See that they diligently attend the means of grace. Remember the incessant activity and subtilty of Satan. HEALTH OF BODY. Their minds not to be pressed too much. Watch against their ignorance and carelessness. Things injurious to health to be avoided. MENTAL CULTIVATION. To be well grounded in all they learn. MANNERS. Kindness to run through every thing: their morals, school play, walks, behaviour to each other and all around. Parents and servants to shew its true founda. tion-Christian principles. (Rom. xii. 10. 1 Pet. iii. 8.) It is a victory over our natural selfishness. It promises the happiness of all around us. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Are of a secondary value; A means of relaxation. They commend religion to others. Be sure that they are innocent. Guard against those which will lead them into the world. THE SAVIOUR ALL IN ALL. In every point shew them Christ. In every walk, in every lesson, in every event, in every sin, in every mercy, speak of Christ. Let him be the Sun and the Glory of every day. MEANS. "My grace is sufficient for thee.” He will give his Holy Spirit to those who ask. I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. ON THE MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIANS WITH UNBELIEVERS. "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.". PROV. i. 17. "And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come."-LUKE xiv. 20. REV. SIR,-It has been remarked, by a commentator on the above verse, "Why could not he bring her with him?" but I fear, if such had been the case, they would not have enjoyed the society of either the master of the feast or his company. Attachment to worldly com panions tends to deaden the affections, and destroy the heart; and in no case more especially than those improper attachments, against which I would now caution your readers. The subject, sir, is one upon which I have personally thought much; and knowing that many of the Sundayschool Teachers of our land are like myself, young in years and experience, in the Spirit of the Apostolic precept, "considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted," I will endeavour to bring it before them. Were I not acquainted with the corruption of my own heart, and my liability to fall into sin, it would appear strange to me that persons whose daily prayer is, or should be, "Lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil," should knowingly choose the society through life of those who know nothing of experimental religion, and who evidently must, to say the least of it, prove clogs and hindrances to their Spiritual welfare. The word of God assures us, that God hath chosen to himself "a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Numerous exhortations are given in the divine word to this people. They are commanded to "come out from the world, and be separate:" to "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness:" and in the case to which I am alluding, the evident command is “only in the Lord." Numerous instances occur in the divine word of the displeasure of the Lord in the case of mixed marriages. This sin appears to have been instrumental in bringing on the deluge. Among other instances, it caused the death of twenty-four thousand of the children of Israel at once. (Numbers xxv.) It caused the backsliding of Solomon, the wisest and greatest of kings, and greatly increased the guilt of the succeeding kings of Israel and Judah; until, finally, they were carried away captive. (2 Chron. xxi. 6. 1 Kings xv. 30, 31.) Each of us, also, I have no doubt, have seen its effects around us. Those whom it was once our delight and privilege to meet around the Table of the Lord, have disappeared from amongst us, either to be drawn into the world, or with downcast eyes to pass their lives in sorrow, through their imprudent conduct. The following is an extract of a letter from the Rev. R. Marks, Vicar of Great Missenden : "I have now had more than twenty years to look about me, since I entered on the work of a Christian Pastor; during which period, several instances have occurred among my own young people, (not to advert to others,) of their uniting themselves with those who were strangers to vital godliness. I have, of course, endeavoured to point out the danger and sin of such conduct; and in a few instances have succeeded in persuading them to retrace their steps in time. But in several I have found that all my remonstrances were regarded much in the same way as the warnings of Lot were by his daughters and sons in law, when he urged them to flee from the coming destruction. Could our young people, who are in danger of falling into the snare, stand by and see the tears which I have seen, and hear the lamentations which I have heard, from several of those who once scorned my counsel, and disregarded my reproofs, they would, I think, pause in their course, when tempted to associate, or be unequally yoked with unbelievers. "At this moment, I have one, two, three, cases present to my mind. Methinks I again watch their course of backsliding from the right way; (for backsliding has in every case followed, either entirely, or for a season,) by which conduct, the deluded individuals have sought and hoped to fix the wavering affections of their partners; but in these hopes they have all been disappointed-I mean those who evidently were objects of the Saviour's love. Their partners turned out cool, unkind, and even cruel; and, when it was too late to be remedied, the poor creatures saw, and felt, and acknowledged, the folly and criminality of forsaking the Lord, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that could hold no water. 'Oh, sir! that I had but attended to your warnings and advice,' have been words uttered many a time in my ears, by individuals broken down in body and mind, under the double weight of an accusing conscience, and the unkind treatment of those they once persuaded themselves would love and cherish them to their live's end. I have NEVER personally known an instance of a young Christian, who has married an unsuitable character, becoming instrumental in winning the stranger over to Christ: but I have known the latter draw off the former completely into the world; and then they have walked together well agreed, and seemed to be about as comfortable as two souls could be, without God and without Christ in the world. This is a result which, of course, every reflecting mind would shudder at the thought of realizing. But in the case of a real child of God, one whom the Lord will not finally give up to the devices and desires of their own heart, he never fails to visit their transgression with his rod. His general course is, either to cut off their idol at a stroke, or, more frequently, to permit the unbeliever to live, and to exercise his unkindness and cruelty on the broken-hearted backslider. In this way the unhappy mourner is driven back again; and, with a trembling heart, makes confession of sin; and seeks, and at length finds mercy; and dies, and finds an entrance into His presence, 'where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.' Such have been the real scenes which have more than once or twice passed before my own eyes.” Fearing that I have allowed my letter to run to too great a length, I remain, Rev. Sir, Your greatly obliged servant, A JUNIOR TEACHER. DEATH OF THE CHRISTIAN. THERE lies the garment which the mortal pilgrim wore through the whole period of his pilgrimage, in sunshine and in rain. O! what thoughts crowd upon the mind when we stand before a corpse-thoughts which come to us at no other time! We could then have so much to say, so much to hear, so much for which to ask forgiveness. But his ear hears not, his mouth speaks not. How differently should we conduct ourselves to all men, could we anticipate how we shall feel, when they lie before us in their grave clothes upon the bier. Soul purified in the furnace of affliction, thou art now with God. O! when now the bands fall from thine eyes, when faith is changed to sight, how will it be with thee? When from the mouth of the Lord, upon whose hand thou hast leaned, when thou couldst not see his face, thou shalt receive the welcome, "Come, thou faithful servant, into the joy of thy Lord;" when this joy of thy Lord shall illumine thy spirit, how will it be with thee? The fruit has fallen because it was ripe. Blessed spirit, it was appointed to thee to ripen upon earth; thou hast learned fully the value of human life, its labours and its sufferings and hast not learned in vain; what thou hast laboured upon without, has been also laboured within. All thy toil in the world was at the same time a prepa ration of thy soul for the temple of God. When at evening after a hot day the waggon laden with fruit |