Endeavour to emulate such examples, my young friends;-engrave the rewards of pious resignation on your memory, and you will assuredly enjoy the consolations: they afford, which are superior to all that mortality can offer-as they, even in this world, raise the soul from earth to heaven.

ON

ON PLEASURE.

"Pleasure's a toil when constantly pursued."

CONGREVE.

COME, let us take pleasure,`

let our hearts dance with joy, let us forget sickness, sorrow, and even mortality; let us fly on the wings of dissipation through the day, and only retire at night when our strength will no longer support us in the vortex of amusement.-Let us spend the morning in visiting, the mid-day in dressing, the afternoon in all the luxurious gratifications of the table, and the evening at the play, the ball, or the opera.

A week thus passed, let us give onehour, in the calm of our chamber, to review. this routine of delight, and reflection will: represent it nearly as follows:

"I am wearied in the morning with visiting people whom I neither love nor respect; dressing is tedious, and, in

spite of all the advantages of fashion, I look worse than when in the country, in my most simple habiliments.-Rich dinners oppress my stomach, and, but for shame, I should retire to sleep; for 'tis with the utmost difficulty I keep myself awake. At the amusements of the evening indeed, I again feel new life, but after midnight, excessive fatigue, head-ache, fever, and sickness overpower me; and with reluctance I submit to be undressed, before I sink into a restless and uneasy, though heavy sleep."

Is

Is this the life of a rational creatureis this the life of a being formed after God's own image is this the earthly career of a soul designed for immortality?

For a second week, I conjure you, try the road to real pleasure.-Rise early, devote your mornings to the service of your Creator, domestic duties, reading, visiting those whose counsel may benefit your youth; take time to dress yourself with propriety and modesty, according to your situation in life, but do not dare to waste hours in decorating your frail and perishable

tenement.

At dinner, eat plain and wholesome food, undisguised by luxury, and unvitiated by the poison of inflammatory and dangerous sauces. In the evening seek real amusement either at home or abroad; pleasure that will bear the test of reason, and which

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which engages the mind without debilitating the body, and from which you can return, and with an approving conscience claim. the protection of your Creator, and retire to sleep in peace.

Again I entreat you have recourse to retrospection," My morning was plea-. santly spent, I have edified from the experience of age, and my heart has experienced the delight of drying the tear of misery. My dress was not so elegant, nor so highly fashionable as those of some of my companions, but its simplicity appeared. to attract approbation from its novelty ;add to which, I internally enjoy the recollection of having cloathed a family from the retrenchment of my superfluities. My dinner was plenteous, and I arose refreshed, without the uneasiness of repletion. In the evening the party, whether at home or abroad, was, delightful, it was the inter

course