"All the rides in the world would not give you so much pleasure as you will receive from this kindness to your grandmother, dear Susan. Your aunt has company to dine, and will depend upon our being there, or I am sure your father would willingly defer the ride till another day; but we will return immediately after dinner, and prepare everything for your little party." Susan's father now came into the room. He, too, was pleased with his little girl, and told her to do all the good she could; and to tell her grandmother that he and her mother would come to see her in the afternoon. Then Susan bade her father and mother good morning, and taking her new book in her hand, was soon at her grandmother's side. "I have come to stay all the forenoon, Grandma," she said, "and I have brought my new book, to read to you. Father and mother will come to see you after dinner." All the morning Susan cheerfully waited upon her grandmother, doing many little things to make her more comfortable; and sometimes reading pretty stories or singing to her songs, which she had learned at school,. The old lady said that she made her feel so much better, that she thought she would get up and dress herself, and sit in the large easy chair by the window; and when dinner-time came, a small round table was drawn near to her, and she and Susan had a very pleasant little dinner party together. Before three o'clock, Susan saw her father and mother walking along the path which led to the house. She ran to meet them, and her mother told her that it would soon be time for her to go home, as the little girls were to come at four. "And grandma is much better," said Susan, "I am so glad I stayed with her,—we have had a nice time." "Susan is an excellent nurse," said her grandmother, as they entered the room, "she has quite cured me, I believe. And now, while I talk with your father and mother, my child, you can ask John to go with you to the garden, and gather some of the nicest fruit for your little friends." Susan ran off much pleased with this permission. In about half an hour her mother called her, and said that she must bid her grandmother good bye, and return home with her. A merry party of little girls soon assembled at Mrs. May's, and a happy time they had in the garden and fields, and in Susan's pleasant play room. Susan tried to make them all happy, and to think very little of her own pleasure; and this she soon found was the way to be happy herself. About seven o'clock, when they were tired of play, they had a nice supper of bread and milk, and fruit and cake: Susan's new tea set was on the table, and was very much admired. Soon after supper the little girls said good bye, and went to their own homes. "This has been a really happy day, dear mother," said Susan, as she kissed her mother, and bade her good night. "It has, indeed, my daughter; your newyear is well begun, and we will pray to our heavenly Father to help you to make every day a good day, and to put away all selfishness from your heart." 66 HALLEY AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON.-Halley, the great mathematician, dabbled not a little in infidelity; he was rather too fond of introducing this subject; and once, when he descanted somewhat freely on it in the presence of his friend, Sir Isaac Newton, the latter cut him short with this observation : "I always attend to you, Dr. Halley, with the greatest deference, when you do us the honour to converse on astronomy or the mathematics, because these are subjects you have industriously investigated, and which you well understand; but religion is a subject on which I always hear you with pain, because it is one which you have not seriously examined, and therefore do not comprehend; you despise it because you have not studied it, and you will not study it, because you despise it." FRIEND OF YOUTH, No. 3.] AND CHILD'S MAGAZINE. MARCH, 1852. CORRESPONDENCE OF WATER. [ld. We do not place this reference at the head of our article to preach you a long sermon on it, but because we wish you to read those verses -as they contain a very clear contrast between two kinds of water,-natural water, and spiritual water. The woman understood our Lord to be speaking of water the same as that drawn from the well by which they stood, and of which He asked her to give Him a draught. But you will easily see, that during the whole conversation, the water He spoke of was not the water of the well, but something of which He Himself is the divine source, and which He is willing to give to all His creatures who desire to becomes partakers of it. This we will now endeavour to explain to you. We have already told you what is meant by correspondence, and that it is the relation of natural things to spiritual things. Spiritual things are the causes of which natural VOL I 3 things are the results or effects: and therefore correspondence may be said to be the relation of cause and effect. Now all the effects in the natural world, must have causes in the spiritual world, or the world of our minds ;and that we may more clearly understand the nature of our souls, and the effects of obedience and disobedience to Him, the Lord has mercifully given His Word in such a form, as that it seems to be continually describing the things without us which appear to have no reference to our souls. But this is, because we should not be able to understand the Holy Word, if it was not thus accommodated to us. We should be ignorant what was meant, if it were only to describe the things of our souls by difficult and obscure words. But we can easily do so as it is written, because we can trace the image, or figure, and see and understand its use and its activity and effect. This is just the case with water, and as it is so essential to our life and happiness, we may be sure it will correspond to something quite as necessary for the real life of our souls. As correspondence, we are taught by Swedenborg, is founded on use, or the value of an object in reference to our life, our comfort, or our happiness, we cannot better begin than by thinking of the uses of water, and its value to us. But, perhaps, you can tell us these almost as well as we can tell you; and so, in |