confidence in her Saviour. While standing by her bedside, she said to me, "I think much of the passage, 'What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee;' and this gives me great comfort. Pray," she said, "not that I may recover, but that I may patiently abide the Lord's will,—that my will may be swallowed up in his will.” She was a faithful teacher, and we doubt not she is now receiving the reward of her fidelity. Το We have been called, within a few weeks, to mourn the loss of a lovely little girl of ten years of age, who also gave the most unequivocal proof of early piety. Her countenance bore a sweet impress of sincerity, and was but the index of a heart full of love to Jesus. obey her parents, and to make them and others happy, was her delight. For a long time she had expressed her love to Jesus, and her fixed determination to serve him, and had been in the habit regularly of holding communion with God in secret. Her parents had the greatest confidence in her piety. She was a beautiful singer; and she bore a prominent part in this exercise in the Sabbath school, and in prayer and other meetings. She was taken sick on or about the 4th of July, and died in about six days. In the commencement of her disease, she said to her sister, "O, I am very sick,— do you think I was ever so sick before? But there, I deserve it all." For a long time she had felt and expressed a consciousness of indwelling sin, and also her need of the blood of atonement, and that in Jesus was all her hope. Such was the nature of her disorder, that she enjoyed but a very few lucid moments during her illness, and in those her mind seemed fixed on Jesus. Anecdote. A young man was once led by his companions to a scene of dissipation, where they indulged in festivity and sin. In the midst of their enjoyment, the clock struck one. The following passage, from "Young's Night Thoughts," rushed on the young man's mind: "The bell strikes one. We take no note of time Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. How much is to be done? My hope and fears was The effect of the recollection of this passage solemn and powerful. He could no longer enjoy the scene around him. He quickly retired, but his soul continued to be troubled; nor did he find rest till he had chosen the Saviour for his portion. Reader, when you hear the clock tell the departure of another hour, will you ask yourself what report it bore to heaven? and how many more hours you are likely to have, to waste, perhaps, in sin? A. Religious Education of Children. The Pastoral Letter to the churches,-read at the General Association of New Hampshire, at their meeting in Lyme, last August,—contains the following important remarks: Be solicitous, we affectionately entreat you, to train up your children for God. In this important matter, trust not at all to the Sabbath school. While you avail yourself of its important aid, remember it does not exempt you from the duty of talking to your children on the religion of Christ, when you sit in the house, or walk by the way. Beware of placing them in irreligious families, or exposing them to bad influences, for the sake of good wages, or any worldly advantage whatever. Be more anxious to see them wise, humble and pious, than rich, fashionable or accomplished; and then they will be likely to estimate religion as they see you estimate it. Make them familiar with that excellent summary of doctrine, the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Our pious fathers and mothers made great use of it, in transmitting the religion of the gospel to their posterity; and should not we restore it to the standing it held in the preceding generation? How to revive the thorough study of the Catechism, is a question we commend to the consideration of every church. Leave not your children half taught, but have them thoroughly instructed in it. In vain will ministers preach to them in the sanctuary, if you do not catechize and teach them at home. FAMILY GOVERNMENT. On the great subject of family government, we feel more than we can express. Many children of the church are not properly restrained,-no wonder if in this case they make themselves vile. There is in this day a sad declension of family discipline. Highly as we think of Maternal Associations, and warmly as we commend them to the mothers in our Israel, yet we believe that the mother who manages her children by merely flattering, or inducing them by rewards to do what they ought, instead of constraining them by the mild exercise of authority, is preparing many a heart-ache for the future. If the will of the child be not seasonably broken and subdued, the bad passions of depraved nature will, in spite of other efforts, develop themselves rapidly. The child who has never learnt the lesson of obedience to parents whom he has seen, how can he be expected to obey God, whom he has not seen? INFANT BAPTISM. We fear there is, in some of our churches, a growing neglect of Infant Dedication in Baptism; and that often where not omitted it is unjustifiably delayed. While we would treat with great tenderness those who are conscientiously scrupulous on this point; yet where the duty is admitted, on the part of the parents, a neglect, or careless delay of compliance, is such a breach of covenant as calls for friendly admonition, and, in some cases, decided rebuke. The Lost Child. Sweet as the breath of vernal morn, And bright as the opening day, Upon a rugged rock,-alone,— A smiling infant lay. I stood with wonder and delight, To see the urchin play; He pulled the weeds, and plucked the flowers, The humming-birds came buzzing round, And humblebees so gay, He raised his eyes and little hand, And seemed "Come here" to say. But soon the tender mother came, In tears and sad affright; And said she had not seen her boy He heard her voice, and screamed aloud; And said," O God, I thank thy name! Thus parents feel, when they can see A darling child repent; And whisper to its aching heart,— "A Saviour has been sent!" Sabbath Schools in New Hampshire. A. B. Extract from the narrative of the state of religion, read at the meeting of the General Association of New Hampshire, held at Lyme in August last. The Sabbath schools are represented as more numerously attended than at any former period, and in general as in a very flourishing condition. In this fact we find a ground of encouragement and hope. These Sabbath schools will not be without results that shall make glad the city of God. All the principles on which God is revealed as administering his grace, and all the analogy of his providence justify the assured expectation, that children upon whom so much care is bestowed in the inculcation and enforcement of religious truth,-of the Bible, the very words which the Holy Ghost has taught,will, most of them, be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. And not only so, but that they will be converted early, and to a higher standard than ours, of holy living,-even the Bible standard. Converted early, and forming their religious character at that period of life when it is natural to form and confirm the character, may we not hope to witness in these, now the members of our Sabbath schools, a generation of Christians, not like their fathers, but "a peculiar people, zealous of good works," and to whom God shall award the high privilege of carrying salvation to the nations? And in view of what is reported of our Sabbath schools, may we not say, although sinners are not this year converted in the usual numbers, God has not forsaken us? He is performing, in the midst of us, a work which, viewed in its connections, is not less glorious than the conversion of sinners. He is preparing the way,-is doing a part of that which, in his own time, shall result in conversions, thorough conversions, and to be followed by a life of distinguished usefulness. The Missouri Enterprise. The following article, from the pen of a warm-hearted Sabbath school clergyman, in a remote section of our State, we copy from the Boston Recorder. The Missouri Sunday School Union have requested the aid of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, in carrying on their operations. The Massachusetts Sabbath School Society have granted a kind response to the appeal, and in July, at a special meeting, it was voted "that the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society will furnish pecuniary aid to the Missouri Sunday School Union, as the means shall be obtained, and that the Corresponding Secretary be authorized to invite funds for this object." We rejoice in seeing an elder sister of this republic looking kindly on the wants of a younger and feebler member of the same great family. We rejoice in seeing Massachusetts stretch her hands over half a continent, to pour the means of spiritual blessings upon Missouri. And we especially rejoice that this enterprise of fraternal love is to be laid before the children and youth of our Commonwealth. Let them be enlisted in it. It will enlarge their hearts. It will cherish a noble spirit of Christian patriotism. It will make them love their country. It will interest them especially in its moral welfare. Such movements as these by the older Atlantic States, in behalf of the rising ones of the West, must operate happily in cementing the hearts of men. One State thus aided by another, in relation to her most important interests, cannot but feel a lively sense of obligation to the benefactor. And the benefactor cannot but have its own kind feelings augmented by their exercise, and especially in witnessing the happy results of its beneficence. And we add, it cannot be that Massachusetts shall thus aid Missouri in Sabbath school measures, and not pour out abundant prayer, that that region of the setting sun shall be filled with the knowledge and glory of the Lord. The ancient republics looked over each others' boundaries to see where was the best point of attack, where they could most successfully strike a fatal blow. Let us look over these boundaries to see where and how we can best promote the temporal and eternal good of men. A faithful man, a Sabbath school missionary, will spend the coming year in this cause in Missouri. Let our Sabbath |