'Can you go?' said Clara. shrine of ambition; while his fine and pressions have wrought upon my mind. cultivated talents promised him the mee For months past the heathen have been of fame. In the midst of high hopes and continually in my thoughts, and a voice bright prospects he was not satisfied.- within-a voice I cannot stifle-is sayHe turned to the Saviour and found trueing, 'go unto them.? I believe it is the happiness, and with the whisper of peace call of duty, and I must obey. Others came also the injunction, 'Preach my shall preach Christ to the dying mortals gospel.' It was long before he became of our own lands, I go to proclaim the reconciled to obey the command-to re- gospel of his salvation to the perishing linquish his hopes of worldly honor to heathen.' proclaim the gospel of the meek and lowly Jesus; but he feared the reward of 'Yes, I can go, but I struggled long disobedience and submitted; he saw by before I could say so. I can resist no faith the eternal crown of the faithful, and longer. Clara, we have talked of the he began to rejoice though with fear and green isles of the Pacific, we have rejoictrembling in his high and holy vocation. ed together that the sun of righteousness Now a severer trial waited him. He is piercing the darkness of their night.— was a chosen missionary of the cross. AI go to them. O, that I may reflect some deep sense of unfitness weighed down his ray of those life-giving beams! I shall spirits, and worldly objections claimed aembark with the expedition now fitting full share of consideration. A mother for that mission. Clara, will you go with would weep over the absence of her only me? Can you force the ties that bind you son, an aged father would mourn for the to your home and friends? Can you leave object of his doating affections, and Clara your native land for the home of the savMaitland-would she go with him?- age? Can you endure privation and toil True, she possessed no small degree or to bring those erring ones to God, to gain missionary spirit, but she was the hope, a crown studded with unfading stars ?" the stay of her family, and could she Clara was surprised at the resolution leave them? of Edwin; as he proceeded her emotion It was a lovely evening in June. Ed. increased, and when he closed with this win was at the side of his betrothed, silent appeal to herself, she sobbed aloud; then and abstracted, apparently forgetting in endeavoring to restrain her feelings she replied, his own meditations that he was not a lone. At length, as if awaking to the 'I would go with you, my heart appresent and summoning courage to break proves your noble enterprise, but my famthe silence that was becoming oppres-ily-no, Edwin, no, I cannot go. I will sive, he spoke. 'Clara,' said he, we watch over my father's dying pillow, I have often spoken of the future. I have will look upon his last sleep, I will sustold you of the high and holy calling intain my mother in her declining years, which I am to spend my life; I have and help her rear those precious childmentioned the burning desire of my soul ren. I cannot go!' to do good in my day and generation, and The reply was almost expected and yet though all weakness I have ventured to it fell heavy on the heart of Edwin; but express my reliance on Almighty aid. I with such sacred ties to bind her to her have cared little where would be my alhome, he could not urge her to go, and lotted portion of the work, leaving the ap- they walked on in silence to the house of pointment to him who doeth all things Clara. He bade her good evening and well. But of late new and thrilling im- returned to his own dwelling, a prey to sadder thoughts than he had known since||more than ever the loneliness of her situhis late determination. ation; still she applied herself assiduousClara was not wrong in her prophecy ly to her sisterly and almost maternal of her father's decease. Consumption duties. had been long preying upon him, and now The letter arrived, but it gave no joy he was indeed fast hastening to the grave. to Edwin. He felt the loneliness of his A week passed and he sank in its unbro-lot, and, though unwilling to return, wishken sleep. And how was it with his be-ed for companionship with those he had reaved partner? She was, it is true, the loved at home. He heard too of his mothdeepest mourner, but she did not sink, aser's declining health, and her ardent deClara had feared, beneath the weight of sire to see him again, and he resolved to her affliction. She seemed rather endu-visit his native land the first opportunity. ed with new strength and new energy to He arrived in safety, with joy he presperform her new and arduous duties.- sed his foot upon the soil he loved, and Clara was rejoiced at her calmness, but hastened to the home of his parents.she could not resolve to give her new They welcomed him as one from the sorrow by leaving her in her loneliness. dead, for they had not expected his reShe did not even say that such an idea turn. With childish fondness they would had crossed her mind,though her thoughts hardly lose him from their sight, but he were continually with the missionaries left them for a day to visit the object of till they embarked, and then they follow- his youthful love. As he approached the ed their course on the sea to the distant dwelling he could but remark the silence isle of their destination. and gloom that reigned about it. A stran He He Months passed on and there came re-ger opened the door, he inquired for Claturns from the island missions, reports of ra, and was shown into the room that had continued success, and mention of the been the scene of some of his happiest safe arrival of the timely and valuable re- hours. She was sitting opposite the door inforcement. There was also a letter for with her face buried in her hands. Clara. Edwin had related minutely the approached, but she did not move. history of his voyage and reception by spoke, she started, looked up and burst the mission family; he had dwelt on the into tears. She extended her hand; he prospects that cheered their labors and took it and sat down. Soon she became his own encouraging hopes of the future, calmer, she opened the door of an adjoinand finally had besought her, if any ing room and pointed to the lifeless forms change in her family should enable her of her last surviving relatives. to leave, to come and join them. There feared to intrude on the sanctity of grief had been a change in the family Clara. and departed, but in a few days he reHer other parent had gone to the world turned, He spoke of her bereavement, of spirits, and she was an orphan. With said she had now nothing to bind her to true filial affection she had watched by home, and urged her to accompany him her mother's dying couch, had received in his return. of Edwin her last charge, the sacred trust of her 'No,' she replied, 'I cannot go. I fear younger sister and brother, and closed her I have done wrong; I refused to go while eyes in death. She could not neglect I had friends to love, and now I have her charge, she could not betray her trust; nothing dear but their graves, I will not no, she could not go yet. Such was the go. I dare not offer on the altar of sacsubstance of her reply to Edwin, and af-rifice a heart that is lone and desolate.' ter it was despatched if possible she feltSay not so,' returned Edwin, 'you have stayed to fulfil the most sacred of Her little territory was the abode of For many duties, and now they are done. Your peace and tranquility, on the side of the parents, your brother and sister have mountain; a few acres of beautiful upland meadow surrounded it. claimed and have received your care. years it was enveloped in an impervious They need it no more. They have gone forest; its site could be ascertained only to their reward, and you can do no more by the smoke which curled above the for them. Who now has claims stronger tops of the trees. Not a cat or a dog or any other domestic companion had she, than the heathen? Listen to the voice except a cow, for whose bed she collectof their appeal. Let your heart feel fored the dry leaves of autumn. Her food them as it did in time past. Think of was composed of fruits and vegetables, Otaheite. Clara, will you not go?' and she quenched her thirst in the limpid mountain spring-an apt emblem of that She did go, and it is hardly necessary living fountain of which her spirit drank to say, has been a beloved and useful and whose stream leads to everlasting joy auxiliary to the devoted band of mission-and felicity. aries there. Lowell, Nov. 21, 1840. ANNA. MARY OF THE MOUNTAIN. Finding herself weak and languishing, she crept to the edge of the mountain, and there waited with unmurmuring patience, till she was perceived, to crave the charity she had so often bestowed on others. She was seen and pitied. A Mary Young was a native of Germa-kind friend attended on her to smooth her ny. She came to America sometime a-pillow, and to witness her happy exit.bout the year 1764-5, and settled near She bore the most excruciating agony Gerinantown, in the State of Pennsylva-without a murmur; continually giving nia, together with her mother and sever-thanks to her Redeemer for the grace al sisters, all of whom were young wo-which imparted fortitude to resist commen. They had suffered persecution in plaint. their native country, and therefore sought From the weakness of an infant, she an asylum here. Finding that their pe-was endued with strength at last to raise culiar and secluded habits drew upon herself on her knee, and offer up an arthem the gaze of curiosity, they left Ger-dent prayer, after which she returned to mantown, and sought out a sequestered her bed, and closing her own eyes, fell spot among the hills of Oley,in the coun-asleep in Christ Jesus, on Tuesday the ty of Berks, Pennsylvania, where, by the sixteenth of November, 1819, aged sevmost incredible labor they cleared a few enty-four. acres of land on the side of a mountain, She had desired to be laid in the little and there erected a neat little cottage, in enclosure which contains the graves of which they passed the remainder of their her mother and her sisters, without padays. A sinall enclosure near the cot-rade, and in a plain manner, but the aftage, now contains all that is left of the fection of her neighbors drew together a family of love, the last of whom was Ma-large congregation, who felt in her end ry, who survived her last relation near how sweet it was to die in the Lord. forty years, during which time she lived alone,passed her leisure in deeds of char APPEARANCES. ity and good will to her neighbors, and Think not because the eyes are bright, in love and adoration of her Maker. She A And smiles are laughing there, visited the sick,and administered to their The heart that beats within is light, benevolent; her opinions liberal and ra- And free from pain and care. That's hastening to decay : A sunbeam bursting brightly through, For there are pangs the sorrowing heart, Like lightning in the cloud: Though brightly o'er the hollow cheek They are but outward signs to hide As o'er the lone and mouldering tower Records of Woman. For the Ladies' Pearl. crown of France, in 1559, brought that kingdom almost entirely into the power of the haughty Dukes of Guise; and they prepared to perfect their designs in Scotland. To strike a decisive blow, and if possible to awe their opponents, they determined to sacrifice the Protestant Earl of Arran to their fury. A resident in France, this nobleman had long watched their dangerous designs, and had long been an object of their hatred. Hearing of their plot against his life, he escaped. Passing thro' England, Elizabeth encouraged him to rigorous measures against his opponents, and his presence in Scotland served not a little to fan the flame of public excitement against the Queen and her French allies. To this incentive to renewed hostility were added the arrival of more French soldiers and the forcible seizure of the Church of Concluded from page 164. St. Giles in Edinburg, which had for some Mary, in all her transactions against the time been in the hands of the Protestants. liberties of Scotland and the toleration of A plan was formed to surprise the Queen Protestantism, had acted in opposition to and her French troops in Leith and Edinher own views of policy. Instigated by burg, but owing to her wariness and rigor, the influence of the House of Guise, she had pursued their policy, not her own.Still, she probably united with them in the Though defeated, they were not wholly secret hope of crushing the Protestant discouraged. A meeting of Protestants party in Scotland by French power; and was called. Dukes, earls, freeholders and thus forcing a passage to the crown of gentlemen crowded to the conclave. The England. Perhaps her ambition was daz-grievances of Scotland, religious and civil, zled by the glittering of the crown of her were solemnly discussed, and it was voted to dismiss the Queen from the Regency. After Mary had recovered the lost cities, This was a bold step, to be followed with the leaders of the Protestant party, finding bold measures. Again the nobles sumthemselves unable to keep the field suc-moned their faithful followers to the field, cessfully, agreed upon a truce; the princi- and again they were beaten back defeated, pal condition on the Queen's part being and so discouraged, that they retreated to the evacuation of Scotland by the French Stirling. Now, the Queen triumphed in army. To this the wily princess agreed, her success, and hoped soon to see the merely to gain time until more troops could pride of Scotland subdued. But for once, be obtained from France. she was seriously mistaken. Southron foes. : was defeated and the soldiers of the congregation disbanded. This barefaced duplicity alarmed the She had scarcely rejoiced in the defeat Scottish noblemen of her own party.of the congregation, before she was aston They saw that old Scotia's liberties were ished by the defection of her secretarythe game contested for by the ambitious the able and politic William Maitland of French; and many of them forsook her Lethington. standard. The principal of whom was the Duke of Chatelherault. Upon joining the enemies of the Queen Regent, he urged his new friends to seek The accession of Francis 2nd to thellimmediate and decisive aid from Elizabeth of England. This being their only hope, smoothed her way to the highest station in the lords of the congregation despatched the kingdom; and many examples of falseThere he suc-hood, and some of severity, alienated from him at once to her court. ceeded to admiration in enlisting that jeal-her the affections of a people who had ous sovereign in his cause. once placed in her an unbounded confi It was on the 23rd of January, 1560, dence." when the French were returning from the "A few days before her death, she dedefeat of a brave body of Scottish troops at sired an interview with the Prior of St. Kirkaldy, that they perceived a powerful Andrew, the Earl of Argyll, and other fleet sailing up the Frith of Forth. Sup-chiefs of the congregation. To them she posing it to be from France, they were lamented the fatal issue of those violent filled with immoderate transports of joy, counsels which she had been obliged to and even fired their cannon in token of follow; and with the candor natural to a their satisfaction. But their joy soon turn- generous mind, confessed the errors of her ed into dismay, when they saw the lion of own administration,and begged forgiveness England rampant at the mast-head of the of those to whom she had been hurtful: Admiral's ship. It was the fleet of Eliza- but at the same time she warned them, beth, sent thus promptly to aid the Scottish amidst their struggles for liberty and the congregation in defending their liberties. shock of arms, not to lose sight of the loyIn this fleet an army succeeded early inalty and subjection which were due to the Spring. The French retired into their sovereign. The remainder of her Leith, and defended themselves with great time she spent in religious exercises. She obstinacy and bravery for an extraordinary even invited the attendance of Willcox, length of time. They evacuated Scotland one of the most eminent among the reat last, in agreement with a treaty formed formed preachers, listened to his instrucbetween England and France after the tions with reverence and attention, and death of the Queen, which we must now prepared for the approach of death with a relate, in the words of that sweet and pol-decent fortitude." ished historian, Robertson. The Mother. W. "June 10, 1560. The Queen Regent died during the heat of the seige. No DUTIES OF PARENTS.-Why are cases princess ever possessed qualities more ca- so frequent in which the children of virpable of rendering her administration illus-doned? There are many nice and delituous parents grow up vicious and abantrious or the kingdom happy. Of much cate adjustments necessary to secure the discernment and no less address; of great highest and best results in the education intrepidity and equal prudence; gentle of a child, but the principles necessary and humane without weakness; zealous for tolerable success must be few and simple. There are two, which we wish for her religion, without bigotry; a lover we had a voice loud enough to thunder in of justice without rigor. One circumstance, the ears of every parent in the country; however, and that too the excess of a vir-the breach of one or the other of which tue rather than any vice, poisoned all her will explain almost every case of gross great qualities and rendered her govern-which we have ever known. They are failure on the part of virtuous parents these: 1. Keep your children from bad com 2. Make them obey you. ment unfortunate and her name odious.Devoted to the interests of France, her native country, and attached to the princes|pany. of Lorraine, her brothers, with most passionate fondness, she departed in order to Habits of insubordination at home, and the company of bad boys abroad, are the gratify them, from every maxim which her own wisdom or humanity would have ap-much of what moral and religious intwo great sources of evil, which undo so proved. She out-lived in a great measure,struction might otherwise effect. What that reputation and popularity which had folly to think that a boy can play with 1 |