"She is in the other boat, sir."

"Is she alive?-has she spoken ?"

"No, sir; she has not spoken, I believe." "Is she dead? oh, tell me."

"I fear she is, sir."

The bodies were immediately removed from the boats to a house in the vicinity, and every effort was employed to restore animation, and some faint hopes were entertained by the medical gentlemen that they should succeed. In the space of little more than ten minutes, they announced the joyful news, that the gentleman. began to breathe; but they made no allusions to the lady. Her brother sat motionless, absorbed in the deepest melancholy, till the actual decease of his sister was announced, when he started up, and became almost frantic with grief. He exclaimed, "Oh, my sister! my sister! would to God I had died for thee!" They were all overwhelmed with trouble, and knew not what to do.

"Who will bear the heavy tidings to our father?" said the brother, as he paced the room backwards and forwards, like a maniac broke loose from the cell of misery.

"Oh, who will bear the heavy tidings to our father?" He paused a death-like silence pervaded the whole apartment-he again burst forth in the agony of despair-" I forced her to go against the dictates of her conscience-I am her murderer-I ought to have perished, and not my sister. Who will bear the heavy tidings to our father?" "I will," said a gentleman, who had been unremitting in his attentions to the sufferers.

"Do you know him, sir ?"

"Yes, I know him."

"Oh! how can I ever appear in his presence? I enticed one of the best of children to an act of disobedience, which has destroyed her!"

How the old man received the intelligence, or what moral effect resulted from this disaster, we never heard; but it may furnish us with a few reflections, which we wish to impress upon the attention of our readers.

As the Sunday is instituted for the purpose of promoting your moral improvement and felicity, never devote its sacred hours to the recreations of pleasure. He who has commanded you to keep it holy, will not suffer you

to profane it with impunity. He may not bring down upon you the awful expressions of his displeasure while you are in the act of setting at open defiance his authority; but there is a day approaching, when you must stand be fore him; and it may not be far off. By a sudden visitation of Providence, you may be removed from the midst of your gay companions to appear in his presence. Resist the first temptation to evil, or ruin may be the inevitable consequence. What a warning is contained in this narrative! And is this the only one which the history of crime has given you? Alas, no! Have not many, who ended their days in ignominy, traced up their ruin to the profanation of the Sabbath? This is the day in which the foul spirits are abroad enticing the young and the thoughtless to evil: and if you wish to avoid the degra dation and misery in which others have been involved, devote its sacred hours to the purpose for which they were appointed.

The Early Dead.

[To Mr. and Mrs. - on the loss of an only child.]

I HOPE I am not insensible to the severity of the blow which has fallen upon you, and spread desolation over your house, I desire in the spirit of Him, who was a man of sorrows, to condole with you in this affliction. It seems but yesterday, that I beheld your dear A-, and rejoiced with you in her personal comeliness, and her bright promise. Now, the grave covers her from our sight. Alas! how insecure are our choicest pleasures, and our most valued blessings. Like the dew upon a flower, how soon they vanish, and we see them no more! We trust-our confidence is destroyed; we hope--our expectation is cut off.

It is no province of mine to exhort you not to mourn. "Jesus wept." The bosom will heave: we have affections and sympathies, and who shall say it is unchristian to drop the tributary tear over the ashes of the loved and lost? But I may exhort you to seek that temper of re signation, which will enable you to say with Job-" The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the

name of the Lord." You may have occasion hereafter to say, It is good for us that we have been afflicted.

"Amid your list of blessings infinite,

This may stand foremost, that your hearts have bled."

Pray that God would not only send consolation, but the sanctifying influences of his Spirit: pray that "this dart, like that which once pierced an imposthume in battle, may bring health with its wounds ;" and you shall be enabled to say with one of old, "The Lord hath chastened us sore; but he hath not given us over unto death."

Death, though it involves many circumstances of a painful character, is often, in no small degree, rendered even attractive and lovely. There is something glorious and sublime in the exit of a saint, who is ripe for heaven, from this sorrowful, sinful world. There is something even lovely in the departure of an infant to be with angels, notwithstanding the awful chasm it occasions in the bereaved circle. The lifeless clay is beautiful; death cannot "steal the signet-ring of heaven." It is no paradox, then, to speak of the beauty of death. We gaze upon features, pale and cold indeed, but which have never been furrowed by care; which have never been distorted by envy, malice, or revenge-never have been darkened by pining grief. And as we gaze, there is no retrospect of reverses and vicissitudes, of sorrow, and of sin. True, we behold the remains of one who was the offspring of depraved parents, who inherited a depraved nature, and could be saved only by the atoning merits of a crucified Savior; and who, if life had lasted, would have been exposed to temptation and sin. But how consolatory and cheering the reflection that the soul, which so lately animated the lifeless frame, now adorns, like a starry gem, the crown of our glorious Immanuel.

It is a relief to the agonized feelings of parents and bereaved friends, that the early dead are rescued from many evils to come. This world is a wilderness, through which it is impossible to pass and avoid danger; or this life is a voyage which exposes us to many tempests and adverse winds. How many, in their sorrow, have mourned, like Job, that they did not die in infancy, "for then they should have lain still and been quiet; they should

have s.ept and been at rest." The early dead escape not only temptations and sins, but from the hazards of this changeful world, from vicissitudes, pain, weakness, from days of anguish, from sleepless nights, from untold agony. The merciful Disposer of events may have foreseen a storm of adversity impending, and therefore removed your precious lamb to a place of safety-the upper fold -to the bosom of the good Shepherd. Is it not safer, nay, happier, on that bosom than it could have been on your own?

And how consolatory is the reflection that your dear A is not lost, but only removed to another apartment in our heavenly Father's house! Gone before you-gone, indeed, to return no more; but not lost, and may still be yours;

"A treasure but removed,

A bright bird parted for a clearer day-
Yours still in heaven!"

Yours hereafter to meet-yours to love-yours with whom to rejoice in eternal hymns of praise to a glorified Savior. If children are a parent's jewels, let him not be disconsolate, when they are taken to be planted in the Redeemer's diadem. If children are our olive plants, flowers which we tenderly cherish, let us not mourn when they are taken to a shelter from the wintry storm and tempest.

It is to Christianity we are indebted for the most effectual consolation in the hour of bereavement. It disrobes death of its terrors, and disarms him of his sting. It teaches us to view death as a separation, and strews the amaranth over the tomb. Christianity styles death a sleep, and the grave a bed; an old writer calls it "a perfumed bed," for Jesus slept in it. It consecrates the sepulchre. It places angels of light around its portals to guard and keep the reposing dust, and writes thereon, HOPE," "ETERNAL LIFE."

The Whole Crew Converted.

THE following fact, says the Sailor's Magazine for Au gust, was communicated by a respected brother who has been laboring among seamen in the port of New York:

The William Hannington, Captain Bell, master, left Newcastle-upon-Tyne, about the first of April last, with a crew of fourteen men, laden with coal for the Uni ted States. A lady belonging to the Baptist chapel, in Newcastle, feeling a deep interest in seamen, put into the hands of the Captain, a few days before leaving port, a package of tracts and magazines for the crew. "I took them," said the Captain, "and, according to her wishes, distributed among the hands, until the whole had gone the rounds among them. In a very few days, after leaving sight of the Highlands of Scotland, the second mate, a well bred and intelligent young Scotchman, came to me and said, Sir, I-hardly know what is the matter; but your tracts have produced a feeling among them that I have never seen before. If you have any doubt on the subject, go look into the forecastle and see for yourself.' I stepped down and sure enough every man was reading with an engagedness as though his very life and soul were in it. On returning to the cabin the mate continued, 'Sir, they wish the Bible read to them, and to-morrow (meaning the sabbath,) they wish to obtain permission to hold a religious service among themselves in the forecastle.' I can have no objection to that I am sure, I remarked, but who will lead them, mate, seeing none of us make any professions that way? I shall make my best endeavors,' was the reply, and I suppose others will do the same. Very well, I said, there is a prospect now of fine weather, make all snug, I will take the helm, and let every one that wishes, attend the service. The arrangements were made-the Sabbath came-a meeting among themselves was held, morning and afternoon. privilege for a prayer-meeting was again asked for in the evening. I objected But,' said the mate, you had no objection all day, why object now? My objection is, I replied, that you must not hold the meeting in the forecastle, but in the cabin, where I may have a spice of a privilege with you myself, since I have accommodated