RAINBOW.-Repentance to salvation is that rainbow which, if God sees shining in our hearts, he will never drown our souls.-Trapp. HEAVEN OR HELL.-"You are mortal, you must die; you must appear before God, to give account of yourself; you are a sinner, you must be forgiven your iniquities, and moreover counted worthy of reward and exaltation: for there is no medium; if you escape hell, you must enjoy heaven. Now, reader, how will you escape hell,-how will you enter into heaven ?-Believe that God hath set forth his dear Son as a propitiation for sin, and suffer not the question to slumber until you have satisfactorily read it from the pages of the Holy Bible-how you shall escape hell, how you shall obtain an inheritance in the kingdom of hea ven." GOD SEEN IN MAN.-The whole frame of the body and soul bears the impress of the infinite power and wisdom of the Creator. A body framed with an admirable architecture; a soul endued with understanding, with judgment, memory, imagination. Man is the epitome of the world, contains in himself the substance of all natures, and the fulness of the whole universe; not only in regard of the universality of his knowledge, whereby he comprehends the reasons of many things; but as all the perfections of the several natures of the world are gathered and united in man, for the perfection of his own in a smaller volume. In his soul he partakes of heaven, in his body of the earth. We need not cast our eyes any further than ourselves to behold a God. He shines in the capacity of our souls, and the vigour of our members. We must fly from ourselves, and be stripped of our own humanity, before we can put off the notion of a Deity. Charnock. THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR MAN AT DEATH.-Let us conceive of two such men as they pass away from this present scene to realize the life to come. While inhabitants of earth let them have filled the most extreme stations of society, restrained from every contact, and alienated from every sympathy. The one shall be the monarch, surrounded by courtiers, heralds, guards,-revelling in luxuries to which every clime contributes,-holding the The other fate of nations on a nod. shall be the beggar, scorned by every eye, reviled by every tongue, spurned by every foot. The day has come when both must die-the moment is common The first presses the to their death. couch of softest down, and reclines beneath the canopy of lofty state; the cordials of pain and weakness stand rife around him on tables of cedar and gold; the arras waves not to the lightest wind; the palace is hushed in silence; an empire scarcely breathes. The second drags himself to the dunghill, and, without a soothing word, or an alleviating office, or an affectionate tear, gasps alone. It is at this appointed moment that their spirits break away! Two souls are on the wing! Two souls are tracking their way to their final account! Pursue, if you can, their course! Ascertain, if you can, their condition! Tell us which is the monarch's, which is the beggar's soul! By what impressions do you recognise, by what marks do you distinguish them? All such You know not either by its robes or by its rags! things are left below. The funeral of royal state and of pauper meanness has committed their equal bodies to the earth, and their equal souls have been weighed in the balances of a common immortality!-Institutions of Popular Education: Dr. R. W. Hamil ton. THE IRISH PEOPLE.-What a people would it be with the open Bible and with the "open face" to read it! When will a holy calm succeed its upheavings of political excitement? When will its tender genius, loving its legends and its lore, cease to mourn the past and paint its brighter visions of the future? Fair is thy verdure, Erin! but thou shalt yield a fairer increase! Harp of thy wilds and halls, which erst was struck to strains of patriotism and liberty-whose witch-notes still survive-thou shalt ring with nobler themes, and swell into diviner harmonies! Like Judah's lyre, thou shalt be swept with the inspiration of the Saviour's love and glory! Like the harp of heaven, thou shalt breathe the tones of an unearthly peace and love! And He who "taketh up the isles," and who spans his throne with a "rainbow in sight like an emerald," shall take thee, thou emerald gem of the ocean, and set thee in that girdle of his covenant faithfulness and love!-Ibid. INSTABILITY.-Many are soon engaged in holy duties, and easily persuaded to take up a profession of religion, and as easily persuaded to lay it down, like the new moon, which shines a little in the first part of the night, but is down before half the night is over.-Gurnal. PRINCIPLE.-As seed virtually contains in it all that afterwards proceeds from it-the blade, stalk, ear, and the full corn in the ear-so the first principle of grace implanted in the heart seminally contains all the grace which afterwards appears, and all the fruits, effects, acts, and exercises of it.-Gill. BACKWARD MOTION.-Men often go to God in duties with their faces towards the world; and when their bodies are on the mount of ordinances their hearts will be found at the foot of the hill going after their covetousness.-Boston. ADOPTION.-There is not a privilege of which human nature is capable that can so much deserve to be gloried in as this, that we are the children of God. To be his children by adoption is to have a right to his kingdom, being heirs and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus; but to be made children by regeneration is to be made partakers of the Divine nature; and shall we not think this matter of glory?-S. Wright. SUBLIMITY. It is reported of the celebrated Scaliger, that he was so delighted with the famous stanza of Sternhold and Hopkins on the 18th Psalm, "On cherub and on cherubim Full royally he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad"— that he used to profess that he had rather been the author of it than to have enjoyed the kingdom of Arragon. SPIRITUAL PURITY.-You find not indeed absolute holiness in your persons, nor in your best performances, yet if you breathe and follow after it: if the pulse of the heart beat thus; if the main current of your affection be towards purity; if sin be in you, as your disease and greatest grief, and not your delight, then take courage; you are as pure as travellers can be: and, notwithstanding that impure spirit, Satan, and the impurity of your own spirit vex you daily with temptations, and often foil you, yet, in despite of them all, you shall arrive safe at home where perfection dwells.-Leighton. SLANDER. I will no less hate to tell than to hear slanders: if I cannot stop others' mouths, I will stop my own ears. The receiver is as bad as the thief. THE MEASURE.-As far as the boughs of a tree spread so far spread the roots. As much corruption in our actions so much in our hearts.-P. Henry. COMFORT.-The only way to find comfort in an earthly thing is to surrender it, in a faithful carelessness, into the hands of God.-Bishop Hall. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.-"What, my good man, smoking so early in the morning-how comes this ?" "Oh, I would as leave have a pipe of backey' as my breakfast any morning, and because it's a good thing."" "Well, and who says it's a good thing?" "Oh, our clergyman." "Well, and does he ever smoke ?" "I never saw him; but he says it's a good thing, and recommends a man to smoke in bed." I replied, "My friend, I trust you read your Bible ?" "O yes." "And did you ever read of the prophets and the apostles smoking?" He reluctantly replied, "No." I said, "I consider it a sin to smoke to waste your money and kill your time in so filthy a manner." The man smartly replied, "If it's a sin to smoke, your minister is sinning all day, only when he is in the pulpit. The Church minister recommends smoking to induce men to go to church-let the Baptist minister answer for himself."— Cleanliness. Poetry. LIGHT! LIGHT for the dreary vales Of ice-bound Labrador! Where the frost-king breathes on the slippery sails, Lift high the lamp that never fails To that dark and sterile shore. Light for the forest child! An outcast though he be From the haunts where the sun of his childhood smiled And the country of the free; Pour the hope of Heaven o'er his desert wild, Light for the hills of Greece! Where the rage of the spoiler refused to cease If the Moslem hath dealt the gift of peace, On the maddening idol train; The flame of the suttee is dire and red, And the dying moan on their cheerless bed, Light for the Persian sky! The Sophi's wisdom fades, And the pearls of Ormus are poor to buy Hark! hark!-'tis the Christian wanderer's sigh Light for the Burman vales! For the coast where the slave-ship fills its sails And her kidnapp'd babes the mother wails Light for the ancient race Exiled from Zion's rest! Homeless they roam from place to place They shudder at Sinai's fearful base- Light for the darken'd earth! Ye bless'd, its beams who shed, Shrink not till the day-spring hath its birth, Till wherever the footsteps of man doth tread Salvation's banner spread broadly forth, Shall gild the dream of the cradle-bed And clear the tomb From its lingering gloom, For the aged to rest his weary head, SIGOURNEY. The Children's Gallery. HINTS TO JUNIOR TEACHERS. BELOVED YOUTHS!-Would you fill the "Gallery," and keep it full? In effecting this very much will depend on you. Speak softly in the ear and look kindly in the face of the new boys. Endure their manners, reproach not their ignorance, encourage their efforts to improve. Deal freely in prophecies of good in their behalf. Bid them take heart, and assure them that they will get on, that difficulties will vanish, and that substantial, permanent, invaluable benefits alone will remain behind. Make it your business. Determine that, by the help of God, you shall be a teacher of the first order. Keep always in view the two great things to be done -to enlighten the understanding and convert the soul! ENCOURAGEMENT TO SELF IMPROVERS. YOUNG MEN OF ENGLAND,-Despair of nothing! To humble reliance on the help of God and patient labour, all things are possible. Example is the best argument. familiar with almost every passage in who was an accomplished scholar, the study of mathematics. About the same time he entered on the study of the Latin language, for the purpose of reading Virgil in the original. He soon after turned his attention to French, which he mastered with wonderful facility. He then acquired the Spanish, and afterwards the Greek and German languages. During two winters he devoted nearly all his time to study, but The most impressive he was occupied a large portion of his proof at present in existence is sup-time during spring and summer in plied by Elihu Burritt, who was born working at his trade as a blacksmith, in New Britain, Connecticut, in the and, in this exemplary way, acquiring year 1811, of honest and respectable the means of subsistence. parents. He enjoyed the privilege of attending the "District school" for some months every year, till he was sixteen years old; and by his diligence and attention to his studies he became well versed in the elementary branches of an English education, and by culti-turing company, when he returned to his vating a taste for reading, he acquired much valuable information. When he arrived at the age of sixteen his father died, and he was apprenticed to the trade of a blacksmith; and when the term of his indenture had expired, and he had attained his legal majority, he had gained the reputation of being a young man of good moral and religious character, a skilful workman in his vocation, and one who cherished an ardent attachment for books. The BIBLE was the first book which he thoroughly studied, and at a very early age he was When about twenty-three years old he accepted an invitation to teach a grammar-school, but this employment did not suit his convenience or his inclination. He was then engaged for a year or two as an agent for a manufac anvil, and has since been industriously engaged in the honourable occupation of a blacksmith, to which he was apprenticed in his youth, but devotes all his leisure hours to literary pursuits. After having mastered the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages, and all the languages of modern Europe, he turned his attention to Oriental literature, and in order to avail himself of the facilities afforded by the valuable library of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, he removed to that place, where he has ever since resided, and been regarded as a useful and exemplary citizen. By dint of hard labour he has become a proficient in the most difficult languages of Asia, and in many of those languages of Europe which are now nearly disused and obsolete-among them are Gaelic, Welsh, Celtic, Saxon, Gothic, Icelandic, Russian, Sclavonic Armenian, Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, Sanscrit, and Tamul! It was stated in a public meeting, in 1838, by Governor Everett, that Mr. Burritt by that time, by his unaided industry alone, had made himself acquainted with FIFTY LANGUAGES. Mr. Burritt shows no disposition to relax from his labours. He usually devotes eight hours to labour, eight hours to study, and eight hours to physical indulgence and repose; and, by pursuing this course, he enjoys the advantages vainly coveted by many literary menthose connected with "a sound mind in a healthy body." Nor does he confine his labours to the mere acquisition of literary wealth-he also diffuses it with a liberal hand. He has written many valuable articles for periodicals of high standing; he has delivered many lectures which have been replete with interest and valuable information; and has been repeatedly listened to by large and highly respectable audiences in New York, Philadelphia, and other places, with edification and delight. Let it be deeply impressed upon your heart, that toil is the unalterable condition of attainment. If you take it into your head that you are endowed with genius, and, therefore, exempted from the necessity of severe and continued exertion, it is all over with you. You will never arrive at large and solid attainments. This allegation is finely exemplified by the case of Burritt, who, in reference to himself, says, speaking of his friends-"None of them ever thought that I had any particular genius, as it is called-I never thought so myself. All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant-heap -particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. And if I ever was actuated by ambition, its highest and farthest aspiration reached no farther than the hope to set before the young men of my country an example in employing those fragments of time called odd moments.' And I should esteem it an honour of costlier water than the tiara encircling a monarch's brow, if my future activity and attainments should encourage American working men to be proud and jealous of the credentials which God has given them to every eminence and immunity in the empire of mind. These are the views and sentiments with which I have sat down night by night, for years, with blistered hands and brightening hope, to studies which I hoped might be serviceable to that class of the community to which I am proud to belong. This is my ambition. This is the goal of my aspirations. But not only the prize but the whole course lies before me, perhaps beyond my reach. I count myself not yet to have attained' to anything worthy of public notice or private mention; what I may do is for Providence to determine. With regard to my attention to the languages, (a study of which I am not so fond as of mathematics,) I have tried, by a kind of practical and philosophical process, to contract such a familiar acquaintance with the head of a family of languages, as to introduce me to the other members of the same family. Thus, studying the Hebrew very critically, I became readily acquainted with its cognate languages, among the principal of which are the Syriac, Chaldaic, Arabic, Samaritan, Ethiopic, &c. The languages of Europe occupied my at tention immediately after I had finished my classics; and I studied French, Spanish, Italian, and German, under native teachers. Afterwards I pursued the Portuguese, Flemish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Welsh, Gaelic, Celtic. I then ventured on further east into the Russian empire, and the Sclavonic opened to me about a dozen of the languages spoken in that vast domain, between which the affinity is as marked as that between the Spanish and Portuguese. Besides those, I have attended to many different European dialects still in vogue. I am now trying to push on eastward |