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EMBELLISHMENTS.

I.-Frontispiece.

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graved by Ellis from a Picture by Whittock.

II. Vignette. Engraved by Ellis.

III. The Intemperate. Engraved by Tucker from a

Picture by Grenier.

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IV.-Samuel and Eli. Engraved by Neagle from a

Picture by Copley.

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V.-Mastiff and Child. Engraved by Tucker from a

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VI.-Christ Healing the Sick. Engraved by Longacre

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from a Picture by West.

VII.-Departure of the Israelites from Egypt. En

graved by Smillie from a Picture by Roberts.

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NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.

As one great object of a Religious Souvenir is to furnish the means by which a truly profitable, as well as an interesting present may be provided for a New Year, our readers who duly appreciate the design of our publication, will naturally expect that the preliminary essay should be appropriate to the season. We fear, however, that an announcement of this kind, will at once operate upon some as an inducement, not indeed to shut the book, for we know that it will generally be read, but to do what is little better, skip the article which thus seems to bespeak for itself an attention more than ordinarily serious. We entreat the reader, however, to go with us step by step, carefully to peruse what we have to say appropriate to the new year; and not to lay the book down until

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we have been permitted to pay our tribute of respect and affection, in the best way we know how, by a little wholesome counsel. We may venture to promise, that the five minutes devoted to us, will not be found in the great day of final account standing to the credit of time mispent.'

It is the exclamation of one, who appears in his writings to have had a very accurate conception of the value of time, 'behold how short my time is,' and he follows the exclamation with a question, which to us, unacquainted with the peculiarity of the writer's circumstances, may seem singularly querulous, viz: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain ?' The shortness of time, however, is no valid reason for the supposition that all men were made in vain. It only proves that time, short as it is, should be so employed, as to accomplish the design intended by the Great Creator. And if men choose to think, and act, as if they were made for no valuable purpose, instead of impeaching the wisdom of the Creator, it only serves to attach to men themselves, the blame of counteracting the designs which wisdom and goodness have formed for their advantage.

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