tion and respect, for how is it possible for us to hate and despise that which God and nature have made so essential to our happiness. If the intention of the Creator be attended to, the respective claims and duties of the sexes will be settled in a single moment, and an end will be forever made to all unprofitable discussions of superiority and inferiority, of authority and subjection in those whose destination and duty it is to be mutually helpful, attentive and affectionate. For only observe and remember and consider that woman was made of the rib of man-she was not taken out of his head to rule over him, she was not taken out of his feet to be trampled under foot by him; but she was taken from his side to be his equal, from near his heart to be beloved by him, and from under his arm, to be protected by him; and for this reason the Episcopal Church directs that in marriage the man shall always stand on the right hand and the woman on the left hand and it is very reasonable and proper, that whenever a man and woman, but especially a husband and wife appear together, or walk together, that the man should take the woman under his left arm as the nearest and dearest object of all his earthly affections, and that his right arm should be at liberty ito guard her, to support her, to defend her, and to protect her.

2d. Young women, this subject speaks to you, you see what is your earthly destination; it is to be helpmeets for man, keep this object steadily in view, let it direct you from your earliest days of reason, in the employment of your time, in the cultivation of your talents, in the improvement of your hearts, and in the formation of your manners-let it influence you in regard to the books you read, the principles you imbibe, the models you imiavd you may quanty yourselves to be helpmeets for those who shall be your husbands-able to train up their children in the way they should go-to share their prosperity with moderationto alleviate their afflictions by sympathetic tendernessto improve their temporal interestsby your wisdom and your care-and to promote their eternal salvation by your example and prayers. Ever keep in mind, my fair

tate, that by the

young hearers that the proper and peculiar sphere of good women and good wives is the retired vale of doinesic life,study to excel then rather in the useful,than in the ornamental qualities of the female character. Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, and as the only basis of real, uniform, persevering, personal and relative virtue and happiness, endeavor to have your hearts established with grace in a reasonable religion.

3d. Young men, this subject speaks to you. Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge! say not that it is good for a man to be alone! the Lord God says it is not, and who art thou that replieth against God. The practice of celibacy is one of the crying sins of our age and of our country, and is equally unfriendly to religion, unfriendly to good morals, unfriendly to public spirit, and unfriendly to human comfort. He who says or lives as if he thought it were good for man to be alone gives the lie to his maker, he sins against the constitution of nature, dishonors his parents, defrauds another of one of the justest rights of humanity, and that too in a case where she cannot complain-and he exposes himself to commit crimes which I should be ashamed to mention. But in making choice of a partner for life what need is there of prudence, of advice of your best friends and particularly of your parents and the direction of Heaven. In taking to yourselves wives, you are forming a connexion which nothing but death can honorably dissolve, you are entailing on yourselves the worst, the greatest earthly curse, or receiving the best, the sweetest, the richest temporal blessings which Heaven can bestow ! Guard then against the charms of external beauty, the brilliancy of wit and the enchantments of wealth. Con

sider ner education, the disposition of her heart, the qualities of her mind, her domestic accomplishments, and above all consider her piety, favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord shall be praised, her price is above rubies, the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her and she shall do him good and not evil all the days of his life.

4th. Wives, this subject speaks to you it tells you

that you are not to hinder your husbands, but to help them. A lazy, sluttish, wasteful, contentious, imperious, inconstant, unfaithful wife is one of the greatest misfortunes that can fall to the lot of any man. I pity him from the bottom of my heart! unfortunate man! unhappy man his wife, instead of an helpmeet, instead of the best, the richest, the sweetest of all blessings which Heaven could bestow, she is shackles on his feet, she is palsy to his hands, she is a burden on his shoulders, she is smoke in his eyes, she is vinegar in his teeth, she is a thorn in his side, she is a dagger in his heart, and good God what is she not !* O ye wives! consider how much your husbands have honored you, by choosing you in preference to all others, to be their bosom, their best, their confidential friends, to take charge of their houses, their children, their property and their happiness, till death shall dissolve the tender, the solemn, the important connexion. Consider how much they do and how much they suffer for your maintenance and comfort. While you are easy, and safe at home, they are exposed to ten thousand, thousand dangers and hardships, by sea and by land, in the summer's sultry heat, in the winter's piercing cold; confined to the receipt of custom, immured with in the walls of the study, buried in the bowels of the earth, tossed on the tempestuous ocean, bleeding in the field of war, indefatigable in their profession, trade, or occupation by night and by day; and what is the chief temporal reward which they expect for all their toil, all their trouble and all their danger? it is the obedience, it is the fidelity and it is the affection of their wives. Consider how strongly these duties are recommended in the scriptures consider how solemnly you promised them in the church, or in the presence of God and of your friends, before the minister, before the altar on your wedding day! and after all, will you be froward, will you be peevish, will you be sullen, will you be ill-natured, will you be unfaithful or neglectful? No! Heaven forbid it; It is better to dwell alone on the house top, than to dwell

*I can have no conception of a better character or personage than that of a virtuous, good woman, and I can have no conception of a worse character or personage than that of a bad woman! she is worse than a bad man

with a brawling woman in a wide house. But wives submit yourselves to your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband for the Lord God hath said I will make him an help meet for him.

5th. Husbands, this subject speaks to you.-It says nusbands love your wives and be not bitter against them. Bitterness, illnature, want of kindness, tenderness and affection towards your wives is meanness and inhumanity, yea, inhumanity of the most monstrous kind, for every wound inflicted upon your wife is a wound inflic ted on your own body; and cruelty to your wife is cruelty to yourself, for ye two are one. Bitterness towards your wife is not only inhuman, but it is unspeakably mean, it is dastardly, it is cowardly, it is ungrateful; for when you first addressed her on the subject of love and marriage, she was coy; you protested the sincerity of your passion; she believed you but was still timid and reluctant. You employed others to advocate your case; at length she consented and confided in your integrity, she committed her body, her accomplishments, her property and, I had almost said, her soul into your handsand alas! your bitterness proves you dead to every feeling of honor, of gratitude, of religion and utterly unworthy of such a treasure. It is ingratitude to God, for in compliance with your wishes, in answer to your prayers, Heaven has given you a lovely, a discreet, and amiable wife to be an helpmeet for you; and you are insensible of the favor, you trample it under your feet, and thus you insult the goodness of God-your bitterness and unkindness towards your wife is an impious and heavendaring violation of one of the plainest laws of nature, and of one of the clearest precepts of the gospel; for only but consider what the great Apostle to the Gentiles says on this subject. (Ephesians, 5th, 25th.) Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it, &c. for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord did the church for we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.-For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined unto

his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church, nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love, esteem, and respect his own wife, even as he does himself. Without pursuing the subject let none of us ever forget that all our earthly connexions must soon be dissolved,and that they ought all to be improved with a view to eternity; let us then now work out our own salvation with fear and trembling well-knowing that God has given us power both to will and to do those things which are for his good pleasure-give me leave therefore to invite you all, single and married, young and old, to a spiritual union by faith, and love and good works with the Lord Jesus Christ-come into the ark of Christ's Church; rend your hearts from every evil propensity; devote yourselves to the service of God in a sober righteous and godly life and conversation, all things are now ready, come to the wedding, amen!

ON RELIGION.

Ir people would be careful to understand and define the terms which they use in conveying their ideas to each other, on subjects of religion, it would greatly abate, if not entirely do away those unhappy differences and disputes which now exist in the world. Religion is derived from the latin word religo, which signifies to bind, and is that bond or obligation which every creature owes to its Creator; so that every person of every nation, country, language and persuasion under Heaven, who believes that there is a God, and endeavors to live a life accordingly, may be said to be a religious person; and his religion will be either true or false, according as his ideas of God are correct or incorrect for a false religion is a departure from true religion.

ENTHUSIASM according to our present definition of the term, is religious zeal and exercise carried beyond the bounds of sober reason and sound judgment. No one ever acts wisely either in religion or in any thing else, except when he acts reasonably; and the moment we suffer our feelings to run away with our judgment, either