While angels bear it, trembling, on their tongues; His love and grace the theme of all their songs, That name which angels, high in bliss, adore, That sacred name, do thou profane no more! AGAINST LYING. AND dost thon bear the Christian name, And yet incur the liar's shame? Wilt thou the God of truth defy, Who hates the semblance of a lie? And dooms the incorrigible liar AGAINST LEWD CONVERSATION. Art thou a Christian? Be thy language pure; AGAINST SABBATH BREAKING. WITHIN your house, or when abroad you walk, His ministers proclaim his love and grace! A THOUGHT FROM DODDRIDGE. BLEST be the man, statesman or patriot he, DUM VIVIMUS VIVAMUS. "LIVE while you live," the epicure would say, "And seize the pleasures of the present day." "Live while you live," the sacred preacher cries, "And give to God each moment as it flies." Lord, in my view let both united be, I live in pleasure when I live to thee. OTHER FRIENDLY HINTS. ON CRUELTY TO BRUTES. A MAN of kindness, to his beast is kind; Remember, he who made thee made the brute; Who gave thee speech and reason form'd him mute: He was design'd thy servant and thy drudge; TO SLEEPY WORSHIPPERS. The King of saints today Gives audience in this place; His servant now proclaims His purposes of grace; Dost thou receive the message with a nod? TO A SEDUCED FEMALE. UNHAPPY Fair! Seduc'd to stray His grace is sovʼreign, rich, and free, TO THE TRULY SERIOUS CHRISTIANS OF ALL DE NOMINATIONS. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF SABBATH DAY, SHEWETH, THAT your petitioner is of very ancient and honorable extraction, being created directly after the world and man were formed; and that your petitioner immediately after his formation, was blessed and sanctified by his Creator.* That your petitioner was highly honored many thousand years after his creation, insomuch that a man who presumed to degrade your petitioner by gathering a few sticks, was put to death without mercy.+ * Gen. ii. 3. Numb. xv. 36. That a blessing was promised to all who gave due honor to your petitioner.* That your petitioner continued to be honored and esteemed till within a few hundred years ago. That since that period your petitioner has been gradually deprived of the honor due unto him, notwithstanding the promises and threatenings held out to those who should honor or dishonor your petitioner. That your petitioner is now held in so little estima. tion, that he is obliged by the rich to serve them for routs, concerts, and other fashionable amusements; by some he is used for working a windmill; by some for printing newspapers and selling them; by some for keeping open shop, and selling shoes and other things; by some for corn porters to work on; by some for driving cat. tle to market; by some for digging up gardens; by some for driving stage coaches; by some for watermen to ply on; by butchers for selling meat; by a vast number for administering to their pleasures, and many other degrading employments which your petitioner was by no means created for. That for these things great wrath and judgments may be expected; and that, by dishonoring your petitioner, many persons have come to an untimely end. That your petitioner is grieved to the heart to see such vast numbers of people obnoxious to the divine wratk and displeasure of an omnipotent God, by the dishonor they cast on your petitioner. That, a short time ago, a society was formed to endeavor to restore your petitioner the honor he has been deprived * Isa. lviii. 13. of; but that no visible effect has appeared from their exer tions. Therefore, your petitioner humbly prays you will take his case into your most serious consideration, and that you will use your utmost endeavors to restore to your petitioner that honor he has been so unjustly deprived of, and thereby avert the Divine displeasure which now hangs over this nation for these things. And your petitioner, &c. &c. THE SAILOR AND HIS BIBLE. A SHIP in distress somewhere near the Swin, was observed by a Barking fisherman, who immediately went to assist and relieve the crew, whom they took on board their smack. On her going down, for she sunk, one of her crew jumped on board, and rushed into the cabin at the risk of his life, to fetch something he had forgotten; but great was their surprise when they found this precious treasure was.....a Bible! THE LITTLE REPROVER. I KNEW a man, says the Rev. J. Macgowan, in his Professor's Looking Glass, who once received one of the most severe reproofs he ever met with from his own child, an infant of three years old. Family prayer had been, by some means, neglected one morning, and the child was, as it were, out of his element. At length, he came to his father, as he sat, and just as the family were going to dinner, the little reprover, leaning on his father's knee, said, with a sigh, "Pa, you were used to go to prayer with us, |