She learned to love the robin, that like a friend in adversity, needs not a summer sun to make him sing. She made acquaintance with the swallow, that

"For a moment seen,

Skims in haste the village green."

Then flowers-wild flowers-here was an inexhaustible fund of enjoyment! She hailed with joy

"The flowery May, that from her green lap throws

The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose."

Emmeline kept a journal of the discoveries she made; she "wreathed the whole circle of the year," from the early lesser celandine, which spangles the meadows with its golden stars, to the blue autumn crocus.

As Emmeline grew older, she learned to love those poets who drew from her favorite source, nature. But her pleasures were not confined to herself alone. She learned to prefer that better pleasure which is reflected from others' enjoyment. Her kind friend convinced her, that as much was given, much would be required of her. She was gifted with many talents, and for each she must render an account. She told her that she was born for nobler ends than to please in a drawing room, or to shine at a ball-that she had faculties for better purposes than mere amusement and gaiety.

Who then was so diligent as Lady Emmeline? The rising sun found her not sleeping;-music, painting, languages, alternately occupied her; and then came the affectionate visits to her poor neighbours. Lady Emmeline had not the Lady-Patroness FancyFair-charity;—she was not satisfied with giving money out of her abundance; she gave her sympathy, her time, her example; she instituted no prizes, she gave no marriage portions: she had no one crowned with roses, as Madame La Vogue would have suggested; but she tried to teach her neighbours to depend upon themselves, and to learn their best interests. She was anxious to give them a religious education; to afford them a knowledge of what would procure for their neighbours and themselves the greatest portions of happiness here and hereafter. She advised with the old, and she taught the young to provide for themselves; some she assisted to emigrate; and for the blind, the deaf, the dumb she procured an asylum, and assisted them with money.

Lady Emmeline was as useful in the cottage as she was ornamental in the drawing room; and when she was presented at Court, no one merely said "Look at the beautiful Lady Emmeline Belmont!" for many were beautiful, and she had higher distinctions ; but a whisper ran from side to side—“ Pray look at the lady now kissing the Queen's hand. That is the excellent Lady Emmeline Belmont-she is an honor to her station, her sex, and her country!"

THE GOSPEL TRUMPET.

"Do you think, Father," said Robert Rogers, one morning after reading the fourteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians, that the gospel-message is signified by the trumpet that was to give no "uncertain sound," referred to in the eighth verse?

"The passage, Robert, which follows," replied his father, "is evidently directed to those whose duty it was to publish the glad tidings of the kingdom; and to me there has always seemed a beautiful propriety in the figure here employed, to designate this dispensation of the grace of God. But perhaps, Robert, you can carry out the simile by recalling to mind a few of those purposes for which trumpets were used under the old dispensation?"

Robert.-" THE CALLING OF ASSEMBLIES."

Father." And what brings us now into such sweet contact and communion as the preaching of Christ crucified? 'I, if I be lifted up,' said the Desire of Nations,' will draw all men unto me."" Robert.--" FOR

CAMP."

REGULATING THE JOURNEYINGS OF THE

Father." And if it were not for these public ordinances, how slothful should we become, and how inconstant would be our progress heaven-ward. But God is in his holy temple increasing strength to him that has no might; and enabling us to run without weariness, and to walk without fainting. It is in His courts that we are urged to set our faces towards Zion, and with all our might to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work. 'Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you; for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.' John xii. 35.

Robert." FOR SOUNDING AN ONSET. If ye go to war in

your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets.'

resist the enemy that

Does not the gospel

Father." And where are we urged to oppresseth us, if it be not in the sanctuary? sound an onset, when it entreats us to war a good warfare against sin, the world, and the devil, and strengthens us to endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ? It calls us to battle; 'Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ."'" 1 Pet. i. 13.

Robert. "FOR INTIMATING (Num. x. 10.)

GLADNESS OF HEART."

Father." And where are joy and gladness to be found if not in the gospel? Peter found them there-in Christ. 'In whom though now we see him not, yet believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.' Paul found them there when he exclaimed, Death is swallowed up in victory! O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be unto God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!'"

Robert.-" FOR USHERING IN THE 6 SOLEMN DAYS OF THE JEWS."

Father. "The Christian Sabbath is a day of peculiar solemnity. 'Thou shalt reverence my sanctuary,' says He who is in the midst of it. Though all who live under the gospel are free indeed,' their liberty must not be used as a cloke for licentiousness; but holiness and seriousness wait upon the message of God's ministers."

Robert." FOR PROCLAIMING KINGS."

Father." And he who preaches the gospel proclaims' another king, one Jesus,' King of Kings and Lord of Lords; the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever; still willing to pardon, and mighty to save!"

Robert.-" FOR WARNING THE PEOPLE."

Father." And still the trumpet of the gospel says audibly and unequivocally, Flee from the wrath to come!' for behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among you of all the ungodly deeds which you have ungodly committed, and of all

the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

"That this alarm is unequivocal," continued Mr. Rogers, "is evident from the symbol employed-a 'trumpet;' of all instruments, that which gives the clearest and most thrilling note. For this reason it is dignified with the epithet-' voice.' The voice of the trumpet on Sinai, sounding long, and waxing louder and louder,' awed the people congregated at its base into an intensity of attention which became the solemnity of the proceedings there. And there is a remarkable passage in the Revelation of St. John, ascribing to this appropriate type the power of scattering forth its tones, with a meaning and emphasis belonging to no other instrument. The first voice which I heard was, as it were, of a trumpet talking with me.' 'This then is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, but men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.' There is no want of clearness in the gospel; it deprecates all excellency of speech or of wisdom. Its message is short and simple,- Only believe!' Receive it, and be saved. Reject it, and perish.

"The alarm is universal. Warning every man, and teaching every man, that we may present every man faultless before Christ. This was the apostle's practice. He had not one gospel for the utterly ignorant, another for him on whom the day-spring had just arisen, another for him who had for some time past walked in the light, and another for him who set all religion at defiance; but on all he urged this majestic truth- God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' To the deist it sounds an alarm. You believe that there is one God. The devils also believe, but it neither mitigates their anguish nor redeems their souls. To the pharisee it says, 'If you are too good to be saved. you are bad enough to be lost.' anew in Christ Jesus, and not mended by the deeds of the law. Christ is all in all, and without Him you are without hope. To the believer it sounds an alarm also, for faith is not a solitary act as some suppose, but an unremitting practice. They which believe must be careful to maintain good works,' giving earnest heed to the truth, lest at any time they should let it slip. "The alarm is personal. 'All men think all men sinners b

God's people must be created

themselves.' It concerns myself. Lord be merciful to me a sinner.' It concerns you who are reading this. It is easier to ask,

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Lord, are there few that shall be saved?' than to strive to enter

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in at the strait gate ourselves. The Saviour's Follow THOU me,'

was as full of deserved reproof, as of saving wisdom.

“There is one event to the righteous and the wicked; and to all the gospel trumpet says, clearly and unequivocally, Prepare to meet thy God!' 'There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war.' Eccles. viii. 8. You are engaged in it; shut up to it beyond all flight of hope.' Hope is mighty, but it cannot deliver; there is no escape-no alternative. We must ALL stand before the judgment seat of Christ. The small and great are there;' the rich and poor, the learned and the unlearned, the evil and the good. But to these two grand classes it wears a widely different aspect. The first give in their account with grief, the last with joy. And why this difference? simply because the preparation has, in one case, been neglected. The summer is ended, the autumn has not been redeemed, and winter has gathered in all its horror around the naked and desperate sinner who had so often questioned the terrors of the Lord, or suffered his warnings to pass away unregarded. But the Christian needs a preparation also to fight the good fight of faith. Put on,' said a soldier of Jesus Christ, the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil; above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.' Remember the whole armour is of God.' There is spear on which if a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it; there is a sword which shall turn against him who uses it; and there is a species of armour which shall tend only to make our fall more startling and terrible. God, and God only—the strong and mighty in battle-the Lord of hosts the King of glory-the Captain of our salvation-can bring us off more than conquerors. For why does St. Paul lay such great stress on the shield of FAITII if it be otherwise? It is only whilst we are one with the strong,' that we can stand against the powers and principalities which are enlisted against us. It is only by realising our own utter weakness that we can be strong indeed; by cultivating the mind and spirit which were in Christ

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