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10 he was found in the field with the Bible in his hand covered with blood, and in that state it was returned to his mother.

PREPARING FOR ETERNITY.

He who cannot find time to consult his Bible, will find one day, that he has time to be sick ; he who has no time to pray, must find time to die. He who can find no time to reflect, is most likely to find time to sin ; he who cannot find time for repentance, will find an eternity in which repentanee will be of no avail. Let us then, under the influence of the divine Spirit, seriously reflect under what law we came into the world. " It is appointed for all men once to die, and after death the judgment." Is it not obvious then, that the design of life is to prepare for judgment ? and that in proportion as we employ time well, we make immortality happy ? -H. More.

THE REV. WALTER SINGER,

Father of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, received his first effectual convictions when he was in the tenth year of his age : from which time he was remarkable for having never neglected prayer. His daughter, Mrs. E. Rowe, was blessed with strong impressions of grace at a still earlier period. “ My infant hands," says she, in her " Devout Exercises," " were early lifted up to Thee ; and I soon learned to know and acknowledge the God of my fathers."

THE REV. ROBERT HALL

Paid great attention to religion when young. At seven years of age, he was fond of preaching in imitation of his beloved father ; and collected his playfellows and some of the servants, and addressed them on the subject of religion. An old servant, who had watched over him with parental solicitude, used to say, in her own homely style, " I will answer for it, that my dear Bobby knew the Lord before he was seven years old." He was in the habit of secret prayer before he could Speak plainly.

AFFECTION TO A MOTHER.

Captain Philip Melville, speaking of his mother, said, " Dear, dear mother, how soothing and delightful is the name ! how much more the remembrance of thy kind offices of love-thy pious concern to raise my childish thoughts from nature up to nature's God-thy faithful and earnest expostulations when my sinful heart led me astray ! This excellent parent by her example showed one how engaging is piety when it flows from a sincere heart ; she tanght me to pray,