to them about the New Covenant; to which they replied, that God had made a covenant with their fathers in the wilderness, and that, therefore, no other could be made. I directed them to Jeremiah, by whose mouth the Lord says that he will make a new covenant, and told them that this was the covenant made by Jesus. They did not now contradict further. It is remarkable, that at one time passages are read and explained without exciting the children's attention, while at another, the same strike them as something unheard of. It is, in this respect, the same with the children as with us all. The more my children hear of the word of God, the more they like to hear of it. They speak of it, not only in school, but likewise at home. Every Friday they request me to allow them to take their Bibles home, in order to read them on the Sabbath. I had also the pleasure to be visited by an adult, who formerly attended my school. There has been many a one who, after the lapse of years, told me that he had not forgotten what I taught him, and that he entertained quite different views of Judaism, and confessed freely that he felt more and more convinced that the religion of his fathers could not give him peace."

TRADITION RESPECTING ABRAHAM.

"As Abraham was walking by night from the grotto where he was born, to the city of Babylon, he gazed on the stars of heaven, and among them on the beautiful planet Venus. 'Behold,' said he, within himself, the God and Lord of the Universe!' But the star set and disappeared,

and Abraham felt that the Lord of the Universe could not thus be liable to change. Shortly after he beheld the moon at the full: 'Lo,' he cried, 'the Divine Creator, the manifest Deity!' But the moon sank below the horizon, and Abraham made the same reflection as at the setting of the evening star. All the rest of the night he passed in profound meditation; at sun-rise he stood before the gates of Babylon, and saw the whole people prostrate in adoration. • Wondrous orb,' he exclaimed, thou surely art the Creator and Ruler of all nature! But thou, too, hastest like the rest, to thy setting! Neither art thou my Creator, my Lord, or my God!'"

THE OLIVE TREE.*

THE Palm-the Vine-the Cedar, each hath power
To bid fair Oriental shapes glance by,
And each quick glistening of the Laurel bower
Wafts Grecian images o'er Fancy's eye;
But thou, pale Olive! in thy branches lie
Far deeper spells than prophet grave of old
Might e'er enshrine ;-I could not hear thee sigh
To the wind's faintest whisper, nor behold
One shiver of thy leaves' dim silvery green,
Without high thoughts and solemn, of that scene,
When in the garden the Redeemer prayed;
When pale stars looked upon his fainting head,
And Angels, ministering in silent dread,
Trembled, perchance, within thy trembling shade.

*Mrs. Hemans.

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"Oh dear! how long you think it will be before the Lord will please to relieve me?" presently adding, "Dear Lord, thy will be done; take me now, O Lord, help me!" Half an hour previous to her departure, she said, "I have been praying for you all. The Lord will soon take me now." The Lord did take her; she went to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven; and left to our society a mute, but impressive exhortation, to thank God and take courage.

THE LIFE OF

FRIEDRICH ALBRECHT AUGUSTI.
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AUGUSTI was honoured as a father by his inferiors and equals: his superiors looked up to him with esteem; and his name was dear even to strangers. His leisure hours were devoted to private study, to the improvement and enlargement of his mind, to correspondence with learned men, and to the education of his children. In the year 1754, he brought his eldest son to the University of Gottingen, and that celebrated body, as a proof of its high esteem of the father, conferred upon the son immediately the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Mr. Augusti continued in the duties of his ministerial office for thirty-seven years, when he was visited with a severe bodily affliction, which obliged him to engage an assistant, and to his great joy he found that assistant in the person of his second son. He did not, however, entirely

relinquish his labours, being satisfied that though his powers were impaired, they might, nevertheless, be devoted to the duties of his office, and to the welfare of his fellow-creatures. He therefore preached frequently, much to the edification of his hearers.

In the year 1779, on the third Sunday after Trinity, he had the satisfaction of celebrating the jubilee of his half century's ministry in the Gospel, and there was hardly an individual in the parish who did not most cordially sympathize in the holy joy of this man of God, whose life had been marked by so many extraordinary incidents. The ducal government of Gotha kindly afforded its aid in giving a lustre to the solemnity of the day. Surrounded by his children, grandchildren, and many of his fellow-ministers, Mr. Augusti appeared before his congregation, the greater part of whom had been baptized by him, and preached to them from Gen. xxxii. 10, "Lord, I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of all thy truth, which thou hast shewn unto thy servant.' It may be easily imagined with what humble gratitude to God, such a man, on such an occasion, must have expressed himself, and what feelings he must have called forth in the minds of his hearers.

The private life of this extraordinary man is not without interest. Wherever he went, his countenance, his expression, his manner of address, and his general demeanour, showed the cheerfulness of his mind—a happy frame of soul, arising from peace within. In seasons of family affliction, this was his comfort and his support; and he repaid the consolations of those around him by administering comfort to them in return.