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It Hist.'. n ha'e'i r Hh- Mum" iliiMiivn, J ly Vmi Uiv turn I'll li-un aelmu-ri'.... rr. rv HYMN. riht nut, poor truvc.Hct, though tlo v., lie r,.ui;h l.kc tli.it tit? Saviour trod ; Though cold aiiil sttiiiny law'r tlie ilay j Thi path of kiifl'i linj; lral to Hod. N'ay. niiit not ; though from ever) limb Are starting drop of tml-i .inil in , 7 boo lot but share the lot of him, With whom ttii followers arc to rtijrn. Tliy I'm tuts are gone, ami thmi, alone, Mit ln P the Sorrows 'hat aiail ; Look upward to the K'lrual I liiiinr, And hoar a Frieiid who launot fad. Bear firmly, yet u lew lucre days, A id t'n;. hard tm.l will be pa.U ; Then arupt in jjlon'aopc iiing hl.it, Thy li-tt will rci on heaven ;,t la:, C'bn.tiaii! thy Fneiul, thy Mas'er prav'd, Mlnltf drr 1 anil anguish shook his Ira'tic 1 Ik ii lit t-t hi snlVel'my mi lisma. cd ; ill thou not try to do the same ' Cio, naRerer, calmly meet tlic won, M hii h own mercy bid the-e bear, Then, riwii an thy Saviour roe, in, bit eternal victory share. 'the Re-union of D'partrd 'rtnul, Whin thoe whom love and blood endear, Lie cnld itpou the fun'ral bier, Wow fruit lr arc our tears of' woe ! Hovv vain the jjrief that bid them How ' Tbote friends lamented are not dud, Though dark to u the road tlx y trcui ; All soon moat follow to the ihore, "V here they have only pone before. Shine but to-morrow' un, and we, to npell'd by equal destiny, Shall in one common house cn.hr.ire, V hi re they Lave Cmt prepared ot.r pLee. Literary vxAviAirt, Variety ' the very apiee of l ie. That ivci it all its flavor. - -' - - - - - i k-i a pertettlv hapnv, . I have iit-ver rrumL,Ki..und Mudow of Scot'M, I.i v lfW jri,nd;.,5 so mwy elr,m Sl'NsllT AMI si Miisn. have d ne. My father and motltcr 44 This is the evening en which a few : ii l" and love me wtll ; blessings be upon das ag wc agreed to walk to the them e,m and fir ever ! Youlovrmc, B -cr at Waterfall, and lock at the!-1' d that so tenderly, that at times my perfection of a Scottiih Sansrt. i'.v i heart is like it break. Hut, my bus cry thing on earth and heat en seems .bind, forgive me, pity me ; but upbraid us beautiful as our souls c Ul d.-sire. 1I1C not hrn I tell you that my soul, C me then, my sweet Anna, tome a-! f hte, has oltcn fainted within me, as lot.. fur by the time we have n iched !l0W it does ; for oh. husband, husband, the Howrr, with your gt title steps, the ti,r t lcath is upon me ; u.id as great bright orb will be neatly restirg die sun stok behind the m .unuin, I its lim on what you call the Huby ! thought that moment T a I -rgf burial iMoiintiio. Come alung, and we can 'place, and the .va!t in which 1 a:n to return before the dew has softened a j he interred.' tingle ringlet on your fair forehead.'! These words gave a shock to her "V iih these words, the happy husband j husband's heart, and for a feu mo locked kindly within his own the arm!mcnu e ncw not how to cheer and of his young Knglish wife; and even 'comfort her. Almost before he could in the solitude of l.h unfrequented ' 'P,'3',ii 3nd while he was silently kiss jgroves, whererotye but his own now I ingher forehead, his young wife, some beheld her, looking with pride on the ! what more composedly said, 'I strive graceful -ess and beauty, that seemed against t dose my eyes to contain, to r,o congenial with the singleness and crush the tears that I feel gushirg up simplicity of her soul. i from my stricken heart , Ut they force 'Ihry reached the Hower pst as the (their way through, and my face is of ftitcrn heaven was in :.!1 its gl iy. ' ,rn ''urfully drenched in solitude To them, w hi!c they stord togetht r ga- j 'H nav I weep to leave this wci hi zing fa that glow r.f Tie that burns i ''uc, my parerti, the roms in which wiihot.tc t.suiMiig, and in whose migii-; "" n year of perfect ld:f , 1 have walk ty furnace the doi.ds and the mountain j ed, sat, cr slept in thy bootr, all these tops nre btit si rmlirrs, tht re scrrilrd 'beautiful woods and plains, and hills, to extft no sky but that region of it jniwhch I iac b.r.un to led every day which their spirits were ei.tr. need. more and mote as belonging to me, be- Truir tv.es saw it; their souls iU it ; cause I am thy wife. Hut, husband, but whit their eyes taw, or their souls' Jell, they" knew not in the mystery of tht ir magnificence. I he vast black h irs, the piled up m isses of burnished 1J, the beds of softtst saffron and i idlest purple, lying surrounded w ith i t ot tiou.il! v fluctuating dvesof crim-j sen. ard she vcrv sun himself was for r.U'iiunis unheeded in the gorgeous-J less his light had created, the show of j Motm lit the feeling rf calm over all) ih- tiiTidtcit.iis yet settled wr rid r.f I clouiU h it l ad come Moating silently an 1 majtstii ally togerlier, and Vet. i;i one ii tic hour, w as to I e n.i more. wh.tt n.i jlu not beings endowed with a : sen. e ct beauty, no I greatness, and j 1 ive, and fe.ir, and terror, and etemi- ty, led when drawing their stedfast j eyescneirh other's laces, in si;t'n a : tec r.e as t.-.is : Hat from these hih and bewilder ing imaginations, their ols returned insensibly to the real wot Id in which their life lay ; and still feeling the res et ce of that spier. Jivl sunset, .dthough now they looked not towards it, thev let their eyes glide, in mere human happint st, uvw-r tin siul'iceol the in habited earth. The grun f.chN, tha' in all the varieties ol form, lay stretch ing out before them, the hedge rows of luwthorn and sweetbrier, the humble cappirs, the etately groves, and, in the distance, the daikpine forest loading the mountain vide, were all tiieii- own, and so too were a hundred cottages, on height or hollow, shelterless or buried in bht-lter, and all alike dear to their humble inmates on account of their cheerfulness or their rtJose. God had given to them this bright and beautiful portion ol the earth, and he had given them .dung with it hearts and souls to feel un i understand in what lay the worth of the gift, and to enjoy it with a deep and thoughtful gratitude. " All hearts bless you, Anna ; and do you know that the Shepherd Poet, wh m we once visited in his Shcding, has composed a Ci.elic song on our mar riage, and it is now sung by many a pretty Highland gill, Loth in cottage and on hillide? I hey wondered, it is said, why I should have brought them an English lady ; but that was before they saw your lace, or heard how sweet mae be an Ktiglish voice, even to a Highlander, i hey love you, Anua; they would die f r you, Anna, for they hive- se-n you with your t.weet body i silk and satin, with a jcwtl on your forehead, and pearls in your hair, mo ving to music in your husband's hered it iry hall ; and thev have seen you, to, in rusr.ct garb, and ringlets un.id irr.ed. in their own smoky cottages, blithe and free as some native shepherdess of the hills. To joyful a'ul orrowfal art thou alike dear ; and all my tenantry are rejoiced when you appear, wheth er on your palfrey, rti trie heather, or walking through toe hav or harvest fi-Id, or sittif.g a the bed of sickness, or welcoming wnh a g-c:!-; statehniss, the old withered inour.tainerr to the chieftain's i-ntf." The tcirs fed from t!- I.ioVs eves at these kind, loving, and i'vfjl words ; and with a so1), 'he leant ,! In r thick on her husband' bosom. '1 h. wla. ""why, sho'dd I be u. in the no. 1st i ' ;tl:c utuleserved goodness of Ciud .' jS.nce the far'hesr b.tk time I rccol ! lect in the- t! tkntss of infanrv, I have beyond tar, bryr-nc! them all, except him, of whose blood it is, do I weep to leave our baby that is now unborn. May it live to comfort y ou, to gladden vour eves when lam cone: ea. to bnng tears sometimes into thtm, when lts 'ace or lorm chance to remember 'r'u r the mother that bore it, ami died that it might see the day.' The lady rose up with these words from her hushand's bosom ; and as a sweet, ba!n,y whispering breath c l wind came Irom the broom on the ti- vet 's hank, and famed her cheeks, sl.e seemed t.) revive fioin liiat des-M! ing dream ; and w'uh faint .sjvile'h.iA cd all around the sylvan bower. I i cheerful hum of the lets, that sremed to be hastening their work among tlu l,r nev-fl aver bef,rc the dark, tht noise ci tac river !i...t l.ad lic en t i heutd while the sun was sitting, h lowing ti th-. line going leisure ', hon-.ewards before their infant driver-, and loud and lofty song of ihr black bird in lus grove; these, and a thous and other minghrg .rfltu r.cc s ol na ture, touched her heart w ith j. y and hu T . 11 l a eyes became altogether free frotu tears. Her huaband, who hjd been deeply al fected by words so new to him Irom her lips, aei.ed these moments of re turning peace to divert her thoughts en tirely from such causeless terrors. " To this bower I brought you to show you what a Scottish landscape was, the day after our marriage, and from that hour to this, every look, smile, word, and deed of thine ha been after mine own heart, except those foolish tears. I5u'. the dew will soon be on the grass ; so i. tme, my beloved ; nay, I will not st'a unless you imilc. There, Anna, yo t are your own beautiful self again!" And they returned cheerful and laugh ing to the lull; the lady's face being again as bright as if a t:r hail never dimmed its beauty. 'The glory of the sunset was almost forgotten in the sweet, fair, pensive silence of the twi light, now last glimmering on to one of those clear summer nights which di vide, for a few hours, one day from an other, with their transitory pomp of stars. lie fore midnight, all who slept awoke. It was hoped an heir was about to In born to that ancient house ; and there is soiitihing in the dim and solemn reverence which invests an unbroken line of ancestry, that blends easily with those deeper and more awful feelings with w hich the birth of a human crea ture, in all circumstances, is naturally regarded. Tenderly beloved by alias this young and bcautilul lady was, who coming a stranger among them, and as they felt Irom another lmd, hid inspi red them i'iirnsibly with a sort of pity mingling whh their pride in her love liness and virtue, it may well be thought that now the house was agitated, and thai i's agita.ion was soon spread irom cottage to cottage, to a great distance r und. Mmya prayer was said for hvr; and (ioj was besttched, tuun to make her, in his mercy, a joy ful moth er. Xo lears, it w as said, w ere rriter tained lor the lady's life ; but ahcr r!iie hours nf intolerable anguish of " ; t.se, her husband, tellit-g aa old 'it whither lie had gone, v.alktd out i.ii the open air, and, in a lew minutes sat down on a tombstone with out knowing that he had entered the little rhurch yard, whirh, with the pa rish church, was within a few fields and i groves ol the house. He looked anu-nd him and saw nothing butgraves, graves, graves. "This stone was erected, by her husband, in memory of Agnes II ford, an Knglish woman, who died in childbed, aged nineteen." This in scription was every letter of it dis tinctly legible in the moonlight; and he held his eyes fixed upon it, reading it over and over w ith a shudder ; and ti.eti rising up, and hum ing out of the churchyard, he looked hack (v m the ga e, and thought he saw a female fig ure ol! in white, w'nh an infant in her am., gliding niselessly over the graves and tombstone. Hut he looked more ste dfastlv, and it was nothing, lie knew it was nothing; but he was ter rified, and turned his tare away from the churchyard. The old servant ad vanced towards him ; and he learrd to look him in the face, lest I e shn:ld know that his wife was a c-rpsc ' " Life or death f" at length he found power to utter. ' My hon red I uiv I'.ves, but her s"n breathed cnlv a few jpups no heir, no heir. I was sent to tell you to come q .hklv to my lah' chambcr." In a moment the old m.n n-iiai.t"'. for leroveiing from the toipidity of lear. his master had (lnn off like ..n aioov. and r.ow with soft footarp w. s bfaari;,' hn the corridor toward the e'.cor of his vife's uj-T'titrnt. lint as he stood wi:li i;i a few vrp of it, comj sin l.i, r,un. nuance wij strenntlu t inj: los heart, to l.uholii his beloved .niu hinjr exh.itis'ed. arid loo probably id. ill indt ni hi io n mo ther, like a shadow, i ame enit of the room, and not knnwinj; ih t she was seen. .l.isp. "d her hands totthrr upon her hi rust, .iiid lifting up her cvrs with .'it cxpies sion of e!tspjir. ex laiitietl, as in a peti tion to (.oil, "Oh! mv poor son! in v poor son! wht will become of hint !" she locked forvvatd. and there wj hrr son before heri !?h b f." ? !!! lr., inner inj and sperr lilrs. She em!rared unci uppotted him tl.r old unci fcchlc 'uj) ; iitrd the joiuk; au I the strong. I ,.m ' :ind. and niw' fee I niv way; but le p :ne to niv btcl iue. tl at I may sit down aiitl kis mv c!e ad wi.'c. I utiRhl to have been tin re. suieli. when she c'iecl " I be la(') was dvirti;, but ncjt dead. Ii was ih.,vi;-.;it tiu.t si. i w.ts insensible, but v. he n het I i.sb J ..id. " Ann Anna '." he fixrti I'.trl illieitocMi.t.ticiiv.reves ii. n bis fire, ..nil move! her Iip as tlioin-l se.'kii ;r la', i '. vird, were hcrd. II, -'tcpiii dovii u:,(I kissed her toichc. c i t! il.tii tint. v.as a siiiile ov-;r u I lei !..c c . -no i e v oi ' f..ie v ell !" At Ih;.'. laim aud voict he louchcd her lips with hi., and he musl tiicn have felt her parting breath ; for when lie again looked on he i face, the smile upon it was more deep, placid, steadfast, than anj living smile, and a mortal silence was on that bosom that was to move no more They tat together, he nd his mother, looking on the young, fair mid beautiful dead. Sometimes he was distracted, and paced the room ravine?, and with a black and L'loomy aspect. Then lie sat down perfectly composed, and lonk'd alternately on the countenance of his youni: wife, bright, blooming and smiling m death, and on that of his old mother, pale, with - eied and solemn in life. As yet he had no distinct thought of himself. Over - whelming pity for one so young, so f.ood, so beautiful and so happy, taken suddenly , ,. ,.117 .. . away, posscsied bis disconsolate soul . and he would have wept with joy to sec her restored to life, even though he were to live no more, though she were utterly to forget him ; for w hat would that be to him, so that she were but alive ! He felt that he could have borne to he separated from her by seas, or by dungeon's walls; for in the strength of his love he would have been happy, knowing that she was a liv- ing being beneath Heaven's sunshine.- I'ut in a lew days n she to be butted ! And then was he forced to think upon himself, and his utter desolation ; changed in a few hours from a too perfect happi- ness, into a wretch whose exigence was an anguish and a curse. At last he could not sustain a swce, sad, beautiful sight of that which was now lying stretched upon his marriage bed; and he found himself passing ahng the si lent passages, with faint and distant la mentations meeiing his car, but scarcely recognized by his mind, until he felt the fresh air, and saw lhc gray dawn of morn ing. Slowly and unconsciously he passed on into the woods, and walked on uiid tan, without aim or object, tliiou.;h lhc soli tude of awakening nature. Ho heard or heeded not the wide ringing sonirs of i ll the happy birds ; he saw not tiie wild flaw. ers beneath his feet, nor the de w diainoi. Is mat Ri.uereu on every .cm. oi cue n..u..u. less trees 1 he rums ol a lonely hut on 1 1 . ' , . ! the hill side were close to him, and be at j U,-rc ,n" nc ro,,!' u '''kfH aw'av a l ! dow n in stupefaction, as if he had been an j perplexity as to the course of pursuit i exile in some foreign country. He lifted j That wc so often wander wide of tlis j p his eves and the sun was rising, so ; IfW.k u ,)M frorn anv Mant af ,,hinntss I that all the eastern heaven wa tinged . . , . , f ' i with the be ui.ilulncss of joy. The tu.- : ,n ,hc l:,,h' ,',lt fromt.ic pcrveneness oi ! iets of bU own ancestral mansion were ; our 'dl n rot chocitng it, from the ir i viiible in the dark utnhrage of its ancient dolence of our minds in not f'.!owi:ii' ; . r: ,. . - .i -i ... . --J f.ta. o, .. j -tre-tc bed away from it toward the orient luh'. and one biiirl.t bend f lhc river! kir.tlled on the dim scenery through which j it rolled. His own family estate wa be- ! fwrc bis eves, and as the thought rose j within ,is heart, ' all that 1 cc is nunc ! yet felt he that the poorest beggar was ! r rher far than be, nd that in one niht ! he bad lost all that was worth possessing, He- saw the chinch tower, and thought ; deba:e. Had (.od rcjuiicd only a poi upoi, the place of graves. TI.ete ill j,jon, Cven were it a large portion, we she be buried," be repeated with alow! ... ... ... , ,., f ... mirht ne puzzled in settling the quantum- voiee, whnc a groan ol mortal misery 1 r startled the little moss-ren bom a crevice j Wc n,iht 1)C plotting how large a part in the ruin- He ro-e iipamd the thought ! we rr.iht veiiiuic to keep back without of suicide entered inly his sick heart. He absolutely forfeiting our safety ; we might gazed on the river, and murmuring a.oiid 1 ,)C huKKi,.R for .Jucuom. brj;aini:,g in bishopeless wrctfl.euncss.said," v hr i , ' , ,, should I nut sink into a poi and te d.own- 'ctnents, andLe perpetually comprom cd? Hut Oh! Anna, thou who wctt so "sing withrur M.kcr. Hut the injunc n.eck and pure on earth, and who art now ' tion is entire, the ceninund is definite btigl.t and glorious in heaven, what wuld 1, ro, tion is unrcpiivocal. Though it i- :ny saintrti nu imbrue spun icei. ii I i -crc to appear thus lost ar.el wicked at the judgment seat f j A hiw vnite reacned his ear, and look j ini round, he beheld I i old. faithful, wl.iic liCMi'cd servant, no his knees, hini j who bat! I ccn his father's foster biuti-.cr, ; and who. in the privilege of age and fulcl !i'v uiid h,vc to h!! tliat belonged to that j l.t-iisc. had f..l!uwed l.ini unregarded, had watched him as he wrur.ij hi bainls. and , I. -id been praying fr him to (in! while I l.c cciitiini-d sitting in that eiisnial trance ; tipeui th..t mouldcrin;; m.iss of ruins i " OI 1 mv oung master, pardon me for i being iieic- 1 vvijhcd not to ovethear vour w:r,!s; but to inc you have always been kind, even as a son to his father. Come, then, with the rM man. bark into the hall, and n.. forsake your mother, vv ho is sore afraid " 1 hcv returned, withcut speaking, down the gletii, and through the. old woods, unci ' the door was shut upon them. Davs and .nights passed on, and then a bell lolled, and the chiirrh yard, that sounded to ma ny feet, was aain silent. I he wood a- round the hall were loaded with their Lmma.l- l.lot IMS tlw 1 It' 1' IT..tArl nt It it, briKhtne,s ; the smoke rose to heaven from ti.e quiet cvtiar.es; sm d tia'.u c con - liiiiicd tlic same, bright, fi; r.'tit, '.trau'i - ful and happv. Uui the lull stood uniii - i i . i .iV.; u r . ;. it. o tainted; the nch luiiiiture now kit th us' ; and there were i r-t.c t ;vi?e on ti e t iciurts that glared the walh. He who .tad! ernthusbetTavcdrnt:!Ctossthcseas to distant cotmli is. Irom which listen mtry, for titrcc sprint.,, expected ids ic- in n ; hut then spue tations wri e never icau-.eci, lor ne men abroad. 1 1 is re-i main were brou.'J.t home to otlaru!, ar.- . , . , i c.reiing to rrciuest i;i his w nl. to I e Ian! ..' .. . . ino'c oi iii wne; unci mev icst to - f i ... ether, beside lhc same simple menu- nielit- Most of rntr mifi ruuu s are more ftippnrta'ale than t'le cerumen's of cur friends upon tlnm. UViSMiia. LrnucT. They who take up religion an a Li3e ground will never adhere to it. If thty adopt it merely for the peace and picas, untness it brings, they will desert it, js soon as they find their adherence to it win brintjthem into difficulty, distress, or clis. i r,.,iit. It seldom answers therefore! tr, j nuildng proselytes by hanKingeu', 1 " 1 . 1 color.. I he chmt.a., endures a.. I seeing him who is invisible. ' He who 1 adopts religion, for the sakeof immediate. J CII;oyrncIit, w;n ,,ot do a virtuous acti-,,, , ... , . , , if that is disacrrceablc to himself lior i t'll", i a temptation that isalluiuig, present pie , sure being his motive. There is no sm,; ; U4Sis fur virtue but the luve of (lod i:; j c;hlibt JeiUS( al)J lhc Ll.; ht reversion f.. ; , , , which that luve is pledged. Without thi as soon as the paths of piety becoirr . rough and thorny, wc shall stray it t , pleasantcr pasture.), Ke hoWV hep Qwn ,, , . lar advantages. In the transaction of til worldly affairs, there arc many and pre difficulties. There may he several way. ou, ef whi( ,Q thuhC Mi jf lhc f1.. , , , . . , . , j u"i-rsta,..l.r,ij ne not alwayscerta.n whuh of these way i the best. Persons of tl r deepest penetration are full of doubt and perplexity ; their minds ore undecided how to act, lest while they pursue one roid, they may be neglecting anotbc , which might better have conducted then to their proposed end. In rcligtbn the case is diiTerent, an., in this rcspectt easy. As a christian u:. have but one object in view, he is also ctr. t.iin there is but one way of obtaining it j Where there is but one end, it prcven: , . . .., . w.. . up. In our atlachments to earthly thingr. cvcn the mo' t Innseent, there is always :. j danger ol ccm ; but from this dangc: wc are here perfectly exempt, for there is j 0 viWlhl , cf f e J4 in our love UlJt 1 ' ... . , , , , . . ,,cinK who 1'',(,cm3nt3t(, '''' j This peremptory requisition cuts off all so ccvinprcsscd in the erprcision, yet it i so expansive and ample in tlic measure ; it is so dis'.inct a claim, so imperative a requisition of a 7 the faculties of the min.l and strength ; c.'.' lhc afTcc'.i vtis of the heart and soul ; that there is not the leas', opening left for liiirjation ; no place foi atty thing but absolute unreserved con. 'diance. It appear neither humane nor gener ous to exult over the frailties of our nature. Hat such is the disposition ct the ungodly, that if ihey sec a christian err one step from the holy command of (iod, they are ready to say, religion is a vain thing, and to call ail professor' hypocrites. The worst state of thr christian, however, is better than the best condition i f the ungodly. And none can plead any excuse for his nt g- t al t;,c ,arof Jehovah. The failings I j "f christians W ill afford no shelter lor 1 christlcss souls in that tremendous day. 1 m 1 , . . , , ,. . A sincere penitent, batned in tear;, .... ; know s a satisfaction which the worldly j c;in!-ct f.nd in all thrat glitters in wealth; , ,, . . ...... i u ill that is sweet in pleasureand all that "is great in distinc tion. To exercise decision and energy is al- , ivjvj i.raiseworthy. ; . .' . . I?, .rntu It a l.n ii hy. loactvYith instant 1 i.t -i i it. v.. tititeinv is nut'ii lnu.tini'n.sLiir. in. i , , . i , - j "0US- u'c juries wiinn spring irorn ndulence or indecision, are the most numerous, and most likely to be incur red, those which result fram rashness arc the deepest and moat incurable.
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