of the omniscience of God. This attribute is also inferred, with absolute certainty, from his omnipresence. As God exists every were, so he is in all places the same God-all eye, all ear, all intellect. Hence it is impossible that he should not know every thing, in every place, and at every time.-[Dwight.

INTELLIGENCE.

We have read with mingled sensations of pain and pleasure the very able and interesting "Report of the committee appointed by the Society for the prevention of Pauperism in the City of New-York, on the expediency of erecting an Institution for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents;" a report which reflects honour on the heads and hearts of its authors. It is very painful and distressing to see the rapid progress of vice in youthful and neglected minds.* But it is a pleasure to know, (and that too from experience) that there are moral restraints and remedies within the power of the community, and that this society have determined to bring the subject before the municipal and legislative authorities of the country, that proper means may be forthwith adopted to stem this tremendous torrent of vice, and introduce such plans of reform as may be thought expedient, and conformable to the spirit of the free and happy constitution of this country.

The object of this society is to recommend to the support of their fellow citizens, the patronage of the corporation, and the approval of the legislature, a House of Refuge, for the reception of juvenile offenders, and for their reformation and improvement by a careful, unabated, and judicious course of moral and religious instruction. It is not possible for us to detail (and we regret we have not room to do so) the plan suggested in this admirable report; but we hope to notice it more fully hereafter. There is one part, however, which we cannot but regard with

*Four hundred and fifty persons under 25 years of age (and a very considerable number of them, of both sexes, between the ages of 9 and 16) were sentenced to imprisonment during the last year.

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peculiar satisfaction: It is that which proposes to call in the assistance of a suitable number of ladies to take a share in its administration; and in which we are reminded of the illustrious example of that Female Howard, Mrs. Fry, with her associates, in the reform of the female delinquents in Newgate. And we heartily concur in the opinion (founded on our own observation) of the special and very important advantages of associating the skill, the discretion, the tenderness, and the fidelity of females in concerns of this nature. This society has therefore our warmest thanks for what they have done, and our best wishes for the success of their plan.

In the excellent hints for the formation of Sunday Schools with which the editor has been favoured, there is an observation (page 37) intimating that to such parents as are indifferent to the moral improvement of their children, views of a temporal advantage should be laid open at the introductory visit; reserving higher views for future visits: It is hoped this will not be misunderstood:-The author does not intend to recommend that parents should be led to expect any other temporal rewards than those which result from education; but merely that the education the children will receive will be productive of temporal good in its effects, which, although evident to every considerate teacher, may not be so plainly seen by inconsiderate and worldly parents; who must be told that an attendance at Sunday Schools will give their children habits of order, submission, industry, and thoughts which they never had before; and that they will have the assistance of the teacher in bringing this about for the mutual benefit of both parent and child. is the temporal good that should be proffered to them.

This

NEW-YORK S. S. UNION SOCIETIES.

THE two societies which were formed in this city in the year 1816, for the purpose of promoting a Union of Christians of all denominations, in the great object of Sabbath School instruction, are pursuing the active, but unobtrusive tenor of their way without soliciting (so far as we understand) any aid, out of their own circles, for carrying on this benevolent work, although the public, in common with themselves, derive from these institutions the advantages they are so well adapted to produce.

The object and aim of these societies are as patriotic as they are benevolent; and they deserve a more extended and powerful patronage. It was in this city that the example of such unions was first given to the United States, and that, too, by the portion of the Human Family generally denominated the weaker branch, but who are in fact often the strongest in such efforts, (and the most persevering too) who never, even at the cross, deserted him they loved, and who do not now desert the cause of christian benevolence wherever they have an opportunity of promoting it.

The teachers of the schools connected with the union in this city, shortly after the organization of that society, formed themselves into an association for mutual improvement. They have met regularly once a month since that time. At these meetings the state of the schools is reported; any interesting facts or improved plans of conducting schools are communicated, and since May last some portion of the time of each meeting has been devoted to the discussion of Sunday School subjects. This is a plan certainly well adapted to do much good. At such meetings teachers become acquainted with each other, and the youngest have the benefit of the experience of the oldest.

The pecuniary contributions to these societies are but moderate; nor is much required; but it is necessary to provide school-rooms, books, rewards for the encouragement of children, &c. which might be made more extensively beneficial by an increased patronage; for the contributions either of time or money do not keep pace with the increase of the schools. It is therefore hoped there will be a considerable accession to the strength of these truly useful and benevolent societies for the promotion of the general good.

The editor will be happy to record their proceedings, and also to notice in his future numbers any particular information of facts, or circumstances connected with the schools that may be generally useful, which any of the teachers will address "to the Editor of the Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, at 148 Broadway, New-York."

POETRY.

[For the Amer. S. S. Teacher's Magazine.]
Written Impromptu in a Lady's Album.

What pure ingredients constitute the charm
Of female excellence? the female form,
Proof of his skill indeed that form who made,
Must in the grave putrescent soon be laid ;
Its fine proportions, elegant address,
Its envied beauty, polish'd tenderness,
Its soft attractions and conceded sway,
Its ostentatious and superb display
Are perishable all, and transient too-
By death dishonour'd, and possess'd by few;
And where possess'd, O how perversely join'd
Often-not always-with an empty mind,

While signal marks of vanity and sin

Suggest too plainly what resides within ;
And in the light of revelation tell

A foe of God, a candidate for hell!

Can wealth ancestral weave the deathless bays
With which to crown the heroine I praise ?
Does gold, the miser's idol and his bane,
To genuine loveliness at all pertain?
Hist'ry with truth, the motto of her seal,
Frowns at the thought, and spurns the mad appeal ;
Shows many a chapter of her pond'rous scroll,
Where wealth and woman occupy the whole,
Without one trace of excellence or soul !
She points our eye to Lady Jane, whose worth
Disown'd a crown, and fled th' infectious earth;
To Mary's manger, memorably known,
And Cath'rine's cottage e'er she fill'd a throne.
There many a princess opulent and fair'

Is labell'd fiend, and this her deeds declare :
Such Helen, Cleopatra, and the wife

(Accurst of Heav'n) that ask'd the Baptist's life: Such Xantippe infallibly had been,

The same demoniac paragon of sin,

If Croesus' coffers had confess'd her claim,
And lent their millions to augment her shame.

What then, the ingredients excellent and rare,
Which crown with deathless dignity the fair?
Since beauty, wealth and rank, cannot impart
Worth to the name, or virtue to the heart;
Since these with fame, the herald of their pride,
Are found with vicious qualities allied
With ignorance--itself that never knew,
Worthy the meagre soil in which it grew;
A soil where genius never own'd a home,
Or science flourish'd in its empty dome:
Allied with vain and vapid self conceit;
Reverse of good, and mimickry of great ;

Rank, fortune, beauty, admiration, fame,
May grace a throne, and gild a worthless name ;
A name in Heav'n disown'd, on earth abhorr'd,
Scourge of the poor, by none but fools ador'd;
A name that means personified disdain
Of Christ and truth, of virtue and her train;
A name, consigned at last to the abode

Of despe ation, and the wrath of God:
Fools may mistake it for a glorious name;
And ideots voice it with a wide acclaim:
Flatt'ry may fume it with her treach'rous breath,
And art affect to rescue it from death;

That name shall perish! truthless is its praise,
Dissolv'd its charm, and sunk in night its blaze.
'Twas folly's fascination, the mere form
And face of grandeur that disguised the worm:
Death breaks the spell, eternity reveals
The epitaph of sin; while truth appeals
With torch uplifted to th' indignant skies,
From earth's delusions to the grand assize;
And points our vision to the dread supreme
To teach our fear, and dissipate our dream.
Hence then the excellence of true degree
Is that which teems with immortality;

Which God approves, which time the more matures,
Which earth disparages, and grace secures :
Offspring of truth! descendant of the skies,
Immortal radiance of the ONLY WISE ;
Thy source religion, excellence thy name,
'Tis thine the wardship of the sex to claim!

Thine to enoble, dignify, and bless;

Thine to adorn, enrich, delight, caress,

Of charms and graces feminine, the all potent patrones.

ON THE PIETY WHICH THE WORKS OF CREATION ARE ADAPTED

TO INSPIRE.

We know all we see in this beauteous creation,

However enchanting its beauty may seem,