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love Jesus, when he had "seen, heard, and hundled" him. It is true, you will never in this world see Jesus in this way; but there is an eye in your heart or mind, with which you may see him as plainly as John saw him : but then this eye is shut so fast, that you cannot open it yourself; and no power can make you see “ Jesus as he is," but the power of God's Spirit. You must then pray, that God the Spirit would open the eye of your mind, that you may “ see him who is invisible," and be able to say with Peter, “Whom having not seen we love; and rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." I need not tell you what joy means. When you have some pleasure given greater than another, you can say your joy is full. The word joy will make many a youthful eye look bright, and the little heart beat with hope; but, my dear children, I am not going to tell you of the joys which come from this world. You may think there are many joys here: you may go to a fair, or pass a day with some friends, or have a treat which gives you great pleasure while it lasts; but when it is over, then

your joy is gone; it is empty; whereas the joys of religion are always full. I fear there many boys and girls who know nothing of these joys; but there are some children thus happy, and these

when they die, will go to God's right hand, where there is fulness of joy, and pleasure for evermore. Are you, who are now reading this sermon, a stranger to religious joy? Are you careless, whether you have it or not?-I will tell you some of the joys which God's people have here; and then see if they are not worth seeking after. They believe that their sins are forgiven them for Christ's sake: that God is not an angry judge, but a tender father : that “all things in this world will work together for their good :" they feel the Holy Spirit keep down sin, and fill them with his blessed fruits : and, as they have their affections fixed on things above, their thoughts are often where their treasure is. The fear of death is taken away; and they long for, and look to it as a friend, who will take them from this world of sin and sorrow to the bosom of their Saviour. Do you not think them, my dear child, that the joy of such Christians must be full and worth having ?-If you do not own it is now, you will wish you had done so, at the hour of death and in the day of judgment !-You see, religion is not that melancholy thing which many take it to be ; but real Christians are the only really happy people. They can take their pleasures into the next world: and however cross their affairs may be

in this, they have still a peace and com. fort which others know nothing of. Be much then in reading the Scriptures which “testify of Jesus:" and be much in prayer, that you may see him as set forth in them, and then “your joy will be full.”

MEMOIR OF JOHN M , AGED NEARLY

SIX YEARS. Our dear John was always a very sickly child, and we often feared that he would never arrive at manhood. He was from an early age much more attentive to what we said to him on divine things, than our other children; though we had no reason to think, 'till within a few months before his last sickness, that he was under the teaching of Goil's Spirit. At that time, we noticed a great change in him as to his temper, his love for divine things, and his views and feel. ings with regard to death. Before this change he was hasty and fretful; but he afterwards shewed much meekness, and a sweet, dutiful, and loving spirit. He was very submissive to our will. He formerly had a great dread of death; and often wished he might go to heaven without dying. But this dread was taken away. On being asked why? be answered that I may go to be with

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Jesus.” He often spoke with great delight on the happiness of heaven. He was delighted with the thought, that there was no sin there, nor any pain : and that all there are for ever with the Lord and see his face. He shewed the most marked delight in prayer, in read. ing the Bible, in talking about Jesus and spiritual things; and in the employments of the sabbath. He also shewed great hatred of sin ; and an ardent desire to be made holy. He sometimes shed tears of grief for his sins, when we were speak. ing, or reading to him, on the nature and evil of sin, or on what Jesus has done for sinners. His manner of prayer was very striking. He always prayed in his own words. In very expressive, though often in broken language, he breathed out his little prayers before God. And he clearly felt the petitions he offered up. He was so earnest and fervent, that he often brought to our minds Jacob wrestling in prayer. When any in the family were ill, or when he went with us to visit a sick person, or when he noticed any thing particular in the case or character of any one in the village, with whom we conversed, he was sure to remember them in his prayer at night. He prayed very earnestly on the Sunday mornings before he went to church, that God would give him an una

derstanding to understand his word, and that sinners might be converted that day. He was very attentive during the time of prayer; and during the sermon, his eyes were always steadfastly fixed in devout attention. On his way home from the house of God, he used to talk over the sermon to his mama; and could give a good account of it. The last Sunday he was ever at a place of worship, the sermon was on the Law; and he asked his mama as they went home, what was the use of the Law? She answered that it was to shew us our sins. He then said, “O! mama, then, the law shews us our sins; and then we are to go to Jesus for the pardon of them.” As soon as he reached home, he always went up stairs to pray over what he had heard at church: and turned the parts of the ser. mon he could remember into petitions. The sermon one Sunday being on our Lord's discousre with the Samaritan woman, (see John iv.) he prayed every day during the next week, that Christ would give him the water of life. After dinner on Sunday, he used to take his Bible, and go to his mama and say, “Now, mama, I want to find out all the passages in the Bible which papa mentioned in his sermon." He one day mentioned to his mama a sentence in a sermon, which he had heard many weeks before.