sport of ours. The virtuous shun her company as a dangerous infection; the eyes of modesty are averted at her approach; and the cheeks of innocency redden with a blush. Men of honor treat her with neglect, and libertines with saucy freedom. Nor is that all; she has many pangs to suffer from those who are her superiors only in artifice and cunning, and who, while they bless heaven. they are not so guilty, owe all their innocence to that craft which has preserved them from detection.

Driven from society, an outcast and forlorn, what can she do, forsaken by him who should have been her preserver? Neglected and despised, she becomes a prostitute for bread. Beware, oh! ye fair ones, beware of vice! The path of virtue is that of happiness; and rectitude of conduct will reward itself; and let a remembrance of the sad consequences ever guard you against the arts of the seducer. Whatever arguments may be used by the specious deceiver, remember, he who would lead you from the paths of virtue is your assured enemy; and that, whatever may be his pretence, his object is your ruin.

The following lines, we deem to be, unequivocally, the most elegant specimen of refined and delicate allusion.

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Too late I staid, forgive the crime,
Unheeded flew the hours,

How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.

What eye with clear account remarks

The ebbing of the glass,

When all its sands are diamond sparks
Which dazzle as they pass?

Ah! who to sober measurement
Time's happy swiftness brings,
When birds of Paradise have lent
Their plumage to his wings.

Remarkable Occurrence.

"Gennadius, a physician, a man of eminence in piety and charity, had in his youth some doubts of the reality of at life. He saw one night in a dream, a young man of a celesti. figure, who

bade him follow him. The apparition led him into a magnificent city, in which his ears were charmed by melodious music, which far exceeded the most enchanting harmony he had ever heard. To the inquiry, from whence proceeded these ravishing sounds, his conductor answered, that they were the hymns of the blessed in Heaven, and disappeared. Gennadius awoke, and the impression of the dream was dissipated by the transactions of the day. The following night the same young man appeared, and asked whether he recollected him. The melodious songs which I heard last night, answered Gennadius, are now brought again to my memory. Did you hear them, said the apparition, dreaming or awake? I heard them in a dream. True, replies the young man, and our present conversation is a dream: but where is your body while I am speaking to you? In my chamber. But know you not that your eyes are shut and that you cannot see? My eyes indeed are shut. How then can you see? Gennadius could make no answer. In your dream the eyes of your body are closed and useless; but you have others, with which you see me. Thus, after death, although the eyes of your flesh are deprived of sense and motion, you will remain alive, and capable of sight and motion by your spiritual parts. Cease, then, to entertain a doubt of another life after death. By this occurrence, Gennadius affirms, that he became a sincere believer in the doctrine of a future state."

The Drum employed as a Token of Prayer.

At Manheim, we are told by Dr. Moore, the following motions are performed as a part of the military manœuvres every day before the troops are marched to their different guards: the major flourishes his cane; the drum gives a single tap, and every man under arms raises his hand to his hat; at a second stroke of the drum, they take off their hats and are supposed to pray: at a third they finish their petitions, and put their hats on their heads. If any man has the assurance to prolong his prayer a minute longer than the drum indicates, he is punished on the spot, and taught to be less devout for the future.

MAHOMET made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill over and over to come to him; and the hill not moving, he was not at all out of countenance at it, but put it off with a jest. If the hill will not come to Mahomet, says he, Mahomet will go to the hill.

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so, with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering; and all fears and terrors are to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.

FRIENDSHIP.

The name of Friendship still remains, but that is all; the heaven-born tree itself is quite rooted up and lost; and unless some advantage is likely to follow, Friendship will not interfere. Friendship, in a fatal hour, contracted an acquaintance with Flattery, and was ruined: Flattery hath since assumed Friendship's habit, and it requires some study to detect the impostor, even un der the specious guise of closet consanguinity.

"The world is all over so full of deceit,

"That Friendship's a jewel we seldom can meet."

King James I. of England, went out of his way to hear a noted preacher. The clergyman seeing the king enter, left his text to declaim against swearing, for which the king was notorious. When done, James thanked him for his sermon; but asked him what connexion swearing had with his text. He answered, " since your majesty came out of your way through curiosity, I could not, in compliance, do less than go out of mine to meet you."

CURE FOR THE DYSENTERY.

A gentleman of this city, (whose name is known to the editors of the Halcyon Luminary) was, for several months, afflicted with this disagreeable disease, without obtaining the least relief from three physicians who constantly attended him; and who finally relinquished all hopes of their patient's recovery. At this awful crisis, he one morning dreamed that he was standing near the New-Market, where his attention was attracted by a company of soldiers conducting a prisoner, as he understood, to the place of execution. As the escort passed the place where he stood, the

victim (who was dressed in white) accosted him, and mentioned that he was in possession of a most important secret which he wished to communicate for the good of mankind, before he was launched from this earthly stage of existence into a boundless eternity. It was a cure for the dysentery, and the following is the recipe: "Take one pint of good vinegar, and half a pound of loaf sugar, and simmer them together a convenient time in a pewter vessel with a pewter cover. Let the patient drink of this during the day a small quantity at a time, either clear, or accommodated to the palate by diluting it with water." This secret being communicated, the procession passed on, and the dreamer awoke. Although he treated this as a chimera of the imagination, incited by disease and despondency, he still felt strongly induced to try the experiment. He did try it, and was restored to perfect health in one day, and then recovered his strength with a rapidity that astonished both himself and friends. Many persons of the first respectability, (whose names can likewise be learned on application at the office of the Luminary) to whom he communicated the fact, have since been relieved from the greatest distress and weakness to which this complaint had reduced them, and cured in the same sudden and astonishing manner. This simple remedy, so potent in its effects, is remarkably pleasant to the taste, more agreeable than lemonade, and on being swallowed seems to reach the seat of the disease with the velocity of electricity.

INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THE RHEUMATISM. Take sharp vinegar, (the sharper the better) and rub well the part affected with it as warm as the patient can bear, for ten minutes, and apply wrapping paper to it dipt in vinegar, to be renewed twice a day, viz. in the morning before breakfast, and in the evening going to bed. When the patient begins to make use of the vinegar it is necessary to take a strong physic, and at the same time one spoonful of molasses and flour of mustard mixed together, before breakfast, and another when going to bed, and in a few days the patient will be perfectly cured.

The person who publishes this recipe has tried it twice on himself with success.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all things shall be added unto you. Matt. vi. 33.

In order to prevent mistakes, let it be observed, that in whatever we may advance in vindication of the spiritual interpretation of the sacred writings, nothing is intended to supersede the grammatical and literal sense thereof, whether in, relation to certain historical truths, or the perceptive parts of religion, &c. which appear not to have any mystical meaning, whilst others of them have both an external and internal signification. But, according to the light which we have received from God, through that medium of communication which he has graciously appointed, viz. his holy word, and the instrumentality of those chosen servants whom he has been pleased from time to time to raise up and instruct in spiritual things, in order to become our spiritual teachers, we shall carefully draw a line of distinction between the letter and the spirit of the WORD OF TRUTH, giving unto each (by divine assistance) its proper order and place. The Father of Lights, from whom alone every good gift is derived, is graciously pleased, in every age, to raise up unto us of our brethren, (whether of clergy or others) enHh VOL. I. No. 6.