gently was she led by the blessed Spirit, who convinces of sin, and leads the penitent to Jesus. Through months of severe suffering and weakness which followed, she sweetly exemplified by patience and Christian resignation, the spirit of her Saviour, trusting in Him alone for salvation; and ere she had seen twenty summers, she was gathered, as we trust, to the fold above, to join the song of the redeemed.

"We walk through places lonely, which see her now no more,

We miss the smile which gladdened, the love which cheered before;
But memories of what she was, are sweet amid our pain,
And dear the hope of what she is, where we may meet again."
Rochester, Mass., Feb., 1850.

IN THE HOUR OF DEATH.

DEATH in that face! What thrilling dream,

From restless sleep my soul awaking,

Tells me that o'er that brow the beam

Of immortality is breaking?

Bend thee thy still, warm cheek to mine, ere yet it be
Cold as the marble stone, which soon must pillow thee.

Death in those eyes! Those eyes which oft,

Their shading lashes gently raising,

With looks so earnest, yet so soft,

Responded to my anxious gazing;

Look once upon me with those eyes, ere yet the gem

Of heaven's light is set eternally on them.

Death in that voice! The wind sighs past,

And time upon its wings seems flying;

Hark! on the silence round the last,

Last accents of that voice are dying;

Oh, that its echoes on the air would ever stay!

They cease, and music from the earth has passed away.

Go, dearest, from this world! For now

The shades of death are round thee creeping;

There is a seal upon thy brow,

Which shows thou art not dead, but sleeping;

And I, with nothing on this lonely earth to love,

Cling closer to the anchor of my soul above.- Sacred Lyrics.

THE following note was written, when I was about leaving home to preach for a few Sabbaths.

Saturday Morning.

"MAY the blessing of heaven go with you, dear E., and may He who has promised to be with you always, grant his presence and aid, during your absence.

I rejoice in the thought, that you will be laboring for Him to whom we are indebted for all our hopes, here and hereafter; for though, when I look at things seen and temporal, I feel as if I would have you always with us, yet, when I have any views of heaven, I am astonished at myself, and wonder, that, for the sake of a few moments' pleasure, I could wish you to forego all the happiness and honor of being a coworker with God, in building up the kingdom of Christ.

Do not feel, dear E., that, because you are to stay but a little while, you may be excused from entering upon this work with your whole heart. Your Saviour, I trust, has sent you. He is telling you, 'if you love him, to feed his sheep; and that, 'inasmuch as you do it unto one of the least of these, you do it unto him.' And none of us know but this may be the last service you are permitted to perform for Him who died for you. Lay aside then, dear brother, every weight. Look not to yourself, but look to Jesus, and enter upon this work as if you knew, that, at the end of it, you would be called to render your last account, and enter into the joy of your Lord.

My unceasing prayers will be yours, that our Saviour may be glorified by you; that you may win many to righteousness; and that you may have that perfect peace, which those always enjoy, who keep the commandments of God.

May God forever

I would write more, but have not time. bless you. Your own Sister,

A few months after, when called to enter upon a field which I occupied many years, I received a note from my sister, with directions to open it on the first Sabbath of my labors in that place. That Sabbath was my birth-day small volume accompanied the note, which ran thus :

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"I shall think much of you, dear brother, on this your birth-day; and as often as I think of you, so often will my heart be lifted in prayer, that your Saviour may draw nigh to you, and make your heart glad by the light of his blessed. And, as He comes, at the commencement of this year, to see whether you are bringing forth fruit unto his glory, may he find you with the apostle resolving to forget the things that are behind, and to press forward to those which are before; determined to do with your might what your hands find to do,' and willing to labor for any time and in any place, as your Master shall direct. And, now that you have entered into his vineyard, prepared also to give yourself wholly to the work, as you hope to enter into the joy of your Lord!

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Think, my brother, if you may be the instrument of winning one soul to Christ how much glory it will bring to your Redeemer, and what an inconceivable effect it will have upon your happiness, through eternity. Always remember, too, under whose banner you have enlisted, and try to live as seeing Him who is invisible; then the love of your unseen Saviour will constrain you 'to spend and be spent in his service.

I should like to look in upon you on this day, and converse with you face to face. But I shall be present with you in spirit, and this will be the burden of all my prayers, that you may be entirely consecrated to God.

I am sometimes encouraged to think, because God has given me so strong an affection for you, which has

"Grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength,” and which has ever inclined me to wish and ask for you spiritual blessings, that he intends to answer my feeble prayers.

Blessed thought! that all, and more than I can wish, He is able and ready to bestow. Let us then, dear brother, draw

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near unto Him. He will suffer us to drink, daily, at the fount of living waters, and to eat of the bread which cometh from heaven. And thus we shall be so refreshed and strengthened, as to reflect daily more and more the image of our Redeemer.

I hope very soon to have a long letter from you. Will you accept this book as a birth-day gift from your own sister? My heart will be with you, and my prayers will follow you through all the services of the day. God grant that this, your birth-day, may, through your instrumentality, be the spiritual birth-day of many among your hearers.

A CURE FOR A BAD TEMPER.

A CHEERFUL temper-not occasionally, but habitually cheerful is a quality which no wise man would be willing to dispense with in choosing a wife. It is like a good fire in winter, diffusive and genial in its influence, and always approached with a confidence that it will comfort and do good. Attention to health is one great means of maintaining this excellence unimpaired, and attention to household affairs is another. The state of body which women call bilious is most inimical to habitual cheerfulness, and that which girls call having nothing to do, but which I call idleness, is equally So. I have always strongly recommended exercise, as the first rule for preserving health; but, there is an exercise in domestic usefulness, which, without superseding that in the open air, is highly beneficial to the health both of mind and body, inasmuch as it adds to other benefits, the happiest of all sensations, that of having rendered some assistance or done some good.

Let me entreat my young readers, if they ever feel a tendency to causeless melancholy, if they are afflicted with cold feet and headache, but, above all, with impatience and irritability, so that they can scarcely make a pleasant reply when spoken to, let me entreat them to make a trial of the system I am recommending; not simply to run into the kitchen and trifle with the servants, but set about doing something that will add to the general comfort of the family, and that will, at the same time, relieve some member of that family of a portion of daily toil. I fear it is a very unromantic conclusion to come to, but my firm conviction is, that half the miseries of young women, and half their ill tempers, might be avoided by habits of domestic activity.

BE not the first by whom the new is tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Pope.