Ere phantom madness seizes me let me sleep!

Come, come, my mother, save thy truant child

Sweet mother, take me HOME!

FEMALE PIETY.

Then bear this drooping spirit to thy home,
Beyond the singing stars. There is a spell
Of ice upon my soul, its freezing chain
Steeped in a gnawing poison presses down
Until the clankless fetters slowly change
All beauty into bitterness. My brain
Is wildered too, and fainting with the strife,
A mighty struggle with its warring thoughts,
And all its fierce imaginings. The mind
That flamed at times, a gorgeous comet-star,
Or glowed anon a steady, shining sun,
Now darkles on its weary, wandering way,
Like some pale nebula, far wavering through
The starless desert of the southern pole;
Lost, lost, and lone. Oh! mother, guide it her loveliness is uncrowned, till piety throws

And like a bell in some dim ruined tower,
Swung by the sighing solitary wind,
My lone heart sends a hollow echo back.
I'm walking in a vague, unmeaning dream,
And groping onward in this horror's mist,
Cold, clammy, clinging as the damps of death
From out the charnel-house. The lights of
life,

All pale and lurid, waver 'mid the gloom,
As fading lights at morning wail the death
Of Pleasure in her lonely banquet hall;
And aspirations, hopes that led me on
To dare attain the unattainable,
Now flit before me strange and meaningless,
As half formed images that darkle through
An idiot's vacant brain!

The world to me
Is like a sphinx — huge, dark and mystical,
From whose still, stony eyes I win no glance
Of kindly sympathy — whose granite lips,
Fixed, rigid in one everlasting smile,
Mock the deep anguish of the orphan's cry.
Hide me, my mother, 'neath the kindly gloom
That wraps the vale of shadows-oh! lift up
This weariness, which like an avalanche,
And freezing as its adamantine waves,
Seems crushing out the energies of life,
And filling up the dreary, aching void
With idiotic madness- -terrors vague,
That creep like reptiles through the ruined
brain
And crumbling heart.

Give me the anodyne,

THE gem of all others which enriches the coronet of a lady's cha acter, is unaffected piety. Nature may lavish much on her person the enchantment of the countenance the grace and strength of her intellect; yet

around the sweetness and power of her charms. She then becomes unearthly in desires and associations. The spell which bound her affections to the things below is broken, and she mounts on the silent wings of her fancy and hope to the habitation of God, where it is her delight to hold communion with the spirits that have been ransomed from the thraldom of earth and wreathed with a garland of glory. Her beauty may throw a magical charm over many; Princes and conquerors may bow with adoration at the shrine of her love; the sons of science and poetry may embalm her memory in history and song, yet her piety must be her armament - her pearl. Her name must be written in the book of life, that when the mountains fade away and every memento of earthly greatness is lost in the general wreck of nature, it may remain and swell the list of that mighty throng, who have been clothed with the mantle of righteousness, and their voice attuned to the melody of heaven. With such a treasure every lawful gratification on earth may be purchased, friendships will be doubly sweet, pain and sorrow shall lose their sting, and her character will possess a price far above riches; life will be but a pleasant visit to the earth, and death the entrance upon a joyful and perpetual home. And when the notes of the last trump shall be heard, and sleeping millions awake to judgment, its possessor shall be presented faultless before the throne of God with exceeding joy and a crown of glory that shall never fade away. Piety communicates a divine lustre to the female mind; wit and beauty, like the flowers of the field, may flourish and charm for a season: but like the flowers, those gifts are frail and fading; age will nip the bloom of beauty; sickness and misfortune will stop the current

of wit and humor. In the gloomy seasons, found himself swiftly mounting the skies, piety will support the drooping soul like the with a venerable figure at his side, guiding refreshing dew upon the parched earth. Such his mysterious movements, and in whose is piety, like a tender flower, planted in the countenance he remarked the lineaments of fertile soil of a woman's heart, it grows, ex-youth and age blended together with an panding its foliage and imparting its fragrance intimate harmony and majestic sweetness. to all around, till transplanted and set to They traveled together through a vast region bloom in perpetual vigor and unfading beauty of empty space, until at length the battlein the Paradise of God. Follow this star, it ments of a glorious edifice shone in the diswill light you through every labyrinth in the tance, and as its form arose, brilliant and diswilderness of life, gild the gloom that gathers tinct among the far-off shadows that flitted around a dying hour, and bring you safely athwart their path, the guide informed him over the tempestuous Jordan of death, into that the palace that he beheld, for the presthe heaven of promised rest.—Presbyterian.ent, was to be his mansion of rest. Gazing

DR. DODDRIDGE'S DREAM.

upon its splendor, he replied, that while on earth he had often heard that the eye had not seen, nor had the ear heard, nor had it entered in the heart of man to conceive the

DR. Doddridge was on terms of the most things God had prepared for them that love intimate friendship with Dr. Samuel Clark, him; but notwithstanding the building to and in religious conversation they spent many which they were then rapidly approaching, happy hours together. Among other matters, was superior to anything which he had actua very favorite topic was the intermediate ally beheld, yet its grandeur had not exceeded state of the soul, and the probability that at the conception he had formed. The guide the instant of dissolution it was not intro. made no reply they were already at the duced into the presence of all the heavenly door and entered. The guide introduced him hosts and the splendors around the throne of into a spacions apartment, at the extremity of God. One evening, after a conversation of which stood a table covered with a snowthis nature, Dr. Doddridge retired to rest, white cloth, a golden cup and a cluster of with his mind full of the subject discussed, grapes, and then said he must leave him, but and in the "visions of the night" his dreams that he must remain, for he would receive, in were shaped into the following form: He a short time, a visit from the lord of the mandreamed that he was in the house of a friend, sion, and that, during the interval before his when he was suddenly taken dangerously ill. arrival, the apartment would furnish him with By degrees he seemed to himself, to grow sufficient entertainment and instruction. The worse, and at last to expire. In an instant he guide vanished and he was left entirely alone. was sensible that he had exchanged the pris-He began to examine the decorations of the on house of mortality for a state of liberty and happiness.

room, and observed that the walls were decorated with quite a number of pictures. Upon Embodied in a splendid ærial form, he a nearer inspection, he found to his astonishseemed to float in a region of pure light. ment that they formed a complete biography Beneath him lay the earth; but not a glitter-of his own life. Here he saw upon the caning city or a village, the forest or the sea, vass, that angels, though unseen, had ever was visible. There was nought to be seen been his familiar attendants; and that, sent below save the melancholy group of his by God, they had sometimes preserved him friends weeping around his lifeless remains. from imminent peril. He beheld himself reHimself thrilled with delight, he was sur- presented as an infant just expiring, when prised at their tears, and attempted to inform his life was prolonged by an angel breaththem of his happy state; but by some mys-ing into his nostrils. Most of the occurrenterious influence the power of utterance was ces here delineated, were perfectly familiar to denied him, and as he anxiously leaned over his recollection, and unfolded many things the mourning circle, gazing fondly upon them which he had never before understood, and and struggling to speak, he arose silently upon which had perplexed him with many doubts the air, their forms became more and more and much uneasiness. Among others, he was indistinct, and gradually melted away from particularly struck with a picture in which his sight. Reposing upon golden clouds, he he was represented as falling from his house,

when death would have been inevitable, had King-Consort of Portugal, and a son-in-law not an angel received him in his arms, and of the Emperor Nicholas. The star of forbroken the force of his descent. These mer-tune appears to shine on the fortunes of the ciful dispositions of God filled him with joy divorced Empress. The descendents of the and gratitude, and his heart overflowed with West Indian Creole are sitting on thrones in love, as he surveyed in them all an exhibition Europe, while he who discarded her for a of love and mercy, far beyond all that he had higher ambition to perpetuate his power and imagined. Suddenly his attentton was arrest-dynasty, has one degenerate representative, ed by a rap at the door. The lord of the who escapes from obscurity, and he has the mansion had arrived; the door opened, and blood of Josephine. This makes a curious he entered. So powerful, and so overwhelm-chapter in history.

THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS.

BY THE EDITOR.

ing, and withal of such singular beauty was his appearance, that he sank at his feet, completely overcome by his majestic presence. His lord gently raised him from the ground, and taking his hand led him forward to the table. He pressed with his fingers the juice of the grapes into the golden cup, and after GREAT must have been the faith of Elisha, having himself drank, presented it to him, the servant of God, and his confidence in the saying, "this is the new wine in my Father's God of Israel, to enable him to say, in the kingdom. " No sooner had he partaken than midst of the circumstances that surrounded all uneasy sensations had vanished-perfect him, "They that be with us, are more than love had now cast out fear and he con- they that be with them. An army had been versed with his Saviour as with an intimate sent by the King of Syria expressly to take friend. Like the silver rippling of a sum-him as a captive. The little village in which mer sea, he heard fall from his lips the grate-he lodged, was completely encompassed in ful approbation, "Thy labors are over. " the night. And when they arose in the mornThrilled with an unspeakable bliss that gli-ing, they found that they were surrounded on ded over his spirit and fell into the very all sides, and to human appearance there was depths of his soul, he suddenly saw glories no possibility of escape; and the servant of upon glories bursting upon his view. Elisha said, "Alas! my master, how shall The Doctor awoke. Tears of rapture from we do?" There was no way of escape visihis joyful interview were rolling down his ble, and no wonder he seemed ready to give cheeks. Long did the lively impression of up in despair. But Elisha prayed, and said, this charming dream remain upon his mind," Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he and never could he speak of it without emo- may see. " "And the Lord opened the eyes tions of joy and tenderness.

THE DESCENDENTS OF THE EM-
PRESS JOSEPHINE.

of the young man; and he saw, and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around about Elisha. "

The only miracle performed in this case was the giving sight to the servant of Elisha, so that the spiritual world was rendered visiTHE announcement of the death of the ble to him. The vision of horses and chariDuchess of Leutchenberg recalls to memory ots of fire round about Elisha was not an the singular fact, that while nearly all the de-optical illusion, created for the occasion to scendents occupy high stations, the only one deceive the prophet's servant. But it was a

of the Bonaparte family who is in power is reality, rendered visible in answer to the also a descendent of Josephine. Louis Na- prayer of the prophet, for the purpose of poleon, the French President, is the son of verifying the words he had spoken to his Louis Bonaparte and Hortense Beauharnais, servant: "they that be with us, are more than Josephine's daughter. The deceased Duch-they that be with them!"

ess was wife of Eugene Beauharnais, Jose- Nor may we suppose that God departed phine's only son, and was the mother of the from the ordinary course of his dealings and present queen of Sweden, the Duchess of interposition in favor of his people in the case Hohenzollern-Hechingen, the former Empress of Elisha on the present occasion. We are of Brazil, widow of Don Pedro, the late inclined to the belief that there was no such

departure; but on the contrary, the army angels in existence, nor is it necessary that . that surrounded Elisha, as a fiery wall of we should know this. Yet there is enough in protection, was only a link in the chain of the Scriptures to authorize the conclusion that providential and ordinary dispensations, en- the number of them is far beyond our compujoyed not only by Elisha, but by all God's tation. Those that encamped around Elisha, people when they stand in need of succor those that were appointed to protect a single from Him. There is never a time when the servant of God, were more in number than Christian, the man of God cannot say, "Fear the Syrian host which was, doubtless, an exnot, they that be with us, are more than they ceedingly great army. When Jesus was arthat be with them." And the only reason raigned before the bar of Pilate, he said to that he cannot see the living armies with one of his disciples who seemed ignorant of which he is surrounded, is his want of spir- the nature of Christ's kingdom, "put up thy itual eye-sight. sword; thinkest thou that I cannot now pray We think this passage in the life of Elisha to my Father, and he shall presently give me furnishes a true illustration of what is meant more than twelve legions of angels." The by the Psalmist, "The angel of the Lord en- Roman legion was eight thousand, and therecampeth round about them that fear him."fore twelve legions would be nearly one hunThe angels are said to be "ministering spirits dred thousand. But Jesus did not intend the sent forth to minister to them who shall be definite number here expressed. He said not heirs of salvation. " And of the angels he twelve legions, but he said "more than twelve saith, "who maketh his angels spirits, and legions, " by which he meant an innumerable his ministers a flame of fire." Now put-multitude of the heavenly hosts, who would ting these several passages together, or inter- be present to defend him, if he needed any preting one by another, we have it that the such defence. angels are ministers, and a flame of fire that The unfallen angels, doubtless, far outnumencamp round about them that fear the Lord, ber those that are fallen. And yet concernand not round about Elisha, or a Paul, or ing the fallen spirits, we read in one place any other favored servant of God exclusively. that such a multitude of them had entered into They minister to the heirs of salvation. It one man, the number of them is called legion. is said in Psalms: "He shall give his And if a legion of devils may encompass the angels charge over thee to keep thee in all path of a single sinner, to urge him on to the thy ways: they shall bear thee up in their world of woe, why may we suppose that lehands, lest thou dash thy foot against a gions of the good angels may surround indistone." Ps. xci, 12. This passage is quo-vidual saints as a guard for their defence? ted by the wicked one, in the New Testa- We have seen that legions were at the comment as applicable primarily to Christ. But mand of Christ, if he stood in need of their we see no reason why it is not equally appli- services. And it appears, as we have seen, cable to every one who makes God his trust. that legions surrounded Elisha. And it is For this is the reason assigned why he has said of Lazarus, that when he died, he was given his angels such a charge, "because carried by the angels unto Abraham's bothou hast made the Lord which is my refuge, som-by which we understand his ministereven the Most High thy habitation; there ing spirits - those which had ministered to shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any him during his life time. We know not how plague come near thy dwelling; for he shall many there were. But there was a plurality, give his angels charge," &c. Christ says of and the probability is, a great multitude. And children, “verily I say unto you, that their from all this, we are authorized in the belief angels do always behold the face of my Fath- that a plurality of those celestial and guardier who is in Heaven. " If believers are thus an spirits are appointed to attend upon every defended and surrounded, if they are borne heir of salvation. up in the hands of angels, and are ministered Is this out of due proportion? Or shall unto by angels, their safety is but a natural we think it a lavish waste of celestial care inference from all this. and protection that is bestowed on the heirs One element of this safety is in the number of salvation. We know not yet the meaning of their spiritual guardians. "They that are of that sentence, "There is joy in the preswith us, are more than they that are with ence of the angels of God over one sinner them." We know not the number of the that repenteth. " If God's Son would die for

the salvation of a sinner, he would not think know that every heir of salvation is exposed it a waste of his care or his power to appoint to the fiery darts and the assaults of a host of a whole legion of angels, and they would not devils, called principalities and powers, and think it below their dignity to minister to that spiritual wickedness in high places.

soul, for whom Christ died!

For the Casket.

VAUXHALL GARDENS.

BY REV. J. A. LYON.

We can draw no inference concerning the number of angels in existence from the number of human beings who shall be saved; as we are perhaps unconsciously in the habit of doing. This globe is the residence or the birth-place of the heirs of salvation. But this globe is hardly a point in the universe or AMONGST the various places of amusement God. A philosopher has said, (we refer to characteristic of the great metropolis of the Herschel,) that he discovered with his tele- world, may be mentioned certain fairy spots, scope, fifty thousand just such suns as ours called "Gardens," so elaborately and exiu that highway of worlds, the milky way, in a quisitely laid off and ornamented that one space apparently not over a yard in breadth and might almost imagine that the Genii of the six in length. And when we think that no Arabian Nights, or Queen Mab herself, of two of these suns are probably nearer to each Fairy Land, had presided in their construcother than twenty billions of miles, and that tion. Vauxhall Gardens is, perhaps, the finthe starless space between their solar systems est in London. It includes some ten or twelve is a hundred millions, we have numbered the acres, inclosed with a high wall, and contains worlds that a powerful glass brings to our all that the imagination could devise, or the view from one point of space. Again, if we fancy depict, by way of ornament and picmultiply these systems by twenty thousand turesque beauty. It is indeed a Fairy Land, millions, we have three thousand millions of containing all manner and kinds of beautiful millions of human beings that might dwell in trees, and shrubbery and flowers - laid off peace and unity in that point of space, one into walks, and bowers, and winding ways, yard by six, which Herschel's glass would and arbors, and grottoes-ornamented with discover to our vision! Let us not ask, what mounds and little precipices and declivities, is man? but rather if the empire of Jehovah and playing fountains, and lakes, cascades, - if such a multitude of worlds and running, murmuring streams. It is interactually exists which he has, in all probabili-spersed with beautiful statuary illustrative of ty, peopled with intelligent beings, can we classie lore-here is Jupiter with his thunset any limit to the number of those spiritual derbolt-there an Apollo with his bowbeings the angels, who are his messengers, yonder the Dancing Faun — and there, again, appointed to visit all these worlds with the a Venus rising out of the seaspeed of thought, and with the same freedom that long gravel is a little lake, in which old that they visit this earth? Or shall we draw Neptune, as large as life, with his three pranan inference as to the number of them from cing sea-horses drives through the water. the number of inhabitants which this insignifiHere a little Cupid playing with his enchanted cant speck cf earth contains? - there the grave Minerva, goddess of with his shield and helmet, the bloody god of wisdom, and over the way is the grim Mars, war, &c., &c.

is so extended

arrows

and down

Let not the reader think we are indulging in useless declamation. If we should even say that legions of angels may be appointed to minister to each and to every one of the views, artificial caverns, and elegant strucIn addition to these there are panoramic heirs of life, we should not surely transcend tures of various kinds. In one part stands the limits of Almighty power to have made. such provision for the safety of His saints; leaf and vast mirrors, and ornamented with an immense restaurat, glittering with gold we should not even transcend the limits au-artificial flowers, paintings, statuary aud minthorized by the deductions of natural science,iature fountains. we should not exceed in our estimation of the either side, is a long array of little alcoves Extending like wings on worth of a soul what God has put on it in the fitted up with tables, divans, &c., where visitgift of His Son. And who can say that such ers partake of ice-creams, and other delia defence may not be necessary, when we cacies. In another place is a most gorgeous

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