no money, suppose I get some one to

pay

for you, and so have the glass put in, should you not be very thankful to that kind friend?" "Oh, yes, Sir." "And if he got the glass mended, and paid for it, you could not then be called on for the money; you would never hear any more about it should you?" "No, Sir, to be sure." The boys in the class appeared to wonder. what this could have to do with religion. At length I addressed them-" My dear boys, you have heard what has been said about the broken pane, now just attend to me for a moment. You and I have broken God's law; in many many ways have we broken it. When you have not kept holy the Sabbath; when you have told a lie, or sworn an oath, you broke the Divine law; indeed all sin is a transgression of the law. God declares that all such persons are cursed; and the soul that sinneth it shall die. Now what can be done? There is the law broken; God angry, and determined to punish. You say you are very sorry, and repent of your sin; but still that does not mend the matter. Your sorrow will not satisfy the divine justice. See here, then, the need, and the love, of a Saviour. Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, pitying poor, fallen, ruined, helpless, man, declares to us, thou hast ruined thyself, but in me is thy help. He says, deliver him from going down into the pit, I have found a ransom. He who knew no sin was made sin for us. Yes He takes the sinner's curse upon himself. He bears all the charge. He pays all that Divine justice demands; and whoever will accept Him as a substitute, and leave their case to Him, he sets free from guilt and punishment."

"Welcome the believing soul,
Christ for thee hath paid the whole."

HOPEFUL.

SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATION.

SOME months since, there were a few ladies in Dublin who often met together to read the word of God. One day they were reading together the 3rd chapter of Malachi; on the 2nd and 3rd verses one of the ladies gave it as her opinion, that the "fuller's soap and the refiner of silver" were only the same image to convey the same view of the sanctifying influences of the grace of Christ. No, said another, they are not the same image, there is something remarkable in the expression in the 3rd verse, "He shall sit as the refiner and purifier of silver." They said, possibly it might be so. On going into the town, this lady called on a silversmith, and desired to know the process of refining silver, which he fully explained to her. "But do you. sit, Sir," she said, "whilst you are refining?" "Yes Madamn, I must sit with my eye steadily fixed on the furnace; since if the silver remain too long, it is sure to be injured." She at once saw the beauty and comfort of the expression, "He shall sit, as a refiner and purifier of silver." Christ sees it needful to put his children into the furnace, but he is seated by the side of it-His eye is steadily fixed on the work of purifying and his wisdom and his love are both engaged to do all in the best manner for them. As the lady was returning to her friends to tell them what she had heard, just as she turned from the shop door, the Silversmith called her back and said, "He had forgot to mention one thing, and that was, that he only knew the process of purifying to be complete by seeing his own image in the silver."

When Christ sees his image in his people, the work of purifying is accomplished.

T.

ON THE NEW YEAR.

ANOTHER year to us is gone,

Swift merg'd into the past;
And time will soon be journey'd on
To what shall be our last.

Shall we then mourn that it is fled
Now never to return?

Weep that our term so far is sped?
So near the fun'ral urn?

Yes we may weep-if we can look
On sinnings day by day;

And no good hope from God's great book
That one is wiped away.

Yes we may weep-if we can see
Corruption's iron sway
Extending o'er us fearfully,

With none its pow'r to stay.

Yes we may weep-or wailing soon
And sighing and despair

Shall break upon the sinner's noon,
And all its comforts scare.

But shall we weep if Jesus' face
Hath shined with blood-bought peace

And if the covenant of grace

Hath spoke our soul's release ?

No, weep not then-that nature's tide
Is ebbing fast away;

There's yet a stream of life to bide
For everlasting day.

The fading world-the dimning sight,

As on our course we come,
Doth but draw on to worlds of light,

And we are nearer home.

No, sons of Zion, look not back

On visions earthly bright;

Let not the thought your spirits slack

That they are taking flight.

Mount on, mount on with quick'ning feet,

With brighter faith and love,

Mourn only how ye're slow to greet

The promises above.

L. N. N.

UNDERNEATH this little plate you have a Latin inscription to explain the use of the principle object in it-the Lighthouse; the plain English of which is, "to give light and to preserve life:" this is shewn by the ship in the back ground, which, having seen the light, has escaped the rocks and thereby preserved the lives of the sailors.

This drawing has been selected for "The Cornish Parochial Visitor," and engraved on the title page,

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because it explains at once the object for which it comes among you it is to give light where there is now darkness, and to increase light where God has already vouchsafed it, which we hold to be the means (through grace) of preserving and increasing spiritual life.

Ever since the light of the Gospel shone upon our own souls, it has engaged us (its Ministers) not only to reflect its light upon the people committed to our peculiar charge, but also upon a world lying in darkness and in the shadow of death. And where is this darkness not to be found? Is it in the West? (We speak advisedly) No. Here, even here, (notwithstanding all we have heard to the contrary) we know of the existence of Egyptian darkness-darkness that may be felt-and with a weight upon our spirits at the fact, we have lit up this "Light in the West" much for the same reason that the Eddystone light has been lit up on our shores-plainly to warn mer of their danger.

We would not have it supposed for a moment, from our name and device, that all the "Light in the West' is brought to shine in our pages. (We would wish it were.) We have only adopted" Light from the West' for our title, and the Lighthouse for our device, in grateful acknowledgment of the shining of the Sun of Righteousness upon our own souls, and as a pledge that our pages shall alone shine in his borrowed light. But while we say this, we would by no means assert that our light shall be infallible (sensible as we are of our dimness and short-sightedness). Yet, however dim, however feeble, the light in our earthen vessels may be, we know it is the prerogative of God (now,