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20 EFFECTS OF SIN.

What was it that cast the angels from heaven ? It was sin. What was it that banished onr first parents from the favour of God ? It was sin. What was it that brought death into the world, and all our wo ? It was sin. What has made death the " king of terrors ?' It is sin. What was it that hrought the Lord of Glory from the hlissful realms ahove, to take up his abode among the habitations of human misery ? It was sin. What was it that made him through life preeminently " a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," and finally nailed him to the cross ? It was sin. Sin it was that lighted the flames of hell, and sin will he the fuel that shall feed those flames eternally. “ Let not, therefore, siu reign in your mortal bodies, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof."

PRAYER

Is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest. It is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.

MENTAL PRAYER,

When our spirits wander, is like a wateh standing still, because the spring is down ; wind it up again, and it goes on regularly ; hut in vocal prayer, if the words run on, and the spirit wanders, the clock strikes false, the hand points not to the right hour, hecause something is in disorder, and the striking is nothing hut noise.-Jeremy Taylor.

HABITUAL DEVOTION

Would settle the ferment of our youthful passion, and sweeten the last dregs of our advanced age. How would this make our lives yield the calmest satisfaction, as some flowers shed the most fragrant odours just at the close of the day

FILIAL AFFECTION.

It was said of Mr. Binks of Durham, hy his father, " My son has never wilfully given me half-an-hour's uneasiness :" and this filial piety he retained to the latest period of his life.

Happy would it he if this could be said of every child.

RELIGION AMONG NEGROES.

A person who had expressed some donbts whether the negroes had received any advantages hy hearing the gospel, was asked whether he did not think one named Jack was