LORD TEIGN MOUTH. PRAYER is this:-To look into the Bible, and see what God has promised to look into our own hearts, and ask ourselves what we want; and to look up to God to give us what we want, and what he has promised as the purchase of Christ's blood, expecting that, though we are most unworthy, yet he will be as good as his Word. T. SCOTT. SUPERIOR IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION. Many think there is no occasion to make so much ado about religion. If the acquisition of £10,000 a-year were in prospect, these same persons would think you could not be too active, and earnest, and circumspect, and careful, to miss no opportunities, and to leave no flaws. How much better is the inheritance of the children of God, than that of £10,000 a-year! Therefore, how much more commendable to give all diligence and care to make all sure, and rather to overdo than run hazards. IBID.

TAKING UP THE CROSS. To take up the Cross, I apprehend, means this:-simply to follow the Lord in the path of duty, and patiently and cheerfully to bear everything which in that path we meet with; whether it be reproach, contempt, worldly loss, poverty, hatred, persecution, temptation; not to be diverted from the path of duty, by any of these things; but, when adherence to known duty requires it, and God, by his word and providence calls for it, to be willing to part with friends, substance, character, ease, life itself; assured that the Lord is able to compensate all losses, and to make amends for

every trial. It is called the cross, because that death of the cross, which Jesus, our pattern, as well as ransom, suffered, was then accounted the very sum and substance of what could be endured in this world; and, if a man was willing to carry a cross, and to be nailed to it, for Christ's sake, as Christ carried his, he then assuredly would not flinch from any suffering. IBID.

IMPORTANT OBSERVATION.-TO doubt the truth of God's Word, or the power and willingness of Christ to save all that truly come to him, is direct unbelief; but to doubt whether I come aright, and am a true believer, when many things in my experience and conduct seem inconsistent with the life of faith and grace, is the grand preservative against delusion, and incitement to watchfulness, self examination, and circumspection. IBID.

Facts and Hints.

DEPEND ON YOURSELF.-Most young men consider it a great misfortune to be born poor, or not to have capital enough to establish themselves at their outset in life in a good business. This is a mistaken notion. So far from poverty being a misfortune to them, if we may judge from what we every day behold, it is really a blessing; the chance is more than ten to one against him who starts with plenty of money. Let any man look back twenty years and see who began. business at that time with abundant means, and trace them to the present day; how many have become poor, lost their places in society, and are passed by their boon companions with a look which plainly says, I know you not.

KNOWLEDGE AND ENERGY. - A man with knowledge but without energy is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished.

A PEOPLE WITHOUT A GROG SHOP. -In Lewisburgh, Penn., a town containing 3,000 inhabitants, there is not a single grog-shop or tavern where alcoholic liquor is sold.

LIFE AND DOCTRINE.-We shall find life in our doctrines, when there is doctrine in our life. BRIDGES.

HUMBLE TALENTS.-If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly, truly, and zealously cultivated. ARNOLD.

MAY I DO GOOD TO OTHERS?

to you,

Dear Sir,-Since the time that the Holy Spirit of God opened my eyes to see, and my heart to feel, the deplorable state and condition in which I lived for more than thirty-two years, it has been impressed on my heart in such a way that it will never, I believe, be effaced, that it is my bounden duty to do what I can, by the aid of the Spirit of God, to endeavour to save the never-dying souls of my fellow sinners. For this cause I have made it a subject of fervent prayer to my God, who has shown such mercy to me; and being placed, by his kind providence, among a great number of people of whom there is not more than three that I can call "friend or brother," I have for nearly two years, more especially, been concerned for their salvation; and as I find from your very useful and cheap periodical, that a person is permitted to communicate his thoughts on religions. subjects to you, I shall feel extremely obliged to you if you can find room in one corner of the Pioneer,

apply to Jesus Christ for salvation. And as the bounds of my habitation are fixed, so that can only speak to those around me, is it my duty, or lawful for me, in my private capacity, to endeavour to lead sinners to Christ? Oh, Sir, I believe that not ordained ministers alone, but every one who bears the christian name, should ask, "Can nothing more be done to save souls from hell;" for if this be the work of ordained ministers alone, they have undertaken a duty which it is impossible for them to fulfil.

I would direct attention to these three passages of scripture. The first is Isaiah xlv. 22; second, John iii. 16; and third, Rev. xxii. 17. From these passages, and many others of the same import, I conclude that a "full, free, and present salvation" is offered to all who forsake their sins and sinful ways, and trust in Christ alone for salvation.

Dear Sir, be so kind as to answer this, if you can, in your Pioneer, as it may be to the benefit of others as well as myself. I must beg of you not to be offended with my inquiries or my ignorance, but I feel as if I could no more forbear to

speak to others in the name of God to try to bring them to repentance, while I see them running on post haste to destruction, than I could see them fall into the fire, and not hasten to pull them out.

M. U. W.

this good and necessary work to a certain class or order of men, is a delusion of the devil.]

ADVICE

DISEASES AMONGST THE POOR.

LET your doors and windows be kept open in the day; if you have not a window in the back part of your house, make one; have them so hung as to be easily opened; have a chimney with a good draught, so as to encourage a free current of air through your house.

Remove dung and putrid matter from before and behind your houses, as the vapour and smell proceeding from them (called "Malaria") has been found by Physicians to gene

rate infectious fever.

Do not by any means indulge in the use of spirituous or other fermented liquors, as intemperance in their use will, to a certainty, render you more susceptible of contagion. Attention should be paid to have the bowels kept daily open, but not too free, and if necessary, some gentle aperient medicine should be occasionally made use of for this purpose.

Whitewash your walls inside and outside with lime slacked in the house, and while it continues hot and bubbling; let this be done once a month while fever is prevalent.

If fever attacks your family, as soon as the calamity is removed by

above means as soon as possible; burn the straw of the beds; put all the clothes of the house into cold water, or into a strong solution of chloride of lime-one ounce to a quart of water-wring them out and wash them in hot water, soap and pot-ashes; let every box, drawer, chest, or cupboard, be emptied and washed, and let the floor under the patient's bed be strewed with lime fresh slacked and hot. Let no person upon recovery go into a neighbour's house, nor into any public place of worship for fourteen days.

A strict adherence to this plan constitutes the sole means of removing the chief cause which generates Typhus Fever in Ireland, viz:The foetid smell (called "Malaria”) exhaled from animal and vegetable substances in a state of putrid fermentation.

REMEMBER!- That cleanliness and good air will improve your health and strength, will check disease, and UNDER GOD will preserve you from all the variety of wretchedness and misery occasioned by Infectious Fever.

WM. KINGSLEY, Physician to
the Fever Hospital.

THE SLOVENLY GIRL.

By the late William Gadsby.

ANN AND JANE.

ANN. GOOD morning, Jane, how do you do? JANE.-O! very well; pray how are you? A.-I scarce can tell; I'm much perplex'd;

I've been quite put about and vex'd. J.-Pray what has vex'd your patient

mind?

You mostly seem serene and kind.

A.-Why, sister Bet is such a sloven,

She's scarce a tidy thing to move in:
She'd rather lounge her time away
In gossiping, or idle play,

Than mend her stockings, skirt,

or gown,

Or anything she putteth on.
Thread, yarn, or needle, she'll not use,
But draw her stockings in her shoes,
And pin, or tie, or aught but mend;
And if you speak you her offend.
When tape is needed, should it break,
She'll seldom thread and needle take;
But tie piece after piece together,
Till pins and knots her garments

cover.

J.-'Tis very vexing, I admit

To see a female idle sit,

When garments we will not now mention,

Want thread and needle, and attention.

A.-Indeed in this, Jane, you say true,
But garments which appear in view,
Are by such girls neglected too.
Scarce one whole month in any year,
You'll find them decently appear.
They never give a stitch in time,
Though truth declares it would
"save nine."

J.-Why, Ann, I know some of our race,
To decency a sad disgrace;
If a new garment they put on
At every time it must be worn;

And worn till not fit to be seen,-
A stitch they never will put in.
A.-Disgrace, indeed! such is our Bet;
Just go and see, you'll find her sit
With stockings full of holes, and shoes
Slipt down at heels not fit for use;
With dress and skirt pinn'd here
and there,

But mending nowhere does appear:
I left her raging vex'd, because
I would not help to pin her clothes:
A stitch she never has put in
Since they were new, nor does
she mean.

Should she get married! O dear me,
She'll have a scene of misery.