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Mr. C. proceeded to speak of the blessing with which God had crowned the faithful observance of the ordinance of infant baptism. The history of many pious households might be given illustrating this point. He mentioned the following fact. As he called, when on a journey, at the house of a clergyman, the aged father of the minister came to the door in the stage, about the same time. He manifested great pleasure as he was presented with a grandchild whom he had never seen. turning, with tender tones, he said, 'My son, have you given that child to the Lord?' He then told the speaker, that he was grieved at the neglect of infant dedication, that God had blessed it in his own household. He had four sons, and they were all preachers of the gospel.

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The thought was then suggested, that attention to this ordinance is adapted to awaken and keep alive a sense of parental responsibility. God saw that parents needed it. Hence he gave them a privilege, a duty, and a help, all in one. Those who bring their children to the altar of consecration are more likely to do all the work of parents more faithfully,-to watch over them in life with deep solicitude. It is thus related to the whole work of training children for heaven. When we have embraced, by faith, the covenant in their behalf, how can we neglect the education of their souls? In thousands of instances, the thought, 'I have dedicated that child to God,' has made the parent strong in faith and devoted in duty.

Especially it ought to be noticed, that the children of the baptismal covenant are the children of prayer. Prayer for their salvation will be connected with it. Mr. C. related the following circumstances as known to himself. About twenty-five years ago, there was formed a little circle of praying mothers, who, having consecrated their children to God, determined to meet on every Wednesday afternoon to pray for their conversion. Many things connected with the history of that meeting illustrate the faithfulness of God, and the worth of prayer, but it is sufficient to say, that several of the sons of those mothers are now in the ministry. There are two of them now settled pastors in Maine, one in Massachusetts, two in the State of New York, one in Pennsylvania, and one in Kentucky.

Mr. C. then urged household consecration, by the solemnity of covenant vows, the value of the soul, and the fearful account of the judgment day. When God shall then ask the unfaithful parent, Where is the flock that was given thee, the beautiful flock? what will he answer? And how will the child stand at the bar of God, who has been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but has trampled on the covenant and despised the ways of the Lord?

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Quebec, situated on Cape Diamond, seems designed by nature for a fortress. Every view of it is bold and magnificent, and excites sublime emotions. It is divided into the upper and lower city; the latter is built at the water's edge, the former on the fortress more than 340 feet above it. On the north bank of the St. Lawrence, are the plains of Abrahanı, where General Wolfe was slain. The four towers,-called Martello Towers, -that stand for the defence of these plains, are the first that meet the eye of the traveler as he descends the river from Montreal. These towers, about 40 feet high, are round and built of stone, and are very strong, except the side opposite the town. This side is made so that if an enemy should ever gain them, they could be destroyed by the cannon from the city.

The upper town is entirely surrounded by an almost impenetrable stone wall, fifty feet thick and nearly the same in height. A deep ditch is dug directly beneath it, then another wall is raised and another ditch. It is about three miles in circuit, and has ponderous arches and massy gateways and gates. This wall is all that separates the city from the plains of Abra

ham, on the south. The front of the city is circular and more than half the distance round is supported by a naked, black rocky precipice. The wall surmounts these works also, and the highest points are crowned with towers. The picture above is a view of Quebec as you approach it from the southwest, with the plains of Abraham and the towers.

The castle of St. Louis stands on the very edge of the precipice. It is the residence of the governor of the province. It is a plain yellow structure of stone, and is the front of a large square, in which is contained public offices and rooms for public amusement; also a guard-house, stable, and extensive gardens. The front of the building, which almost overlooks the lower town, is more than 160 feet long, and a gallery runs its whole length. This gallery is supported by lofty pillars, which are built and rest upon the rock below. The foundations of these pillars are about 180 feet above the lower town, and you can stand in the gallery and see all the movements of the little world directly beneath you. Indeed you feel absolutely unsafe and giddy to look perpendicularly down upon the confusion and jargon of the lower city. It has been remarked, that not only from this structure, but from the walls of the upper town, a stone could be dropped into the chimneys below; and in most cases before reaching the object, it would fall two or three hundred feet.

The above particulars respecting Quebec, we have gathered from "Conversations on Canada," published by the Society.

Fall River Sabbath School.

Rev. Mr. Fowler, of Fall River, stated, at the meeting of the Consociation of Rhode Island, that his Sabbath school had not been suspended a single Sabbath for eight years; and that the number of attendance had never been less than 100. The present number of scholars is 400. There were present on the Sabbath previous to this statement, 440 teachers and scholars. The school is very highly prized as a means of salvation. Most of the conversions among his people occur in the Sabbath school. Of the 150 conversions during the past four years, almost all were connected with the Sabbath school and Bible class.

Love of the Sabbath School, and Juvenile Benevolence. John is a member of a very flourishing missionary Sabbath school in P. He has ever been remarkably punctual in his attendance, so much so that his absence, a few Sabbaths since, attracted the notice of Mr. H., the superintendent. On the next Sabbath morning, Mr. H., as he went to his school, called to see if John was sick. As he entered the humble dwelling where he lived, John received him with a grateful smile, and instantly said;

"Mr. H., I was not at the Sabbath school, last Sabbath."

"I know it, John; and I have called to learn the reason: Were you sick, John?"

"No, sir," he replied, "I was not sick; but I didn't get up time enough to wash my shirt. But," said he, with eyes as brilliant as diamonds, and a countenance lighted up with the deepest interest, "I got up time enough this morning to wash it; and there it is drying," at the same time pointing to his shirt which was hanging before the fire.

That poor boy had but one shirt in the world; and yet, such was his love of the Sabbath school, his desire to enjoy the privileges of that blessed institution, and to appear there in clean and tidy clothes, that he would rise early on Sabbath morning, while thousands were wasting their precious hours in slothfulness, and make all this preparation.

How few boys of ten, would be willing to make such efforts as these for the sake of attending the Sabbath school!

On the next Sabbath this incident was related in the school connected with the society of which Mr. H. was a member.

A little girl, six years old, was deeply affected with the story. She went home and repeated all the particulars to her mother, and then asked her for some money to buy cloth enough to make that poor boy a shirt. The kind-hearted mother,anxious to gratify that lovely spirit which prompted her little daughter to sympathize with others' woes and to desire to supply the wants of the destitute,-gave her the money. The cloth was purchased; the mother prepared the work, and this little girl, only six years of age, with her own hands, made the 16*

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garment. On the next Saturday, she carried it to Mr. H., and very modestly requested him to present it to the poor boy, so that he would no longer be obliged to wash his shirt Sabbath morning before he could go to the Sabbath school.

This request Mr. H. complied with, and John received the gift with almost indescribable pleasure, and on the next morning he was early in his place at the Sabbath school, one of the most spruce and happy of all the eighty scholars.

How strong the attachment to the Sabbath school exhibited by that boy, and how exceedingly beautiful and lovely the spirit of benevolence exhibited by that little girl! Should that attachment to the Sabbath school and that spirit of benevolence be cherished, the names of these children may yet be embalmed in the memory of the church with the names of Mills and Martyn, of Harriet Newell and Ann Hazeltine Judson.

Abundant in Labors.

A few summers since, a young lady taught a district school in the town of - Prompted by her interest in the salvation of the young, she established a Sabbath school in that neighborhood of more than sixty scholars, and conducted it alone through the season. She paid three or four dollars towards procuring a library. The next season she taught a district school in another neighborhood, three miles distant, where she assisted in a Sabbath school at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. She was in the habit of walking out to the school she established the season previous, which was held at 8 o'clock in the morning, and then walking back to the other school in the afternoon. In addition to the three or four dollars which she contributed the year before towards a library, she contributed the next year seven dollars for the same object. And all this from the avails of her own labors!

If one young female, in every church, possessed the zeal and benevolence of the individual mentioned above, in how many barren wastes would verdure and beauty spring up to delight the eye and gladden the heart of the Christian philanthropist! Why should there not be teachers of a like spirit in all our

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