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cannot throw off its yoke by any virtue or efforts of And so long as it maintains its ascendency, we are degraded, and polluted, and miserable. But provision is made in the gospel for our emancipation. Christ 'gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all our iniquities," and that sin might have no more "dominion over us." And all who believe in him are made free to serve that God whose serivce is the sweetest liberty and the highest honour.

The salvation of the gospel implies deliverance from the ills and calamities of life. It does not imply this li terally; for, under the dispensation of the gospel, there is, strictly speaking, no exemption from bodily disease, from outward misfortune, or from the thousand distresses that flesh is heir to. But Christ has given such views of the providence of God,―he has brought life and immortality so clearly to light, and has so modified and subdued the operations of sin, which is the cause of all our sufferings, that these are no longer real evils to them that believe. When we are brought into a filial relation to God, the afflictions that he sends form a part of that discipline which he employs to improve our graces, and to prepare us for his presence. He supports us under them, he overrules and sanctifies them for our spiritual advantage, and he thus divests them of all that is frightful, and converts them into blessings.

This salvation implies deliverance from the power and the fear of death. It is indeed an awful thing to die. Nature recoils from the agonies of dissolution, and from the corruption of the grave. But Christ has "vanquished death, and him that had the power of it." He has plucked out its sting, he has secured our final triumph over it, and has thus taught us to dismiss all our alarms. Our bodies must return to their kindred earth; but they shall be raised again, spiritual, incorruptible, and glorious. They shall be reunited to their never-dying and sainted partners, and shall enter into the regions of immortality.

And while the salvation of the gospel implies our deliverance from all these evils, it also implies our admission into the heavenly state. It is in order to bring us

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there at last that all the benefits just enumerated are conferred upon us, and it is there accordingly that they shall be consummated. We are delivered from ignorance; and in heaven no cloud shall obscure our view,no veil of prejudice shall cover our hearts. We are delivered from guilt; and in heaven, at its very threshold, our acquittal and justification shall be proclaimed before an assembled world, and God's reconciled countenance shall shine upon us for ever. We are delivered from the power of sin; and in heaven there shall be found no tempter and no temptation,-nothing that defileth and nothing that is defiled. We are delivered from the ills and calamities of life; and in heaven all tears shall be wiped from the eye, and all sorrow banished from the heart, there shall be undecaying health, and there shall be unbroken rest, and there shall be songs of unmingled gladness. We are delivered from the power and the fear of death; and in heaven there shall be no more death; the saints shall dwell in that sinless and unsuffering land as the redeemed of him who "was dead and is alive again, and liveth for evermore." All things are theirs; theirs is the unfading crown, theirs is the incorruptible inheritance, theirs is the kingdom that cannot be moved, theirs are the blessedness and the glories of eternity. DR ANDREW THOMSON.

Few can expect to be exalted to the rank of monarchs or nobles; but all may aspire to those moral qualities which are of greater intrinsic value than the sceptres of kings and the stars of nobles. In the heraldry of heaven, goodness alone constitutes greatness.

Many of the early Christians submitted to martyrdom rather than dishonour their Saviour and recant their conscientious opinions. No consideration could induce them to infringe the law of their master, or deviate from the path of duty; and by the invincible courage with which they bore their sufferings, and the divine forgiveness which they showed to their enemies, they rendered it apparent that they had inhaled the very spirit of the Lord Jesus.

The insular situation of this country might seem at first sight to be a disadvantage; but it is in reality the source of much of its strength. To it, under Providence, are we indebted for our exemption from foreign aggression; to it do we owe the monarchy of the ocean; to it is to be ascribed our unrivalled commercial greatness; nor is it a small benefit, that it has, in some measure, insulated us from the lax morality of the continental nations, and impeded the spread of their unholy principles and practices.

In needle manufactories, the workmen who point the needles are constantly exposed to excessively minute particles of steel which fly

from the grindstones, and are inhaled with their breath. These particles, though imperceptible as the finest dust, are so destructive to health, that persons employed in this kind of work used scarcely ever to attain the age of forty years. In vain was it attempted to purify the air before its entry into the lungs, by gauzes and other similar guards; the dust was too fine and penetrating to be impeded by such coarse contrivances. At length some ingenious person bethought him of that wonderful power which every child who searches for its mother's needle with a magnet sees in exercise. Masks of magnetized steel-wire were constructed, and adapted to the faces of the workmen. By this expedient, an evil replete with sure though tardy destruction to a useful class of men, has been not merely obviated, but annihilated; for by the magnetized wire the air is not merely strained, but searched in its passage through it, and each obnoxious atom arrested and removed. Many surviving artisans daily bless God for giving to the magnet its surprising property, and for leading an ingenious man to apply it to such a valuable purpose.

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The title subaltern is given to all officers in the army under the rank of a captain.

Where there is no statute law to regulate the judge, he disposes of the case according to the decisions which have been given in similar cases; and when he does this, he is said to be guided by precedent.

The pursuits of men are so various, that he must be strangely deficient, either in talent or in industry, who cannot find one which he may prosecute with success.

His Excellency the Governor of India occasionally holds levees, to which British residents of respectability have access.

The committee of a society is a select number of the members, who are chosen by the whole society to conduct its concerns and transact its business.

That foolish artificer, by drinking to excess, has squandered the chief part of his means: he is now a bankrupt; and I perceive, by

an advertisement in the newspapers, that the remainder of his funds will be taken to pay a dividend to his creditors.

Upon inquiry it was ascertained that the vessel which was seen in the horizon, and which we supposed to be one of the enemy's escort, belonged to our allies.

The wretched creature who scrambled up our balcony, entered the house by an aperture in the window, and stole the bust from the pedestal in the library, now pretends that he is a lunatic; but he is known to have robbed the house of various utensils before this, and he is too much an adept in crime to obtain a respite.

Even the most reputable of men inherit a corrupt and perverse

nature.

The elect are those whom God has purposed to save; and none are acceptable in God's sight, or entitled to reckon themselves elect, who are adverse to holiness, or affect to be holy from sinister ends.

God's sentence against sin is irrevocable; but it is interesting to know, that such was the unprecedented love of our Saviour, that he suffered for sin in our stead, and thereby effected the removal of an evil which otherwise would have been irreparable.

The criminal had contrived to metamorphose himself so effectually, that for a long time he eluded justice, though his appearance and dress were daily advertised; but at last he was taken, tried, and sen➡ tenced to death: he is now in jail, awaiting the execution of the sentence, and there is no chance of his being respited.

The candidates for the representation of the people commence operations by canvassing for votes; they traverse the country for this purpose; they harass the electors with their attentions; and they labour especially to get those to countenance them, and interest themselves in their cause, who have it in their power, from their rank or station, to influence others. On these occasions the candidates distri bute their wealth with the greatest prodigality; and scarcely does a contested election ever occur in which there are not presents made that might easily be construed into bribes, and votes given which ought to be questioned and cancelled.

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