And pray the LORD with ceaseless prayer,
Thy tender children's lives to spare.

M. A. W. Whether viewed as a pathetic lamentation for past calamities, or as a mournful prophecy of future miseries, the strict propriety of the language employed by the prophet must be evident to every one acquainted with the Jewish history. The 18th and following verses of this chapter would incline us, by their literal accordance with the miseries which occurred in the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, to consider them as a prediction of that event.

For the Christian Journal.

The Grave is not my Home. "Through affliction's wide waste I have peftsively stray'd,"

From youth up to manhood and age: The sorrows that cow me, if wrote in a book, Would amply fill many a page.

The world's empty promise has often deceived,
And led me a captive, and slave;

But I cannot abandon the truth I've received,
Nor think that my home is the grave.
A stranger I am, with pilgrims surrounded,
And tedious the journey I have;
Yet by my afflictions I am not confounded,
To think that my home is the grave.

I look to the grave as a lodging for strangers,
Where one night's repose they shall have;
But the morning shall break, usher'd in by
sweet sunbeams,

And pilgrims shall then leave the grave. Through the world-empty world-I look quite to heaven,

To God, who is mighty to save-
Enlarge thou my views, like those of St.Stephen,
Of a home that's beyond the cold grave.
MARAH.

For the Christian Journal.
SCRIPTURE HYMNS.
Version of 1 Kings xix. 11-12.
Lo! as the saint of old
In Horeb's mount abode,
A voice the summons told
To stand before his God:
"Go forth," it said
"Stand on this mound,
"And learn thou where
The Lord is found."
Lo! as the Lord then pass'd,
A mighty wind he sent;
The strong destructive blast
The rocks and mountains rent:
Though terror, waste,
And death abound,-
Not in the wind

The Lord is found.
Lo! while the storm assuag'd,
An earthquake's heaving shock
With deep convulsions rag'd,
And shook the rooted rock:

Though bills are sunk,
And rent the ground,
Not in th' earthquake
The Lord is found.
Lo! ere the earth can close,
A fire in fury caine;
Fierce from th' abyss it rose,
And fill'd the air with flame:

Version of Galatians vi. 7—9. Mortal! ne'er thy soul deceive;

God will not be mock'd by thee; What thou so west here-believe Thou shalt reap eternally.

Those, seduc'd by pleasures vain,

To the flesh and sense who sow~ They increase corruption's stain, They shall reap corruption's woe? Those who to the Spirit sow, Seeking truth and holiness, Reap his living graces now, Soon they reap immortal bliss. Be not weary then in good, Strength and perseverance keep; Faint not, but rely on God,In due season thou shalt reap.

JEDUTHUN.

Arrival of Bishop Hobart in England.

It gives the Publishers much pleasure to state, that accounts have been received of the arrival of the Right Rev. Bishop HOBART, at Liverpool, on the first of November, and of the improved state of his health.

Calendar Notices for January, 1824.
1. Circumcision.

4. Second Sunday after Christmas.
6. Epiphany.

11. First Sunday after Epiphany.
18. Second Sunday after Epiphany.
25. Third Sunday after Epiphany. Con
version of St. Paul.

To correspondents-R. and J. N. have our thanks for the lively interest which they manifest in the welfare and respectability of the Christian Journal. Without expressing any opinion as to the doctrine inculcated in the article alluded to, the justness of their remarks generally is freely admitted. Long experience however has satisfied us, that it is essential te the existence of this work, that a portion of its pages should be devoted to a species of reading which the student and the scholar might deem peurile, but which is interesting to perhaps a majority of our subscribers; and hence at times articles may appear in our Journal not altogether accordant with the views of many of its best friends. For this cause nevertheless none will forsake it; nor will such insertions deprive us of the favours of those valued correspondents.

The Publishers are gratified in being able to inform their readers, that the future prospects of this work are very flattering; a rich collection of materials being on hand, and an extended correspondence presenting itself in its favour.