in Mollington, with whom we broke the loaf in the afternoon, and again delivered an address in the evening, on the certainty and present existence of eternal life, with the neceasary steps to be taken by every sinner in order to attain unto it. We had a full and attentive audience, and afterwards spent the evening at the quiet and peaceful residence of Brother John Davis. If we mistake not, upwards of twenty sat down here to tea inthe afternoon, respecting the social pleasure of which we have no occasion to add a word. Monday, 8th, we were again in Rhyl, and visited the ancient towns of Conway, Abergelly, and Bangor, with the Britannia, Menai, and Conway bridges. Ha

We ought to have mentioned that Lord'sday, 14th, was spent with the brethren in Huddersfield. Here we delivered two addresses, but we are sorry to say, that the exhortation of Paul to the Corinthians (1 Cor. i. 10) has not been properly observed and obeyed by some brethren in this place. "Divide and fall"—" Be united, increase and conquer" are axioms true as were ever uttered by man.

J. W.

TWO WAYS TO EDUCATE A SON.-Rules to educate him for ruin and misery:-1, Bring him up in idleness, without any regular or useful employment.-2, Give him full liberty to roam about the streets, particularly after nightfall; and let him associate with nnprincipled and wicked company. -3, Humor him in everything; and always allow him to have his own way.--4, Take no pains to instil moral and religious obligations into his mind; and suffer him to roam where he chooses on the Lord's day.-5, Fill his pockets with money, and let him know that his fortune is made, and that he is independently rich.--This completes the course; and we believe that no person ever was, or ever will be, brought up in this way, who was not, in the end, a vessel of wrath, fitted to destruction. The observance of all these rules is necessary in a full, course, in order to the reception of the diploma. But the strict observance of any one of them, it is confidently believed, will insure the result. Parents, do you desire to accomplish the end? The means are before you. Rules to educate him for usefulness and happiness :--1, Train him to habits of active industry. Let him feel that he owes to his God, his fellow-creatures, and himself, to be useful; make him realize that the only way to happiness is to do good.-2, It is a universal rule, that the season for cultivation is the season of growth; and the most auspicious age, is a very tender one. Therefore, discipline the mind of your son to obedience, when he is very young. This you can always do, if you understand human nature, and act prudently, on the principle of love; but govern him, and, if necessary, do not spare the rod. Keep him off the streets, especially after nightfall, and always keep him out of bad company.-3, Do not humor him unnecessarily, and teach him, early,

to deny himself of all ungodliness and worldly lusts.-4, Fill his mind with a just sense of his moral and religious obligations, and inspire him with reverence for the Lord's book, the Lord's house, and the Lord's day.-5, Teach him frugality, economy, and self-dependence, for a support in life; but especially teach him that he was not born to eat, and sleep, and die. Let him feel that he is a candidate for a glorious immortality, and esteem it as more than his meat and drink, to do the will of his Father who is in heaven.--Christian parents! train up your son in this way, then shall he rise up and call you blessed; yea, he shall bring honor upon your grey hairs.

A MAN WITHOUT A HOPE.--There are some men who are never so happy as when they are miserable! "How are you, Trepid? How do you feel to-day, Mr. Trepid ?" "A great deal worse than I was, thank'ee; most dead, I'm obliged to you; I'm always worse than I was, and I don't think I was ever better. I'm very sure, anyhow, I'm not going to be any better; and for the future, you may always know I'm worse, without asking any questions; for the questions make me worse, if nothing else does." 'Why, Trepid, what's the matter with you?" Nothing, I tell you, in particular, but a great deal is the matter with me in general; and that's the danger, because we don't know what it is: that's what kills people, when they can't tell what it is; that's what's killing me. My great grandfather died of it, and so shall I. The doctors don't know

they can't tell; they say I'm well enough when I'm bad enough, and so there's no help. I'm going off, some of these days, right after my grandfather-dying of nothing in particu lar, but of everything in general. That's what finishes our folks."

SCOLDING.-Show me a scolding mother, and I will show you a naughty child. Show me a person who has been scolded, cuffed, and harshly treated in childhood, and I will show you one of coarse, irritable, and unamiable disposition. The faculties of our minds, like the muscles of our bodies, are strengthened by exercise; and scolding calls into powerful exercise, and stimulates in the highest degree, the worst passions of our nature. It has a most unhallowed influence on ourselves; souring our dispositions, blunting our sensibilities, and making our manners and our hearts as cold and repulsive as our words. Parent, avoid teazing-avoid scolding-avoid irritating your child. Never reprove it when you are angry, but win its love and inculcate your lessons, as well as your reproofs, in its happy moments, and in a kind conciliatory way. We are little aware of the power of kind words; they soothe the feelings, they win the affections, they captivate the soul, and make the heart warm, loving, and affectionate.-Bitter words do not flow from a sweet fountain. Children are good judges of human nature-they know that sweet words emanate from a good heart, and they unconsciously become attached to those who speak to them kindly, and treat them affectionately; and they shrink, with instinctive repulsion, from those who use harsh, bitter, and carping words.-Mother, again we say, win the affection of your child, and as you value its happiness as well as your own, don't scold-for heaven's sake, don't scold.-S. W.

Irvin.

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FATHER IS COMING.-Look on this picture and on this; the counterfeit presentiment of two fathers!" Father is coming!" and little round faces grow long, and merry voices are hushed, and toys are hustled into the closet, and mamma glances nervously at the door, and baby is bribed with a lump of sugar to keep the peace, and father's business face relaxes not a muscle, and the little group is huddled like timid sheep in a corner, and tea is dispatched as silently as if speaking was prohibited in the statute book, and the children creep like culprits to bed, marveling that baby dare crow so loud now that "father has come.' "Father is coming!" and bright eyes sparkle for joy, and tiny feet dance with glee, and eager faces press against the window-pane, and a bevy of rosy lips claim kisses at the door, and picture-books lie unrebuked on the table, and tops, and balls, and dogs, and kites are discussed, and little Susy lays her soft check against the paternal whiskers with the most fearless "abandon," and Charley gets a love pat for his medal, and mamma's face grows radiant, and the evening paper is read (not silently, but aloud), and tea, and toast, and time vanish with equal celerity, for the jubilee of a happy family has arrived, and "father has

come.'

The longer I live the more expedient I find it to endeavor more and more to extend my sympathies and affections. The natural tendency of advancing years is to narrow and contract these feelings. I do not mean that I wish to form a new and sworn friendship every day, to increase my circles of intimates; these are very different affairs. But I find that it conduces to my mental health and happiness, to find out all I can which is amiable and loveable in those I come in contact with, and to make the most of it. It may fall very far short of what I was once wont to dream ofit may not supply the place of what I have known, felt, and tasted—but it is better than nothing-it seems to keep the feelings and affections in exercise, it keeps the heart alive in its humanity, and till we shall be all spiritual, this is like our duty and our interest.-Bernard Barton.

When about to speak to the disparagement or injury of thy fellow man, pause and ask thyself, what injury has he done to thee, and what good will thy words of evil do either thee or him, and thou wilt find a reward in the feeling of thy heart, that no outward momentary triumph can ever bring.

said, "Judge not, lest you be judged." But we should estimate every man by the benefits he confers, for He who said to some "judge not," said also at another time, by their fruits ye shall know them."

We should condemn no man, for Christ has

I resolve to neglect nothing to secure my eternal peace, more than if it had been certified that I should die within the day; nor to mind anything which my secular duties demand of

me less than if it had been insured that I should

live fifty years more.-McCheyne.

Learning will accumulate wonderfully, if you add a little every day. Do not wait for a long period of leisure. Pick up the book and gain one new idea, if no more. Save that one and add another as you can.

Let humility be the virtue of the wise man, that he may appear like the fruit-burthened bow, pressed down by the weight of his own worth.

Memory is like a picture gallery of our past days. The fairest and most pleasing of the pictures are those which immortalize the days of useful industry.

Idleness is the pillow upon which the Devil finds our minds empty, to fill them with mischief and melancholy.

If you wish to make yourself agreeable to any one, talk as much as you please about his or her affairs, and as little as possible about your own.

OUR PRESENT NUMBER.

THE first article, an Essay on "Church Organization," will, we hope, be read and pondered over, until the outline and the facts are deeply impressed on the heart of every disciple of Christ; not, indeed, to remain inoperative, but as producing an embodiment of sound practical Christianity, which ought to prevail among the followers of our Lord and Master. How full of blessedness for man is the Christian system! How perfect are all its parts, adequate to furnish the man of God for every good word and work! The intelligent Christian wants no other creed than what the Bible, and especially the New Testament, contains. Our other articles-including Notes of Lectures, Letters to Young Christians, Sacred Colloquy, Progression, &c.—may be read with interest and profit. The Report of the Meeting at Wigan records all that was done, but not all that was said, though it is as full as circumstances will allow. The brethren have marked out abundant employment for the Editor of the Harbinger during the next year. The five Essays recommended for re-publication might be all completed in a month, 1000 or 2000 copies each. Then comes the question, Who will purchase them? If the brethren will not do so, for the purpose of lending them or for gratuitous distribution, they will

GARNERED THOUGHTS.

remain on hand. Our respected neighbors, and many of our relatives and intimate friends, it is lamentable so say, are blind to their own interests and happiness both for this world and the next. But they must not be given up for the present. Should the proposed Essays be published, will the brethren, in their church capacity, please consider the matter for one month, and then say how many copies of each they will take, at three pence each, to be paid for in advance? Printers cannot work for nothing, and if we do so ourselves in this department of labor, it is neither equitable nor reasonable, that we should advance the money, give credit, keep books, and suffer loss at the end.

It was proposed to raise a fund at the meeting in Wigan for the specific object of sending for an evangelist from America, to labor in Great Britain for two or three years, or even for life. Two beloved brethren offered £50 each to commence with, and a third, we are assured, stood ready to do the same; but, for reasons which it is unnecessary to mention, the project could not be carried out. Perhaps some such plan may be hereafter realized by the churches; for, if suitable and tried men are not raised up in this country, in addition to those already in the field, then some such step as the above may be determined upon, and we may fairly hope, would eventuate in the glory of God and the salvation of sinners. J. W.

SUMMER.-BY JAMES CHALLEN.
It was a sweet and sunny morn,

A long, long time ago,
When the dew was on the early corn,
And the daisy in its blow.

The violet bloom'd beneath the grass,

And the strawberry blossom'd so white, And the cloud now and then o'er the sun did pass, And all again it was bright.

O! how I love the light of the sun,

As it dances on meadow and spray, Like a fiery steed, his race to run,

Throughout the live-long day.

See how it breaks on the rest of shade,

On the stream and the boundless sea; On the slope of the hills and in the glade, And over the flowery lea.

To me, no prettier sight is seen,

Than the glow of its waving light, As it flashes across the meadow green, Making all things look so bright. O! many a beautiful thing is here, If we had but eyes to see! And to the listening, wakeful ear, How rich is earth's melody. We pass through the world, so wond'rous fair, As if we had no eyes;

While beauty is slumbering everywhere,

In the earth, and the seas, and the skies.