I have been young and now am old; yet have X not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. -PROVERBS, xxxvii. 6.

LIFE-YOUTH AND AGE.

IFT up thine eyes, afflicted soul;
From earth lift up thine eyes;
Though dark the evening shadows roll,
And daylight beauty dies;

One sun is set, a thousand more

Their rounds of glory run,

Where science leads thee to explore
In every star a sun.

Thus, when some long-loved comfort ends,
And nature would despair,

Faith to the heaven of heavens ascends,
And meets ten thousand there.

As stars that seem but points of light,

The rank of suns assume,

First faint and small, then clear and bright,
They gladden all the gloom.

J. Montgomery.

REFLECTIONS.

SHERLOCK, the pious father-in-law of the excellent Bishop Wilton, exhorts all attendants upon public worship in these words:" Remember whose service it is you are doing, and continue therein from the beginning to the end, that you may reap the benefit of the whole office, both of the absolution in the beginning and of the blessing at the end, and of the amens throughout.'

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from ít.—PROVERBS, xxii. 6.

THE BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCER.

REGISTER OF THOUGHTS AND EVENTS.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are giben in marriage, but are as the angels of God in Heaven.—St. MATTHEW, xxii. 30.

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THE BETTER LIFE.

ROTHER, thou art gone before us,
And thy saintly soul is flown

Where tears are wiped from every eye,

And sorrow is unknown.

From the burthen of the flesh,

And from care and fear released,
Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest.

The toilsome way thou'st travell'd o'er,
And borne the heavy load ;

But Christ hath taught thy languid feet
To reach His blest abode;

Thou'rt sleeping now, like Lazarus
Upon his father's breast,

Where the wicked cease from troubling,

And the weary are at rest.

Milman.

REFLECTIONS.

THE day has been considered as an image of the year, and a year as the representation of life. The morning answers to the spring, and the spring to childhood and youth; the noon corresponds to the summer, and the summer to the strength of manhood. The evening is an emblem of autumn, and autumn of declining life. The night with its silence and darkness shows the winter, in which all the powers of vegetation are benumbed; and the winter points out the time when life shall cease, with its hopes and pleasures.-"The Idler."

The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of fools.—PROVERBS, iii. 35.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.—St. Mat., vi. 34.

GOD IN EVERYTHING.

N every object here I see

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Something, O Lord, that leads to thee:

Firm as the rocks, Thy promise stands,

Thy mercies countless as the sands,
Thy love a sea immensely wide,

Thy grace an ever-flowing tide.

In every object here I see

Something, my heart, that points at thee.
Hard as the rocks that bound the strand,
Unfruitful as the barren sand,

Deep and deceitful as the ocean,
And, like the tides, in constant motion.

Newton.

THE pale mechanic now has leave to breathe
The morning air, pure from the city's smoke;
While, wandering slowly up the river's side,
He meditates on Him, whose power he marks
In each green tree that proudly spreads the bough,
As in the tiny dew-bent flowers that bloom
Around its roots.

REFLECTIONS.

Grahame.

WHERE, then, can the soul find refuge, but in the bosom of religion? There she is admitted to those prospects of Providence and futurity which alone can warm and fill the heart. I speak here of such as retain the feelings of humanity, whom misfortunes have softened, and perhaps rendered more delicately sensible; not of such as possess that stupid insensibility which some are pleased to dignify with the name of philosophy.-Gregory.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not