruction. But blessed be God, he is a vanquished enemy, and cannot go a hair's breadth beyond the per mission of the sinner's Friend. Ah ye tempt ed followers of the Lamb, why do you go on so mournfully the road to Zion? The now

and then your adversary gains a temporary conquest, and insultingly menaces your total ruin, yet listen not to his wiles, regard not his threats, nor tamely give up all for lost. But rather collect and renew your forces, atray yourselves in the panoply of the gospel, and set your faces as a flint against every opposing power. Fear not. The Lion of the tribe of He will clothe

Judah will infallibly prevail you with armor; he will lead you forth to battle; he will protect you in every conflict, and enable you to perform exploits; and eventually bring you off more than conquerors. His name is JESUS; for he shall save his people from their sins. Precious name, sublimely replete with the most glorious and mysterious excellencies. Eternal life, salvation and blessedness, are wonderfully comprised in it, greater than the mind of man can conceive, or human language describe. It is a sweet emollient for the lacer ated conscience, a healing balm for the wound. ed heart. It opens a gleam of hope to the returning prodigal, discovers exuberant beauties and transporting glories to his enraptured eyes, and directs his march to Canaan's rest. It alleviates the pangs of sickness, and pours benignant radiance on the valley of death." Transcendantly delightful name, beyond the explanation of the inhabitants of time. Its rich and amazing import is more adequately known in the regions of cloudless day-of everlasting light. IMMANUEL! JESUS! Ye hoary heads, silvered with years and furrowed with sorrows, and just ready to repose in the slumbers of the grave, O let this name reverberate on your closing tips, and animate your souls

with more than mortal joys, as they take their happy flight to congenial climes. And you young immortals and prattling children, let your stammering tongues learn to reiterate it with hearts touched with sacred fire, and be nobly ambitious to engage in that angelic em ployment, which commences in time, and runs parallel with the ages of eternity. Christians, lose not your temper and your time about empty forms and notions, but let this name be the animating theme of your social converse and retired contemplations, and, as oft as it vibrates on your tongues, and pervades your minds, let your hearts burn within you with extatic fire, and your affections soar to world's of light. Ah, ye poor deluded sinners, ye know not the felicity ye lose, while ye are strangers to praise, and ignorant of the harmony and rapture of this soul-reviving word. Awake, awake, and let your dormant powers vie with angels in adoringly celebrating this name, which all the host of heaven strive to extol and magnify in strains too sublimely grand for mortals to hear.

Write soon. Do not forget to love and pray for your affectionate and obliged,

Letter to Miss S. P. B. of Lynnfield.

FANNY.

Beverly, June 18, 1813. I NEED your friendship, your correspond. ence and your prayers; and I trust you will confer on me the precious boon. Surely we ought to exert ourselves to benefit each other in our wearisome journey through this thorny desert and waste howling wilderness. The portentous moment, in which our first parents

ate of the fordidden fruit, "brought death into the world and all our woe." It changed a garden of Eden into an Aceldama, "a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and the shadow of death." It introduced war, carnage and destruction, and all the variegated and complicated hardships and distresses, under which nations bleed, and every individual more or less, despondingly groans. It ushered in those envious and rebellious passions which exasperated Cain to embrue his hands in a brother's blood, and which have been the source of all the calamities and dire convulsions, and amazing revolutions, which have taken place in the world. To these malignant passions, the consequences of that eventful moment, must be ascribed those intestine divisions and awful judgments, which distract our beloved country, and those bloody wars, conflicting commotions, and heart-appalling catastrophes, which cause nations to bleed at every pore, and agitate our globe to its very centre. Ah, when we think of that deluge of iniquity, which seems to inundate our guilty land, and threatens to swallow in its vortex all that is amiable and good, do not our spirits droop within us, and our souls tremble for the ark of God? But the Lord God omnipotent reigneth; let the earth rejoice, and all its isles be glad. Our Jesus sits on the holy hill of Zion, swaying the sceptre of the universe, ordering and regulating all its affairs, "from seeming evil still educing good," and making the wrath of man to praise him, and all creatures and things subservient to the good of his church, and promotion of his kingdom. He

will overturn, overturn and overturn, till he shall reign King of nations as he is King of saints-till the standard of the cross is erected in heathen climes, and his kingdom swallows up every other kingdom, and embraces all the nations of the earth. Precious thought. Do we not delight, with an eye of faith, to look over the lofty mountains of superstition, vice, infidelity, error and immorality, to that glorious era of light and love, of joy and triumph, of peace and tranquillity? O for another day of Pentecost, when all shall be of one heart and one soul, when great grace shall be upon all believers, and when multitudes shall throng the gates of Zion, and with joy and gratitude smiling in their eyes, encircle the table of the dear Redeemer.

Have you, my friend, yet embraced the precious privilege, with which Jesus has condescendingly indulged his humble followers, that of professing his dear name, and enjoying his, covenant love? I regret that you had not, when last I heard. I should rejoice to hear that you had united yourself to a Christian church, and publicly avouched your attachment to Immanuel's cause, by "surnaming yourself by the name of Israel." Let me tell you, it is not only an important duty, bat an inestimable privilege, tending to corroborate grace, to enliven faith and love, and awaken to penitence, humility, zeal and obedience. O can we refuse this token of our affection to Him, who bled, and groaned, and died, that our poor souls might live forever? Ought we not at such a time to appear explicitly on the Lord's side, to come out and be separate from the world and