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walks with him, to admire and imitate. very delightful to see how habitual was my dear wife's desire to have all the members of her household partakers of the same enjoyment that she herself found in contemplating the beauty of the works as well as the Word of God; illustrating each province of light and glory in the Divine Attributes.

In the same way she used to teach them the love of sacred music and melodies and hymns, and of interesting and instructive books of history and biography; endeavoring to warn them against the examples and teachings of evil, to which they might have been previously subjected. Some of her dear friends feared that she was exerting herself with too much time and labor in this way, because it seemed so likely to be wasted. But she saw and knew the benevolence and benefit of such endeavors. And the circles of her servants, under such discipline, might have been trusted as affectionate friends, for she taught them almost as if they were her own children.

It is under the light of such demonstrations that we judge of the usefulness and beauty of the life of such a woman as Mrs. Emily Gould, the originator and protector, by her own piety through the grace of God, of the school for the support

and education of thousands of destitute and ignorant girls and boys growing up in such deplorable darkness and wretchedness in the streets of Rome and other Italian cities.

How small in extent is the work of this kind. already accomplished, but how wonderfully open and ready now are all the kingdoms of the world. to receive it and protect it! When shall we enter upon these triumphs of the Gospel? Never, till the children of our schools are instructed in the Word of God. And so only we shall have "dominion over the mighty."

How instructive and full of thought and beauty is the title of MOTHERS IN ISRAEL! given especially to those who were the examples of God's grace, and of faithfulness to all his promises and commands, in the teaching of their little ones. "Till I, Deborah, arose, a Mother in Israel!" And the supplications and anxieties of Manoah and his wife in the Book of Judges, in regard to the education of the promised deliverer, Samson, as the champion and ruler of the oppressed Hebrews, suffering so severely for their own sins! Teach us what we shall do with the child! How shall we order the child? "How fulfil the intentions of God in regard to him?" "My heart," said Deborah, "is toward the GOVERNORS OF ISRAEL!

The Lord hath made me to have Dominion over

the Mighty!"

Coke on the Provinces of Law and Right somewhere has observed, "I see a disposition to permit Legislators to pass whatever laws they please, and then compel the people to support them." Now let men once be assured that such is the case, and no power on earth can save us from ruin. Let the men in power only feel assured that whatever laws they pass there shall be a support of those laws, and it is all that the most arrogant and determined despotism needs.

If God's law is supreme for all individuals, so likewise and equally for all communities. It is impossible that there should have been one law for the soul, through a conscience in all thoughts and things towards God, and obedient to him, and another for the Government chosen by a community of souls, and governing not by the will of God, but by their own will. If God is not to govern, guide, and control the State and the people, then the Government itself, and the people appointing the Government, control God, and are usurpers of God's authority; so that a despotism by the Godless multitude must be the result which would inevitably produce a hell on earth.

And this perhaps is to be the ultimate conclusion of the proud pretence of our socialistic right to strike God and Christ and his Word out of our political Constitution; and this it may be is the very Niagara, predicted by Carlyle, on the verge of which we to-day are heedlessly plunging among the rapids. There is room and time enough for God to let the experiment be tried, and great necessity for it, if the world is to go on for 365 thousand years at its present rate of impiety and disobedience against God's authority. What can the scoffers at God's Word, and those ministers of the Gospel who would exclude its teachings by law from our schools, be thinking of? If this infatuation be continued, there will remain nothing but an increasing perdition for the nation of skeptics.

The one extreme and all-ruling despotic tenet in the system of Romanism is at this day, as in Luther's and Latimer's day, the blasphemous assertion of the power to forgive sins, as vested in the Pope of Rome; dismissing the conscience. from all fear of God, and holding every soul amenable on earth only to the Pope, as declared infallible, and to the Priests at the confessional responsible only to him. This is the greatest of all possible blasphemies, even if there were only a

million of souls on earth, held under the iron scourge of such a superstition. Indeed, if an

island were at this day discovered, inhabited by one million governed by a savage despot, under the claim of being God on earth, and holding the keys of hell and Heaven, our missionary societies would be bound to send instantly their most fervent missionaries of the Gospel, with every possible appliance that might be used, to draw the natives away from such inevitable perdition. The master, the keeper, the dispenser of such a power of everlasting destruction, would be denounced with all the flaming attributes of vengeance, and of fiery judgment, ever threatened in the Scriptures against such as work for the ruin of men's souls, making the cross of Christ of none effect but for the accomplishment of such ruin. There would be no hesitation, no palliation, in the endeavor to wake up the conscience of mankind against such inexhaustible wickedness and power of deception.

And whence is all this insensibility, this stupor of neglect as to the claims of a whole generation of immortal beings thrown upon our care? The guilt of such carelessness it is impossible to deny, and the consequences of it are equally impossible to be measured.

For public and personal security, the common

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