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PEACE AND HUMILITY.

that fade out here as we gaze, are the enduring colors || nizing combat, which he felt in his interior, between of that mansion. The waters that shine there upon the natural affections of the inferior part of his soul the eye have no bitterness, and there, there is no and the holy resolutions of the superior. Let us do drouth. There is no separation there, and no chill of three things and we shall preserve the peace of our doubt, or decay, or jealousy cometh there, between souls. hearts that love. And the shadow of death entereth not there! And they whom I loved, and with whom I talked of that blessed home as we journeyed, are all there! Though they passed from my sight like the morning dew, yet have they left me a sign and a token where I should find them."

The first is, to have a pure intention to desire, in all things, the HONOR and GLORY of God. The second, to do all we are able, to attain this end. The third, to fix this truth in our minds, that God is called the Prince of Peace; and that wherever he is master, he settles a profound and total peace in the soul. It is true, indeed, that before he can establish this peace in any place, he raises a war there first, by stripping the heart and the soul of their most dear, familiar and customary affections; such as an inordinate love of themselves, self-reliance, self-complacency, &c. Yet even in doing this, we find some degree of peace, by reason of our conformity to the will of God.

Consider our dear Savior in the garden, and you will find that, to be the Prince of Peace, is to preserve our peace in the midst of war, and to enjoy sweetness in the midst of the bitterest afflictions. This will

disquiet and trouble of spirit, do not all come from God, who is the Prince of Peace, but are temptations of the enemy; and therefore you ought to restrain their motions and take no notice of them.

"And thou weepest, O traveler," said the aged man, "and falterest on thy way to a home like this! Why girdest thou thy spirit not up, in the strength of that which is before thee? Go steadily on thy way. Why dost thou foolishly look to thy fellow travelers for guides? Behold they are weak; they are dim-sighted; they are bewildered as thou art. Hast thou not the chart and compass of thy Father? Why askest thou their support, and seest not they are fainting at thy side? Thou shrinkest from the thorns in thy way, and seest not that their feet are bleeding. Thou lookest on the fruits they chance to pluck, and for-teach you that all those thoughts that cause in you gettest that thou gatheredst when they were an hungered, and they shared not. If thy sight is dim, and thine ear dull, hast thou jostled no one in thy path, and flung the thorns from thy feet under those of no other? Hast thou not passed by him whose wounds thou shouldst have bound up, and heard not the cry of him who asked thy help. Complain not, O man, of thy brother, nor embitter thy soul by thinking he careth not for thee. Look not upon the length of thy way, nor upon its toils, nor its desolateness, nor yet upon the deep waters, nor the valley and shadow of death thou must finally pass. But fix thine eye steadfastly on the home beyond; and, though dimness be upon thy vision, yet shalt thou pass on in safety and rejoicing, as one indeed, who, weary and worn from a long journey, yet beholdeth, from afar off, gleaming through the wilderness, the lights of his Father's mansion." D.

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THERE is nothing that gives us trouble and disquiet but our SELF-LOVE and SELF-ESTEEM. If we have not a melting tenderness of heart, or feeling sentiments, when we are at prayer, we fall immediately into sadness. If we meet with any difficulties, if any occurrence crosses our designs, we are presently excited, and exert all our strength to overcome those obstacles and rid ourselves of them; which cannot be done without hurry and disquiet. And whence comes all this, but because we would have every thing go smoothly according to our wishes, and, as it were, by eating nothing but sugar; not casting our eyes on our blessed Jesus, who, prostrate on the earth, sweats blood with the anguish he suffered through the ago

We must in every thing and at all times live peaceably, and this both in sadness and in joy. Is harm to be shunned and avoided? Let us do it peaceably, quietly, and without disturbance. Is good to be done? Let us do that, too, peaceably; otherwise we shall fall into many faults, through precipitancy and too much haste. Nay, let us observe the same conduct even in our works of penitence, and perform them peaceably.

As for humility, it makes our heart kind and sweet, both toward the perfect and the imperfect; toward those by RESPECT, toward these by COMPASSION. Humility makes us also welcome our sufferings sweetly, by knowing that we deserve them; and welcome those goods that befall us with a grateful reverence, by knowing that we do not deserve them at all. Exercise yourself, then, very much in acts of humility and of charity toward your neighbor, and be sure it will turn to a good account. When you find yourself sick or over-wearied, it must be your exercise to accept and love holy humility. By this means you will change the lead of your humility into gold; nay, into a more refined gold than that of the most lively gayety of heart. Do not give way to any complaining language, or say you are miserable, unfortunate, or such like, but avoid them utterly; for they are the sallies of a heart too much dejected and overwhelmed with temporal afflictions, and are not so properly to be called impatience as murmurings against God, who tries you.

Continue in your humility, as in a kind of hatred of any self-excellence of your own; and be courageously and magnanimously humble in Him who placed the great effort of his power in the humility of the cross.

THE YOUNG MARTYRS.

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THE YOUNG MARTYRS.

BY D'AUBIGNE.

THE inquisitors of the Low Countries, thirsting for blood, scoured the neighboring country, searching everywhere for the young Augustines, who had escaped from the Antwerp persecution. Esch, Voes and Lambert were at last discovered, put in chains, and conducted to Brussels. Egmondanus, Hochstraten and several other inquisitors summoned them to their presence. "Do you retract your opinion," inquired Hochstraten, "that the priest has no power to forgive sins, but that the power belongs to God alone?"-and then he went on to enumerate the other Gospel truths which he required them to abjure. "No, we will retract nothing!" exclaimed Esch and Voes, firmly: "we will not disown God's word, we will rather die for the faith!"

The Inquisitor. "Confess that you have been deceived by Luther."

then they began to recite their creed. At last the flames reached them; but the fire consumed the cords which fastened them to the stake before their breath was gone. One of them, feeling his liberty, dropped upon his knees in the midst of the flames, and then, in worship to his Lord, exclaimed, clasping his hands, "Lord Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on us!"

Their bodies were quickly wrapped in flame; they shouted, "Te Deum laudamus." Soon their voices were stifled, and their ashes alone remained.

This execution had lasted four hours. It was on the 1st of July, 1523, that the first martyrs of the Reformation laid down their lives for the Gospel.

All good men shuddered when they heard of these events. The future was big with fearful anticipations. "The executions have begun," said Erasmus. "At length," exclaimed Luther, "Christ is gathering some fruits of our preaching, and preparing new martyrs."

But the joy of Luther in the constancy of these young Christians was disturbed by the thoughts of

The Young Augustines. "As the apostles were Lambert. Of the three, Lambert possessed most learndeceived by Jesus Christ."

The Inquisitors. "We declare you to be heretics, worthy of being burnt alive; and we deliver you over to the secular arm."

ing; he had been chosen to fill the place of Probst, as preachers at Antwerp. Finding no peace in his dungeon, he was terrified at the prospect of death; but still more by conscience, which reproached him with his cowardice, and urged him to confess the Gospel. Delivered ere long, from his fears, he boldly proclaimed the truth, and died like his brethren.

Lambert was silent. The prospect of death terrified him: distress and uncertainty agitated his heart. "I request four days' respite," said he, in stifled emotion. He was taken back to prison. As soon as this respite A noble harvest sprung up from the blood of these was expired, Esch and Voes were degraded from their martyrs. Brussels manifested a willingness to receive priestly office, and handed over to the council of the the Gospel. "Wherever Aleander lights a pile," rereigning governess of the Low Countries. The coun-marked Erasmus, "there it seems as if he had sown cil delivered them bound to the executioner. Hochstraten and three other inquisitors accompanied them to the place of execution.

Arriving at the scaffold, the young martyrs contemplated it with calmness. Their constancy, their piety, and their youth, drew tears from the inquisitors themselves. When they were bound to the stake, the confessors drew near. "Once more we ask if you will receive the Christian faith."

heretics."

"I am bound with you in your bonds," exclaimed Luther; "your dungeons and your burnings my soul takes part in. All of us are with you in spirit; and the Lord is above it all!"

He proceeded to compose a hymn commemorative of the death of the young monks; and soon, in every direction, throughout Germany and the Low Countries, in towns and in villages, were heard The Martyrs. "We believe in the Christian Church, accents of song which communicated an enthusiasm but not in your Church." for the faith of the martyrs.

Half an hour elapsed. It was a pause of hesitation. A hope had been cherished that the near prospect of such a death would intimidate these youths. But, alone tranquil of all the crowd that thronged the square, they began to sing psalms,-stopping from time to time to declare that they were resolved to die for the name of Jesus Christ.

"Be converted, be converted," cried the inquisitors, "or you will die in the name of the devil." "No," answered the martyrs; "we will die like Christians, and for the truth of the Gospel."

The pile was then lighted. Whilst the flame slowly ascended, a heavenly peace dilated their hearts; and one of them could even say, "I seem to be on a bed of roses." The solemn hour was come-death was at hand. The two martyrs cried with a loud voice, "O Lord Jesus, Son of David, have mercy upon us!" and

Flung to the heedless winds,

Or on the waters cast,
Their ashes shall be watched,
And gathered at the last.
And from that scattered dust,
Around us and abroad,
Shall bring a plenteous seed
Of witnesses for God.
Jesus hath now received

Their latest living breath,-
Yet vain is Satan's boast

Of victory in their death.
Still-still-though dead, they speak,
And trumpet-tongued proclaim
To many a wakening land,

The one availing Name.

After praying to God not to lead you into temptation, do not throw yourself into it.

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It is the mistake of many parents to applaud and to praise their child whilst yet an infant, for "OUT of the heart are the issues of life." This those little performances which evince spirit and saying of the wise man applies no less aptly to the energy, in preference, nay, often to the exclusion life of the world than to that of the spirit; and it of those acts which betoken kindness and love. requires not the teaching of ethics to inform us who How then shall the child learn to know, if the are they that win to their earning the world! They former be not far more valuable than the latter? are the amiable and the gentle-tempered. We speak Yet the former has its basis in self, and is much in general sense, and of those whose abilities, talents more easy, and accordant to the vanity of nature, and opportunities are about upon a par with each than is the latter. The writer, very conversant other. Particularly we speak to females; to the young with children, has noticed manifold instances of amongst them who have yet their course to run; this sort, where the parent, without reflection, and and probably, very probably, the difference of gen- certainly without injurious intention, has administleness-not of manners only, but of the heart, shall tered to a false principle, and perverted a true one, make to them either a happy or a disastrous life. It by this injudicious praising of smartness, and paswill not be imputed that there is any idea of self- sing over of goodness. The effect, besides the imrighteousness in this statement; for this flow of mediate influence of flattery upon the infant mind, gentleness is but the effluence and constant giving was always, in the absence of judgment, to give forth of that spirit of lowliness and humility which, a strong bias to prefer and to value in themselves it is asserted, is the very ground and foundation and their associates, the mental distinctions of charof the Christian character. acter, before those charities of the heart, which both And here let us remark the difference perceptible adorn and soften humanity. The intellectual charin the theories of religious or of merely ethical acter we shall find often in strong alliance with that writers. Whilst the former hold up to imitation pride which is so adverse to gentleness and to that that subduing of the natural heart which is said to sweetness of intercourse which every condition of be the perfection of saintly grace, the latter fre- life calls for. Good principles cannot commute for quently assert that firmness and well sustained strength want of gentleness-it is the expression of kindis most consistent with the dignity of man's moral be- ness, which the occasion of every day calls foring. The writers of biography in a particular manner a character of spirit we often find united with a tend to mislead the young in what is to be endeavored good heart. Yet it is manifest, if the one is culafter in character—the representation mostly is that it tivated and the other neglected, that in a very is force, enterprise and spirit that gain supremacy and short term of years they will bear no sort of promaintain dominion in the world; yet the success of a portion to each other; and, perhaps, in such cases, conqueror is but a fallacious test, but the outside of it is only the care of nature herself, and not of things, the phase, and not the centre-the ascription her human guardians, the parent, that the heart of the multitude, showing what they themselves which is thus smothered, be not entirely destroyed! would desire, rather than the acknowledgment of Conscience, in such cases, acts occasionally the the hero himself. mentor, and incites to the performance of consider.

It is mostly the lives of the illustrious and uncom-ate and obliging acts; yet the tenor of such a life mon that are chronicled, and not those of every presents not that lovely flow of the affections, that day capacity that are thus held forth. And the humane softness of word and look, which attract points insisted on by the biographer are calculated the sympathy of all within its sphere. And this to mislead; for, after all, it is the patience of delib- kindness of heart, as evinced in habitual acts and eration, the long study of planning, the quiet in- deeds, in forbearances, in considerate gentleness, dustry, that precede, which secure achievement; but wins not "golden opinions" only, but it often wins these are mostly unnoticed, kept out of sight-yet that preferment of place and station, which the such are generally the preliminaries that lead to the ambitious and proud have struggled and sighed for success of performance. Another distinction. The in vain. But this result is not held up as a moidea of fame is not that of happiness-a hero is tive, (for the promptings of kindness should be disingenerally carried along by some impulse almost terested,) but it is shown as an effect. Whilst the irresistible-in his mission, and at the instant, he female of proud nature, the intellectual aspirant makes to himself no question whether he would with perhaps the keenest susceptibilities, but of prefer the plaudits of the world, or the approbation ungentle and unregenerate heart, has been robbed of Heaven and the contentment of his own soul; of much happiness, her perverted sensibilities, like yet the day will come, if he live long enough, a stream turned away from its course, have been when such question and such consciousness will absorbed in admiration of the grand and the stuarise. But our young female readers have nothing pendous; and the affections, which naturally had to do with these grand speculations, which, indeed, been sufficient to have fed all the sources of doat this time of day are getting out of fashion mestic and of social life, have expended themselves everywhere. in these fruitless speculations-elevated and vague,

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unassociated and unreciprocated! How little do parents think of cultivating gentleness of heart in their children, yet how grievously do they deplore that unhappiness which results to them from the want of it. In training, their motto is, on, on, when it should be, restrain, restrain!

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young persons will doubtless, by this time, be willing to acknowledge the great obligation they owe to their keeper.

The young is by this time become a woman. She is, with all propriety, looking to a partner in life; she is a candidate for the honors of marriage. In Nature is generally sufficient for herself-at least this she makes no overt step; but it is an underit should be the part of education to direct and stood case; for so entirely proper, as well as natural subdue, rather than to urge her. All science, ex- is it, that the female, as well as those of the other cept the science of domestic training, goes to this sex, should look to marriage, that in those instances effect. The Humanities are all upon the restrictive where they do not marry, the failure is, in general, plan. Nature is commuted in the attainment of all. to be imputed to some other over-mastering principle The divine preaches the subduing of the carnal of character, rather than to a determination against heart, as the first and last effort. The leech abstracts it, or, as is vulgarly believed, to the "want of a the blood he depletes; he takes away the excesses chance." But if my young lady is petulant, overwhich have accrued, and economizes the system bearing, self-sufficient, who will approach her? Let which he would build up. The lawyer, by inverse her beauty and accomplishments be what they may, method, does the same; he asserts that the right if she is not amiable she will not be loved; or, to is of possession, where no fault of title exists. The take our epithet in its etymological sense, if she be mechanic turns all his effort to reduction, and by this not loveable she will not be loved. But she wishes method sets his own strength above that which is a not to pass through life alone; and, however the thousand times superior to it. The sculptor, by one circumstances of the case, her fortune, her beauty, ungentle blow, would destroy the work of years; or her meretricious fascinations, may effect a marriage and he effects that by restraint of hand which all for her, it will not be a happy one: she will find his force could never do. The orator may be that the hollowness of compliment, the voice of vehement, but he must be gentle; he may persuade, adulation, the homage of the senses, are of no abiwhere he could not command. Even the warrior, ding date-their own nature forbids that it should be whose trade is violence, gains his victory, not by so. She will find that it is only affection that can urging, but by the adroit saving of his strength. command affection; that only gentleness and truth And in the arena the wild bull of the hills is con- shall insure to her the allegiance of that friend who quered and overcome by the arm of him, whose fra- has become the guardian of her life. Young ladies gility is, in comparison with his own power, but as are quite too apt to believe the absurd and monstrous the dust of the balance. flatteries that, in their day of power, are proposed and recapitulated to their too credulous simplicity. However an enamored swain may persuade himself, as well as his fair one, that this rhodamontade of sentiment is genuine love, it should be observed that the more deep attachment seldom deals in such asseveration, and that the sentiment in alliance with the truth of a superior character partakes also of its sincerity. But the young girl is imposed on, partly by the folly of her lover, partly by her own vanity, which is thus fostered, often to the serious disadvantage of her whole life; for the notion of a superiority over her lover, and of a sort of subjection, which he has himself so foolishly instituted, puts her, if she be not at all gentle, upon many coquetries and airs, which finally become habitual, even to the shrouding of whatever good sense and real merit of character she may possess. And often, especially rendered. Restraint, then, without severity, before a stipulated engagement has conferred upon should be a fundamental principle in the training of the gentleman the right of expostulation, the unhappy youth. The gentle will find this an easy sway; girl finds herself, to her own consternation, deserted! and the petulant and the froward will be over-ruled Deserted by one who, had she been gentle, sincere, to a salutary subordination whilst young; and when conciliating, had been well content to assume the sufficient years have rendered it proper that they partnership of life in her company. In this case, become their own counselors, and take the govern- the lady, knowing her own real regard, which, ment of their own characters into their own dis- hidden under her affectations, he could never know, cretion, the task will be much less arduous than imputes the whole blame to him-outwardly making if no such restraint had ever existed; and such the best of the case she can-shrouding a sad heart

But the child is trained, not perhaps by precept, but certainly by practice, to exert, and not to govern, the outgoings of energy and spirit! This, particularly in female character, is a most deplorable mistake. The child of smartness, and of a precosity out-growing its judgment, is still urged on to signalize herself by out-shining others-others, possessed perhaps with quite as much ability, and gifted with a better preponderance of character than her own; but not so quick, not so smart, not so energetic. In the meantime the intrinsic merits of the heart are thrown in the shade, or unaccounted of at all. Is it strange, then, that she shall never know to value them? or only know when the penalty of bitter experience shall have taught her their worth. The prime duty of the young is obedience; yet, with such dispositions, how difficult is obedi

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under a derisive and bitter wit at the offending sex. || the natives, in reference to having the women taught, On the other hand, the recreant suitor recriminates will readily conclude, that this is a great step gained. the fault, and thinks the lady a heartless and thor- O that it may receive the benediction of Almighty ough-going coquette. Yet he was himself the first God, and prove an opening for the dispensing of spiraggressor, and she the dupe of his affectations, the vic-itual blessings to the perishing daughters of India, at tim of his flatteries; and this rather than to be guilty present so strongly bowed down by the chains of superof the more flagitious sin of coquetry. Let the stition, and so thickly enveloped in the clouds of darkhonorable man be open in his addresses to a lady; ness and sin! let the lady be sincere, and he never need feel hum- Did I not fear trespassing on forbidden ground, I bled should it happen that he be not the one out of would beg to make an appeal to the hearts of the the world whom she can prefer. Let the lady not Christian ladies of highly-favored England, in behalf be sincere only, but gentle, amiable, kind, accounting of their Hindoo sisters, through the medium of the her suitor, in all simplicity, her friend, and not her". Missionary Notices." I would endeavor to awaken slave. And thus far, in my statement of a topic their sympathies more fully than they have ever which is seldom touched upon, though of moment to yet been, by telling of the firm and strenuous supevery young lady to be counseled upon-namely, porters idolatry finds in the women of India. I the conduct of her courtships. And this reminds would recount to them instances-and those not me of the distinct illustration which I might make few and far between-of Hindoo mothers walking of my principal subject, by presenting the histories scores of miles, carrying their tender babes, to be of two female characters within my cognizance; be- present at some great festival; the child receiving ing in most points characters, which, though not with its mother's milk a love of that religion which alike, are a fair balance to each other, with only-did is leading her to the shades of everlasting darkness, I say only-the difference made in their welfare of and which is so mixed up with filth and obscenity, life-that the one is proud, the other amiable. But that the first words a child is taught to lisp in this I am writing to the young ladies of the "Repository"- benighted land are those that would make an Euof a Christian community. If they be all truly re- ropean female blush, nay, more, shed tears of bitterligious, my address is an impertinence, and not to ness. How different from that passage in Holy Writ, them; but are there some amongst them who labor "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast under the mistake that the peccadelloes of courtship thou perfected praise!" Would that the day had are not cognizable to earnest animadversion, and in-arrived, when such might be said of the babes and volve no sin-they are totally mistaken, and should reflect that a subject which engages so many of their thoughts, often to the exclusion of important duties, cannot claim immunity of judgment.

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Extract of a letter from Mrs. Bachelor, to the Rev. Elijah Hoole, dated Negapatam, Tanjore, November 16, 1842.

PREVIOUS to my departure from my native land, you were kind enough to say, that you would be glad to hear from me; and now that I am more intimately connected with the Wesleyan Missionary Society, I take the liberty of availing myself of your kind request.

I rejoice to be enabled to inform you, that on the 1st of October I commenced a girls' school in Negapatam. My numbers are as follows: Native children of good caste, twenty-four; East Indians, twenty; Pariah caste, twenty-four; total, sixty-eight. Twelve of these caste-girls form my boarding department.

My heart overflows with gratitude to my heavenly Father, for thus putting so much honor on one of his most unworthy children, and for crowning my humble endeavors with such abundant success.

I have to-day received an invitation from a native of considerable rank, to visit and instruct the females in his family in needle-work. You, my dear sir, who are so well acquainted with the prejudices of

sucklings of India! And shall we not endeavor to hasten it by our prayers, pecuniary offerings, and labor? I fancy I hear my little Wesleyan friendschildren of prayers and promises-say, "We will give our farthings and half-pence, that the little Hindoo children may be taught not to use bad words."

But this is not all: could I transport the Wesleyan |ladies of England to this hemisphere, and bid them listen to the sound of frantic grief, as it comes wafted on the wing of the night breeze, as the last breath of some beloved object is drawn, perhaps a husband, perhaps a child; and could I then take them to the wretched dwelling, and there point out to them the widow or mother beating her breast, tearing her hair, and refusing to be comforted, because death had deprived her of the desire of her eyes,-no hope, no resignation, no drops of comfort mingled with her bitter cup;-would they not strain every nerve, and use every effort, to bestow upon these poor creatures that glorious knowledge which has "brought life and immortality to light;" which would enable them to submit to the chastening rod, and say, "Father, not my will, but thine be done?"

My heart yearns over the women of India. I would they were made partakers of the like precious faith with myself.

It is indeed a stupendous work, beset with difficulties. So peculiar and astringent are the habits of the female part of the population, that it appears

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