passed into the heavens, and Góp the Father with whom the Son is co-equal?-To see all the glory of the heavenly world is what I long for.--Do you patiently wait for that hour when Christ shall say, "Come home ye blessed of my Father, receive the crown which I have purchased with my own blood." Well then in your patience possess ye your souls.

"Religion bears our spirits up-
While we enjoy this glorious hope,
The bright appearance of our Lord;
And faith stands leaning on his word."

When our work is done, and we have finished our course, God will sign and seal the warrant, and send death to unlock the earthly prison,

· "And let the ransom'd spirit go
To grasp the God we seek !"

Yes, glory to God! our happy spirits will rise on the soft wings of angels, and be conveyed to the paradise of God. There, O there we shall enjoy consummate blessedness in a world without end. Methinks scene after scene new and glorious, will be ⚫ unfolded to our view, and we shall join in a song that shall never close. John said, " And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass having the harps of God, and they sang the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are thy ways thou King of saints.” “After these things (said John) I heard”—

O John, what didst thou hear?" I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, Hallelujah, salvation, and glory and honor and power, unto the Lord our God." Transported with this view of heaven and glory, I am lost in wonder, love and praise. Yes I had almost forgotten that I was writing with pen and ink to mortal friends on earth; but fancied that we had all met in paradise.

Well, my friends, I trust through the grace of God to be made partaker with the saints in bliss above, and there see you face to face, where I shall be enabled to tell you more of the beauties of religion than my mortal tongue can possibly describe. Go on, ye pilgrims of the Lord; the best of the land is before you, and if you follow the Lord fully, as did Caleb of old, he hath said, "I will give it you for an inheritance." Fear not, neither be dismayed, for the Lord God. Omnipotent will go with his ser vants through this dreary wilderness. Yes, he will be a lamp to thy feet and a light to thy path.

What I have written I have written, hoping that your time may not be spent in vain, while you read these impressions from the pen of a stranger, made in compliance with the request of your son and daughter, J. and B. Partridge, with whom I have formed a short but an agreeable acquaintance, which I trust time nor distance will never efface from my memory, until we renew our acquaintance in paradise.

While you have been reading the above, doubtless you have judged me a Christian. So I profess, and can say, Lord, thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee. How, indeed, shall I speak his praise. He is Immanuel, which is, being interpreted by St. Matthew, a Jew, and well

us.

acquainted with the Hebrew language, God with O what could we ask more? What am I, that God should dwell with me on earth! I am lost in the inquiry, Will God make me a sinner holy. He will-my heart doth believe he will. Yea, I shall be filled with all the fullness of the love of God. I thirst, I pant to prove, to know more fully, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. He does let me drink of the brook in the way, before I reach the fountain head. Help by your prayers to keep the prize in view, that I may ever be running toward the mark, at which Jesus directs us to aim. I am persuaded that the only way to overcome sin and inherit all things, is by enjoying uninterrupted communion with God. Even, now my soul rejoices in hope that God will perfect what is lacking in me. O trust him with all your hearts-be vigilant in all things; so shall you disappoint the enemy, and bring glory to God.

And now I commend you to God and the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified. F. N.

THE END.