-- tal difafters. His highest hopes and happiness are not built upon the fandy foundation of earthly objects, but upon the eternal rock of ages, upon God and divine things. His highest hopes therefore may remain firm and unfha ken, and he may enjoy great divine peace and confolation amidst greatest afflictions and difafters. Under all his trials and fufferings, he may reflect, that thefe events 6. The Chriftian temper will tend to render the mind calm and tranquil, and to afford a peculiar peace to the confcience. As far as perfons are reconciled to the holy character and law of God, and are difpofed to obey his commands; their confciences will ap-are directed in infinite wisdom and prove of their temper and conduct goodness by his heavenly Father, as right and juft. And this ap- who has promifed never to leave, probation of confcience will pre- nor forfake him, and that all ferve from a painful fenfe of guilt things fhall work together for his and remorfe, will yield great good. He may therefore reft affupeace and ferenity to the foul, red, in the mott dark and gloomy and will greatly fortify and fup- circumftances, that all things are port it under trials and reproach- overruled to anfwer the beft purCs. A consciousness of being re- pofes, will conduce to the glory conciled to God and of poffef- of God, and the highest happifing the Chriftian temper, will nefs of all, who love him, and fo alfo liberate from thofe fearful that all his light afflictions in the apprehenfions of future wrath, prefent life will work out for him which often difturb the wicked, a far more exceeding and eternal and will afford the godly the most weight of glory. Thus the godly joyful hopes and profpects of the have the greatest source of fupdivine favor and eternal bleffed- port under all the evils and trounefs. bles of life, and may enjoy great peace and confolation amidit the greateft earthly afflictions and difappointments.. 8. They may have great peace and confolation in reflecting upon the fhortnefs and uncertainty of life, and the folemn fcenes of 7. They have peculiar fources of peace and confolation under the many evils, trials and difappointments of life. Thefe we muft all expect in a greater or leis degree, while we fojourn in this vale of tears. For man is born to trouble as the fparks fly up-death and the eternal world. We ward." But thefe afflictions and disappointments ftick at the root of our earthly comforts and enjoyments. If therefore we are feeking our happinefs in thefe, and have no treasures in heaven; we shall have no permanent fource of comfort and fupport under the evils and troubles of life. But it is far diferent with the real Chriftian. His treafures are in heaven, fecure from all mor know that we are haftening towards the grave, are continually expofed to the ftroke of death, and at fartheft muft foon be ftripped of every earthly poffeffion and enjoyment, and appear at the bar of our Judge to receive our eternal deftiny. We are often reminded of thefe truths by fickness, by the deaths of our fellow crea❤ tures, and various other occur. * rences. And fuch reflections must 2 glory and perfection, and the fmiles of their God and Saviour will affociate with the glorious angels and fpirits of just men made perfect, and will poffefs a happinefs, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor heart of man conceived a happiness, durable as eternity, and great as the vast defires of the immortal mind.And in the morning of the refurrection their bodies will be raised immortal, like unto Chrift's glorious body, and in both foul and body they will enjoy the most confummate felicity, which will be increafing through the ceafeless ages of eternity. In these vari ous particulars the righteous have indeed great peace. be very painful to the wicked, I fpeakable peace and happiness who have no portion but the through eternity. At death they world, and muft caft a dreadful will be welcomed into the joys of gloom on all their joys and prof-their Lord. Here they will en pects. But these reflections, up-joy unclouded views of the divine on the fhortnefs and uncertainty of life, do but brighten the hopes and profpects of the godly, and may afford them the moft animating confiderations. For they may reflect with pleasure, that they fhall the fooner leave this world of trouble and forrow, and go home to the heavenly manfions, 'where there will be no more fickness, pain, nor forrow, and every tear will be wiped from their eyes. They may alfo enjoy great peace and comfort even in the hour of death. For their God and Saviour has promifed never to leave them, and that his rod and staff shall comfort them, while paffing the gloomy valley of the fhadow of death, and that all things are theirs, whether life or death, things prefent, or things to come, and fhall work together for their good. Death will be their infinite gain, will fet them wholly free from all fin, pain and infirmity, and will introduce them into the blissful prefence of God and the Lamb, where they will be forever rifing in glory and felicity. Thefe confiderations are calculated to afford them great fupport and comfort in their dying moments, and may enable them to meet the king of terrors with a joyful peace and ferenity. Yea, God fometimes gives his children fuch a fenfe of his favor and divine things, and fuch con. folations of his Spirit, that they rejoice in the near approach of death-are borne above its terrors, and can fing the triumphant fong, "O death, where is thy fting?" 66 FINALLY, They will enjoy un 1 The fubject fhews, how very falfe and erroneous the ideas of thofe are, who fuppose, that real religion is gloomy and difagreeable, and would be injurious to their happiness, should they em brace it. Religion is so far from being unfriendly to true happi nefs, that it in fact affords the only fources of real peace and comfort, which can be found on earth. Yea, without it we can never enjoy any real peace or happiness, either in the prefent or future world. Thus it is written in the fcriptures of truth, "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her.' In view of what has been faid, we fee the fafe and happy fituation of the godly. They are at peace with God, reconciled to his character, and are the objects of T his love and favor. They are at peace with his law, delight in it after the inward man, and are delivered from its curfe. They our peace good. How great then the folly of making the things of the world our chief concern and purfuit, and thus bartering our im mortal fouls and the endless joys of heaven for earth's momentary enjoyments? What should we be world, and lofe our own fouls? Let us then be perfuaded to fet our affections on things above, and lay up to ourselves treasures in heaven, that when the things of the world shall fail, we may be received into everlasting habita tions. are at peace with the divine gov-noble are the peace and happiness, ernment, and rejoice, that the which religion affords, than any Molt High has the direction of earthly poffeffions and enjoyall events. They experience great ments? These are tranfitory and peace and fatisfaction in believing difappointing-cannot afford any and trufting in the Lord Jefus, real peace to the foul, and will in prayer and other religious du- foon be gone forever, and leave ties and exercises; and have at us poor and miferable for etertimes a peculiar peace of confcience,nity, if we feek them as our chief which the world can neither give nor take away. They have the greatest fources of peace and confolation under the evils and troubles of life, and in the trying hour of death; which will be their infinite gain by liberating them from all fin, pain and for-profited, fhould we gain the whole row, and introducing them into the joys of their Lord. And in the future world they will poffefs a joy and peace, unfpeakable afid full of glory, and which will be eternal. Thus the peace of the righteous is rational and well founded. It will bear the trial of death, and the piercing light of eternity, and will bloom in ev everlasting joy beyond this mortal life It is built on a foundation, which is as immutable as Jehovah, and which cannot be fhaken by death, or any evil difafter. They are therefore safe, and have the greatest fources of peace and confolation in every fituation.In adverfity, fickness and death, all things are working together for their good, and will work out for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.God is for them-is their almighty Friend and Protector, and therefore they need not fear any of the evils or dangers, which befet them. Who would not with to be in fuch a happy, fafe and peaceful fituation? Let us make H. E. * FOR THE CONNECTICUT EVAN- MESS'RS EDITORS, AMONG the many valua ble articles contained in your useful publication, the Biographical fketches of perfons eminent for piety, with accounts of the trial and triumph of their faith in the hour of death, have been, to many, very interefting and profitable. From a wish to contribute to this department of the Magazine, I fend you the following Memoir. Having had particular acquaintance with the fubject of it from her childhood, and been much with her in her last sickness; and being permitted by her friends to have accefs to fome parts of her diary, I have from these and other fources of information to be depended on, penned the following account; which I beg leave, if you think it worthy a place in the Magazine, to prefent to your readers; and especially to the parents and friends and young acquaintance of the deceased youth, hoping it may revive, and preferve in their minds the interefting fcenes of her fickness and death; and render them more laftingly and extensively beneficial. Yours, &c. J. W. Farmington, Sept. 11, 1803. Memoir of Mifs Julia Corules. THE fubject of this memoir was the daughter and eldest child of Mr. Zenas and Mrs. Polly Cowles, of Farmington, Connecticut. She was born October 18th, 1785, and died of a confumption, May the 21ft, 1803, aged 17 years and 7 months. Her Creator endowed her with bright natural powers. From her earliest years he gave evident tokens of a sprightly and difcerning mind. When in mere childhood the effufions of her pen, marked a fprightlinefs and maturity not common to perfons of her years. Her natural difpofition was peculiarly mild and amiable, and her manners engaging. She poffeffed a fuavity of temper, a gracefulnefs of deportment, and an elevation and maturity of thought, which rendered her converfation interefting to perfons of every age. She early manifefteft a ferious difpofition. When but nine or ten years of age, fhe would liften, for hours, to conversation upon the things of religion; and it was remarked by her, in her laft ficknefs, that he had very ferious impreffions from her early child. hood. When fhe was in the 14th year of her age, there was a time of uncommon attention to reli gion in the fociety. Many of the youth and others were ferioufly impreffed, and numbers hopefully brought into the family of Chrift. A fcene fo interefting had no fmall effect upon her mind; but the opening and de lufive prospects of youth and the influence of fuch as continued unimpreffed, led her to a line of conduct which tended to quench the Spirit of God. Still howev er fhe was at times greatly preffed by confcience. When in com❤ pany with the vain and gay, fhe often felt what he did not ex. prefs. She often felt and knew from experience, that "even in laughter the heart is forrowful, and the end of vain mirth is heavinefs." She generally attended religious meetings, but procrafti nated repentance. Her heart was ftruggling between Chrift and the world. This was evident to her ferious acquaintance, and appears from many expreffions in her dia. ry at that time. The following are a fpecimen. Having, in May 1800, been prefent with a num ber of Chriftians, who were con verfing upon religion, and men. tioned the then hopeful beginning of seriousness in Yale College, fhe defcribes the effect it had on her mind, as follows :" In this converfation I felt cold chills run over me. I felt that I ought to me mindful of religion-that it was a great and important thing and that I ought to hearken to the loud and repeated calls of confcience to attend to the duty of feeking God, and in Him to find happiness. No words can paint my feelings at that time. I endeavored to shake them off; but was unable--they continued till the converfation ended.". Similar feelings returned through the fummer and fall. In February 1801, which was her 16th year, fhe was greatly alarmed and deeply impreffed by the death of a very dear and intiinate friend, who fell a prey to the confumption, after a very rapid decay, in the 18th year of her age. By this death God came very near to her. He had been ftriving with her by his Spirit but the chofe to cleave to the world. He now in a very affect. ing manner, fet before her the vanity of her expectations from the world, or from creatures, and her own mortality. The scene was rendered more impreffive to her by the remembrance of a very folemn warning fhe had received from her friend a few days before her decease to this effect" Oh, put not off repentance to a dying hour. Take warning from my example !" A few days after the funeral of her friend fhe writes thus :May the untimely death of my friend, be the means of bringing many fouls home to Jefus Chrift, I was exceffively affected at her funeral. I then made a refolution (which I hope I fhall abide by) that death should not come an unwelcome meffenger-that I would be prepared to follow my dear friend to the grave; and hope I fhall find divine affiftance." Having heard a fermon, the next fabbath, adapted to the occafion, after fome account of it, the adds-" After meeting I was very much affected with my ftate, and had a fenfe of my depravity but greatly feared left I was given up to hardnefs of heart. Still I hoped for mercy fince Chrift fays, "feek and ye shall find." The words, "be ye alfo ready," were prefent to my mind. I hope for divine mercy, and pray that the truths I fo often hear, may make an abiding impreffion on my mind-and that I may not find relief, until I find true peace of confcience and joy in the Holy Ghoft." A few days after, fhe wrote in the following ftrain, “O Lord, according to the riches of thy boundlefs mercy and fovereign grace, forgive mine iniquities, for they are great. Make me fenfible, make me realize my undone, helplefs ftate, and that without an intereft in the bleffed Jefus, I muft be miferable for ever. Enable me to fay from the heart, "Had I the world at my command, And the more boundlefs fea, For one bleft hour at thy right hand, I'd give them all away." I have been walking alone by the light of the moon. It fhone un. ufually bright. Oh, that the light of divine grace fhone into my foul, as the moon illuminates the earth, what joy should I have? joy unfpeakable and full of glory!" About the 1st of April, having attended to a discourse upon the advent and fufferings of Chrift, the with her pen, meditated as follows:"What condefcenfion! What mercy! That the Mot High should give his Son to die on the cross for men-for mere worms of the duft! God hath faid also, that eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which he hath prepared for them that love him. We can have no realizing conception of the scenes of the invifible world, the world to which we must all go, and where the whole human race muft appear before thei |