well of Bethlehem, the eternal spring of wisdom and truth and love. Like the beloved disciple, she leaned on Jesus, and so her ear caught the softest whisper of His voice, and her heart answered to His heart of love, as the calm lake reflects the sunlit sky.--Thus she could respond to the witness of John-"We have known and believed the love that God hath to us "He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God-God is love." The God of her life, in whom she trusted with such child-like confidence, having loved his own while she was in the world, loved her unto the end, and was her guide unto death. Till within the last hour, utterance was used to speak of the love, truth, and faithfulness of God in Christ, and in terms the most touching. Nothing occupied her during the latter part of her course in this sickness, but the joy set before her-so bright, so serene,'

"So gently shuts the eye of day,

So dies a wave along the shore.'

The last book of Caroline Wilson is a transcript of theGreat Commandment:' written in her tender heart by the finger of God himself. She was indeed a living epistle of Christ and being dead she yet speaketh. It has been said of our heaven-taught sister that, 'She manifested in "Christ our Law," and other writings, the philosophic strength of 'spirits masculine,' combined with feminine grace and tenderness.' This union of grace and strength forms what we deem angelic excellence.

This is true, but we enter not, now, into any analysis of her varied gifts and graces. All that we can do is to glance at the last work of this wise-hearted woman, wrought for the sanctuary after a heavenly pattern. Thus she writes of the love of God- Love something

else! Why there is nothing else ! It is all but a portion or reflection of Himself. * *All creatures are but faulty portraits, with just one look, one almost real look of Him we love supremely-caught ever and anon by them that know His face, and so we love them too. I know not what manner of vision pure spirits have of Him in whose presence they abide but I know, and am quite sure, they see no beauty, and feel no love, and seek no happiness apart from Him all creation would be a useless bauble, if they saw not and knew not their Creator in it. Other than his likeness could not please -other than Himself could never satisfy. He wrought the affections too pure for other tastes, He made them too large for any other feeling and He formed them so that without what would suit their affections and suffice them, it was impossible they could be happy. Then, when He issued forth His great commandment, had it been a decree to be happy instead of to love; -which is in truth His gracious meaning by it,-it would have come to the same thing: there was no other way to be happy but by loving Himself supremely.'

""Come Lord Jesus, come quickly!" said the beloved John in his lonely Patmos.-And how sweetly is this dying cadence of inspiration re-echoed in the last words of her, whose heart made melody unto the Lord. 'Thou blessed One! forgive our sad impatience. Thou wert not impatient, albeit, heavy and exceeding sorrowful, while thy love to us was tested to the utmost. Thou art not impatient, now that thy enduring faithfulness is tested still by the unwillingness, unfitness and unreadiness, of thy promised ones which delay thy coming. Oh! say in heaven thy gracious prayer for us, that our faith fail not when our love despondstrusting thine when we cannot trust our own!

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We

"seek a country; say so we believe so-at times we feel so. now if Thou should come-if some kind calculator dates thy day—and eager listeners hear, or think they hear, the distant movements of thy bridal train— shouldst Thou find faith-dost Thou find love enough in Christian hearts, to wish it might be so ?'

we are far from home-we **And

It may be, that they who are patiently waiting for Christ, will not have so very long to wait. Even now the earth seems to shake and tremble, at the distant roll of His chariot-wheels.-Say not ye-there are yet a thousand years, and then cometh the harvest. Is not the summer nigh at hand? The Jewish fig-tree shews signs of life-the Euphrates is drying up like a summerbrook. “Mens' hearts are failing them, for fear of those things that are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." "Wherefore, I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive "-for they are taken away from the evil to come. The Beloved One hath been visiting His garden to gather His lilies, before the last storm of desolation. "Lo! thus He giveth His beloved sleep." Our friends sleep until the morning without clouds, when the Lord shall come to awake them out of sleep. Then again the second time, Jesus will shew Himself to his disciples. And on this wise He will shew himself. He will appear as King of kings, wearing many crowns, in that day of His espousals, and of the gladness of His heart. He will be manifested in the brightness of His glory, to dry up the tears of His people, as the "clear shining after rain." "For lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone-the time of singing is come-Arise and come away." Then the sleeping and living saints shall awake and arise and

shine; and sing for joy to see their Lord, the King of Saints. He shall be glorified in His saints, and admired in all them that believe. They shall be to the praise of the glory of His grace, when the Lord of the Sabbath shall rest in His love, and joy over them with singing. Before them the prospect is a bright vista of ever-deepening bliss, and rivers of pleasure for

evermore.

"The flowers shall appear" again 66 on the earth," and Paradise shall resound with songs of joy. Of the "increase of peace," there shall be no end, for the Holy Dove shall rest on the celestial Olivet, and flee away no more from the stormy wind and tempest. The Spirit of Love shall be grieved no more, and the Man of Sorrows shall weep no more, and the happy children of the resurrection shall sin no more, for ever. Blessed and holy are they that have part in the first resurrection. Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, in the midst of the garden. Our mother Eve disinherited herself and her children, by disobedience; but the heirs of the second Adam shall inherit all things, and eat of the tree of life, and live for evermore. The fiery sword, that guarded "the sacrament and instrument of immortality," is quenched in the blood of the Lamb and so the kingdom of heaven is opened to all believers. Therefore, "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, unto Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever." Amen.

E.

Isle of Man.

CHAPTERS ON SCRIPTURE GEOGRAPHY.

No. I.

To the Editor of the Christian Lady's Magazine.

MADAM,

An apostle has told us that all Scripture is profitable, and thus that every part of it, is in some way or other conducive to the instruction of the beings for whom it was written. Our attention is now much directed to the East; to that part of the world where language, manners, and customs are of a stabler character than in our more bustling continent. We still, as believers in Scripture, look to the East as the theatre of great coming events; and, as I believe that, by reference to the Word of God, many countries and places in which we are interested, will be found described under other names than those we moderns have assigned them, I propose to send you for insertion a few papers on Scriptural Geography, in which the locality of many Bible names shall be pointed out to your readers. I shall commence with one most interesting, as I believe, to British Christians-viz. Tarshish, and shall then endeavour to point the attention of your readers to other European countries mentioned in Scripture, and subsequently to such of the dependencies of Tarshish as may be alluded to in the word of God.

X. Y. Z.