such as the crab-fish, shrimp, and the like, would be alone sufficient to fill the greatest cabinets.

I have made no mention of insects of many kinds; neither have I taken into any account that infinite number of living things, visible and invisible, known and unknown, which have no fixed determination, and which nature has scattered about, through the air, over the earth, and along the depths of the ocean!" St. Pierre.

SOCIAL WORSHIP,

Is attended with a thousand advantages; it softens our nature, refines our affections, and improves the heart.

"ONE class of religious duties separately considered tends to depress the mind, filling it with ingenuous shame and wholesome sorrow; and to these humiliating feelings solitude might perhaps be found congenial: but the sentiments of admiration, love, and joy, swell the bosom with emotions which seek for fellowship and communication. The flame, indeed, may be kindled by silent musing; but when kindled it must infallibly spread. The devout heart, pe. netrated with large and affecting views of the immensity of the works of God, the harmony of his laws, and the extent of his beneficence, bursts into loud and vocal expressions of praise and adoration; and, from a full and overflow. ing sensibility, seeks to expand itself to the uttermost limits of creation. The mind is forci. bly carried out of itself, and embracing the whole circle of animated existence, calls on all above, around, below, to help to bear the bur

reace of all those quoward Greniscices whic in a virtuous mind would produce t

The only sure Sundation of aamun mes religion, and the foundation ani, ac peepe of religion is the belief of the one only and a just sense of his attributes To com vocthy notions of the Supreme Being, as tur asce are capable, is essential to true religion and morality: for, as it is our duty to unitate those qualities of the Divinity which are imitable by us, so is it necessary we should know what they are, and fatal to mistake them.

How lamentable it is, that so few hearts should feel the pleasures of real piety! that prayer and thanksgiving should be performed, as they too often are, not with joy, and love, and gratitele: but with cold indifference, melancholy dejection, or secret horror!---Let your

numerable stars; the moon, rising in clouded majesty, unveils her peerless light; whilst the silent solemnity of the scene fills the mind with sentiments and ideas beyond the power of lan guage to express.

Variety is the source of every pleasure; and the bountiful Author of nature, in the magnificent display of his wisdom and power, has afforded us every possible means of entertainment and instruction. What a pleasing succes. sion of scenes results from the gradual vicissi tudes of the seasons! Summer, Winter, Spring, and Autumn, lead us insensibly through the varied circle of the year; and are no less pleasing to the mind, than necessary towards bringing to maturity the various productions of the earth. Whether the sun flames in the solstice, or pours his mild effulgence from the equator, we equally rejoice in his presence, and adore the omniscient Being, who gave him his appointed course, and prescribed the bounds which he can never pass !"Bonnycastle.

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE CREATION,

Is replete with wonders--its variety is im

mense-its treasures are inexhaustible.

"THE Earth is covered with vegetables and animals, the entire vocabulary of which no scholar, no academy, no one nation has ever been able perfectly to acquire. An intelligent naturalist, at Paris, some years ago announced, that he was in possession of more than thirty thousand distinct species of animals, while his herbals contained only eighteen thousand spe cies of plants. This number of animals, how. ever, so superior to that of vegetables, is a

cold and languid approbation; they must be sought with ardour, attended to with diligence, and every assistance must be eagerly embraced that may enable you to obtain them. Consi der, that good and evil are now before you ; that, if you do not heartily choose and love the one, you must undoubtedly be the wretched victim of the other.

The first step must be to awaken your mind to a sense of the importance of the task before you. This is no less than to bring your frail nature to that degree of christian perfection which is to qualify it for immortality, and with. out which it is necessarily incapable of happiness; for it is a truth never to be forgotten, that God has annexed happiness to virtue, and misery to vice, by the unchangeable nature of things; and that a wicked being, while he continues such, is under a natural incapacity. of enjoying happiness, even with the concurrence of all those outward circumstances which in a virtuous mind would produce it.

The only sure foundation of human virtue is religion, and the foundation and first principle of religion is the belief of the one only God, and a just sense of his attributes. To form wor. thy notions of the Supreme Being, as far as we are capable, is essential to true religion and morality; for, as it is our duty to imitate those qualities of the Divinity which are imitable. by us, so is it necessary we should know what they are, and fatal to mistake them.

How lamentable it is, that so few hearts. should feel the pleasures of real piety! that prayer and thanksgiving should be performed, as they too often are, not with joy, and love, and gratitude; but with cold indifference, me. lancholy dejection, or secret horror!---Let your

numerable stars; the moon, rising in clouded majesty, unveils her peerless light; whilst the silent solemnity of the scene fills the mind with sentiments and ideas beyond the power of lan. guage to express.

Variety is the source of every pleasure; and the bountiful Author of nature, in the magni. ficent display of his wisdom and power, has afforded us every possible means of entertain. ment and instruction. What a pleasing succes. sion of scenes results from the gradual vicissi tudes of the seasons! Summer, Winter, Spring, and Autumn, lead us insensibly through the varied circle of the year; and are no less pleasing to the mind, than necessary towards bringing to maturity the various productions of the earth. Whether the sun flames in the solstice, or pours his mild effulgence from the equator, we equally rejoice in his presence, and adore the omniscient Being, who gave him his appointed course, and prescribed the bounds which he can never pass !"---Bonnycastle.

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE CREATION,

Is replete with wonders-its variety is im

mense-its treasures are inexhaustible.

"THE Earth is covered with vegetables and animals, the entire vocabulary of which no scholar, no academy, no one nation has ever been able perfectly to acquire. An intelligent naturalist, at Paris, some years ago announced, that he was in possession of more than thirty thousand distinct species of animals, while his herbals contained only eighteen thousand spe cies of plants. This number of animals, however, so superior to that of vegetables, is a