It cannot be long before I leave this vale of tears, yet we know not the time; but do thou, blessed Saviour, be with me, and grant me thy presence. Oh, favour me with a peaceful end! I have no desire to live, my only wish is that the Lord would take me home to himself. What a happy change to be for ever wfth the Lord; there is nothing here worth living for. Oh, what a mercy to go to heaven, and have a palm of victory in my hand! Oh, what happiness to be in paradise' and then waving his hand again and again, he cried out, "None but Jesus, none but Jesus,

Can do helpless sinners good!" But I am such a vile sinner, and deserve nothing but eternal punishment; still does not the Bible say, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners? then will he save such a wretch as I am? O yes! I think, I hope he will.

"He is able,

He is willing, doubt no more."

Oh! the goodness of the Almighty! to deal thus tenderly and mercifully with me. I have much to be thankful for. Oh! that I might say, the dear Lord is mine, and I am his. I wish I dared to say, my Jesus! I may say, our Father!' When asked if he loved the Lord, he said, Oh yes, yes! indeed I do; and have I not cause, so kind as he is to me? I long to be gone, but hope not to be impatient.'

Sept. 11. He was very comfortable, and spoke of many things in a most satisfactory manner; which was a source of much satisfaction to his dear Father, who had been greatly exercised about him, especially during the past week, he having heard nothing drop from his lips that convinced him of a real change.

Sept, 12. Two near relatives from the country called to see him, and spoke freely of the things of God, which his countenance testified to be very acceptable to him; but from the

violence of his cough, and difficulty of breathing, he was incapable of conversing much with them. He took an affectionate leave of them, believing it would be the last time they should meet on earth, and so it proved.

Sept. 13. When the medical attendant called this morning, being very ill, and labouring much for breath, he inquired if any thing could be given to relieve him, during the short time he had to live? adding, that he did not wish to remain here, but longed to be gone. And on his leaving, he asked him what was his opinion, saying, ' You need not mind telling me, for I am not afraid to die.' After this he was greatly disturbed in his mind, and cried most piteously. On being asked what ailed him, he said, I cannot tell you, but I think I am dying.' His countenance bespoke the anguish of his soul. He continually exclaimed, My dear, dear mother, what shall I do?' His cries were truly heart-rending; but in the afternoon he suddenly cried out,—

Surely I am dying, and I feel so very happy; I shall soon be at home;' and looking up with a smiling countenance, and his hands clasped toge ther, he said, ' O blessed Jesus, take me home to thyself;' then raising his hand as high as he could, he exclaimed, 'Glory! glory!' and waving his hand, shouted Victory! victory! I shall soon be in heaven, with a palm of victory in my hand! Bless the Lord, O my soul!

O Lord, thou

hast been a kind and gracious God to me, and preserved me both from sea and land. Thou hast spared my life to this present moment; and now I am upon the bed of affliction, how tenderly dost thou deal with me. O blessed Lord, it is in thee we live, and move, and have our being. "Thine arm is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is thine ear heavy that it cannot hear?" Thou hast had mercy upon a poor miserable sinner.'

(To be Concluded in the Supplement

LEBANON LEAVES.

Suggested by the Sudden Death of the Rev.

Dr. Andrews,

Come up higher!""

PALE Death! thy dart

Hath suddenly uncaged the soul of one Whose name wakes varied recollections: Sunshine some, and some of gloom. I knew

him when

Like a tall floweret in some gay parterreBrightest and loveliest, he exalted shone : When every lip with adulation moved, And even envy spake reluctant praise.

I knew him too, when summer days had gone: When darkly overcast, the winter cloud Dissolved in tempest, and his spring-tide bloom,

And mid-day splendour, all were veiled in

storms:

Season of trial, which the tender health Of earth-born friendship seldom stands against;

But which establish more, and more endear His friendship, who is termed emphatically More friendly than a brother.

'T was thus in his life's history. His dawn was gladsome, and what time he bloomed,

Scattering his perfume lavishly on all,
Oh! he was flattered; but his Lord, who knew
That long prosperity-like tropic suns-
Gives life to many evils, sent in love
A messenger to buffet, weaning thus

His heart from this cold world, and bringing

him

To closer fellowship with heaven. Then the

taunt

And slander were loud uttered, and the men Who crouched to his prosperity, looked high And knew him not, now tribulation walked Unwished companion with him Oh'twas well He had a friend in heaven, who knew no change;

Who saw him thus become the sport of tongues,
Beheld him brave calamity, and knew
'Twas from a confidence in God; and He was
touched,

Touched with a sense of the infirmities
Of his tried child, and now, his work all done,
He smiling beckoned him away from earth:
Called him from all his troubles, all his cares,
Saying in seft sweet accents, Come up higher!

REZENEB.

A HYMN.

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."

O GOD of truth, do thou engage
To save me in temptation's hour;
Oh leave me not to Satan's rage,

But shield and save me from his power.

Oh, guard me from the snares of sin,
And hear my supplicating prayer;
Oh, keep me right and pure within,
Protect me by thy mighty care.

Oh, give me grace to read thy word,
And may it be my soul's delight;
That I may follow thee, my Lord,
Walking by faith and not by sight.

When in the gloomy vale of death,
Be thou, O God, my help and stay;
Then, when I yield this fleeting breath,
Let angels waft my soul away.

When thou to judgment wak'st this clay,
May I be with the first that rise,
To live with thee in endless day,
And praise thee, Saviour, in the skies.
Child Okeford.

T. HOLDWAY.

MY SOUL'S DESIRE.
ALMIGHTY God, in whom I live,
Do thou my greatest guilt forgive,
Through Jesus' dying love;
Prepare me for the world of rest,
And for communion with the blest,
In the bright world above.

O gather not with sinners Lord,
The soul that rests upon thy word,
And sin-atoning blood;
For I do love thy house of prayer,
And humbly seek thy favour there,
My Father and my God.

Oh, clothe my poor polluted soul,
In garments clean and white and whole,
Wrought by my Saviour God;

And cleanse me in that fountain, Lord,
Which thou hast opened in thy word,
And filled with precious blood.

Come, Holy Ghost, and sanctify,
Prepare me for the joys on high,
The joys of endless bliss ;
Then by thy rich, abounding grace,
O seal me for the blissful place,
Where my Redeemer is.

Preserve my soul from every sin,
And make my garments white and clean,
By renovating grace;

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"IF the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?" There are in this our day a multitude of sounds (in a profession of preaching the gospel) gone out into the world, but if there is not a proper distinction made between the sounds, who can tell what is piped or harped: where this is wanting, the whole is a jumble of confusion, so that the preacher becomes a barbarian to his auditory, and they the same unto him. That the generality of preaching in this day is of the above stamp, no child of God, who is established in "the truth as it is in Jesus," can doubt. But when he hears any of those doubtful things from the mouth of one whom he believes to be called out of darkness into marvellous light, and whom he believes the Lord hath separated by a special call to the work of the ministry, it cuts him to the heart.

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there, who said in the course of his "that he knew not what a clear and full deliverance was, as some people talk of; nor knew not what it meant, unless it was to feel no sin!" and he said that was Antinomianism, and he did not wish to know such a deliverance as that." These are the writer's words to me, and they not only convey a dreadful uncertain sound on the glorious doctrine of deliverance itself, but leaves my mind in a painful uncertainty about Mr. -'s call by grace, and also to the work of the ministry: He that laboureth must be a partaker of the fruit." I well know that many of the Lord's people have to wait long for a deliverance after a work of grace is begun in their hearts; with some it is evening-tide before the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, doth shine into their hearts, to give them to see clearly the light of the glory of God in the person of Christ, so as to know what it is to be changed into the same image, from glory to glory, by God the Holy Ghost. I believe that Mr. would not dare to say that there

is any sin in the above image. When will men cease to speak evil of the things that they know not? I do not wonder that Mr. G-, of W

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told Mr. that the Lord had not made him a honest man. From the moment that a child of God is convinced of sin, he both feels and sees his need of deliverance from the wrath of God, the curse of the law, and the power of Satan, sin, and unbelief: and however from time to time he may be holpen with a little help, so as to be enabled to hope and believe that Christ the great deliverer will come and liberate his captive soul, by unloosing his bonds and opening his prison-doors, nevertheless he is for the most part very uncomfortable: it is not enough for him to hear that "He that shall come will come, and will not tarry," for it is added, "the just man shall live by his faith;" and it is not very easy for one who sees and feels himself to be the greatest sinner upon the face of the earth, to believe that he is a just man before God: nor as long as he feels the power of unbelief, to be persuaded that he is the subject of the faith of God's elect, and that Christ died for him. Did men know the trial of faith on this ground, as well as the trial of it after deliverance takes place, they would not speak so lightly of it as they do, nor continue to exhort sinners dead in sin to believe, which to my knowledge has been done by those whom I hope well of. But it is impossible for the man under the above circumstances either to think or speak lightly of deliverance; much less for those to speak evil of it, who know the glorious liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free, by a revelation of himself to the soul, in the glory of his person as God-man, and Mediator-in his offices and characters-in his endearing relations to his redeemed; at which time and not before, is known the pardon of sin, and a purged conscience by and through the blood of the Lamb-the full, free, and complete justification of the sinner before God, by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ. His resurrection

power is then felt, by which the soul rises triumphant over sin, death, and hell; and because he is now manifestly a son, his divine reconciled God and Father sends forth the spirit of his Son into his heart, to give him the spirit of adoption, and to shed abroad his love there. This is the deliverance the Lord in mercy granted me many years since at Plymouth. And however Mr. and others may speak of it, as if it were a thing talked of in which there is no reality, it is well for the child of God that the Lord talks very freely and very largely on the subject in his word, whereunto Mr. Iwould do well

to take heed, until the day dawn and the day-star arise in his heart.

It is very clear that in the preaching of Christ and his gospel, not only that the living man believeth with the heart unto righteousness, but that the dead man with his dead faith believeth also the things which are spoken. Philip preached Christ to the Samaritans, and many believed: amongst the rest Simon the sorcerer also believed, and was baptized. And as long as Simon continued with Philip, wondering at the miracles performed by him, through the power of the Holy Ghost; who could say that the faith and baptism of Simon was not as good as that of any of the rest who had believed?

Some say they do not preach to sinners, and tell others that they ought not to do so. This is one of the uncertain sounds that I hear from time to time. If they mean that the Lord's servants ought not to exhort sinners dead in sin, to come to Christ, to repent, and believe, and "serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear?" I heartily join issue with them, and can truly say, I abhor such preaching. I see nothing to be done with such, but to tell them their state. But the Lord's people themselves are sinners; they are and will be, as long as they tabernacle in houses of clay, the subjects of sin