several Addresses were delivered, which were intended to point out the best methods of inducing habits of regular attendance on public worship in the young people, and that not only while they continue in the Schools, but also after they have left them.

The following is the substance of the hints brought forward by the different speakers.

1. It is lamentable that any necessity should exist for the consideration of such a question, in a place so highly distinguished for religious privileges, and where the Gospel and its invaluable institutions have been so long in operation. But, however much the fact may be regretted, it cannot be denied ; a highly respectable individual in this city having ascertained, that there are at least sixty thousand persons in Glasgow, and its vicinity, able to attend and yet absent from public worship every LORD's-day. This being the case, and no reasonable ground existing for the hope of any extensive change taking place in the habits of the up-grown part of the population, it becomes a serious and highly important question, to those who have the charge of the rising generation, how they may, in this respect, train them up in the way they should go.

2. In order, by the blessing of GOD, to attain this desirable end, they should be taught, convinced, and persuaded, by an explanation, application, and enforcement of those passages of the Sacred Scriptures which bear upon the subject, that it is their indispensable duty publicly to worship GoD, and that SchoolWorship, however excellent and useful, should rather be considered as a preparation, than as a substitute, for Public Worship.

3. At the same time, the most plain and pointed instructions should be given to the young people, as to the nature of that worship which GOD requires, and will accept. It is not every kind of attendance at

the house of God that will be pleasing to him. He requires the worship of the heart; and therefore must refuse the offerings, and condemn the persons, of the gay trifler, the formalist, the hypocrite, or the wicked.

4. In enforcing this duty, the promised advantages, whether temporal, spiritual, or eternal, which accompany and follow a right discharge of it, should be frequently presented to view.

5. The importance of proper, Christian, Public Worship, demands that it should be made a specific and constant subject of Sabbath-School instructions; that the young people should be frequently addressed upon it, in small companies and individually; that their excuses respecting clothes, &c., should be answered; and that they should be examined as to their behaviour in the house of GOD, and in reference to the discourses they have heard.

6. School-hours should be made to suit, and carefully guarded against any interference with, a regular attendance on Public Worship.

7. In order to carry into efficient operation any plan, embracing the object which at present engages our attention, it is absolutely necessary that the Trustees and Managers of Churches and Chapels should appropriate a sufficient portion of room for those young persons who belong to Sabbath-Schools, and are willing to attend such places, but cannot be accommodated with their Parents. It is also humbly suggested to the Ministers of the Gospel, that it is important that they should, as frequently as possible, visit SabbathSchools, and, by efforts to do them good, should gain the affections of the young; and that, in feeding the flock of GOD, they should not wholly forget the "lambs," but should often introduce into their discourses something adapted to their situation, and specially directed to them.

the people. This man,' said the KHAN, being a descendant of the Prophet, must know the truth, and will tell it me. He shall find me those who can and will pay the money.' But the answer given by the honest SAIED being precisely the same with that of the innocent victims who had already perished, the tyrant's fury knew no bounds, and, rising from his seat, he ordered the holy man to be rent asunder in his presence, and then thrown over the rock, to increase the monument of his vengeance below.

"It was the tumult of this most dreadful execution which occasioned the noise that drove the affrighted narrator to the shelter of any hole, from the eye of merciless man. But the cruel scene did not end there. Even in the yet sensible ear of the SAIED, expiring in agonies, his execrable murderer ordered that his wife and daughters should be given up to the soldiers; and that, in punishment of such universal rebellion in the town, the whole place should be razed to the ground. "But this last act of blood on a son of the Prophet, cost the perpetrator his life. For the soldiers themselves, and the Nobles who had been partizans of the Usurper, were so struck with horror at the sacrilegious murder, and appalled with the threatened guilt of offering insult to women of the sacred family, that they believed a curse must follow the abettors of such a man. The next step, in their minds, was to appease Heaven by the immolation of the offender; and in the course of that very night, a band of his servants cut the cords of his tent, which instantly falling in upon him, afforded them a secure opportunity of burying their poniards in his body. The first strokes were followed by thousands. So detested was the wretch, that in a few minutes his remains were hewn and torn to pieces. It does not become men to lift the veil which lies over the whole doom of a ruthless murderer; but there is something in the last mortal yell of a tyrant, whether it be a ROBESPIERRE or a NACKEE

KHAN, which sounds as if mingled with a dreadful echo from the eternal shore.

"While the above particulars were relating, it was a shuddering glance that looked down, from the open side of the Ketkhoda's saloon, on almost the very spot where the unhappy victims had breathed their last. It recalled to my remembrance a similar window, for similar purposes, at Erivan, where the Governor of that place used to dispose of his malefactors, the moment sentence was pronounced. And, while listening to the hideous details of a sort of punishment so. common in the East, I could not but recall similar descriptions in ancient writers on these countries, which showed how old had been the practice of taking offenders to a height, and casting them headlong, sometimes from a rock, at others from high battlements, and often from a window which commanded a sufficient steep. We have a dreadful picture of this most tremendous mode of punishment, in the Second Book of Kings. It describes the death of JEZEBEL, when, by the command of JEHU, she was thrown from the palace-window of Jezreel, during his triumphant entry, and her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses, and he trode her under their feet; and when he sent to bury her, no more was found of her than the scull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. Nearer home, the classic reader has only to remember the various precipitations from the Tarpeian rock, to see what chastisements the Sages of antiquity, in almost every country, devised for the reformation of mankind. Blessed indeed are these latter times of the world, when such fierce punishments are neither necessary to appal vice, nor would their barbarous outrage of human sympathy be tolerated. The change has been wrought by the ameliorating effects of Christianity, and therefore, only in countries where the religion of mercy has not yet been received, do we find the dregs of heathenish cruelties, remain."

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do. Therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants;-if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Some are so censorious as to advance, that those who have discovered a thorough knowledge of all the depravities of the human heart, must be themselves depraved ;-but this is about as wise as to affirm that every physician who understands a disease must be himself diseased.

Public charities, and benevolent associations, for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature; an order of benevolence so disinterested, and so exalted, looking before and after, could no more have preceded Revelation, than light the

sun.

Faith and works are as necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

In naval architecture, the rudder is first fitted in, and then the ballast is put on board, and, last of all, the cargo and the sails. It is far otherwise in the fitting-up and forming of man; he is launched into life with the cargo of his faculties aboard, and all the sails of his passions set; but it is the long and painful work of his

life, to acquire the ballast of experience, and to form the rudder of reason; hence, it too often happens that his frail vessel is shipwrecked before he has laid in the necessary quantity of ballast, or that he has been so long in completing the rudder, that the vessel is become too crazy to benefit by its application.

Expense of thought is the rarest prodigality; and to dare to live alone, the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and in the most minute, no less than in the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat, and honour from repulse.

To him that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory;-the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties, without the assistance of another.