Another hindrance is a spirit of levity. "Too jocose" was his expression. "The teachers of a Sabbath school should always be cheerful, but always solemn."

"That is all," said he, " I say these things, familiarly and plainly; but I say them to those who have voluntarily entered the service--the service of the Lord Jesus Christ;" and the deep feeling of his heart was, "surely such persons should be spiritually minded, and actuate by high and holy motives."

Could teachers have seen his earnestness, and heard from his dying lips these hints, with the accompanying remarks, they would have felt their situation to be indeed solemn and responsible. He has gone, but

"His eye, his voice, his hand,
Still marshal you along;
A fearless, firm, united band-
Quit you like men-be strong.

Strong in the Lord was he,
And valliant for the truth;
Go, teach your little ones to be
Christ's soldiers from their youth."

Boston, June 20, 1837.

SABBATH SCHOOLS IN NEW ORLEANS.

W.

Many of the numerous readers of your interesting periodical, will be happy to learn something of the state of Sabbath schools in this great city. The cause has been making rapid advancement during a few months past, and is still progressing. A short time since there were only two or three schools, and they were small and inefficient. Now there are six or seven schools, well filled and energetic. Two of these are connected with the Presbyterian congregation, one with a small Bethel Society, and the others with the remaining evangelical Churches. Indeed, since this new impulse has been given to the cause, it is said the Catholics have become so highly interested, that they have begun a school themselves! Is not this an interesting" sign of the times?"

A few Sabbaths since, the members of several of the schools, to the number of three or four hundred, assembled in the first Presbyterian church, and there listened to addresses, with much apparent pleasure. Three or four years ago, there was so little interest in the cause,

that a celebration like this could not have been effected.

Another thing which seems highly auspicious for us here, is the kind feeling which exists among the different branches of "the family of Christ." On the second Monday of this month, there was a well attended Union meeting of the teachers. It is resolved to make this a permanent monthly meeting. This is quite an advance step in the cause of Sabbath schools in New Orleans.Will not the friends of the cause in Massachusetts pray for us, that, here, the great end of all religious instruction may be attained, and that the interest now excited may not stop, but that thousands in this great metropolis may be gathered into the Sabbath school and ultimately be received to immortal bliss? Oh, how much there is to encourage Sabbath school teachers! S. B. C.

New Orleans, May, 1837.

"I WISH I WAS A KITTEN."

• "I wish I was a kitten," said little Mary E. to her mother one day, "I do wish I was a kitten, then I could play all the time, jumping and running, and rolling a ball: Oh! how pretty she does look! see Ma, only see her play." Mary E. was a very good girl, but excessively fond of play. Her mama thought that all little girls should sew a part of the time, and she fitted her some nice work that day, and had seated her on a stool by her side. For a while she worked very well; but pretty soon she grew tired and began to wish she was a kitten, as I told you. Her mama thought she would teach her a lesson, so she said; "Well, Mary, you may be a kitten a week, if you will finish that work first." "Be a kitten," said Mary laughing, "how can I be a kitten." "Why, I mean you may act just like one, play all the time and not sew and we will call you kitty." "Oh! ma, I wish you would, it would be so nice and funny; but do let it be more than a week; a week is not half enough." "Well, my dear, be a kitten a week, and then, if you like it, I may let you be longer." "You are very good," said Mary, and soon she finished her work and went to play. First she rolled her ball and marbles about the room; then she played in the garden and chased butterflies until she quite forgot it was tea time. When she went in she found her little sister Emily had gone to bed, and she had to go to Betsey, the domestic, to get her supper as all "kittys" do. The next day she frolicked as much as ever. At noon some ladies called, of whom she was very fond. She heard them ask for her, and was very much disappointed, though she could hardly help laughing, when she heard her little sister tell them that "she was a kitty that week, and her mama could not let her come into the parlor." That night she went to bed so tired that she could hardly rest. She began to think if kittens were always so tired, and why it was that her mama did not hear her say her prayers, as she did Emily. Then she recollected that kittens, and such things had no souls, and could not go to heaven when they died, and she almost wished that she had not chosen to be one. The next morning was very bright and sunny, and when Mary awoke she found her sisters almost ready to go to the Sabbath school. She watched them eagerly some time, and listened to the beautiful chime of the church bells, then she thought of her beloved teacher, and class, and could hold out no longer. Bursting into a flood of tears, she threw her arms around her mother's neck, and besought her that she might go, saying she did not wish to be, or do any thing that would keep her from the Sabbath school.

The lesson was a very good one, for Mary became an industrious little girl, and she would tell you now, that she feels very grateful to God for giving her a kind mother, that can direct her what to do-and that every little girl, and boy ought to thank him for giving them soulsthat may be constantly increasing in knowledge and happiness-and then dwell with God-and that he has not made them like brutes that can frolick for a few yearsand then die and nothing more be known of them.

Calais, Me.

ADA.

S. H. Walley, Esq. superintendent of the Mason street Sabbath school, Boston, prepared the Christian Warrior and published it on slips, for distribution among the members of his school on the fourth of July. To his kindness we are indebted for the privilege of publishing it in the Visiter. The Christian Warrior is also published in the form of a Card, and for sale at the Depository.

THE CHRISTIAN WARRIOR.

"Jehovah Nissi, the LORD is my banner." Exod. 17:15.

The time is fast coming, when "men shall learn war no more;" when "Swords shall be beat into Ploughshares, and Spears into Pruning-hooks," that is, when weapons, which men now use to destroy each other, shall be laid aside, and changed for instruments used in procuring the necessaries and comforts of life.

But the time will never come, while the world lasts, when we shall not be obliged to fight with spiritual enemies;* for there is something in our wicked hearts which is continually opposing the good resolutions and feelings which God causes to spring up within us.

The kind of weapons suited to this warfare, are described in. the BIBLE; and particularly in Ephesians 6:10-18.

That we may be acquainted with the use of these weapons, the friends of God and man have established SABBATH SCHOOLS, -among other institutions for doing good,where ALL may learn to "FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH," and secure to themselves the favor and friendship of Jesus Christ "THE GREAT CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION."

MATERNAL INFLUENCE.

A friend has furnished us with an Address, delivered by Doct. J. S. Law, at the White Bluff Sabbath School, Chatham county, Ga.

We have selected a few remarks on the influence of mothers.

Behold the tenderest sight on earth-the mother giving the first bent to the mind that is immortal. Oh! what lessons of heavenly wisdom may come down through her lips and find their way to a heart not yet in contact with the world! How may she sieze on the first indications of intellect, and consecrate it to God. How may the eye of a mother, beaming with affectionate regard, direct the little dependent being to the Savior! A warmhearted and prudent mother will exert almost unlimited influence over her children the first six or eight years of their life; a period above all others when the heart is susceptible of deep and lasting impressions. Solomon frequently adverts, with great tenderness to the pious counsels of his mother. Timothy was instructed when a child by his mother and grandmother. John Randolph, of Roanoke, used to say, “ "I should have been a French Atheist, were it not for the recollection of the time, when my departed mother used to take my little hand in her's,

ENEMIES TO BE CONQUERED. Hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, bitterness, hatred, anger, clamor, evil speaking, &c. See Gal. 5:20; and Eph. 4:31.