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CHRISTIAN TREASURY.

of mind; and it consists in the thoughts running in a A Spiritual Temper. This is a most desirable state spiritual channel-in the affections being fixed on divine things in a disposition to the exercises of religion, and in felt pleasure while we are employed in them. It is to savour the things which are of God; to have a con

loved the world, that he gave his only begotten | we are to look for the explanation of the melanSon, that whosoever believeth on him may not choly fact, that so many either reject the Gospel, perish, but have everlasting life." The apostle or only give to it a cold and formal assent. Their declares, that the object of his mission to the unbelief arises not from any lack of mere evidence, Gentiles was, "to turn them from darkness unto nor from any thing intricate or perplexing in the light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that nature of saving faith. It is because they are not they might receive the forgiveness of sins, and an willing to accept of the proposals which the Gosinheritance among them that are sanctified by pel makes to them. Disappointed as they have faith that is in Christ Jesus." When the jailor frequently been, and weary and heavy laden as they of Philippi, under a deep conviction of guilt, ear- still are, they have no desire for the rest which nestly inquired of the same apostle what he should Christ promises, and will give to all who come do to be saved, his prompt and simple answer was, to him. In their estimation, such rest, so far "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou from being desirable, would only be to relinquish shalt be saved." And he has elsewhere said, of every thing that can yield them any real enjoyhimself and of all true believers, "Being justified ment; and though at times, therefore, they may by faith, we have peace with God, through our have their misgivings as to the termination of all Lord Jesus Christ." But when we say that the their pursuits, yet they cannot believe their conexpression, "coming to Christ," is the same as dition to be so desperate as to require their imbelieving on him," we do not, perhaps, make its mediate and unreserved compliance with the invitrue import much clearer than before. Indeed, I tations in the text. "They will not come to Christ am inclined to think that it is itself the plainest that they may have life, and that they may have it and simplest form of expression, and may be em- more abundantly." ployed to illustrate the other, and to remove some of the misapprehensions respecting the nature of saving faith, which have given rise to so much None, at all events, unprofitable disputation. None, at all events, would be in any danger of misunderstanding the meaning of the expression, were it applied to a person seeking deliverance and relief from any temporal calamity; for, supposing such a person to be in the same state of destitution and helpless-tinual reference to him in the motions of our souls, and ness with regard to his worldly circumstances, as religious views and sentiments, and aims and inten in all the tenor of our deportment. It is to entertain the Bible represents sinners to be in with respect tions; and to possess a habitual readiness for engaging to their spiritual concerns, and that he is urged and in the more solemn and stated ordinances of divine persuaded to betake himself to one who is alone grace. It is to look down with a holy contempt on able and willing to help him; would we not unthings carnal and sensual, temporal and external; and derstand his coming to such an one to mean, that delight in the society of the godly, in their converse, to esteem and love things holy and heavenly. It is to he was ready cordially to acquiesce in the counsel, and in their pious and holy example. It is to take and thankfully to embrace the proposals, which occasion, from ordinary scenes and events, to reflect on might be tendered to him? However little, then, matters more sublime, and which relate to God and men may know experimentally of what it is to Christ, the soul and salvation, and eternity. It is to come to Christ, they cannot fail to perceive that, observe the hand of God in common occurrences, and from the very nature of the thing, it necessarily to improve his dispensations to our furtherance in holiness and meetness for future glory. It is to feel and implies a willingness to accept, and a desire to cherish delight in God, superior to any enjoyment possess, that rest which he tenders to the weary afforded by the good things of a present life, even when and the heavy laden; and they who are thus will- these do most abound. It is to live independent of ing to receive, and desirous of experiencing, this worldly pleasures, and to draw our happiness from God rest, are required to confide in the faithfulness of himself; to confide in him, to hope in him, and to walk the promise, that it will be given them. And such, with him; making his will our law, his Word our rule, and his glory our end; and looking and longing for that I apprehend, is the nature of saving faith. It blessed period when we shall see him as he is, and consists not in a mere assent of the understand- know even as we are known. But how, it may be ining to the general truth of the Bible, in the same quired, is so desirable a state of mind to be attained? way as men give their assent to a matter of fact To this it may be replied, there must be a foundation -merely on the ground of competent evidence. laid for it, in the renovation of our nature by divine the thing to be believed is of such a nature that, grace; first make the tree good, and then the fruit will the belief of it necessarily involves a perception actings will ensue: but until this change is produced, be good; first possess a sanctified principle, then holy of the reality, the value, and the desirableness, of we are carnally-minded, and walk as other men; we what is tendered for acceptance; and implies, cleave unto the dust, and follow after lying vanities therefore, on the part of those who do so believe, which cannot profit. Therefore this new heart is to a change of heart,—such a change as leads them be sought from Him who alone can give it; and, having once experienced his renewing influence, then all means to choose the rest which Christ has provided for are to be observed to preserve and cherish this spiritual all who come to him, in preference to those pur- disposition-by a careful avoidance of sin and temptasuits and enjoyments in which they were naturally tion to it-by keeping aloof, as much as possible, from the inclined to seek their chief happiness. And here society of the worldly and profane-by a diligent attend

ance on the means of grace, public and private-and by retaining a deep sense of the importance of such a temper of mind, which may be regarded as consisting in the advantage it gives us over our spiritual enemies-the preparation it affords us for the right endurance of trials the beauty it imparts to our conversation before the world the comfort it yields to our mind-the meetness it gives us for a better country, even a heavenly. Now, are these the advantages of a spiritual temper? then let us be convinced of its vast importance, high value, and absolute necessity; and with all earnestness and fervency, entreat that the Lord would spiritualize our minds, incline them unto himself, give them a bias to what is holy, and maintain, and strengthen, and improve this temper within us, until we are made perfect in holiness in the world of eternal glory.—(Original.) The Vanity of Earthly Things.-The churchyard is the market-place where the things of this world are duly rated.-BAXTER.

He constrained them to get into a ship.-The affection which the disciples entertained for Jesus, may also have rendered them extremely unwilling to leave him, and their unwillingness must, in this case, have been in proportion to the strength of their affection. And, Oh! what mind can conceive how strong must have been their love for him, who was their friend in every difficulty, their refuge in every danger, their consolation in every trial, their succour and unfailing resource in every distress! Let not the believer feel at all surprised at the unwillingness of the apostles to be absent from Jesus for even a single hour, when he knows, that even now, that communion with the Saviour, which is altogether spiritual, and enjoyed only in believing meditations on his excellency and his grace, is so sweet to his soul, that he likes not to suspend it for a moment. There must have been, moreover, something inconceivably delightful in the enjoyment of intimate personal converse with him who was the embodied manifestation of all the fulness of the love and holiness of the eternal God, which must have led those who saw his glory-"the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth,"-frequently to exclaim, "Lord, to whom shall we go but unto thee, thou hast the words of eternal life!" Blessed be God, this communion with Jesus, delightful as it was, was but the type and first-fruits of that sublime and happy intercourse which shall hereafter subsist between him

and his believing people, when they shall know him, not as the Man of Sorrows, but as the King of Glory, and when they shall be better fitted to enjoy the bliss and comfort of his presence !-From The Disciples in the Storm,' by the Rev. DANIEL BAGOT of Edinburgh.

The Attributes of Sin.-The attributes of sin are, ignorance, insensibility, and cruelty.-HOWELS.

The hope of the resurrection.—When I see the heavenly sun buried under earth in the evening of the day, and in the morning to find a resurrection to his glory, why (think 1) may not the sons of heaven, buried in the earth, in the evening of their days, expect the morning of their glorious resurrection? Each night is but the past day's funeral, and the morning his resurrection: why then should our funeral-sleep be other than our sleep at night? Why should we not as well awake to our resurrection, as in the morning? I see night is rather an intermission of day, than a deprivation, and death rather borrows our life of us, than robs us of it. Since then the glory of the sun finds a resurrection, why should not the sons of glory? Since a dead man may live again, I will not so much look for an end of my life, as wait for the coming of my change.-WAR

WICK.

Belief and Prayer.-By believing we pray, as well as in praying we do believe.-SHAW.

Love to the Brethren.-I entreat you to think more of the privilege of intercession, and to make more use of it than ever. I find an indescribable delight in using these words, " Our Father," and in praising, confessing, and praying for myself as one of this large family,-in praying for myself as one of them, and in feeling their joys and sorrows as my own. And indeed if we wish, above all things, that the name of Jesus be glorified, is it not glorified in the spirituality of others as much as in our own? And if we wish to be one with Jesus, should we not be also one with his elect? Tell me your difficulties and necessities that I may present them to Jesus with my own. I do not say this because I think I have strength to do it. But Jesus, our Lord and our God, has said to you and to me, My grace is sufficient for thee." O Lord Jesus, cause every affection of ours to be absorbed in thee, and may all thy sheep love thee above all, and love one another as thou hast loved them!-M. J. GRAHAM.

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(Memoir.)

False Peace.-Sinner! will your peace be sicknessproof? Will your peace be deathbed-proof? Will your peace be damnation-proof?—JAY.

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THE DEATH-BED OF A CHRISTIAN.

IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND.

MY DEAR SIR,-I am quite at a loss to express to you how much your kind letter of the 16th July last rebuked my negligence in delaying so long to write you. may seem unkind; it is not so. I often think of you and speak of you; and I sincerely condole with you on your severe and successive bereavements. I too have been called to drink deep of the bitter cup of affliction. Every feeling of my soul has been harrowed up. To use the forcible language of David, "I have been brought," as it 66 were, to my wit's end, and been made to reel and stagger like a drunken man." But it becomes us to be still, my dear friend, and to know that He is God. The cup I was called upon to drink was bitter; but blessed be our heavenly Father, it contained of One who is all-wise and all-kind. I must proceed, many sweet ingredients, and it was mingled by the hand however, as you request, to detail a few of the particulars of the last illness and death of my now glorified wife. We were married, you will perhaps remember, in 1884. At that time she was not robust, and bad, for some years before, been liable to severe colds, especially in winter. For upwards of two years, however, after our union, she continued in tolerable health, and after the birth of her first child seemed rather to improve in health than otherwise. The second, Elizabeth, was born in January 1837, and so rapidly did she recover, that, on the fourth day after her confinement she insist ed on being out of bed. A severe influenza was then raging in town; and having been indulged in her anxiety to sit up, she was seized with it so violently, that an obstinate cough set in, which in a few days threatened inflammation of the chest. By active means, leeches, blisters, &c., the inflammation was checked, but it soon became a subject of considerable fear lest the lungs were affected. Our worst fears, in this respect, were realized. She continued from that time, with consider able intervals of apparent restoration, to exhibit symp toms of being in a declining state. In July last year our friends suggested that, in addition to our ordinary medical attendant, some other practitioner should be

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called in. Sir George B- —, accordingly, was con- last, that it would soon be interrupted." Ah! my dear
sulted, and after minutely examining the chest, he friend, it is impossible to convey to you in language the
declared the lungs quite sound. He suggested a change thousand thoughts which these words even now recall.
of air, and she set out for her father's residence in During the four brief years of our wedded life, the sun
Perthshire. My sister, the children, and I soon fol- shone upon us with unclouded brilliancy. We had all
lowed; and as the change did not seem to have im. that our hearts could wish. Never a harsh word had
proved her health, after a few weeks she went along passed between us. She never met me but with a
with her father to her brother's house in one of the smile, and she anticipated my every desire. But I must
centre counties of England, and I returned home, not be tempted away from my narrative. As soon as
leaving my sister and the children in the north.
I could compose myself we prayed together, thanking
few weeks elapsed, in the course of which I received the Lord that we had been permitted to meet once more
two or three letters from my dear wife, holding out
on earth. She survived four days after my arrival.
prospects of her speedy recovery. This somewhat I remained constantly by her bed-side, except at meals,
encouraged me, and I felt my spirit reviving. But, and enjoyed much precious intercourse with her. She
alas! how frail the tenure by which we hold every gave minute directions in regard to all her affairs with
earthly object. The hour of dread calamity at length the utmost calmness and composure. I asked her how
arrived. On the afternoon of the 6th of October 1838 she felt in the prospect of dying. She replied that she
a letter was put into my hands. It was from my knew in whom she had believed, and felt assured that
brother-in-law, stating that his sister had been seized He would keep what she had committed to him until
suddenly with severe illness, and that she wished me
that day, adding, "I have long accustomed myself to
to come up without delay. I now dreaded the worst. look death in the face, and have often prayed that, when
The steamer for Hull had sailed an hour before, and it came to this, I might have nothing to do but to die,
there was no coach till the following morning. The and I have got my request." On another occasion she
agony of mind I endured on the intervening night said, "I do not fear death; I fear only the process of
I shall never forget. Next morning I started in the dying. Christ grappled with the substance of death; he
mail on my melancholy journey, and travelled all day left me only the shadow, and you know, a shadow cannot
and night, reaching my destination on the afternoon of injure me." Awaking, as it were, from a reverie, she
the 8th. During the journey, I can truly say, that said once with much sweetness of countenance, "Per-
in the multitude of my thoughts within me, the com-
haps,
I may be permitted to be your guardian
forts of God delighted my soul. I had much secret angel, to watch over you through the rest of your life.
communion with my gracious Father. The train of
'Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to mi-
thought which was blessed by the Spirit for my nister to them who shall be the heirs of salvation?'"
consolation, was the following, which occurred to my Was not that a fine idea, my dear friend, to come from
mind as I travelled southward :-This is an awful the mouth of a dying Christian? It often refreshes
storm into which I am brought, but may it not be like and supports me in my solitary hours. I asked her if
the storm on the sea of Galilee raised by the Redeemer, she would not have liked to have seen the children
on purpose that he might come near to his disciples
once more? "Oh no," she replied, "it would have
in the hour of nature's extremity, walking on the rendered it more difficult to die. I committed them
stormy billows, and addressing them in the refreshing
to the Almighty before they saw the light; they are
words, "Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid." I
his property, not mine." Once when sitting by her
felt much relief from the reflection, that this was
bed-side, sobbing aloud, she said to me, "Now,
not a storm of my own raising, but that Christ was
go to your room, and pour out your heart before God."
the author of it, and that this might be the mode in
After doing so, I returned, when she immediately said,
which he intended to reveal himself the more effectu-
"That is the way to get composure." At another
ally to my soul. The painful, tedious journey came time, when I was deeply affected, I said in the bitter-
to an end, and as, after leaving the coach, I walked
ness of my spirit, "I think, my dear, I shall never feel
along the road leading to the house of my brother-in-less than I do now." Her reply was in these beautiful

law, my spirit sunk within me when I saw the window-lines:-
blinds all drawn down. I feared I was too late to
witness the last moments of one who was dearer, far
dearer to me than aught on earth besides. With trem-
bling limbs I approached the door, and my sister-in-
law, who had seen me coming down the garden, met
me with a smile, assuring me that Elizabeth was some-
what better. My heart revived, and almost with a
light step I entered the bed-room where she lay. The
very sight of me seemed to lend vigour to her en-
feebled frame. She started up in bed, and stretching out
both her arms to embrace me, exclaimed, "Now I have
got my last earthly wish, to have seen my dear husband
once more in the flesh!" I was deeply affected, and burst
into tears, but she instantly comforted me with these
words, "O, my dear, be composed; I go to my Fa-
ther and your Father, to my God and your God. I told
you," she added, "that our happiness was too great to

"Sunk in self-consuming anguish,
Shall the fond heart always ache ?
No.

The tortur'd nerve must languish,
Or the strings of life would break."

I often read to her suitable passages of Scripture. Her
favourite chapters were the fifty-seventh Psalm and the
forty-third chapter of Isaiah. In the former she called
my attention to the second verse as having often afforded
her much comfort, "I will cry unto God most High;
unto God that performeth all things for me;" in the
latter she referred to the first, second, and twenty-fifth
verses, "But now thus saith the Lord that created
thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear
not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by
thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through
the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through
the fire, thou shalt not be burnt; neither shall the flame

kindle upon thee. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." She often preferred, however, to remain quiet, and to meditate. On one occasion, after musing for some time, she said to me, "I have read somewhere of Seneca, the heathen philosopher, that when his son died, he exclaimed, 'It was with the soul of my son, not with his body, I held converse, and his soul still lives.' If a heathen could comfort himself with such a thought, how much more may a Christian!" I said once to her, "I feel afraid to go back to the world after such a scene." She replied, "You may doubt yourself, as much as you please, but never doubt Christ." I repeated to her that encouraging passage, "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?" She immediately added, "If my strength would allow, I feel as if I could speak to you upon that passage. It appears to me to have the force of,-Who dare lay any thing?" When speaking to her at one time of the happiness we had enjoyed, and the sweet Christian intercourse we had often had together, she answered with an animated countenance, "Yes, ours has been a happy, happy, but a brief, brief union. Perhaps I may be the first to welcome you to glory. O see to train up the children for heaven. Be sure that they be brought along with you; then shall we be able to say, 'Here are we, and the children whom thou hast given us.'" She often suffered in her last moments from excruciating pain. Under one of these attacks she exclaimed, "I needed this to wean me from the world and from you. O pray for me that I may have patience, that patience may have her perfect work." When the pain was very violent, she said on one occasion, "O pray for me, that the Lord would cut short his work." I stated that I could not pray for her life to be abridged by one moment. She then withdrew her request, and added, "But remember, it is in righteousness." Lying quiet for some time, I thought she was asleep, but reviving a little, she called me to her and spoke to me with the utmost calmness of the arrangements for her interment, expressing a wish to be buried in the town which had been the scene of her married life. I immediately replied, that I was glad such was her wish, as it would afford me an opportunity of frequently pointing the children to the place of their mother's interment. "O point them" said she with much emphasis, heaven." Feeling her weakness on one occasion, she exclaimed, "What would I have done if, in the present state of my body, I had had the work to begin. A death-bed is no proper season for repentance; it has enough to do with itself." O, my dear friend, how true is this! She had acted upon the truth of it, for death did not take her by surprise. She was prepared, fully prepared for the stroke; and as she herself remarked, when seeing me weeping, "There is no occasion to weep for me. I am going to be happy. perpetuity of bliss is bliss."" The night before she died she suffered considerably from pain. It was quite plain that she could not survive long, and I remained with her till four o'clock in the morning, when I retired to rest for a little. I returned again at eight, and found her easier. She complained much that I had not remained longer in bed, but I felt far more comfortable when beside her. In the course of the forenoon she

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spoke little, but at one time, seeing me very much dejected, she said, "The time will soon come when we shall be united again by a tie that shall never be broken; perhaps sooner than you think. glad that I have the children to leave with you; they will serve to comfort you." I told her that I intended to draw up a Memoir of her life for the use of the children, in case I should be cut off before they reached the years of maturity, that they might know the opinions and history of their mother. She was pleased with the idea, but insisted that it should not be made public, at the same time telling me where I would find her papers, diary, &c. I stated that I intended also to raise a tomb-stone to her meinory, that the children might know where their mother lay. She requested me to mention nothing about her but the name, age, and time of her death. I asked her permission to add, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." "Yes," she said, "you may add that." I was bewailing to her my desolate condition and prospects. She immediately exhorted me to wed myself anew to Christ: "He will never leave you nor forsake you." About four o'clock in the afternoon the rector of the parish called, and I requested him to pray with her. After he had finished, I asked her if she heard the clergyman pray? She said, "Yes, I heard him, but I could not follow, my mind is now too weak." He then left the room, and I accompanied him down stairs to the door. On returning, I saw that death was at hand. The coldness and blueness of the fingers, and the convulsive twitchings of the eyes and mouth, showed, alas! too plainly, that she was entering the swellings of Jordan. A convulsive shudder came over the frame, she turned, and fixing her eyes upon me, continued to breathe for a few minutes, during which I was employed in secretly commending her soul into the hands of her Redeemer. She died as she had lived, calmly and sweetly. To her to live had been Christ, and therefore to die was unspeakable gain. In closing the eyes of my nearest and dearest earthly friend, I felt in somewhat the same manner as Mrs Graham did when she saw her daughter die, and I felt ready to exclaim like her, "I wish you joy, my love!" Now, my dear friend, I have been exhibiting a scene which I know will interest you. It was the natural termination, of a beautifully consistent life. Religion was the element in which my dear wife lived and breathed. She walked closely with her God, so closely that, as I remarked to her on her death-bed, "I sometimes felt as if it were too much I could scarcely sympathise with it." She kindly remarked, "I never felt any want of sympathy." I asked her forgiveness if in any thing I had failed in my duty to her. She instantly answered, “O,I have nothing to forgive." Would that you and I, my dear friend, could die the death of the righteous! To realize this, we must live the life of the righteous. We must live by the faith of Christ, and Christ himself will sit beside our dying bed and smooth our dying pillow.

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MANUAL labour, particularly when exercised in the open air, may well be termed a means in the moral education of youth; while it arouses them to active exertion, it leads their energy into proper channels. The following account may serve to confirm what we have here advanced: One of the youths, who is now seventeen years of age, had, till his sixteenth year, led the life of a vagabond. Although not debilitated in body, be preferred raw flesh to cooked meat. His mental faculties were such, that he could not count beyond six, and he had great difficulty to express himself in words. All these infirmities exposed him to the constant ridicule of his companions. In spring he was sent to work in the garden, and the change which was produced upon him was very astonishing; his soul seemed to revive in this employment-his affections were drawn to the spot where he laboured-and his taste for a vagabond life quite died away. Up to this time, the most simple ideas had been beyond his comprehension; now he began to show both judgment and taste in the arrangement and planting of his flower-pots. He soon succeeded in acquiring a kind of superior influence in the family; and, at present, when any of the little parties proceed to work, they willingly wait for poor David, that he may come to direct their labours.

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with magic influence, into the deepest recesses of our
being, with the rapidity of lightning; it imparts to our
minds whatever sensation it pleases; and, prompted by
its almost miraculous breath, the buds of feeling ex-
pand, even like those of flowers, which are opened by
the warm exhalations of spring. It opens in an instant
the fountains of our hearts, and fills us with unutterable
anguish." Music," says Luther, the spirited pane-
gyrist of that elevating art, “is one of the best and
most glorious gifts of God for driving away temptations
and evil thoughts. Music is half disciplinarian, half
censor-making men more meek, more gentle, and more
becoming and rational." When singing was first intro-
duced into the morning worship of "Das Rauhe Haus,”
it invariably happened that the children all burst into
tears. At one time they were so deeply affected by it,
that it became necessary to discontinue it for a season.
"We cannot bear up against the singing," they said,
"it reminds us too much of former days." One day
when they were practising music (not sacred music
only), one of the boys stood by, apparently quite un-
conscious; when spoken to, he said,
"This singing
renders me insensible to every thing present-I can
think of nothing but my past life." On another occa-
sion, two brothers threw themselves into one another's
arms; they were much agitated, because the music had
called to their remembrance their unhappy mother.
At present, music is the children's great delight; and
their pleasure in it seems particularly to revive with
the return of spring. After their work, they generally
walk round the garden, or climb up into the old ches-
nut tree which spreads its luxuriant branches over the
roof of the large house, and mingle their voices with
the notes of the gay songsters of the forest.

Besides the elementary branches of education, the children are taught music. We shall not enlarge on the principle which suggested the expediency of introducing music into the educational system of the Reforming Institution, as well as into the prison schools of Germany; we think our best interpreter on this subject will be the venerable curate of Elberfield, whose sentiments on the power of music are so strikingly expressed, and illustrate so fully the effect which singing produced on the minds of the poor children of " Das The Governor, the Rev. Mr Wichern, has the charge Rauhe Haus."-"Music is the most wonderful, pro- of the intellectual and religious education of the youths; found, and impressive of all the arts; where its har- and this could not have been committed to better hands. monious sound is heard, it proves itself not unfrequently He acts as a father in the Establishment; and, in order the uncontrollable ruler of the heart. It penetrates, to excite and keep alive this feeling of a family connec No. 50. DECEMBER 14, 1839.-1d.]

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