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Let us all imitate the example of our celestial pattern, Jesus Christ, who expiated his life upon the cross, for the redemption and happiness of all who believe in his name. Then we will not be tormented by a guilty and upbraiding conscience. We will feel the blessed assurance that our lives have been spent in usefulness; and when we die, it will be with the joyful hope of inheriting the kingdom of eternal glory.

Silent and solemn night! Thou art ever sa feelings! Thou art the benefactress of the afflic tears thou driest! Thou art the friend of the whose sorrows are forgotten in thy gentle drea art the mother of the weary, who seek to repo arms, and receive from thee new life and vigor. an evidence of the majesty and power of Godfathomable wisdom, and ineffable goodness!

Thou art worthy of my meditations; for by thy ment, the whole universe, as far as the eye can changed. With thy shadows, sleep falls upon t At thy approach, a myriad of stars are seen to the firnament, before to us invisible.

Where is the man who remains unmoved, when forth in the solitary night, and beholds innumerabi spread out before him? when the stillness of deat in the streets, which, but a few hours before, w with the throng and bustle of the crowd? when dens, and groves, and habitations of men are silent the trees, and the flowers, are enveloped in dark seen in the pale and uncertain light of the moon soul shudders with an involuntary fear. There a who do not feel an inexplicable awe creeping over a time like this. What thoughts-what feelings upon the mind! How insignificant would appear the

if she did not receive a charm from the splendors of the midnight heavens! Where is the strength of the mighty chief, when weariness comes upon him, and he is bound in the arms of sleep? What are all the riches of the earth, when their possessor, like unto one that is dead, slumbers, unconscious of them all?

Thus it is, that night disposes us to serious meditations. It collects the wandering and distracted mind, and forces it into a common with itself. The solemnity of night inclines the fickle to useful and salutary reflections-it has recalled many a skeptic to faith in the ever living God-and many a scoffing sinner to the paths of rectitude and virtue.

As in every season of the year, so at different periods of each revolving day, the deity is made manifest in a peculiar and varied manner. The freshness of morning, the splendors of noon, the calmness of evening, and the majesty of night, are all the result of his beneficence. Every thing that we behold; the air, the earth and the waters; the rocks, the hills and the valleys, and every living thing, proclaim to us the wisdom and omnipotence of an all wise Creator. Then, weak and discontented mortal, cease thy attachment to things that are terrestrial, and contemplate the grandeur and sublimity of the eternal. At all times, and under every circumstance, remember that thou art destined for a higher sphere than that of the brutethat thou shall not live for the body alone, but chiefly for the spirit.

At night, the love of the diety is made known to us in many different ways. When the sun leaves our horizon.

to light the other half of the globe, every thin tranquillity that nothing may disturb our rest versal darkness that reigns over the face of vourable to our slumbers. Nothing distracts t arrests our attention. As we remove a light from of the infant, or the bed of the invalid, or quiet might break in upon their repose, so does the pa of God watch over the slumbers of his children them all into his friendly protection. The fa were impaired, are now restored to their wonted the body that was languishing, is strengthene pared for its ordinary duties.

When nature invites us to repose, we should her request. No one can disobey her laws with Nothing destroys the health so speedily, as changing of night into day, and the consequent of rest at the proper time. When the sun disa state of the atmosphere is sensibly changed, an the plants fold up their leaves and flowers. T grow weary, and conceal themselves in their la blood of the healthiest man is more excited, and irritable. The situation of the sick is also mor they manifest a greater degree of langour and re

Long and oft-repeated vigils, from an inordina amusement, is an infallible method of shortening mind is less acute, in consequence of the body be ed and overcome by unnecessary exertions. T departs from our cheeks. The pallied features a less eye, too plainly show that we have been sinnin