a monument to the dead; and its epitaph, เ SLAIN BY MY BROTHER MAN! Could the world be slain by the holy Law, and no other sword be needed but the sword of the Spirit, how happy the times, how altered the customs! When the peaceful reign of King Jesus shall prevail, instruments that have been coloured with human blood will be melted in the fire, and come forth purified for better service than the death of man, even for the useful employment of breaking up the barren ground, and lopping off the unfruitful branches.---O that all the barren soil of our hearts might be cultivated, and that all our unfruitful branches might be made to bear much fruit to the praise of Him, who has as we hope grafted us into the true and living vine.

E. C.

N. B. We must not be depressed ;--it indisposes us to listen to that voice of tender mercy, saying" Rejoice always, and again I say, REJOICE."

LETTER XIII.

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TO A FEMALE FRIEND, WHO IS UNKNOWN, YET WELL KNOWN."

My Dear Stranger,

Do not let your pen remain idle; I think your letter has done me some good. So much of your heart was upon your paper, and it beat so quick through it all, I felt that I would no longer be inactive. Since then, we have done more for the poor in the way you suggested, than ever before. By learning them to be industrious, to manage, and contrive, and economise, and take care of themselves, and by supplying them with a plenty of work, we bestow a very needful charity. Such a kind of sewing society as you mention, we once had, and from its profits schooled half a dozen children. It may be revived; but there are so many great things on the wheel here, at present, that the charity-needle has wandered from its beloved star of exertion. We know, however, that the true kind of magnetism will bring it back. To ensure continued success in any thing, I am more and more convinced system and order must be maintained.

You apologise for not writing sooner; you need not; I was very glad to hear of your

numerous engagements. If Christians are only industrious, and have learnt the happy art to expedite business, it is not of importance for what express purpose it is performed, provided that purpose be infinitely great and good. Have you ever read "Messrs. Mills and Smyth's Tour in the Western Territories?" and "Law's Miranda?" It will make any Christian love exertion. You know this emotion is more heavenly and rapturous than all sensual delights. I think with my dear Miss L-, that we can be useful by proposing to, and exhilarating and expanding the feelings of those who have not received the stimulants which we enjoy. Let us try. Do you not think it advisable to keep a parcel of Tracts on hand, to give to our visitors, to children on errands, and to strolling beggars? I believe, to send beneficent and pressing requests to our acquaintances would have a good effect. If the great and honourable would do this, much might be effected.

Now you must allow me to be a little fanciful. Can not a stimulating society go into operation? Or are not our mothers ripe for it yet? Say, that in the public prints a note should appear, (recommended by respectable names,) requesting that in every town which will unite, an officer should be chosen; say, that these officers should constitute a corresponding committee; say that their names and

places of residence should be published so as to be known to each other; say that in the capital of each state, there shall be a director, to whom shall be addressed a letter once a year from each of the directors in the sister states. Each of these shall receive, besides their correspondence with each other, one letter a year from each town correspondent of their own state. The particular months should be named by the directors, in which these letters are to be written, and they so contrive, that their anniversaries come at different times. It shall be the business of the minor correspondents, in writing to their directors, to tell of their societies, when and how their origin, the amount of moneys raised, their objects, their successes, their different ways of doing good, the general and particular blessings bestowed upon their exertions, the state of religion in the place, (in few words,) extraordinary conversions, interesting facts, &c. &c. &c. Each secretary should make it a rule to fill one sheet, and no more; to have the hand plain, the spelling good, the grammar correct, the style chaste and simple, and the paper neat. It shall be the privilege of the societies or electors to peruse the letters of their scribes before they are forwarded. From these numerous letters interesting and useful extracts, (containing new and practicable plans,) may be taken, by

the chief officers of the different states, to communicate to one another. The postage of letters shall be paid by the societies who nominate the officers. The secretaries shall see that their letters are postage free. At every anniversary a report shall be published, in each resident place of the directors, containing a short general address, and all the letters written during the past year by the directors. (By the way, each one should keep a copy of his own letter.) The pamphlet would be small, and its trifling expense of printing must be defrayed by a contribution in the town where it is printed. A small parcel must then be sent to every town correspondent in the state, to be sold or distributed at discretion, If there are any proceeds, let them be sacred to some benevolent design. In case of the death or removal of any one of the officers, another person must be immediately nominated. All the letters belonging to this society may be considered as public. After having been opened by the heads of department, they may have the privilege of inserting any of them in religious magazines. of sending them to other towns, of reading them in their meetings, of lending them to their neighbours, &c. (But they must exercise discretion.) I must now attempt to mention its advantages. It would diffuse some religious intelligence, that other