heard when the apprentice has done his daily task, and the last bullock has been safely housed from the pitiless storm, and the family are assembled to the plain but wholesome meal. We would sit with the labourer when his journey is over, and ask the careful wife, when she has prepared his well-earned supper, (or some favoured Sunday-school child), to search our pages-perhaps he may find there some word in season-some still more nourishing food than that before him-something that may add fresh sweetness to that rest which to a labouring man (so graciously has, God extracted good: (out of evil) (Gen. iii. 19), is already sweet. od 1

We might give you many reasons for r our visit:— " 1st We know of no publication of this kind in Cornwall; certainly none, which, by its cheapness, can come so easily within the reach of all.

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2nd We have every reason to believe, that, through the outpouring of the Spirit on the united labours of the many living friends whom we look for to help us, and the free use of the labours of those long gone to their rest, whose invaluable works would else remain unknown to a great number of our readers, that God, who works by whatever means he pleases, will make us a Light in the West.d

3rd The solemn times in which we live call upon us to work while it is called to-day. God hath said, that when his judgments are abroad in the earth the uations will learn righteousness. They are awfully abroad now. It is our aim to be instruments in snatching the brand from the burning, in strengthening the weak faith of the trembling believer; and establishing His children in that singleness of eye to

His glory, and that simplicity of unfearing confidence in His covenanted love, which so well becomes them, amid all the changing scenes of life.

Lastly, The love we bear you.

Cornish friends, we love you. Our residence among you has endeared you to us by many a blessed tie. Thus would we show our love. We love you with the love of pity and prayer, O careless Sinner! and we would shew it by seeking to discover to you your danger, and point out the way of peace and safety. We love you, O mourning Penitent! and would publish to you the glad tidings of full and free forgiveness. We love you, all ye that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, whoever and whatever ye be, high, low, rich, or poor, whatever be your name and distinction among us, with a love passing the possibility of natural conception; and we would bring before you things new and old out of the rich treasures of that Gospel with which we are entrusted, to cheer your hearts and strengthen your faith on your journey to that Eternal Home where soon we look to meet you. Pray then for us, that He who hath put it into our hearts to undertake this work,

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May nerve our arm, and clear our view,
Suppress our fear, inflame our zeal,"

Permit nothing to enter our pages, but what may be for His glory, and tend to your blessedness in time and eternity.

but in the midst of victory, hurried into the very grave they had dug for others ;* and here we see "the pestilence walking in darkness, and the sickness that destroyeth in the noon day," commencing the work of death. But shall we therefore say that the Judge of all the earth doeth not right? Shall we not. acknowledge, that although clouds and darkness are round about Him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne? Shall we not, rather, in all this, perceive that He has especial regard to the welfare and benefit of His church and people? Truly we must, for in these destructions we shall behold the destruction of the enemies of the saints, because they are God's enemies. We shall see the nominal and only professing Christian separated from the real and possessing Christian. And, lastly, an opportunity is afforded to the elect to make it clear to themselves, and to an astonished world, whose they are, and whom they serve. Indeed this season of affliction appears to be particularly called for, by the rents and divisions among the body of Christ, by the heresies and lying wonders wherewith she is assailed. Now, then, let all, in whom are any of the good ways of God remaining, stir themselves up, and rally round the standard of the Cross. Let the lukewarm and careless become zealous and well affected; let backsliders return; and, lastly, (with open arms) let us search after, and receive into the bosom of the Church the stray sheep yet scattered upon the dark mountains, that if many of the faithful servants of Christ be called to their eternal rest, fresh forces may be collected to fight the future battles of the Lord.

* Witness the awful scenes just taken place at Bristo!

THE NEW YEAR.

THE last day of the year reminds me I have sailed through another period of time, and that I am now fast nearing the end of my earthly course. My vessel is crazy and weather-worn; it already leaks at many a pore; and I feel it will soon go down. What, then, shall I mourn and lament at this? I bless God I cannot; I have a bright and glorious prospect before me. He who has assured me of all this, has also assured me that near the wreck a life-boat shall be provided, which shall convey my soul safely, and land it securely on the shores of eternal blessedness.

With such feelings, let us, who are the children of the light, enter upon the New Year, and step aside for a moment from a vain world to view the prospect before us.

And here we behold, that with the New Year, new scenes are unfolding in God's Providence. The world, that is, that part of it which perisheth, is hung with deep and gloomy mourning. God has arisen to assert his right to govern the nations of the earth. He is warning them to bow to the sceptre of His Son, ere he dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. And who is there that believes his Bible?-Who is there that loves the holy God therein made known ?-Who is there that looks forward to the fulfilment of his promises, but must rejoice at all this? For, in the very confusion of the elements, behold! "The kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ." An especial summons is sent to our own highly-favoured, but guilty, land. Here we behold tumult and confusion; riot and bloodshed; wicked men triumphing over the laws;