she was interrogated respecting the state of her soul: she replied in a manner which convinced her friends that her soul was resting in God: she said, "Bless the Lord, O my soul! though he afflicts me, I know it is in love. He loves me, and I love him." Her sufferings being very severe, she cried out, "O my head! I fear I shall not be able to bear this pain. Lord, give me patience!" On one who was present, asking, “Do you believe that God for Christ's sake has forgiven you?" she immediately answered, "O yes, I believe he has! I find Jesus is in my heart; but I am afraid that if I should recover, I should lose the blessing I have experienced. Do pray that I may retain it!" During the night previous to her decease, she assured those who were around her that all she said was a happy reality. "God," she said, sees my heart." Shortly after she was heard to say, "God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost: what does that mean? But, Lord, I will not pry into thy mysteries: it is enough that Jesus died for me." On some of Mr. Wesley's hymns being read to her, she exclaimed, "Beautiful lines! I am sure those who wrote them must have experienced the truths which they delineate; else they could not have penned them." On one calling her a good girl," she was evidently much disturbed; and at once, and in a manner very explicit, disclaimed all good to herself. She gradually grew weaker, until Nov. 8th, 1843, when she exchanged mortality for life.

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THIS tree was considered one of the most important of the productions of the East. It was remarkable for its erect and cylindrical stem, crowned with a cluster of long and feather-like leaves; and is as much esteemed for its fruit, the date, as for its juice, whether fermented or not, known as palm-wine, and for the numerous uses

to which every part of the plant is applied. The finest palm-trees were about Jericho and Engeddi. There were many along the banks of the Jordan, and towards Scythopolis. Jericho is called the city of palm-trees. (Deut. xxxiv. 3.) A branch of the palm-tree, as symbolical of victory, was carried before a conqueror in processions and rejoicings for victory. The Jew's sent a golden branch of a palm-tree to the Kings of Syria, as a kind of tribute or present. The palm-trees of the plain of Jericho are famous throughout Scripture, and even in profane authors. In the temple of Jerusalem, Solomon caused pillars, or pilasters, to be made in the form of palm-trees, (1 Kings vi. 29, &c.,) probably in imitation of the Egyptians, who adopted such pillars in their temples. Palm-trees from the same root produce a number of suckers, which form a kind of forest by their spreading upwards. Probably to this multiplication the Psalmist alluded in Psalm xcii. 12. The tree was also considered characteristic of Judea, not so much because it was more abundant there than in other lands, but because that was the first country where the Greeks and Romans met with it in proceeding southward.

ANECDOTE.

X.

AFFECTING INSTANCE OF ATTACHMENT IN A DOG.

A LITTLE girl, the only and well-beloved child of her parents, who are residents of Brooklyn, L. I., died a few weeks since, and was interred in the

private family burying-ground. A large Newfoundland dog, the private companion and playmate of the child, was frequently missing from the house after the funeral. When seen, he was observed to be crest-fallen and drooping; he refused his food, moped, and lost flesh day by day. These circumstances exciting curiosity, he was watched and followed in his stealthy excursions; and it at length appeared that he went daily to the grave of his former friend and playmate, deposited at each visit some of the child's playthings, obtained secretly from the house, on the grassy mound that covered her remains, in the vain hope of alluring her to his side again, and then lay down and passed hour after hour, moaning and whining piteously. His master was obliged finally to chain up the animal to put an end to his melancholy vigils, the continuance of which would have cost the faithful mourner his existence. A more touching instance of devotion and attachment has rarely fallen beneath our notice.

SABBATH EXERCISES. *
EXERCISE XIV.-APRIL 12th.

Matthew v. 10-16.

OF THE INSTRUCTIONS OF JESUS.

VERSE 10. Who are blessed?

Persecuted for

what? What is theirs? How should we endure persecution?

See Three Tables of Sabbath Exercises for Wesleyan Sunday-schools and families; for each Sunday in the year 1846." By the Rev. John Stephenson. Sold by John Mason, London.

Ver. 11. How may the disciples of Christ be treated? What may be said against them? For whose sake might they thus be treated? What is the state of those who are thus treated?

Ver. 12. What were the disciples to do? What were they to be? Why might the disciples rejoice and be glad? Where was their reward? Who had been persecuted before them?

Ver. 13. What does Jesus say of his disciples? What may the salt lose? What is good for nothing? What may be done with it? Are you as the salt, by your knowledge and piety?

Ver. 14. What are Christ's disciples to the world? Of what are Christ's disciples the light? What cannot be hid? What should you be? Ver. 15. What do men light? Where is the lighted candle not put? Where is it put? What is given? To whom is light given?

Ver. 16. What should shine before men? That they may see what? And be led to do what? To glorify whom? Who is our Father in heaven? What should you do?

EXPLANATIONS.-Ver. 10. Persecuted. Cruelly and unjustly treated. Righteousness' sake. Doing right, following religion.-Ver. 11. Revile. slander. Falsely.

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Contrary to truth.-Ver. 12. Be exceeding glad. Leap for joy. Reward. Recompence.-Ver. 13. The salt of the earth. season others by your piety. His savour. Its saltness. -Ver. 14. The light of the world. Your holy lives shine like light. You should be a bright example to worldly men around you.-Ver. 15. Bushel.

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