that may result to the children from your exertions. If one soul should be directed into the path of truth and uprightness, if one child should carry home the tidings of salvation to its parents and kindred, what an honor will have been conferred upon you as the instrument; what transports will fill your mind, if you are enabled to present some of your little flock to the Judge of all, at the great day, and exclaim, "Behold, here, Lord, am I, and the children thou hast given me !"

Finally. Look well to yourselves. Seek constantly and early, the growth of religion in your own souls. Frequent the throne of grace. Meditate on the sacred word, and let Christ, and Christ only, be the foundation of your hope of eternal life. A sense of the value of your own soul, will make you anxious for the souls of others. May the Lord pour down upon us, and upon all similar institutions, the healthful spirit of his grace! May it be said of this school, many were born to God there; and may we all meet together before the throne, to sing the praises of God and the Lamb for ever. VIGIL.

MOMENTS OF ANXIETY.

SUCH a moment is that which marks the transition state of a youth from parental, and especially from maternal, influence, to that arising from scenes of worldly intercourse. How innumerable are the instances in which, up to that moment, all has been promising; every taste and tendency under the influence, at least apparently, of real piety; but at that moment all has begun to decline, and to yield to another and most ungenial influence. The change may be more or less gradual, but there was a moment at which it commenced; would that we had known it; that we could have met the first wandering of thought, witnessed the first blush of conscience, and presented at that moment some tender suggestion, some startling thought! Such wishes are fruitless; but, dear young people, whose hearts yet love the piety that expands a parent's heart, and sanctifies a parent's life, be aware of that first moment, and prepare for the coming temptation, by making sure of piety as your own. Learn what it is that constitutes the loveliness and consistency of your parents' piety and at the source whence they derived it, O! seek it for yourselves. You have been induced by their advice and example to

retire for prayer, and for reading the word of God, O! be concerned to meet your heavenly Father there. There you may make the good part your own; there, by grace, your hearts may be brought to glow with such love to Christ, and to cherish such views of sin, that you will be prepared to say to the first seducing thought, "Begone!" and to meet the first check of conscience by "looking unto Jesus" as your chosen Friend, your chosen Lord.

There is another moment of anxiety; it is when the heart has been awakened to an unwonted concern about the interests of the soul, and the claims of eternity. It may have been under some touching representation of the love of Christ, and of the melting attraction of his cross; it may have been when the hand of the Lord was heavy upon you, and the world was all a weary waste; or, perhaps, the voice of Jesus said, through the ministry of some beloved friend, "Come, follow me." It was a moment which may be forgotten on earth, it will not be forgotten in heaven or in hell, and the memory of it will be fresh with yourself in eternity.

Did you then say, "Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest?" And were you as those who " say and do not?" Did the recollection that the servant must not expect to be in more favor with the world than his Master, who "had not where to lay his head," alter your decision, and detain you among "the fearful" and the "lukewarm?" When he said, "Follow me," did you reply, "Let me first go and bury my father," or, at least, "let me first go bid them farewell who are at home?" Or did you at once, as Paul did, refuse to "confer with flesh and blood," and say, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" My dear young friend, pause with me for an instant on the enquiry; retrace the circumstances; follow out the results of that moment. Where are you now? Was it the moment which decided you for Christ? O! for a new and livelier emotion of gratitude and love to him! "He drew you, and you followed on." He has kept you, and he will love and keep you to the end. But are you living near, very near, to Him; walking worthy of your high and holy calling; growing up into him in all things? Does the church know that you love the Lord Jesus Christ by seeing you at his table; and does the world feel your religion by its consistency and its active benevolence? Or does the appeal find you farther off from Christ than you were at that moment; the sound of his voice more dis

tant; the sight of his beauty more indistinct; and the world more close in its embrace? Ah! my friend, whither are your steps declining? Was there no reality in what at that moment fixed your attention? Are they realities which have seduced your mind? Would you rather have those thoughts or your present ones with you in your dying hour? Was the Spirit then speaking to you, and was the voice peace and love? Can you recall that voice at your pleasure? If not, how will you hope in the face of the Saviour's declaration-" No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." Do not silence the voice which again entreats you to be reconciled and blessed.

What a moment is that when long-cherished mistakes have been rectified, and the light of truth breaks in upon the mind with a force no longer to be resisted. "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" was the earnest enquiry of one whose conscience was awakened out of its slumbers, and who yet hoped that the Great Teacher would direct to some new effort by which he might merit the desired blessing. This hope was disappointed, and a new course opened before him; the sin which had swayed his bosom must be crucified, and he must look for pardon to an atonement of which he had never felt the need-" He went away sorrowful." My young friends, have your expectations of happiness been disappointed? Have you felt the ground on which you thought your footing firm, slide from beneath you? Has your error been exposed, and the truth disclosed to your view?

This is the moment for decision, and on the decision of this moment, eternity depends! Open now your hearts; let in the claims of a crucified and exalted Saviour; buy now the truth and sell it not. From this moment ascend to glory, honor, and immortality, or trifle on while the stream of time, and the tide of worldly pleasure, will bear you down to that world, where the remembrance of this moment will be to you the “gall of bitterness," and "the worm that never dieth." H. B.

THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.

"On the 7th of July, 1783, six Quakers met in London, ' to consider what steps they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies, and for the discouragement of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.'

"And who were these six men who presumed to attempt the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade-who aspired to move the moral world-to arrest the commerce of nations-to proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison doors to them that were bound? Did they sway the councils or lead the armies of empires-were they possessed of learning to command the attention of the wise and great, or of eloquence to mould to their will the passions of the multitude? They were humble and obscure individuals, belonging to a small and despised sect, and precluded by their religious tenets, from all political influence. But they had discovered from the Book of God, what had escaped many wise and good men, that slavery was opposed to the attributes and precepts of the Almighty Ruler of nations. In laboring therefore for its suppression, they were assured of his protection, and without regarding their own weakness or the obstacles before them, they proceeded calmly and steadily in the path of duty, leaving the result with HIM, with whom all things are possible. These humble men set in motion a train of agencies, which, in 1807, accomplished the abolition of the slavetrade by Great Britain; and in 1830, completed its abolition throughout christendom, and which, in 1838, effected the liberation of the negro slaves in the British possessions; and which, in all human probability, will before long effect it throughout 'the West Indies.'"-Jay's 'Peace and War.'

FOSSIL REMAINS.

Ir is not one of the least remarkable or interesting facts brought to light by geological researches, that animals now altogether unknown in this island, should be disinterred either wholly, or in fragments of so decisive a character, as to leave no doubt whatever as to their real nature, even in the immediate vicinity of the great metropolis.

A well sunk on Sydenham-common, near the Croydon Railway, passed chiefly through the blue clay. At the depth of one hundred and fifteen feet, the lighter sandy soil which came up was supposed to indicate the proximity of water, but after boring through a conglomerate of broken shells, about eighteen inches thick, these indications disappeared, till it was carried to the depth of about two hundred and forty feet, where a fine spring was reached in the black gravel and sand.

In this shelly conglomerate was found the tooth of a thickskinned animal belonging to the extinct genus Lophiodon, the first that has been discovered in the London basin, though it has before produced a solitary specimen of one of the smaller pachyderms, or thick-skinned animals, from the neighbourhood of Herne Bay.

The tooth was some time since submitted to the inspection of Dr. G. A. Mantell, who pronounced it to be the canine of some pachydermatous animal, adding, "it is a very fine specimen of its kind, and I believe has not been found in the London clay before." Dr. Buckland says, "it is certainly new, and extremely interesting."

It has since been subjected to a more rigid examination by Richard Owen, Esq. of the Royal College of Surgeons, who describes it to be "an inferior canine of the Lophiodon, one of the extinct genera allied to the tapir, which occur in the Eocene strata near Orleans, Buchsweiler, and other parts of the Continent.

The species which constitute this genus are but little removed

from the tapirs, approximating in form to the animal represented above, which is the Palæotherium magnum, or ancient wild beast