Mr. Lamson, in his remarks, presented a view of the prospective results of Sabbath schools, showing their influence on human society and human salvation, closing with an exhortation for all to lend to this institution their hearty cooperation.

Mr. Adams addressed the children and youth, giving them advice on the subject of good morals and good manners. He illustrated and enforced, in a very beautiful and impressive manner, the following particulars, which the young ought to observe. 1. Mind your parents. 2. Fear a lie. 3. Be kind to one another. 4. Be respectful;—and closed with a description of a new heart.

Mr. Crosby, in his remarks, showed that the influence of the family at home, and the influence of the teacher with his class, are two causes which operate more directly, if not more powerfully, than any others, to determine the character of our Sabbath schools. The first of these has not received the degree of attention that it merits. Every thing is said to the teacher, to induce him to be faithful, while the influence of the family is too much overlooked. He noticed some of the points of contact, where the family operates decidedly on the Sabbath school. 1. Through its government. 2. Through the cultivation of the natural affections. 3. Through its general domestic arrangements. 4. Through its general influence and example. He mentioned two essential pre-requisites to successful teaching. 1. A right understanding of the moral state of the heart. 2. Of the position the parent and teacher occupy towards the child.

We may, hereafter, give some extracts from these addresses.

Notices of New Publications by the Society. THE TRUANT Boy: 32 pp., 32mo., with an engraving. This narrative was published a few years since by the Society, in "The Tales of Intemperance;" and every one who reads it will say with us, that it deserves to be published in a book by itself, in the neat and beautiful style in which it now appears. Parents, and the teachers in our common schools, as well as truant boys, will find in it a lesson for them.

WISE SAYINGS FOR THE YOUNG: 48 pp., 32mo., with an engraving of Wisdom, with a palm in her right hand, and a crown of glory in her left. 66 Hoping to interest and benefit the young," says the editor, in the preface, "I have selected and arranged, in this little book, under twenty-five different heads, such of the wise sayings of Solomon, as` seem to be most appropriate to children and youth. Take this little book, youthful reader, and treasure up its precepts in thy heart, and practise them in thy life, and when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.'"

NARRATIVE FOR YOUTHFUL INQUIRERS: 32 pp., 32mo., with an engraving, representing the subject of the narrative parleying with temptation. This book is divided into three short chapters. 1. Grieving the Spirit. 2. The Spirit departed. 3. The Spirit returned. This narrative, a part of which appeared in the Visiter, contains a most solemn warning to those youth with whom the Spirit of God is striving. We think pastors will find it a suitable book to circulate in times of seriousness, and especially among the young.

THE FLETCHER FAMILY: 64 pp. 32mo., illustrated by two engravings.

ANNE ALLEN; pp. 32, 32mo. with two engravings.

SAD DAYS BRIGHTENED BY REPENTANCE: pp. 32, 32mo. ornamented with an engraving illustrative of a very melting scene in the book.

These three little books are by the same author, who will, we doubt not, receive the heartfelt thanks of many thousands of children and youth, for this valuable contribution to their pleasure and profit. The Fletcher Family is worthy a place among the most popular "Temperance Tales" of the day.

CHRISTIAN SIMPLICITY, delineated in a sketch of the FOSTER FAMILY. By the author of the Happy Merchant: or, the Power of Truth. 13 chapters, 126 pp., 18mo.

This volume contains a great variety of interesting instruction for all, but especially for young Christian females.

THE

CHILD OF HEAVEN: or, a brief memorial of VIR

GINIA A. DAVIS; pp. 60, 18mo.

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Indeed all may learn how

JUVENILE MUSIC.

Furnished for this work by LoWELL MASON, Professor in the Boston Academy of Music.

SABBATH SCHOOL VISITER.

VOL. VII.

FEBRUARY, 1839.

No. 2.

The Sinner's Reflection.

And does the Lord, my Maker speak,
And I not heed his warning voice?
His favor still refuse to seek,

And make the ways of sin my choice?

Has not his patience waited long?
His Spirit strove with me in vain?
Yet pardon still is on his tongue,
The Savior calls to heaven again.

Once I could tremble at his law;

Its threatenings filled my heart with fear;
The light, which in God's word I saw,

Brought scenes of death and judgment near.

But yet I did not turn and live,

Though forced awhile to stop and think;
To folly still my heart could give,

Though standing on the gulf's dread brink.

And am I now in sin secure?

This callous heart can nothing move?
Can I my Father's frown endure;
The dreadful frown of injured love?

VOL. VII.

A. B. H.

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The Seven Children,-or Trust in God.
From the German of Krummacher.

Early in the morning, as twilight was departing from the earth, a pious father with his wife arose from their nightly couch, and thanked God for the new day, and the refreshment of slumber. As the morning rays beamed into the little chamber, seven children were seen lying in their beds and sleeping.

The mother looked at the row of children and said, "There are seven in number-ah! we shall find it hard to nourish them all," and then she sighed, for there was a famine in the land. But the father smiled and said, "See! do not all the seven lie and slumber together with ruddy cheeks, and the morning light again flows over them, so that they seem to us more beautiful—even as seven blooming roses? Mother, this shows us that He who makes the morning light and sends us sleep, is faithful and without change.'

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And as they now stepped out of the little chamber, there stood at the door fourteen shoes in a row, always smaller and smaller, even two for each little one. When the mother saw this, and that there were so many of them, she wept. But the father answered and said, "Mother, why dost thou weep? Have they all seven received the round and nimble little feet, and shall we fear that they will want a covering for them? Have the little ones confidence in us, and shall we not have in him, who can do more than we are able to conceive? See, his sun approaches! Let us, like him, with cheerful countenances begin our daily course."

Thus they conversed as they toiled, and God blessed their labor, so that they had enough for themselves and the little ones; for faith excites courage and love confirms strength.

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Religion, though with the rags of the beggar, the chains of the slave, and the death of the martyr, is infinitely preferable to vice with the world at her feet."

Without Christ, the sinner's mirth is madness, his life a dream, his trust a lie, his toils vanity, and his end perdition."