of his friend Churchill, was as applicable to him as to its author.

"The last time he crossed the water he had a very long and tedious passage, owing to a total failure of wind. So circumstanced, he jocosely remarked, that if this was the case, he should never again revisit the Isle of Wight, as in every period of his life nothing was so hostile to his existence as a dead calm. This prediction was verified; he returned no more to the island; but, as is well known, died at the house of his daughter, in Grosvenor-square, on the 28th of December following.

"This picture in little' of Wilkes at his cot. tage, there living to himself, and in his own confined way, will not perhaps be considered as the least interesting in the life of that extraordinary man. When the frail ornaments of Sandham shall have mouldered away, and its inscriptions shall have ceased to be legible, themselves requiring instead of giving explanation, the mind that knows how to respect wit and talents in themselves, however abused in their application, will mase over the spot, and still hail as at least minor classic ground, the villakin of John Wilkes!"

THE IMITATION OF THE SAVIOUR

Is, and ought to be, strongly held up to all his followers; the possession of his graces and vir. tues would dignify, adorn, and bless mankind.

"TO what meanness of condition ought not we, his disciples, chearfully to submit? For our sakes he became poor--and shall we be ashamed of honest poverty? Did he go by the name of the Carpenter's Son--and dare a Christian

ostentatiously to display the heraldry of his ancestors, or to blush at what the world calls. low birth? He hath not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor hid his face from him when he cried--and can one called by his name turn a deaf ear to the ery of distress, or hide his face from a poor brother? We cannot, like him, say, "Let there be light! Lazarus come forth we cannot, like him, walk on water, or silence the wind; we cannot, like him, give eyes to the blind or speech to the damb: but we may with him be meek and lowly in heart, merciful and compassionate, forbearing and forgiving; we can go about doing good, and ministering the necessitous. We cannot attain to the height of his divine excellence and perfec. tion, but we may with him descend to the low liest offices of beneficence and condescension, we may learn of him to overcome evil with good." Dr. Henry Hunter.

LONDON

HAS had its former period of depression, and suffered many revolutions ere it arrived at its present extent, grandeur, and celebrity.

"In that melancholy period, when the Roman empire in the west became universally a prey to the hordes of ferocious barbarians, England fell to the lot of certain piratical tribes from the north of Germany, since known by the general denomination of Anglo Saxons. These invaders were successful in exterminating from among us all vestiges of literature and Roman civilization. The Christian religion it. self sunk under their hostility. The institutions of the ancient Germans and the mythology of

Woden became universal. At the time when the monk St. Augustine arrived in this country for the pious purpose of converting its usurpers A. D. 596, it has been supposed that there was not a book to be found through the whole extent of the island. From this time, however, there was a period of comparative illumination. The Saxons had poetry, and the missionaries from Rome brought with them such literature as Europe then had to boast. We had our Bede, our Alcuin, and our Alfred. This infancy of improvement was nearly crushed by the Danes, the inveterate foes of monasteries and learning, who were, in the tenth century, what the Saxons had already been in the sixth. England pre sents little to sooth the eye of the lover of civi lization, from the retreat of the Romans to the epoch of the Norman conquest, when a race of warriors, educated in a happier scene, and a succession of kings, nearly all of distinguished ability, brought back to us the abode of the muses and the arts of cultivated life.

During this interval, London, the heart of of England, had experienced a common fate. with the rest of its members. The walls, in deed, in considerable part remained, but the houses tumbled into ruin, and the tall grass waved in the streets: not that it was ever wholly unpeopled, but that it was an inconsiderable place, in comparison of the dimensions which the Romans had marked out for it. A short time, however, previously to the conquest, it had a bridge of wood erected over the Thames, a work which would not have been constructed in those rude times, if it had not even then been a flourishing city."Godwin.

MYSTERY AND REVELATION

ARE not incompatible with each other; at the same time it is proper that each should be judiciously explained.

"ALL is mystery, and all is revelation and discovery, from the insect, too small for sight, swimming in a drop of water, up to yonder flaming orb, which revolves at an immeasur. able distance over our heads. Is not man a great mystery to himself? But is he to renounce his being because he is unable to explain it is he to call the union of matter with mind an absurdity, because their mutual influence escapes his penetration? How many combinations actually exist of which we have no per. ception, and which we would pronounce to be impossible in all the ways and works of the Most High there is a wonderful mixture of luminousness and obscurity, of minuteness and magnitude, of complexness and simplicity.." Dr. Henry Hunter.

ADDRESS TO CHRISTIAN MOTHERS.

"What is the lot of a female without the consolations of Religion? And how is a young wo. man to learn religion, if not from her own mother? Let me remind you of what you once thought, felt, and resolved? You carried that child with uneasiness and anxiety in your womb..you formed a thousand foud wishes you put up a thousand prayers you came under a thousand engagements. You employed, not perhaps the very words of Hannah, but undoubtedly you entered entirely into her views,

and the fruit of the womb was to be holiness to the Lord. Well--God has been gracious to thee' and remembered thee. Thou hast survived the danger, and been delivered from the pangs of child-birth! You have enjoyed the satisfaction of training the beloved of your soul through the dangers, difficulties, and solicitudes of infancy and childhood. God has graciously done his part, and you have so far performed yours. But did your engagements cease when the infant was weaned? Did you rear that tender plant with so much anxiety, tenderness, and care, only to poison and corrupt it after it has begun to take root and bud? Know you not that the inconsiderations and folly of a day may destroy the pains and labour of many years, and the eyes of children are much quicker and more retentive than their ears?

Happy that daughter who is betimes formed to habits of discretion, of purity, of regularity, of piety, by the tender guardian and guide of her early days! Happy that mother whose attention is bent on infusing betimes in her fe male offspring at least, the principles of wisdom, virtue, and true godliness-who is honoured to exemplify what she teaches, and is blessed with a docile, affectionate and improving disciple !"-Dr. Hunter.

THE FOLLY OF ATHEISM.

"WHERESOEVER a deity has been once known; where his existence and his attributes have been explored by philosophical researches into causes and effects; where his will has been collected, however imperfectly, from the moral constitution of the world, or announced authoriratively by his sacred word; where the