Creator, admire the grace of your Saviour, and seek the light of the Holy Spirit.

And thus, I trust, together with the blessing of God upon the prayers and instructions of your parents and your teachers, many of you will be led, in early life, to devote yourselves, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord Jesus-even to Him who for your sakes left the glories of the heavenly world, and came down to earth to suffer, and bleed, and die for you. And when you have thus given yourselves to the Lord, like a fragrant flower, in all the freshness and beauty of your morning hours, then how great our joy to hear of you giving yourselves to his people according to his will. Yes, my dear young readers, my hearts desire and prayer to God for you is that in early life you may know and love the Saviour, put on Christ by being buried with him in baptism, and taking your place at the table of your Lord, shew your attachment and devotion to him who redeemed you to God by his blood.

Now then, in the spring-time of your existence on earth, forsake the world and its vanities, and give. yourselves to Christ. Take up your cross and follow him. Let each one of you say to his own heart, should it shrink from the struggle :

"Come, my fond fluttering heart,—

Come, struggle to be free:

Thou and the world must part,

However hard it be:

My trembling spirit owns it just,

But still lies cleaving to the dust.

Ye tempting sweets forbear,-
Ye dearest idols fall:

My love ye must not share;
Jesus shall have it all:

Though painful and acute the smart,
His love can heal the bleeding heart.

Ye fair enchanting throng,

Ye golden dreams adieu!
Earth has prevailed too long;
Too long I've cherished you;
Forbidden joys of early years
Demand my penitential tears.

In Gilead there is balm,

A kind Physician there,
My fevered mind to calm,

And save me from despair:
Aid me, dear Saviour, set me free;
My all I would resign to thee.

O! may I feel thy worth,

And let no idol dare

No vanity of earth

With thee, my Lord, compare:

Now bid all earthly joys depart,

And reign unrivalled in my heart."

Thus early consecrated to God, a course of usefulness and honour will be before you on earth, which will end, if you are found faithful, in a glorious immortality.