My beloved young friends, it would be delightful for me to picture you faithfully acting up to your profession as Christian women in all the different engagements and duties of life. The domestic circle especially is the scene where you should shine. By the necessity of your situation you are more at home than the other members of the family; and you have the happiness of your parents, especially, more completely in your power. Let filial piety, in the first instance, be your ambition. Be distinguished, first of all, by holiness at homethat holiness which makes the family the scene of peace and of enjoyment. I might picture you, besides, acting and your profession requires that you should act as opportunity affords-acting in the Sabbath school, or in the Christian Instruction Society, or in any of the many ways that present themselves, in which you may further the cause of Christ and the interests of souls. Keep it ever in mind-let it be imprinted upon your hearts, and carry it about with you from day to day that, "favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. * BRITISH FEMALE PHILANTHROPY. In our last number we placed on record the strong protest of American females against the continuance of slavery. We are happy in being now able to add the protest of our own countrywomen on the same subject, and cannot but express our * From a Sermon by the Rev. J. Young, of Albion Chapel, Moorgate, more fully reported in " The Pulpit," No. 801. hope that, notwithstanding all the efforts of those who are interested in upholding this fearful evil, the day is near in which the chains of the captive shall be broken and the curse of slavery shall be felt no more. At the levee on Wednesday, February 14, the following address from the females of England, to which 449,540 signatures were attached, was presented to her Majesty by Messrs. T. F. Buxton, H. Weymouth, W. Allen, and G. Stacey : 66 TO VICTORIA, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. "May it please your Majesty, "We, the undersigned, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal female subjects of Great Britain, humbly beg leave to approach your Majesty on behalf of the deeply-injured negro apprentices in the British colonies. "The 1st of August, 1834, was hailed by the nation as a joyful epoch in the annals of our country. "The hope was cherished that slavery, with all its attendant miseries and horrors, would henceforth and for ever cease within the wide range of the British dominions, and that effectual measures would be taken to secure the blessings of liberty and domestic comfort to the long-oppressed captive children of Africa. "We are indeed thankful for the legal provisions which have led to an improvement in the observance of the Sabbath, and which, to some extent, give facilities for negro education. "But it is with heartfelt regret that we have now to represent to your gracious Majesty that we have learned from the most authentic sources of informa tion that the Act of Emancipation has grievously failed to produce the benefits we had anticipated. "Our feelings have been wounded with the horrid details of continued oppression and degradation; and we have been more especially shocked by the wrongs and cruelties to which the female apprentices are now exposed. "Many who by reason of advanced age or infirmity, or as the mothers of large families, had been long, to a great degree, exempted from employment in the service of their masters, are now compelled to endure oppressive labour. "Women of every age, and in every condition, are liable for the most trivial faults to be committed to houses of correction, from which they are sent to work on the highways, chained together by the neck with iron collars. They are placed on treadmills of torturing construction and are subject to the dreadful punishment of flogging with the whip. "We are also deeply grieved to learn that children are, through the continued oppression practised on their parents, liable to such extreme neglect as outrages every feeling of humanity. "These particulars, lamentable as they are, form but a part of the appalling evils which still prevail to a fearful extent, and which claim the deep attention and warm sympathy of all who acknowledge it to be their duty to obey the precepts of the gospel. May the sorrows and afflictions of our coloured fellow-subjects receive, in an especial manner, your Majesty's gracious and benevolent consideration; and may the dawn of your Majesty's reign be signalised by the consummation of full and unrestricted freedom to these deeply-injured sons and daughters of Africa." Review Department. Manual of Scripture Doctrines; being a selection of references to texts, arranged under distinct heads, with questions and answers, designed for bible-classes, &c. By MARY STACEY: Fry and Son, Bishopsgate Street. 1838. 18mo. pp. 110. We have much pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to this little unpretending volume. It is the production of a lady who is no stranger to us, having for many months been in the habit of visiting the Probationary House of the London Female Mission for the purpose of conducting a bibleclass among its inmates. The manual itself forms the text-book for this class, and has we know been used with good effect. To mothers, and indeed to all who have the care of children, it will be found of great utility, as facilitating their labour in training them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." The plan is exceedingly simple, and there are few who will not be able, after some little practice, to apply it, with such modifications as circumstances will suggest, to any extent that may be desired. The following extract will however convey a better idea of the work than any general statement we could give-: 66 1. Love. Lev. xiv. 18. Commandment to love our neighbour. Matt. v. 43, 44; Luke vi. 27, 28. Love to enemies (Rom. xii. 14). Acts vii. 60; 2 Tim. iv. 16; 2 Cor. xii. 15. Examples. Matt. xxii. 37-39. Commandment to love God. John xiv. 15-21. Obedience to Christ the proof of love. John xvii. 26. Love to Christ from the knowledge of God's will. Rom. xiii. 9, 10; Gal. v. 14; Col. iii. 14; 1 Tim. i. 5; James ii. 8. Love the fulfilment of the law. 1 Cor. xiii. 1-8, 13. Characters of charity, or Christian love. 2 Cor. v. 14. 15. The constraining motive to self-denial. 2 Cor. vi. 4-6. The servants of the Lord made manifest. Gal. v. 6. Love is the effect of faith. Gal. v. 13, 14. Believers' service is by love. Eph. i. 15, 16; Col. i. 3, 4, 8; 1 Thes. i. 2, 3; Phil. ii. 4, 5,7. The love of Christians a cause of reverent thanksgiving. Eph. v.1, 2. Believers are to walk in love. 1 Thes. iii. 12, 13. Abounding in love tends to establish ment in holiness. God gives the Spirit of love. God does not forget proofs of love. Men should encourage each other to love. Love is through the Spirit. The Father's love. 24; 2 John 6. Love is the spring and fruit o 1 John iv. 7-12. Our love the fruit of divine love. Questions and Remarks. Does Christ give us liberty to hate any one? (Matt. v. 43. 44.)-A. No, we are to "do good to those that hate us.' And how are we to act in reference to those that despitefully use us?-A. We are commanded to" pray for them." Now, if we sincerely request of God to bless our enemies, what may we expect our own hearts and minds to be filled with, instead of those miserable feelings revenge and anger? If one of you can remember a text in Philippians which tells us of the benefit of letting our requests be made known to God, you may repeat it.-A. "Be careful for nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Phil. iv. 6; John xiii. 34, 35. What distinguishing mark did Jesus appoint whereby individuals might be known to be his disciples?-A. "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." John xiv. 21. Who are they that really love Christ?—A. "He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me." Rom. viii. 37. Every possible affliction may be included in the apostle's enumeration; but in all these things what shall |