PARTINGS.

SORROWING Most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. Acтs, xx, 38.

Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. RUTH, i, 16, 17.

And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister. GENESIS, XXIV, 59, 60.

I NEVER spoke the word "Farewell,"

But with an utterance faint and broken;

And earth-sick longing for the time.
When it shall never more be spoken.

O, 'TIS one scene of parting here,
Love's watchword is farewell !
And almost starts the following tear,
Ere dried the last that fell!

'Tis but to feel that one most dear
Is needful to the heart,

MRS. SOUTHEY.

And straight a voice is muttering near,
Imperious, Ye must part!

But happiest he, whose gifted eye

Above this world can see,

And those diviner realms descry,

Where partings cannot be;

Who, with One changeless Friend on high,

Life's various path has trod,

And soars to meet, beyond the sky,

The ransomed and their God.

TOWNSHEND

THOUGH warmly smile beam back to smile,

And answering heart to heart,

They meet in gladness, who, too oft,
Have only met to part.

Then bind not earthly ties too close,
But hope let Heaven sustain;

There, and there only, mayest thou say,

"We'll never part again!"

ANNA MARIA WELLS.

O, HEAVEN is where no sécret dread
May haunt love's meeting hour,
Where, from the past, no gloom is shed
O'er the heart's chosen bower:
Where every severed wreath is bound-
Where none have heard the knell

That smites the heart with that deep sound
Farewell-beloved,-farewell!

MRS. HEMANS.

AND though scarce less than death it seem,
When children from their home depart,
O, let not the beloved deem

Heaven for no purpose rends the heart:
With Laban yield with meek accord;
"The thing proceedeth from the Lord."

Above are partings never known,
But O, it is not thus below:
Rebekah could Heaven's mandate own,
And say, submissive, "I will go!"
Losing her kindred's tender care,
But blessed in their fervent prayer.

H. H. WELD.

THE PASSIONS-APPETITES.

FOR all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. I. JOHN, ii, 16.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. ECCLE ZIASTES, vi, 7.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedition, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. GALATIANS, V, 19—21.

WHILE passions glow, the heart like heated steel
Takes each impression, and is worked at pleasure.

YOUNG.

GOVERN Well thy appetite; lest sin

Surprise thee, and her black attendant, death.

MILTON.

THOU must chain thy passions down:

Well to serve, but ill to sway,

Like the fire, they must obey.
They are good, in subject state,
To strengthen, warm, and animate;
But if once we let them reign,
They sweep with desolating train,

'Till they but leave a hated name,

A ruined soul, and blackened fame. ELIZA COOK

PLEASURE and revenge

Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice

Of any true decision.

SHAKSPEARE.

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PASSIONS, indulged beyond a certain bound,
Lead to a precipice, and plunge in woe

The heedless agent.

GEORGE BALLY.

WHEN carnal passions reign,

And grosser acts of sin the heart distain,
Our souls all clotted by contagion grow,
And brood and grovel in the dust below:
Like lingering ghosts, that loth, as fables say,
To leave their body, haunt their kindred clay.
JAMES SCOTT.

SOME dream that they can silence, when they will,
The storm of Passion, and say "Peace, be still :"
But "Thus far, and no farther," when addressed
To the wild wave, or wilder human breast,
Implies authority that never can—

That never ought to be, the lot of man. COWPER.

MAN's heart eats all things, and is hungry still

"More! more!" the glutton cries; for something new So rages appetite, if man can't mount,

He will descend.

YOUNG.

PASTORS-THE PULPIT.

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? ROMANS, X, 14, 15.

For, after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. I. CORINTHIANS, į, 22. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine. II. TIMOTHY, iv, 2.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. I. CORINTHIANS, ix, 16.

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord. JEREMIAH, Xxiii, 1.

He which converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins. JAMES, V, 20.

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery. I. TIMOTHY, iv, 14.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially thosS who abour in the word and doctrine. I. TIMOTHY, V, 17.

TURN to the world—its curious dwellers view,
Like Paul's Athenians, seeking something new.

Does Langdon preach?-(I veil his quiet name

Who serves his God, and cannot stoop to fame ;) —
No; 'tis some reverend mime, the latest rage,
Who thumps the desk, that should have trod the stagej
Cant's veriest ranter crams a house, if new,
When Paul himself, oft heard, would hardly fill a pew
CHARLES SPRAGUE.

No studied eloquence was there displayed,

Nor poetry of language lent its aid;

But plain the words that from the preacher came;
A preacher young, and all unknown to fame;
While youth and age a listening ear inclined,
To learn the way the pearl of price to find.

ELIZABETH BOGART.