unnatural and sinful prejudice on account of colour which presses so cruelly upon them in every part of our country,-estimating and treating them according to their intellectual and moral worth,—encouraging them by every proper motive,--and affording them every facility in our power to promote their own advancement.”

Among the resolutions adopted are—

"1. That the sympathies of very many are with the slaveholder, and it is our duty to sympathize with the suffering and helpless slave, agreeably to the Scripture injunction, Remember those that are in bonds as bound with them.'

"2. That, as females, it is especially incumbent upon us to express our unmingled detestation of a system which deprives woman of all she holds dear in life-ruthlessly sundering every tie of nature and affection-rendering man (whom God has constituted her natural protector) her natural destroyer-and by laws consigning more than a million and a half of our own countrywomen to the lowest state of degradation.

"3. That it is incumbent on the friends of human liberty to lay aside all regard to social preferences and denominational peculiarities, and unite heart and hand in the work in which we are engaged."

DEATH-BED OF A DAUGHTER.

To the view of others, and in many cases to that of the individual who is the subject of it, the power of genuine religion is most strikingly exemplified in scenes of trouble or affliction. When all external props fail and the attractions of earth fade away, when philosophy is silent and the sympathy of

friends has lost its power to soothe, then the gospel of Christ presents to the believing mind a consolation adequate to the exigency, a hope full of immortality. The truth of this statement is corroborated by a multitude of facts placed on record on the page of Christian biography, by few more impressively than the following, which we give in the eloquent language in which it was originally addressed to a deeply affected Christian audience :

"I knew one who entered life with advantages such as few of her sex possess-young, very young, beautiful, accomplished, affluent, the idol of her family, the delight of every eye that saw her. She grew as fair and fresh as the gourd over the head of Jonah; but God had prepared a worm to smite the gourd and it withered. I saw her suffer; I saw her die. She lingered through two whole years of torture, unexampled and unmitigated. I often saw her lip turn white with agony. never saw it quiver with a murmur. Her youth struggled hard with death, and her friends clung to hope while there was a hope to cling to. While she could yet walk she frequented the house of God; when she could no longer do so she worshipped him from her bed of suffering. Hope and faith were with her there, and her charity never failed. Her last action was to press with her cold hand into mine her accustomed ample bounty to the poor. By her death-bed stood her triumphant mother-yes, triumphant; for grief, that conqueror of all things human, contends in vain with the power of the gospel which supported that mother in that hour. She had led her, when a little child, to Jesus, and now she resigned her to him-aye, and with a happier spirit than if she had stood at the altar to give her daughter's hand to the first and fairest of

the sons of men. What consolation could that mother have then derived from the sight of withered youth, faded beauty, and prostrate talents? None; her consolation was from above. She saw her young pilgrim going to the promised land, and the view enabled her to watch her as she passed through the waves of Jordan."

WANDERERS RESTORED.

"He that converteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins."

M. R., aged 25, and R. M., aged 26, applied for admission into the Probationary House of the London Female Mission on the 26th of September, 1837. They stated that they had lived together for some time, and had both had the advantage of religious instruction, being the children of pious parents. They had for some time been dissatisfied with the course they were pur. suing and had a great desire to forsake it, but did not know what to do. One day they saw a gentleman at the door of one of the rooms in the house in which they resided; they both felt a wish that he would speak to them and offer them a tract, which he was distributing, as they thought it would amuse them on a Sunday for it appears that the instruction received in youth still operated on their minds so far as to prevent their walking the streets on Sunday evenings! They resolved to leave their door open, which they did, and the gentleman presented himself with his tract, asking whether they would like one, an offer which they very gratefully accepted. They then told him their situation, and their desire to leave it. He told them that, if they were sincere, he would help them; and upon their assuring him they were ready even at that moment, but did not know how they were to get bread, he promised them support till he could procure an asylum for them. The following week they were admitted into the Probationary House of the London Female Mission, where they are conducting themselves in a very satisfactory manner, giving reason to believe that although the seed has been long buried it is at last springing up. May it produce an abundant harvest!

PROVINCIAL EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF FALLEN FEMALES.

Manchester.-We are happy to learn, from the report of the Manchester and Salford Town Mission, that the most wretched of human kind have not been overlooked. Two unhappy females have been rescued from a dissolute course. After remaining some time in the Penitentiary, one of them was placed in a situation as servant, and evinced her gratitude by desiring to give her first quarter's wages, half to the Penitentiary, and the other half to the Town Mission. This alone speaks volumes.

Birmingham.-Through the efforts of the agents of the Birmingham Town Mission, seven young females have been saved from the paths of licentiousness. Four of them have been admitted into the Magdalen Asylum and one into the workhouse, and two have been restored to their friends. In addition to these cases, two bad houses have been closed through the instrumentality of one of the agents.

THE MOTH.

(A LESSON FOR YOUNG LADIES.)
"One winter's ev'ning, in a room
Where fire and candle cheered the gloom,
And parents and their children sat
In social and amusing chat,

A little moth its wings outspread,

And buzz'd and fluttered round each head,
And seemed t' enjoy her ev'ning play
As much as children theirs by day.
But pleasure is a transient thing
To all, on foot and on the wing.
Not long the moth pursued her flight,
And revelled in the cheering light,
When, lo! her eye with stedfast gaze
Fixed on the taper's burning blaze.
Its flame, in golden colours drest,
With admiration filled her breast;
And now, to take a better view,
She nearer and still nearer flew,
Its quiv'ring motion well surveyed,
And round about its brightness played.
What at a distance pleased her sight,
When near gave exquisite delight,
And did the little moth inspire
With a most covetous desire

To be, at once, completely bless'd,
Of all the golden flame possess'd.
The walls and ceiling now she leaves,
And to the candle closely cleaves,
Around its slippery sides ascends,
And o'er its burning edges bends.
Ah! see, the silly creature start!
She goes too near and feels the smart ;
She spreads her flutt'ring wings again,
And flies from that which caused her pain.
But soon her former passion burns,
And, to her ruin, she returns,

Surveys the flame, then round it flies,-
Draws near-and touches it-and dies!

MORAL.

Let youthful females be aware,
That pleasure often proves a snare,
That objects glitt'ring to the view,
Approached too near, may burn them too,
That vice's flame they all should fly,
Lest it consume them, and they die."

Gall's small series of tracts.

PUNCTUALITY.

"A NECESSARY part of good manners is a punctual observance of time, at our own dwellings, or those of others, or at third places, whether upon matters of civility, business, or diversion. If you duly observe time for the service of another, it doubles the obligation: if upon your own account, it would be manifest folly, as well as ingratitude, to neglect it if both are concerned, to make your equal or inferior to attend on you, to his own disadvantage, is pride and injustice.”—Dean Swift.

QUERIES.

THE attention of our correspondents is requested to the following queries:

1. Is there any thing in the education usually given to young ladies in the present day that disqualifies them for usefulness on earth and militates against their present and everlasting peace?

2. What is the character of that training which under God would be adapted to render young ladies eminently holy and useful?