But yesterday, and in the sacred ranks
Of chosen men he stood, erect and true,
Himself a chosen one among them all —
Chosen of God so soon to fall, and die.
One day his voice was heard in Israel,
Amid her bannered legions crying cheer!
To God's elected hosts in holy war.
Another, and he dropped his tempered blade,
And hushed his battle-cry, his warning note,
And trailed his standard in the dust of death.
But 'twas a glorious exchange for him!
His sword laid down, he took the sceptre up ;
His call to arms, changed to the victor's song;
His war-worn banner, to triumphant robes;
His dying bed, to an undying throne.

The burial came. That night, that very hour,
And he was sheeted for the grave. The spots
Of plague and pestilence that on him stood,
Purple, and black, and streaming o'er his frame,
Pointed with horrid gestures to the clods.
Away! away! blood-tougued, they oozing cried:
'Tis our imperious King's command—the clods !
The clods! And Revelation weeping spoke :
“Quick from my vision bury ye the dead.”

That night they hid him in the earth. No hearse,
No tolling bell, no funeral ranks, no prayer.
Attended his departure to the tomb.
Two solitary men bore him away,
And laid him silently beneath the turf.
The stars looked down upon them, and the winds
Swept by with mournful sounds, and midnight clouds
Hung their dark drapery o'er the opened vault.
A lantern's flickering light revealed the path,
And might have filled the passing traveller
With dread that grave-marauders were at work,
Where the swollen body found its resting place,
And, by fast hurried hands, was covered up.
Fond, aching eyes were gazing. From the home
Whence he was carried to his home with worms,
Watchers looked forth, and followed with their looks
The dim night lamp that swung beside the grave.
They had done all that hearts of love could do,
Had perilled life around the clotted bod,
And would have followed to the bed of clay.
And she, his fondest, truest friend, looked on
That lamp, and listened to the rattling lumps
That fell upon the coffin thick and fast,
Until the hasty sepulti was done,
Oh! stricken widow-widowed in an hour
An age-like hour of utter widowhood.
But hers was not a shallow, selfish grief ;
For, calmly as she saw her husband die,
So calmly now, ere morning broke, she sat,

And by the light that had just left his corpse,
She wrote to those they loved the dismal tale.

And this was our own KNOWLES's burial !
He who beloved, admired, had stood amid.
The crowd, and audience had by night
And day of multitudes; he whose mild look
Had lightened many glooms, whose soothing words
Had cast much oil upon the raging waves ;
Whom thousands fondly loved while they revered,
And would have borne within the hallowed field;
He found this grave, and had this burial.

But he is buried in our hearts. The hearse,
The bell, the long-drawn funeral, the prayer,
Are all within us ; and no pompous rite
Can hallow more a burial in the heart.
His resurrection morn will be as sweet,
And his ascension to the angel throng,
As if his coffined body had been borne
With chariots and chantings to the dust.
And oh! if we may meet bim in the skies,
Resplendent in the glories of our God,
And join with him the everlasting song,
We shall forget, as we embrace again,

His sudden death, and midnight burial.
Newton, Massachusetts.

THE DYING CHILD'S REQUEST.

The beautiful thought expressed in the following lines, was uttered by a Sunday scholar. when dying ; and, at the instance of her pastor, who narrated it at a public meeting, of which the poet Montgomery was Chairman, he kindly consented to give it a poetic form, prefacing it with the following explanatory note :

“ Dear Sir,-I have taken your hint, but have endeavored simply to transfer into metre the dying child's request in her own sweet words, as nearly as the form of verse would allow, and so far as I could command it. The circumstance itself is so beautiful and so touching, that to embellish would be to profane it. A flake of snow falling upon an infant's cheek is is not more pure, delicate, and inconvertible without damage.

I am truly your friend, &c., The Mount, May 17, 1842.

J. MONTGOMERY."

A FACT.

“ Mamma !" a little maiden said,

Almost with her expiring sign"Put no sweet roses round my head

When in my coffin-dress I lie.”

“Why not, my dear?" the mother cried;

“What flower so weila corpse adorns?" “ Mamma !” the innocent replied, “They crowned our Savior's head with

DESIGNED FOR MEDITATION.

tion."

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ENGLISH PULPIT. Awful to appear among his enemies !

II. Teaching every man in all wisdom, parNO. V.

ticularlyRev. Dr. Collyer, London.

1. The way of access to God. 1 Colossians, 28—"Whom we preach,” &c.

Having boldness,” &c. The apostle's favorite topic.

2. The necessity of divine influence. Source whence he draws his noblest ima.

If any man have,” &c.

III. The end proposed. gery, If I were never to preach again, I would

“ To present every man perfect,” &c. preach Christ.

Design of the gospel and aim of ministers. 1. Cause which the apostles espoused.

To present men perfect2. Method they adopted.

In knowledge of Christ.
3. The end they proposed.

In righteousness of Christ.
I. Cause which the apostles espoused-

In the image of Christ.. " Whom,” &c.

In love and enjoyment of Christ. 1. To preach Christ, is to exhibit the glo- Are we lovers of Christ? ries of his person.

Is the design of heaven and the wish of the Equal with the Father in every essential ministry accomplished ? attribute of Deity: this, connected with his humanity, forms a sufficient basis for the hope

HINTS FROM A PASTOR'S STUDY. of sinners.

2. The mysteries of his cross.
Only means of pardon and purification.

NO. III. Doctrines of the cross are that to the gos- Matt. 13: last verse.—“Because of unbepel which the sun is to the world.

lief.” 3. The power of his arm-not his creating 1. Unbelief is a powerful principle. power exclusively or particularly, but his re

It is the root of all other sin. Resists the deeming power—" His own arm brought salva- clearest evidence. Acts 4: 15, 17. Brings the

greatest curse. Mark 16: 16. Is an avowed Trod the wine press alone. Who is this?

discrediting of God. Deut. 29: 19; 2 Kings Not only the power he displayed in grap. 7: 2. pling with the justice and restraining the Is a want of confidence in him either in wrath ofheaven, but that which he still mani- providence or grace. Jeremiah 17: 5. fests in plucking poor sinners from the burning. II. Remark its operation.

By grace of God,” fc.-In defending the 1. In an avowed infidel. Prevents free inchurch fom the numerous and powerful ene- quiry; produces false reasoning. See Rom. mies to which she is exposed on earth. 1:21 ; 2 Cor. 10: 5; 1 Cor. 1: 19, and 3: 19;

4. The grace of his heart, which appears in John 3: 9. his readiness to undertake our cause.

2. In the formalist. Blends law and gosWas he ignorant or the sufferings he would | pel ; generates pride. Rom. 10: 2, 3. have to endure ?

3. In the Christian. He has the remains of No, knew all—and in prospect of it, we hear it. Instance Lot, Sarah, Gideon, David, Zechhim say, in language expressive of his readi- ) ariah. Luke 1: 20. It confines the power of ness, Lo, I come.”

God. Mark 6: 5; Rom. 3: 3. Robs the beHis readiness to receive returning prodi- liever of comfort. James 1: 3, 4. Dishonors gals.

God: promotes despondency, lawless liberty,
Who ever came to the Savior, in gospel sin- and final ruin. John 3: 36.
cerity, and was rejected ?
Noi the thief. Not Saul. None.

Him that cometh.”
His unwearied intercession for his saints The following descriptive character of the
before his Father.

several books of the Old and New Testaments “ He ever liveth,” &c. II. The method adopted by the apostles.

is from a tract, entitled “A Design about dis1. “Warning every man.”

posing the Bible into a Harmony; or, an Es1. Warning men of the danger of being say concerning the Transposing the Order of without Christ.

Books and Chapters of the Holy Scriptures, Which is, to be without hope.

for the reducing of all into a Continued His2. Of the danger of neglecting the gospel of Christ-for,

tory. By Samuel Torshell'

This work was It subjects men to an awful misery. published in the Protectorate, and is now exFor “if they escaped not,”' &c.

ceedingly scarce ; our readers may therefore 3. The danger of rejecting the righteous- be gratified by a perusal of this portion of it. ness of Christ. 4. Of an approaching judgment.

Genesis. The cabinet of the greatest anti “We must all appear,” &c.

quities.

CONTENTS OF THE SCRIPTURES.

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CONTENTS OF THE SCRIPTURES-WONDERS OF PRAYER.

[AUGUST,

MOTIVES TO PRAYER.

Exodus. The sacred rule of law and jus- James. The golden alphabet of a Chris-
tice.

tian.
Leviticus. The holy Ephemerides.

i Peter. A theological summary.
Numbers. God's arithmetic.

2 Peter. The encouragement of a spiritual
Deuteronomy. The faithful mirror.

warrior.
Joshua. The holy war.

1 John. The glass of love, or charity.
Judges. The mirror of migistrates and ty- 2 John. The pattern of a pious matron.
rants.

3 John. The mirror of hospitality.
Ruth. The picture of a pious widow. Jude. A picture of false prophets.
Samuel, Kings. Sacred politics.

Revelation. Daniel Revivivus. The open-
Chronicles. The holy annals.

ing of the treasury of future events.
Ezra, Nehemiah. An idea of church and
state reformation.

THE WONDERS OF PRAYER."
Esther. The great example of God's pro-
vidence,

By the late Rev. J. Ryland, A. M., of North-
Job. The school of patience.

ampton.
Psalms. The soul's soliloquies ; the little
Bible ; the anatomy of conscience; the rose
garden ; the pearl island.

Abraham's servant prays-Rebekah ap-
Proverbs. Divine ethics, politics, economy. pears. Jacob wrestles, and prays, and pre-

Ecclesiastes. Experience of the creature's vails with Christ--Esau's mind is wonderfully
vanity.

turned from the revengeful purpose he had
Canticles. The mystical bride song. harbored for twenty years. Moses cries to
Isaiah. The evangelical prophet.

God--the sea divides. Moses prays—Ama-
Jeremiah. The pathetical mourner. lek is discomfited. Joshua prays-Achan is
Lamentations. The voice of the turtle. discovered. Hannah prays-Samuel is born.
Ezekiel. Urim and Thummim in Babylon. David prays-Ahithophel hangs himself. Asa

Daniel. The apocalypse of the Old Testa- prays-a victory is gained. Jehoshaphat cries
ment.

to God--God turns away his foes. Isaiah
Hosea. Sermons of faith and repentance. and Hezekiah pray--185,000 Assyrians are
Joel. The thunderer.

dead in twelve hours.

Daniel prays—the
Amos. The plain-dealing reprover.

dream is revealed. Daniel prays—the lions
Obadiah. Edom's whip.

are muzzled.

Daniel prays—the seventy
Jonah. The prophetical apostle of the Gen- weeks are revealed. Mordecai and Esther
tiles.

fast-Haman is hanged on his own gallow's in
Micah. The wise men's star.

three days. Ezra prays at Ahava—God ap-
Nahum. The scourge of Assur.

Nehemiah darts a prayer—the king's
Habbakkuk. The comforter of captives.

heart is softened in a minute. Elijah prays-
Zephaniah. Preparation for sad times. a drought of three years succeeds. Elijah
Haggai. Zeal for God's house.

prays-rain descends apace. Elisha prays-
Zachariah. Prophetic hieroglyphics. Jordan is divided. Elisha prays-a child's

Malachi. The bound stone of the two Tes- soul comes back; for prayer reaches eternity.
taments.

The church prays ardently-Peter is delivered
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. The four by an angel.
trumpeters proclaiming the title of the Great

MOTIVES ADDRESSED TO FEAR.
King.

Acts. The treasury of ecclesiastical story. A prayerless soul is certainly a graceless

Romans. The principles of Christian faith; soul; and a graceless soul is in danger of
the Catholic catechism.

hell-fire sixty times in every minute. The
1 Corinthians. Apostolical reformation. question is put every second, whether the sin-
2 Corinthians. A pattern of just apologies. ner shall live here, or in hell-fire with those

Galatians. The epistle to the Romans epit- who are eternally lost ?
omized.

A prayerless soul has no refuge in disgrace,
Ephesians. The opening of the great mys- poverty, danger, sickness, pain, or death ; no
tery of salvation.

guard against sin, lust, drunkenness, or any
Philipians. An apostolical paraænesis.

of the snares of the devil.
Colossians. A brief rule of faith and man-

swers.

MOTIVES TO HOPE.

ners.

1 Thessalonians. Practical theology.

Prayer produces habitual seriousness of
2 Thessalonians. Polemic theology. spirit, and ability to govern our thoughts and
1 Timothy. The sacred pastoral.

passions : this ability is real virtue ; true,
2 Timothy. The title of the Scripture beautiful virtue !
pleaded.

Prayer is admirably adapted to exercise
Titus. Agenda, or church orders.

and improve all the vital graces of the heart,
Philomen. The rule of relations.

on which the honor of religion, and the plea-
Hebrews. A commentary upon Leviticus. sure and happiness of the religious soul de-

pend. Such graces are, fervent love to God, pleasant land ;” “a goodly heritage of the gratitude for all his rich tender mercies, trust hosts of nations.” It was variegated and inin the providence of God under all the trou- tersected with all the elements of sublimity bles and changes of the present life, content and beauty, with whatever was bold and genment with our lot, hope in the merits of tle. It was prolific without a miracle, and Christ, expectation of mercy, aspirations of the subject of a periodical one. It was a soul after joy in God, expansion of heart to- wealthy place. Aromatic herbs covered the wards God's people, diffusive benevolence. hills, and the fairest flowers decked its glens.

Prayer kills covetousness, quenches Just, The rose was in sharon, and the lily in the cures envy, cools malice, disarms revenge, valleys. The voice of the turtle was heard in and roots up pride and atheism.

the land. There roamed the vine, and there Prayer will surely engage us to the use of clustered the date, and there hung the pomeall proper means to attain our desires; it al- granate. The cedar towered on the mounlows of no neglect of means; prayer without tains, and the myrtle skirted their sides. No the means is impudent presumption ; as using human hand could raise the clusters of Eschol. the means without prayer is detestable athe- The south wind, passing over the gardens, ism.

caused the spices thereof to flow out. The Prayer has a thousand commands and seasons revolved in their variety, but with a promises. It has a multitude of examples splendid sweetness. There was the upland of abundant success. It has divided seas, breeze, in which the fir could wave its arms, rolled up flowing rivers, made flinty rocks and the softer arr, in which the olive unfolded gush into fountains, quenched flames of fire, its blossoms. The sun smote not by day, nor muzzled lions, disarmed vipers and poisons, the moon by night. The birds sang among marshalled the stars against the wicked, stop- the branches. The dew lay thick on Hermon. ped the course of the moon, arrested the rapid There was balm in Gilead. The lign-aloe sun in his race, burst open iron gates, recalled drooped from the river-bank. Kedron and souls from eternity, conquered devils, com- Jordan poured forth their streams. The rain manded legions of angels down from heaven, also filled the pools. Lakes glistened in the bridled and chained the raging passions of landscape, and cooled the drought. Beautimen, and routed and destroyed vast armies ful for situation was Mount Sion. The cattle of darirg blustering atheists. It has fetched browsed on a thousand hills. The excellency one man from the bottom of the sea, and car- of Carmel, and the glory of Lebanon, set their ried another in a chariot of fire to heaven. pinnacles against the deep azure of Canaan's

sky. The year was crowned with goodness. MOTIVES DERIVED FROM OTHER FEELINGS AND | The Lord God cared for that land, and his

eyes were always upon it. At the stated peTo Cratitude.—God has heard thy prayers.

riods fell the early and the latter rain. The To Imbition.--Have you a desire to con

pastures were clothed with flocks. The quer devils, bad men, angels, and to prevail ploughman overtook the reaper, and the with God ?-pray.

treader of grapes him that sowed seed. The To glory anil pleasure.—Glory is a strong, barns were filled with plenty, and the presses vivid mixture of joy in a vast and durable burst out with new wine. The little hills regood, and a most ardent and high-spirited joiced on every side. Precious fruits were self-bve. What a glory to be connected with brought forth by the sun, and precious things all tle infinite good in Christ; to love our

were put forth by the moon. The earliest selves in him, and to derive all our joy from pass, the Valley of Anchor, was a door of him

hope. The vineyard distilled the pure blood Prayer will greatly promote and increase a of the grape. The fountain of Jacob was spiri of true repentance.

upon a land of corn and wine. The inhabitants Prayer will give us more distinct apprehen- were filled with the finest of the wheat. It sions of the presence, perfections, and provi- flowed with milk and honey. Its heavens dence of God. It will enable us to combine dropped fatness. It was surrounded with muall providences, and make them subservient nitions of rock. The deep, couching beneath, to pur temporal deliverances, supplies, and spread its sure defence. The land might be vicories over our enemies. It combines pro-called Beulah. The distant glimpse of its vidence with our best desires.

prospect refreshed the dying eye of Moses ; Finally, prayer will inspire a constant and and, of all thine earthly territory, this is emlively sense of our dependence on God, and phatically thy land, o Immanuel -Rev. R.W. Christ his eternal Son; as the wise and om

Hamilton. nipotent Governor of the worlds of nature

ADDRESSED TO OUR DEAREST INTERESTS.

and of grace.

DUELLING.

PALESTINE.

The late Mr. Armitage, of Yorkshire, was

once in London, unhappily engaged in a disBut “ a better country'' than this, earth did pute, which terminated in a challenge. not contain. It was a “ delightsone" and "a “Name your place, time, and friend.” said