Keller and his family were conveyed to St. Bernard, and by the removal of older bodies, were admitted to a place in the morgue, where, standing erect against the wall, their frozen corses exhibit a melancholy group, sad examples of the turns of fate below, and of the little security this world can offer for the stability of any sublunary good.

"There is nothing true but Heaven."

M.

PHILADELPHIA.

CHRISTIAN LACONICS.

I.

They

SOULS to whom Christ has been made wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, should never complain of poverty or neglect. They have that which worlds cannot purchase. may be aged and destitute, solitary, having buried the friends of their youth, just ready to sink unmourned to the tomb, still let them rejoice. Shall not the traveller, though he be lonely and destitute, rejoice as he draws near his home, where the sweet voice of affection shall welcome him, and every want be fully supplied?

II.

You may have seen the forest in the leaflessness of winter, to which the rain-storm, freezing as it

fell, had given a transparent covering: when the clouds had rolled away, and the sun shone forth, you beheld it exhibiting all the glories of the rainbow-sparkling as if adorned by a thousand dia

monds.

Similar is the scene which the world presents to those who stand at its entrance, and thus cold, and unreal, and evanescent, will they find its promised joys.

III.

THAT proud and lofty independence of character which we hear so much praised, and see so often assumed, is inconsistent with true benevolence and a just appreciation of the responsibilities of life.

IV.

AGED sinner, have you performed the work for which life was given you? If not, there is no time to be lost. The shadows of the evening are gathering around you, and will soon deepen into everlasting night; and amid its darkness you must set sail on the shoreless ocean of eternity.

V.

THERE may be hopeful appearances; such as great awakenings, convictions of guilt, conscientious avoiding of sin, frequency of meditation and prayer, delight in religious conversation, without true conversion to God. We have seen this in others-why may it not be thus with ourselves?

VI.

WHEN we see an individual of strictly moral and attractive deportment, unconverted, yet respectful to piety, we are prone to forget the depravity of his heart, and to suppose that he needs but little to become a Christian. But, in truth, he needs a new creation-without it, he can no sooner enter heaven than the most hardened sinner that was ever spared to fill up the measure of his iniquity.

VII.

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IF, what is by no means probable, the eye of theatre-going woman should fall on these pages, to such an one I would say—would you like to go