warning of friends, make not light of the admonitions of parents, refuse not to receive instruction; but pray to God to give you grace, "To incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding!" Rememder, that "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to depart from evil, that is understanding ;" and also, that "The ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace. The bodies of poor Watson and his son were found on the Monday, and very privately interred on Wednesday.

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Hasten, O sinner, to be wise,

And stay not for the morrow's sun; The longer wisdom you despise, The harder is she to be won.

O hasten, mercy to implore,

And stay not for the morrow's sun, For fear thy season should be o'er, Before this evening's stage be run.

O hasten sinner, to return,

And stay not for to morrow's sun, For fear thy lamp should fail to burn Before the needful work is done.

O hasten sinner, to be blest,

And stay not for the morrow's sun, For fear the curse should thee remove, Before the morrow is begun.

O Lord, do thou the sinner turn!

Now rouse him from his senseless state! Oh! let him not thy counsel spurn,

Nor rue his fatal choice too late!

Extract from a visit to a Sunday School.

AN EXTRACT

FROM THE

WOMAN OF THE HURDLES.

FACTS.

It was on one of those fine frosty days, in the month of February, when a clear and exhilirating atmosphere gives fresh elasticity both to body and mind, that I determined to take a solitary ramble, and give loose to those reflections which the surrounding objects might produce. An almost cloudless sky, and a brilliant sun-shine, made me