ous impressions of her dissolution for several days before it happened, which was on Saturday morning at twelve o'clock, the 16th of May." "On Thursday she asked her father the hour, she was told it was twelve o'clock, on repeating the question some time afterwards, she was told it was one. She said, I am one hour nearer my end, and during the intermission of the violent paroxysms, she was generally in prayer with some of the family, praying that the Lord would have mercy upon her, though a little one, and that he would forgive an infant sinner.”

That the world lies in wickedness is too evident for the boldest offender to deny, but a sense of the malignity of sin, which de. praves our nature, and renders us a prey to sickness and death, is peculiar to those who have received the spirit of grace, he draws the soul to God for relief, and teaches us to number the hours as they pass, that they may be improved, providing for eternity, under the direction of that spirit this child is seen to act, she needed help, and applied with the certainty of receiving help, to her heavenly Father.

She

"On the morning of her death, she took leave of the family one by one, embracing them, praying the Lord to bless and have mercy upon them, and hoped she might meet them all in heaven. then called for all the domestics and prayed for them in the same manner; she begged that her friends whom she could not see, might be told that she prayed for them, and wished to meet them all in heaven."

The spirit of Jesus is a spirit of love, and 1 question whether

it ever appeared more evident. She embraced her parents, sis. ters, and brother, this others might have done, but she felt an interest in the meanest domestic, and in all her acquaintance though absent; she looked to heaven where she was hastening as the seat of blessedness, and desired and prayed, that they might all attain the same happiness, and in that thought her own arose to its full completion. The world never kindled such a flame, it descended from above, to refine the soul, that pure and spiritual it might immediately be united to angels, and to the spirits made perfect.

"She wished to see a child to whom she was much attached, who had been at the same school with her, and being sent for told her that she had been ill, and suffered a great deal since they had parted, but that was nothing; that they had their little quar rels, but she hoped that God would forgive them both, and mind, Frances, said she, mind your duty to God, say your prayers morning and evening on your knees, and then you will die as I do. Come and kiss me,

may God bless

you, and may

meet in heaven."

Well, may we believe that when the gospel shall exert its full energy, it will eradicate enmity from the heart, men shall no more bite and devour one another, but live in unity as brethren, over this babe that gospel had an entire influence, who shews in her dying hour what all would be, were all Christians.

"She asked all the family to come close to her, and prayed for them, that the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the

God of Jacob, your God, my God, every person's God may bless you. If I have enemies may God forgive them; I would even pray that the Almighty might forgive Satan if possible; and 0, God! forgive an infant sinner. I know that thy Son came down from Heaven, and died on the cross for my sins, it was God, for the Father, the Son,and the Holy Ghost are one, there are not three Gods, but one God. I am now going to meet my Savior in Heaven, to meet the disciples of Christ, my beloved sister Alethea, and all my friends who have gone before me."

The presumption of those who deal damnation with a lavish tongue, when others come not up to their standard, is checked by a babe, who far from thinking harshly of any, was anxious that the mercy on which her own hopes rested might extend to all. An infant tongue proclaimed the Godhead of the Son-an infant heart committed its eternal safety into his hand, and thereby exposed the insult offered to his character, by those who degrade him to a mere man. The thought of meeting the disciples of her Lord, and all her departed friends, her sister in particular, put her all on fire to be gone to a better world, and to join an innumerable company of hap. py immortals.

"Having gone through this scene which occupied a consider. able time, and feeling herself exhausted, she finished by say. ing-Lord Jesus receive my Spirit."

"Seeing her friend very much affected she said, why do you

cry? How I wish you could all die with me, it is so sweet!”

"After she was unable to speak, her father prayed with her for some time, and desired if she understood what he said to squeeze his hand, which she did immediately, he then said repeat your last prayer once more, she lifted up her eyes to heaven, and said Lord Jesus-no more could be understood, although her lips continued to move.

"This was all done without shedding one tear, on the contrary her countenance shone like that of an angel, and had something in it supernatural.

"She was a most affectionate child and sister, and in the course of her life never gave pain to any one, but was beloved by every person that knew her. She had a

strong and a discerning mind, cultivated far beyond her years, extremely warm in her friend. ships which she formed with discretion and judgment. In short she was a woman, and scholar in miniature-but a Christian grown to full maturity. She has left a blank in our family and affections which can never be filled up with a lesson to us all to go and do likewise.".

Some question the truth of christianity and its good tendency, God himself is pleased to plead its cause, and to give them in. struction, but as the pride of the heart must be reduced, an infant is his advocate, in whom we see both what christianity is and to what it tends. It is a living principle laying the guilty crea. ture in the dust, and exalting the Creator. The mysteries of the Godhead in as far as they are revealed, flash with such evi

dence that even a child has a conviction of their truth, and triumphs that the Savior of man. kind is God, and that being God he can save to the uttermost. A relation to God is claimed and firmly depended upon; he will be favorable because he promis. es to be so; the belief thereof restores peace to the mind; disarms death of its terrors; and receives with unsuspecting confidence future happiness. The soul is attuned to love, which destroys any rancour or ill will, and makes the interest of all its own interest, even your contempt of the Savior-0 unbeliever, and your abuse of a name dearer than heaven itself, is viewed with pity, and the prayer escapes that you, that all, even if possible the most despicable of creatures might be forgiven. Is this christianity? Does christianity restore men to God, to Heaven, to one another? Yes, such indeed is the christianity which you des. pisc.

In this child christianity appears in its native simplicity, and in all its power. Become Christians, I beseech you, and you shall become happy. A guilty mind has tormented you; Christ proclaims pardon; a de. praved nature has been your disgrace; he renews them who come to him in the spirit of their minds; malice rankling at the heart preys upon the peace of the world; he eradicates that root of bitterness. Death is terrible; he has disarmed death of his sting; an awful eternity distracts an. ticipation; he brings life and immortality to light.

All this and more than this, or than what even tongue can tell he did for an infant, who

speaks to you in honor of Christ, and breathes a spirit which is the glory of our nature and happiness itself. Surely what is hid from the wise and prudent has been revealed unto babes. "God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen.... Yea, and things which are not to bring to nought things which are, that no flesh should glory in his presence."

The parents of such a child have sustained an irreparable loss, but their loss is the child's gain. Their tears we cannot forbid, they are demanded by departed worth.

Christ wept,

and Christians may weep. There is a time to weep. It is good to be in the house of mourning. By the sadness of the counte. nance the heart is made better. Godly sorrow worketh repent. ance not to be repented of. Lamentation and bitter weeping on sad occasions, are nature giv. ing vent to feelings, which suppressed, would destroy the mor tal frame. Rachel may weep for her children; but let her not refuse comfort. God seeks our good, not our ruin by affliction when he wounds he also heals; he speaks comfortably to the af flicted.

"Faint not when thou art rebuked. Be not ignorant concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again; even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."

Your Alethea, your Charlotte,

are alive and happy in a better world, you shall go to them, their removal weakens your at tachment to mortality, but in the same proportion strengthens it to immortality. It is an honor which cannot be too highly estimated, that your family have supplied inhabitants to the celes. tial country. Where could they be so secure, or where so happy? It was their welfare which lay near your heart, and are they not well? You could not bear to see them in pain, and are they not free from pain? Their death was a sword piercing your souls, but in the world which they now inhabit, death is swallowed up of life. Let the command of your God be remembered and obeyed. "Refrain thy voice from weep. ing and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own borders.”

The companions of Charlotte

must

which we live, the general want of sincerity in conversation is none of the least. The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are scarcely any significa. tion of their thought.

The old English plainness and sincerity, that generous integrity of nature, and honesty of dispo sition, which always argue true greatness of mind, and are usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, are in a great measure lost amongst us. The dialect of conversation is now so swelled with vanity and compliment, that if a man who lived an age or two ago were to return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic meaning of the phrases in fashion, and would hardly at first believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of respect and esteem do commonly pass in current payment: And when he should come to understand, it would be a long time before he could bring himself, with a good countenance and a good conscience, to converse with men upon equal terms, and in their own way.

In truth, it is hard to say whether it should more provoke our con. tempt or our pity to hear what solemn expressions of profound respect and ardent friendship will pass between men on the slightest occasions; how great honor and esteem they will pro. fess to entertain for one whom perhaps, they scarcely ever saw before, and how entirely they are all on a sudden devoted to his service and interest-for no reason; how infinitely and eter.

mally obliged to him-for no benefit; and how extremely they will be concerned for him, and even deeply afflicted-for no cause. I know it is said, in justification of this hollow kind of conversation, that there is no harm, no real deceit in compli. ment: but that all is well enough, as a matter of course, so long as

we understand one another. But let it be remembered that such habitual deceit, however practis. ed, as a matter of course, and assuming the name of politeness, will insensibly deaden all regard to truth, corrupt the heart, and vitiate the whole moral system of the man.

DECIUS. Lady's Mag.

The giver more blessed than the receiver,a Discourse addressed to the congregation in Franklin, by Nathaniel Emmons, D. D. Boston, Lincoln & Edmands, 1809.

It is one of the most honora. ble traits in the character of the present age, that the zeal to do good has acquired an ardor, which was never before so generally experienced, and is directed by a wise extension of views, unexampled in any former period. A new spirit of benevolence has been exhibited. New exertions have been made for the removal of human sufferings, and for the communication of happiness. A mong the means of promoting the welfare of mankind, the distribution of religious tracts, we think, holds an important place; for all christian excellence must be founded upon the knowledge of truth, and truth to be known must be taught. There are few who think for themselves, and whose characters are not shaped according to the instructions, which they receive. It is a happy circumstance therefore, that so many important truths are, at

the present day, condensed into small publications, which are ex tensively circulated.

The Sermon before us brings its aid to the general cause of benevolence; being founded up. on the words of the Lord Jesus, It is more blessed to give, than to receive. Beneficence is here forcibly recommended, by showing, that there is more real pleas ure, and more virtue in giving, than in receiving; and that God promises to reward the giver and not the receiver. In the opinion of the author our happiness al ways bears a proportion to our virtue, unless by some inciden tal cause the natural tendency of virtue be obstructed; and the virtue of giving is superior to the virtue of receiving, because it expresses a greater degree of be nevolence." There is a higher and purer happiness in rejoicing in the good of others, than in rejoicing in our own good. The receiver rejoices in his own hap piness, and let his joy rise ever so high, it still terminates in himself. But the giver has a nobler pleasure, which arises from a nobler source. Instead of re joicing in his own good, he re