God has given us, and look to him for his blessing. We may lock for a thousand things, in a thousand ways, but it will be in vain, if we neglect to look for them in the right place.

This is a subject on which I ought to manifest much forbearance, for it would not be right in me to be severe upon oths, for doing that which I have so frequently done myself. Many years was I looking for peace, and found it not; and the only reason that I did not find it was, that I did not look for it in the right place; if I had, I doubt not that I should have found it.

"First, I thought that money would assuredly give it me, and I set to work, determined that whoever might be poor, I would not; and if working hard, and spending little, is the way to obtain riches, I verily believe I should have been rich, had it not occurred that one day, opening the Bible, I read about the rich man in the parable. This account, and the verse that told me it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven,' so start ed me, that I was afraid to be rich, lest when I died, my riches might bear testimony against me, that I had not rel eved the wants of the distressed, and made a good use of my riches.

"Well, thought I, if riches will not do, I will get reputation. I will be clever at a thousand things, and shall then have enough to occupy and amuse; I shall be at peace. But somehow, the thought of another world followed me, though I might be at peace in this world, I should not on that account, have any certainty of being at peace in another.

"Just at this time too, I picked up Æsop's Fables, and read of the cat and the fox. The cat had but one resort, the fox had a thousand; but when the hounds came in sight, the cat with her one resort, ran up a tree and savec her life, while the poor fox, with his thousand resorts, was overtaken, and torn in a thousand pieces. I then gave up my intention of being clever at so many things.

"My next determination was to make friends, for I thought they would increase my joys, and solace me in my sorrows, as well as give me the best advice in obtaining peace. Alas! I soon found that one friend was called

away; a second quarreled with me, and became my enemy, and a third died; so that I plainly saw it would be folly to depend upon my friends for peace; and that I must certainly have looked in the wrong place to find it.

"One Sabbath afternoon, I heard a sermon from the text, 'There is no peace to the wicked; thus I was instructed, that where wickedness was, peace could never dwell. This brought me back again to my Bible, where I read of that peace which passes all understanding.' So seeing that I had all along sought for peace, every where but in the right place, I sought it where it is to be found, and that is in the gospel of our Redeemer, which tells us, 'that Jesus Christ came into the world to receive sinners.' I had before been instructed that I was a sinner, but now I was taught to feel it, and the promises of the gospel brought home to my heart, by the influences of the Holy Spirit, gave me that peace which the world. giveth not, and cannot take away. Be assured, if with sincerity you seek in the same place, you will also find it, for, he that seeketh shall find, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.'

"The Bible asks, 'Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? And truly we may as reasonably expect them to do this, as to hope that we shall ever find many things, that we want in the places we seek to obtain them. No, no; we shall never find them till we look in the right place for them; what a long story I have made about seeking things in the right place, and all because I happened to lose, for a minute or two, my poor spectacles. Well! what I have said will not be in vain, if it teach you to be a little more careful in seeking things aright.

"If you want money, seek it by diligence in your calling, and habits of frugality; if you want reputation, seek it by punctuality and integrity, and by the determination to excel in all you undertake; if you want friends, seek them by endeavoring to deserve them; but, if you want peace, you may look for it every way, and in every place in vain, unless you seek it from the Lord Jesus Christ. who died for our sins and rose again for our justifica

tion.

"You must remember that I did not look for my specacles before I found that I had lost them; and so in like

manner no one will seek for any thing heartily, until he feels the want of it.

"My dear children, you will not seek peace until you have known sorrow; you will not seek a Savior until you know yourselves to be sinners; for until then, you will feel no want of the one or the other.

"The wide world is before you, many are its pleasures and many are its pains; both are necessary, because both of them, through the grace of God, when sanctified to our souls, are made instrumental in doing us good, the former by making our hearts grateful, the latter by showing us our own weakness. But when the pleasures and pains of this world are passed, we shall enter on the pleasures or the pains of a world that is eternal. What an overwhelming subject is this for our reflection, and how is it that it does not, frequently as we are reminded of it, occupy more of our attention? Surely, if it did, we should be diligent in our inquiries after the best information upon it, and be anxious to seek in the right place, for that peace and assurance which can alone be obtained through the blood of the cross; which God alone can give, and which he will never withhold from those who seek it in sincerity and truth. Seek it thus in your earliest days, and as sure as your grandfather is talking to you, so surely you shall find it."

Serious Repartee.

A LADY traveling in the stage, in company with Mr. James Hervey, (author of Meditations) expatiated largely on the pleasure derived from theatrical amusements: they afford me, says she, three sources of pleasure. The pleasure of anticipation, before I attend :-the pleasure I enjoy while present:-and the pleasure of reflecting on the subject, the next day. Mr. H. observed, Madam, there is one source of pleasure you have omitted. She asked with surprise what that could be? He replied, the pleasure it will afford you on a dying bed. This struck her with force, and was instrumental of making her hopefully pious.

On the re-union of good men in a Future

State.

If the mere conception of the re-union of good men in a future state infused a momentary rapture in the mind of Tully; if any speculation, for there is reason to fear it had little hold on his convictions, could inspire him with such delight, what may we be expected to feel who are assured of such an event by the true sayings of God. How should we rejoice in the prospect of spending a blissful eternity, with those whom we loved on earth, of seeing them emerge from the ruins of the tomb, and the deeper ruins of the fall, not only uninjured, but refined and perfected, "with every tear wiped from their eyes," standing before the throne of God and the Lamb. What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils of combat, and the labor of the way, and to approach the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendors and fruitions of the beatific vision!

To that state all the pious on earth are tending; and if there is a law from whose operation none are exempt, which irresistibly conveys their bodies to darkness and to dust, there is another, not less certain or less powerful, which conducts their spirits to the abode of bliss, the bosom of their Father and their God. The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward; every thing presses on towards eternity; from the birth of time an impetuous current has set in, which bears all the sons of men towards that interminable ocean. Meanwhile, heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent, and divine, leaving nothing for the last fire to consume, but the objects and the slaves of concupiscence.

The Executioner's Trumpet.

JEROME used to say, that it seemed to him as if the trumpet of the last day was always sounding in his ears,

saying, "Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment." The generality, however, think but little of this awful and important period. A christian King of Hungary, being very sad and pensive, his brother, who was a gay cour tier, was desirous of knowing the cause of his sadness. "Oh, brother," said the King, "I have been a great sinner against God, and know not how to die, or how to appear before God in judgment!" This brother making a jest of it said, "These are but melancholy thoughts." The king made no reply; but it was the custom of the country, that if the executioner came and sounded a trumpet before any man's door, he was presently led to execution. The king, in the dead of the night, sent the executioner to sound the trumpet before his brother's door; who hearing it, and seeing the messenger of death, sprang into the king's presence, beseeching to know in what he had offended. "Alas! brother," said the king, "you have never offended me. And is the sight of my executioner so dreadful, and shall not I, who have greatly offended, fear to be brought before the judgment seat of Christ ?"

The Collier Boy.

By a sudden burst of water into one of the New Castle collieries, thirty-five men and forty-one lads were driven into a distant part of the pit, from which there was no possibility of a return until the water should be drawn off. While this was effecting, though all possible means were used, the whole number gradually died, from starving or from suffocation. When the bodies were drawn up from the pit, seven of the youths were discovered in a cavern separate from the rest. Among these was one of peculiarly moral and religious habits, whose daily reading of the sacred Scriptures to his widowed mother, when he came up from his labor, had formed the solace of her lonely condition. After his funeral, a sympathizing friend of the neglected poor went to visit her; and while the mother showed him, as a relic of her son, his Bible, worn and soiled with constant perusal, he happened to cast his eyes on a candle-box, with which, as a miner, he had been furnished, and which had been brought up from the