our families, by requiring our children and household servants to attend at a place of public worship; by not permitting them to pay, or receive visits on that day, except in cases of necessity or mercy; by affording them every reasonable opportunity, and holding out to them every proper inducement for the discharge of their private religious duties; and by refraining altogether from employing persons in our service on the Sabbath, in any way, not strictly necessary.-Thirdly, That we will also labour to promote the observance of the Sabbath-day in the place and neighbourhood wherein we dwell, by using our influence to prevail on those who have workmen under them, to pay them on or before the Saturday morning; by discouraging the habit of Sabbath-breaking: by uniting with others in the endeavour to reclaim the Sabbath-breaker; and by spreading information on the subjects of the obligation to keep the Sabbath, and the manner of keeping it (especially by a due attendance at public worship), to the utmost of our power." V.

ON PRIVATE MEDITATION AND PRAYER.

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"Set apart some fixed time for private prayer. vour to be, as far as possible, alone. Retire to your own chamber; or, if you have none of your own, to some one place, the most private you can find or make, in the room you have in common. It matters not so much to be out of sight of men, as to be in the sight of God; for you to be seen by Him, and for you to see him by faith. Remember what you owe to Him, and give thanks. Call to mind how you have grieved Him, and confess. Consider what you want of him; forgiveness of sin, grace unto holiness, and salvation of the soul through Christ. Consider and ask in prayer believing; and through Christ, 'ye shall receive.' Matt. xxi. 22. Confess both your own sins, and the sinfulness of your own nature. yourself to be unfit to enter into God's presence. Think over with shame and sorrow before Him your worldly ways, your proud and selfish thought, your wanton words, and looks, and deeds, your perverse temper, your vain amusements, your idle neglect of His holy will. Pray that He be not extreme to mark what is done amiss. Pray that, for His dear Son's sake, He would forgive your sinfulness,

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and give you of his grace. Pray that He may make you to live in love, to die in hope, to rest in peace, and to rise in glory. And, above all, each time of praying, each morning the first thing, and each night the last, give thanks to God for his great goodness in the redemption of the world through the atonement of Christ.”—Rev. C. Girdlestone's Commentary on the New Testament. 1st Mark 35th verse.

SELECTIONS FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS.

No man can fall into wilful sin who has not first fallen off from God, and been careless in spiritual duties, and in the use of the means of grace.-Lindsey.

The essential spirit of the Christian life may be said to be included in this one brief petition of the Lord's Prayer, "Thy will be done."-Hannah More.

No one who has, in the course of his life, from illness or any other cause, once made up his mind to contemplate death calmly and religiously, no one who has ever resolutely regarded the hour of his dissolution as at hand, ever loses the calming and soothing influence, which that hour has once produced upon his soul: he will feel, because at such an hour he has felt, how unsearchable are the ways of Him that ruleth over all; he will believe, because he has then believed, that there is a saving mercy beyond the grave, and that faith in the Redeemer is the only thing that can bring a man peace at the last. And, that feeling once attained, the sting and the pain of death are gone, and the joy in believing is full. Dr. James, late Bishop of Calcutta.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c.

A CURE FOR BURNS.-In two cases of burns (occurring in young children) which were lately admitted into the Hospital, the application of flour has been attended with most favourable results. Mr. White (surgeon to the Westminster Hospital) strongly recommends this mode of treatment when the burn is not deeper than the skin. The instantaneous good effects are really surprising: on its application to the parts affected, the pain is instantly removed, and the patient, from being in a agony, is completely free from uneasiness.-Medical Journal.

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WASTE OF CORN IN AGRICULTURE.-It is estimated that only one-third of the seed-corn sown on the best land grows, the other two-thirds are destroyed. The number of cultivated acres in great Britain and Ireland amount to 46,000,000, 30,000,000 of which are under the plough. Twofifths of the latter, or 12,000,000 acres, are actually under corn crops.

The average allowance of seed for the three kinds of corn may be stated at four bushels and two-thirds per acre. The quantity of seed annually sown thus amounts to 7,000,000 quarters. If two-thirds of this quantity are rendered unproductive by some agency which has hitherto been uncontrolled, then 4,666,666 quarters of corn are actually wasted! The quantity thus lamentably wasted would support more than 1,000,000 human beings.— Irish Farmer's and Gardener's Magazine.

MANAGEMENT of Apple TreeS.-We know an instance of a large appleorchard, the property of a commercial gardener, in Kent, in which a knife has never been used; every thing is effected by disbudding and pinching out young wood with the finger and thumb. He has adopted this practice to insure good crops of large fruit.-Louden's Gardener's Mag.

CUSTOMS IN THE EAST.-Some persons, when reading Scripture or other writings, which describe Eastern manners, are surprised at certain customs, because they are so different from their own.-We read of a calf or a kid being killed, cooked and eaten immediately; this though contrary to our habits, is no surprise at all to those who are acquainted with the manners of the inhabitants of the East. The following "extract" will throw light on this subject:-"In the East a sheep is killed, flayed, and cooked in the course of an hour and a half; coffee is roasted, ground, and boiled in about ten minutes; meal is kneaded and baked-and perhaps the corn ground—in seldom more than twenty minutes. Much of this may be accounted for by the heat of the climate, by which many articles would be spoiled if kept too long previously to being used.-Globe."

LAND FOR LABOURERS.-The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells intends to extend the benefit of the allotment system, which he has promoted in other parts of his diocese, to the neighbourhood of Bath, he having taken 16 acres of land in Charlecomb, adjoining Lansdown-road, which is to be let to industrious families at a quarter of an acre each. Some of the conditions on which the land is let are as follow:-No person who occupies it is to receive parish pay, nor to be working at it on Sundays, nor to be a drunken dissipated character, nor to keep a beer shop.

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MOULDING POTATOES.-A correspondent of the Hereford Journal' states that flat hoeing, without moulding, ensures a heavier crop of these valuable roots, provided that the ground be kept quite clean from weeds.—In this case, we should conceive that the hoeing should be rather deep (unless the ground lie already light) but so as not to injure the shoots of the potatoes,— the lightness of the soil gives room for the spreading of the root, and increases the produce.

In the parish of Hillfarance, near Taunton, within the last fifteen years, twenty small cottages, with an acre of land attached to each, have been erected on the side of the common by the present occupiers, who are chiefly mechanics; the soil very indifferent. The lords of the manor have granted leases for sixty years at a fair rent for the land. The rents are punctually paid, the land is cultivated in a garden-like manner, and the crops are excellent: the occupants never apply for parochial aid, and are neither indolent nor immoral; they are neither poachers nor smugglers, but having now some rights of their own, they have learned to respect those of others.-Globe.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received the communications of C. P. F.; S. A. C. M. F.; A. G. D.; A Friend of the Poor; S. Y.; Y. Y.; G. E. H.; 0. T. K.; with some Anonymous Papers.-We are pleased with the "Short Sermon❞ of P. C. H., but we fear that it is almost too long for our space.

THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.

"AND as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is my body. And he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this: for this is my blood of the New Testament which was shed for many for the remission of sins." (Matt. xxvi. 26, &c.)

"We should bear in mind that our Lord was now solemnly celebrating the Passover, the most considerable of all the sacrifices appointed under the Old Testament, and the type of the great sacrifice for sin, made by "Christ our Passover." (Dr. Ogden.)

"And he took bread and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me." (Luke xxii. 19.) "Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." (John vi. 54.)

Having thus, from Holy Scripture, and in the words of our blessed Saviour, shown the necessity of performing this great Christian duty, it is necessary to inquire how we are to become acceptable guests at the Lord's table.

St. Paul in addressing his Corinthian converts, assures them for their encouragement, "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." This, and all the other promises and commands of God, will "endure for ever:" and they apply to us at the present time, as much as to the Corinthians, though from the manner in which the Sacramental bread and wine are administered, we are not likely to err in the manner of the Corinthians, and for which St. Paul reproves them. Let us Let us now inquire what the Apostle of the Gentiles requires of those who come to the Lord's Supper.. “Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself." (1 Cor. xi. 28.) "It is material to observe that the word 'damnation,' when the Bible was translated, meant condemnation,' any sentence of punishment whatever, without a particular reference to the eternal torments to which the impenitently wicked will be consigned at the last day." (Bishop Tomline.)

"The danger of the unworthy performing this duty of taking the Holy Sacrament, is no more a reason for absenting ourselves, than it is an argument to cast off all religion. He that unworthily performeth any part of religion, is in a dangerous condition; but he that casteth off all Religion plungeth himself into damnation." (Archbishop Tillotson.)