Where are Children early taught, Where? in the Sunday School. Where may Children hear and know Where? in the Sunday School. Where are Children taught to raise Where? in the Sunday School. Where are Children led to feel Where? in the Sunday School. Where may Children learn the way Where? in the Sunday School. May every Child then hasten there, And love the Sunday School. P.S. I take the opportunity of acquainting you that our Clothing Club, an account of which appeared in the Cottager's Monthly Visitor, Feb. 1830, is still going on in a most flourishing and satisfactory manner. In De cember last upwards of 130l. worth of goods were distributed among 170 members, besides 250 Sunday School members. The system has been extended to those children only who attend the Sunday School, and their payments are limited to one penny weekly, which is paid on Mondays. H. T. E. A Card is given to each contributor; we send the form of it, as printed, on both sides. 1838.] TEMPERANCE. 119 On the Reverse of the Card of the Bitton Clothing Club, OBSERVE.-The Value of the Children's Prize Tickets will be added to their own Money. This Value will be Forfeited if the Children desert the School, or Neglect to pay regularly. AN African Chief, Jan Tzatzoe, made the following speech at a meeting of the Temperance Society. As the African was not able to speak the English language, the Rev. Mr. Read acted as interpreter: "The work in which you are engaged, is a very good work, because intoxication has killed a great many people. Drunkenness is a deceiving thing: the man that buys brandy thinks that he purchases the brandy, but the brandy purchases him. The man that purchases brandy becomes the slave of the brandy, and a little time after he has taken it he loses his senses, and becomes like a beast. Before he purchases the brandy he is able to walk, he is able to do all he has to perform; but after he has drunk it he loses his strength, he rolls in the dirt, he rolls in the ashes, he knocks his head against the wall or a tree, and does not know what he is doing. After he has recovered from his drunkenness, he goes home, and asks his wife for some meat and some bread,-although he knows he has spent all the money which should have purchased it, in brandy; and, perhaps, as I have observed, he gives his wife a beating, because she has not given him what he knows is not in the house. The man that purchases brandy, thinks himself master of the brandy; but after he has drunk it, he finds that the brandy makes him a slave, and does with him just what it pleases. The man that drinks brandy loses his all, and comes at last to destruction; he becomes a thief and a murderer, and dies in disgrace. The man who is under the influence of brandy, does not know what he is doing. He takes a stone perhaps, and throws at another man, or breaks people's windows; he quarrels with persons who have nothing to do with him. It is the root of all evil. Perhaps he takes property that does not belong to him. Although the other person says, 'It is mine,' yet he says, 'No, it is mine,' and he insists upon it; and that entirely on account of the brandy." What this African says of brandy is true of gin, and of all sorts of spirituous liquors; and of beer too, if taken in too great quantities. A DIALOGUE ON RELIGIOUS FEELINGS. A YOUNG man, unhappy in his mind, not long ago, addressed, in the following manner, a friend, in whose religious character he had confidence: Henry. My dear friend, I could wish to have some conversation with you. I feel very unhappy: you have long been aware of my religious opinions, and have endeavoured to draw me from the course which I was pursuing; but I could not help fancying that I was right, 1838.] A DIALOGUE ON RELIGIOUS FEELINGS. 121 and that you were wrong; and I therefore did not pay that attention to you which I ought to have done. Friend. I have no reason to complain of any inattention on your part; you seemed to me to hold opinions which deprived you of that comfort which the religion of Christ, rightly understood, is calculated to produce; and your views did not appear to me to give you that hope of happiness hereafter, which can alone bring peace to a considerate and thinking mind. But, in our several conversations, you seemed to listen to me with attention, and to be willing to give your consideration to such arguments as I had used. Henry. Yes, but I made no use of them. I had a sort of pride in my own understanding and talents. I did not, however, throw aside the thoughts of religion; but I fancied there was something very humbling in your view of the subject,-very lowering to what I thought the dignity of our nature. I could not understand the necessity of a Saviour to atone for sin; I considered myself able to see what was right, and to act up to it. I did desire to do what my Maker approved: my views were, I believe, in accordance with what is called the unitarian scheme. I endeavoured to take my instruction from Scripture, and to do my duty; but I was not happy; I had many doubts and fears, and I could not believe myself to be safe. Friend.-What was the nature of your doubts and fears? Henry. Why, I saw that the rules of Scripture were very strict, that we were hereafter to be judged by our actions, and not only so, but that we were to give an account of our words, and of the thoughts of our hearts, and that we were to have an entire love of God, and of our fellow-creatures, exercising holiness to God, and striving anxiously for the good of our fellow-creatures. Friend. Well, these are the directions of Scripture. Henry.-Yes; but I saw plainly that there was not a day, in which I had so lived as to enable me to stand the judgment of God on these points. This made me very unhappy. Friend. I do not wonder that you were unhappy: |