all those fine and free operations which rant attribute to spirits." Such is the creed, from whence we learn that he weak, credulous, and absurd.

principles, that of atheism is the most inis to the nature of man, and the most initrue happiness. Without the belief of a 1 the hope of immortality, the miseries of fe would often be insupportable. ollowing observations of Dr. Beattie relaharacters professing such principles are mirable. Caressed by those who call es the great, engrossed by the formalities eries of life, intoxicated with vanity, pamith adulation, dissipated in the tumult of , or amidst the vicissitudes of foily, they have little need and little relish for the conof religion. But let them know, that, in ary scenes of life, there is many an honest ler heart pining with incurable anguish, with the sharpest sting of disappointment, friends, chilled with poverty, racked with Scourged by the oppressor, whom noat trust in Providence, and the hope of a etribution, could preserve from the agonies ir. And do they, with sacrilegious hands, to vioalte this last refuge of the miserato rob them of the only comfort that had the ravages of misfortune, malice, and ? Ye traitors to human kind, how can ye for it to your own hearts? Surely every your generosity is extinguished for ever. not the lover of truth, however, be discouAtheism cannot be of long continuance;

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When men have retrieved the powers of ser reflection, they will find it a frightful phant and the mind will return gladly and eagerly t old endearments." Truth will arise, and vi cate her rights, notwithstanding all opposition must and will prevail.

BIBLE VALUED.

WHAT an invaluable blessing is it to have Bible in our own tongue! Our forefathers re ced when they were first favoured with the portunity of reading it for themselves. We told, that when Archbishop Cranmer's edition the Bible was printed, in 1538, and fixed t desk in all parochial churches, the ardor v which men flocked to read it was incredil They who could, procured it; and they v could not, crowded to read it, or to hear it r in churches, where it was common to see li assemblies of mechanics meeting together for t purpose after the labour of the day. Many ev learned to read in their old age, that they mig have the pleasure of instructing themselves fro the scriptures.-Mr. Fox mentions two appren ces who joined each his little stock, and bough Bible, which at every interval of leisure they rea but being afraid of their master, who was a zealc papist, they kept it under the straw of their bed.

By a law, however, in the 34th of Henry VI it was enacted, that no woman, except noblew men and gentlewomen, might read to themselv alone, or to others, any texts of the Bible, &c; n artificers, apprentices, journeymen, husbandme

English to themselves, or to any other rivately or openly. With what pleasure to reflect on our deliverance from those darkness, and that now we live in a land , and in a time when they are still on the

ecorded of our Edward VI, that, upon a ccasion, a paper which was called for in cil chamber happened to be out of reach: on concerned to produce it took a Bible by, and, standing upon it, reached down. r. The king, observing what was done, self to the place, and, taking the Bible in s, kissed it, and laid it up again. This tance, though trifling in itself, shewed his s great reverence for and affection to that all books; and whose example is a striproof to those who suffer their Bibles to be with dust for months together, or throw bout as if they were of little value, or only of useless lumber.

rt, King of Sicily, thus said: "The holy are dearer to me than my kingdom; and under any necessity of quitting one, it be my diadem." And even the haughty XIV sometimes read his Bible, and conit as the finest of all books.

Harris, in all his wills, always renewed acy:-Item, I bequeath to all my children, my children's children, to each of them, a with this inscription, "None but Christ." le legacy, truly! If parents were to leave boon as this to all their children, with an earquest that they should constantly read and

it it might under the divine blessing be

the mean of enriching them more than if they them thousands of gold and silver.

We are informed of Dr. Marryat, that after was somewhat advanced in youth, having a stre memory, he thought it his duty to make it a cret repository of the words of divine revelati Accordingly "he treasured up," says one, larger portion of the scriptures than, perhaps, one besides, whom we have known, ever di for there are some who can assure us they had account immediately from himself,-that he committed to memory not a few whole books, be of the Old Testament and the New. When mentioned this, he named distinctly, Job, Psal Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, w all the minor Prophets: and every one of the Ep tles likewise in the New Testament, with the bo of the Revelation; and that he might carefully 1 tain the whole of what he had thus learnt, he d clared, it was his practice to repeat them men riter once a year.-The special reason or m tive which he assigned for his entering upon th method deserves a particular notice. He began in the younger part of life, when, being under deep sense of the evil of sin, and his mind sad ignorant of God's way of salvation by the right ousness of the glorious Messiah, or being in th dark as to his own personal interest in it, he wa sorely distressed with fears that hell must be hi portion. At that time it was put into his hear that, if he must go to hell, he would endeavour t carry with him as much of the word of GOD a possibly he could. -And it seems to me t

have been a secret latent principle of the fear and love of God that established him in this purpose

ksas if he desired to have a supply of scrip-. erials for his mind to work upon, chusould ever be employed in recollecting and g upon those records, that hereby, if posmight be kept from blaspheming God, rest of the spirits in the infernal prison. society which has been lately formed for pose of circulating the sacred scriptures the British dominions and other counether Christian, Mahometan, or Pagan, will be of incalculable benefit. A clergyVales gives us the following interesting ac

I cannot express," says he, "the joy I receiving the information of a society bemed for supplying various nations of the ith Bibles. The Sunday Schools have oc1 more calls for Bibles, within these five han perhaps ever was known before among or people. The possession of a Bible profeeling among them, which the possesno one thing in the world besides could e. In many houses they have but one Bithe use of a numerous family; of course: ne cannot obtain the free use of it at all vaasons, when they might read it ; and fre-the young people and the menial servants,. e debarred the use of it, are the most anx.. desirous for the reading of it. The last Ox-lition was bought up by them principally, y parish where dispersed, with the greatest ; and there was not half enough to answer. mand for them. I have seen some of them me with joy, and burst into tears of thank5 on their obtaining possession of a Bible as

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