ness was so great that she was perfectly helpless, and life in such a state was not desirable. On the following week I was in the country a few days; and, on my return, received the intelligence of her death. She died calmly; and now her spirit is before the throne of God in heaven. Now the warfare has ceased, the struggle is o'er, and our sister entered into rest Nov. 17th, 1851, aged 17 years. In her character there are some features worthy the imitation of all our young people. She loved her parents. It was because she felt unwilling to leave them that she did not wish to die. When confined to her bed, she felt quite happy if her mother would sit by her to talk of heavenly things. A few minutes before she died, she told her father that she should like to meet him in heaven, and urged him to serve the Lord with all his heart. She loved the Sunday-school. Nothing but sickness could interfere with her attendance there; it was a delight to her to receive the Christian counsels of her teachers, especially after she was united to the Church and had given her heart to God. And she tried by her obedience there to manifest her gratitude. She loved the means of grace. She was always found at the house of God at those times which were set apart for religious worship. Her class was a delight to her soul; in our prayer-meetings and other religious services she took great interest, and from them derived great profit. Let all our young people "Go and do likewise." And let them be admonished by our sister's early death to prepare for like circumstances. "Prepare to meet thy God!" Her death was improved by the writer to an overflowing congregation, on Sunday evening, Dee. 7th, 1851, from Proverbs xiv. 32. JAMES OGDEN. POETRY. THE IRISH BOY. MOTHER, mother! near me stay! I am faint, and sad, and chill; Through this long, long weary day I have sought my pain to still; But it gnaweth, gnaweth ever: Mother, how this burning fever Cometh, goeth, e'en at will! Mother, kiss my aching brow! Oh, thy lips are icy cold, And thine eyes are sunken low, Very fearful to behold: Since the sunrise yesterday, We have nothing tasted,-say, Shall this pining hunger hold? I could sleep, but Ellie's cry Help and comfort may be near! Mother, start not! thou art pale, Kiss thee, till thine eye, so wild, Beam again in softness mild. Oh, thy tears are falling fast, I could deem her spirit passed. Is it so? Yes, yes, I read In thy quivering lip the tale! Soon shall greet that cheek so pale. Whom shall hunger next devonr? Heed us in this fearful hour! To the parted, but for thee! Death!-it must be! o'er mine eye Thick mists, as of midnight, gather; And I only hear thee sigh, While thou breath'st,-"To meet thy father!" Dearest mother! fare thee well! With the sainted I shall dwell; Ne'er to hunger: fare-farewell! SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATED. FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY IN THE HISTORY OF TYRE. IF our young friends would know where Tyre is situated, they must place before them a map of Canaan, and look along the coast of that country washed by the waves of the Mediterranean Sea; and towards the north, not quite one degree above Mount Carmel, they will find the place where the once famous city of Tyre stood. This city could boast a great antiquity. It was founded by a colony from Zidon, a city still more ancient, and situated about twenty miles more northward on the same coast. Zidon was the name of the grandson of Noah (Genesis x. 15), and the city was probably founded by him, from whom it took its name. So ancient was Tyre that we find it spoken of as a "strong city" as early as the time of Joshua. (See Joshua xix. 29.) The situation of Tyre, being on the sea-coast, gave a seafaring character to its inhabitants, and they became the best sailors and the richest merchants of the ancient world. Our young readers will remember that it was Tyre which furnished sailors for the fleet of King Solomon, in those expeditions which he made to Ophir and several distant parts of the Eastern world. (1 Kings ix. 26-28.) The commercial character of Tyre soon raised it to wealth and magnificence. Wealth brought luxury, and luxury induced licentiousness and depravity of manners; depravity and sin incurred the displeasure of Almighty God, and caused him to pronounce his awful judgments against that splendid and wicked city. But to enable our young friends to see what ancient Tyre was in the time of Ezekiel, about 2440 years ago, we must here transcribe the whole of the 27th chapter of that prophet, and intreat you to read it with great attention : The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; and say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God, O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. They have made all thy ship-boards of fir-trees of Senir; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. Fine linen, with broidered work from Egypt, was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail: blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof, were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. They of Persia, and of Lud, and of Phut, were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. The men of Arvad, with thine army, were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses, and horsemen, and mules. The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. Dan also and Javan, going to and fro, occupied in thy fairs; bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. The merchants of Sheba and Rama, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Ashur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants: these were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market; and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company, which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the sea in the day of thy ruin. The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; and shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: and they shall make them |