way, however, to have a good character, is to deserve it; it is to cultivate a right principle, which shall dread the smallest offence, whether the master sees it or not. There is a "Master in heaven" who sees all! Many a man fears shame, who does not fear sin. It is not the offence that torments him,it is the discovery.

It does not appear that the offender above-mentioned was tormented because he had done wrong, but because his master had found out his offence,and that his character was gone. A faithful servant, when tempted to sin, says, "How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against GOD?" ED.

AN EXTRACT FROM BISHOP HORNE'S COMMEN-
TARY ON THE NINETEENTH PSALM.

Verse 7. THE law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul, the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

The word of God, in this and the following verses, has several most valuable properties ascribed to it. It is perfectly well adapted, in every particular, to "convert," to restore, to bring back "the soul" from error to truth, from sin to righteousness, from sickness to health, from death to life; as it convinces of sin, it holds forth a Saviour; it is a means of grace, and a rule of conduct. It giveth wisdom, and by wisdom stability, to those who might otherwise, through ignorance and weakness, be easily deceived and led astray; "it is sure," certain and infallible in its directions and informations" making wise the simple."

Verse 8. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

To those who study the righteousness of God therein communicated to man, it becometh a never failing source of consolation and holy joy; the conscience of the reader is cleansed by the blood, and rectified by the spirit of Christ; and such a conscience is continual feast: "the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart."-The divine word resembleth the light in its brightness and purity, by which are unveiled and manifested to the eyes of the understanding, the wonderful works and dispensations of God, the state of man, the nature of sin, the way of salvation, the joys of heaven, and the pains of hell: "the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes."

Verse 9. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. "The fear of the Lord," which restrains from transgressing that law, by which it is bred in the heart, is in its effect a preservative of mental purity, and in the duration both of its effect and its reward eternal; it "endureth for ever." The judgments of " the Lord are" not, like those of men, oftentimes wrong and unjust, but all the determinations in his word are "truth and righteousness united in perfection."

Verse 10. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey, and the honey-comb.

What wonder is it, that this converting, instructing, exhilarating, enlightening, eternal, true, and righteous word should be declared preferable to the riches of eastern kings, and sweeter to the soul of the pious believer, than the sweetest thing we know of is to the bodily taste? How ready are we to acknowledge all this! yet, the next hour, perhaps, we part with the true riches to obtain the earthly mammon, and barter away the joys of the spirit for the gratifications of sense! Lord give us affections towards thy word, in some measure pro

portioned to its excellence; for we can never love too much what we can never admire enough. Sent by T. Se.

THE OLD TESTAMENT GOSPEL.

A Hymn, by Cowper.

ISRAEL in ancient days,

Not only had a view
Of Sinai in a blaze,

But learn'd the Gospel too;
The types and figures were a glass
In which they saw a Saviour's face.

The paschal sacrifice,

And blood-besprinkled door,
Seen with enlighten'd eyes,

And once applied with power,

Would teach the need of other blood,
To reconcile the world to God.

The lamb, the dove, set forth
His perfect innocence,
Whose blood of matchless worth
Should be the soul's defence;

For he who can for sin atone,
Must have no failings of his own.

The scape-goat on his head
The people's trespass bore,
And, to the desert led,

Was to be seen no more:
In him our surety seem'd to say,
Behold, I bear your sins away!

Dipt in his fellow's blood;
The living bird went free:
The type, well understood,
Express'd the sinner's plea ;

Describ'd a guilty soul enlarg'd,
And by a Saviour's death discharg'd.

Jesus, I love to trace

Throughout the sacred page,
The footsteps of thy grace,
The same in every age:
O grant that I may faithful be
To clearer light vouchsaf'd to me.

Sent by T. S―e.

ETERNITY.

LIVES there a being on this earth,
Howe'er employed his seeming hours,
Whether in jocund rounds of mirth

Or in sweet friendship's blooming bowers,Is there a man who does not feel,

(Although appearance may conceal

Such thoughts), that he must one day be
Launched into Eternity!

Conscience will whisper every man,

Whether or rich or poor he be,
Conscience declares to every one,
There will be an Eternity;

The voice of Conscience who can still
Conscience will cause us all to see
'Mid joy and pain, 'mid good and ill,
There must be an Eternity.

The infidel-though he deride
And ridicule futurity,
Will yet, when by afflictions tried
Acknowledge a Divinity;

He must one day obey the nod,
(Though distant it may seem to be)
Of a long-suffering, gracious God,
And enter on-Eternity.

When he has too much cause to fear
Eternal torments will be his,

No pitying voice will greet his ear
No friend will cheer his dreariness-
But when this transient life is o'er,

The good, for ever blest will be,
May they each day be more and more
Anxious for-Eternity.

E-e.

TO PREVENT THE SPREADING OF MALIGNANT FEVERS.

To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor.

MR. EDITOR,

An investigation into this subject has convinced me, that the mortality by fever in this country is increased in a fourfold degree by the want of some short common-sense rules to be adopted in cases of fever.

A fever commences in a country village frequently from the effluvia of a stagnant drain; the unfortunate patient has his room heated by a large fire; the windows are so constantly closed that the pure air cannot enter; the linen is seldom changed, and, when changed, left unwashed; and the room is too often crowded with visitors: the consequence is, that what began and ought to have ended with one patient, has in one village continued for several months; in another, the fever spread till one hundred patients were ill at one time, and the disease continued three months with a considerable mortality; and in a village in one of the midland counties, Typhus sometimes continues for six months. Í need not enlarge on the aggregate of the suffering occasioned by these visitations, but it certainly is our bounden duty to do all in our power to prevent so much distress.

The following rules are taken chiefly from the reports of the London Fever Hospital, an Institution of inestimable value to London, but by no means encouraged to the extent it ought to be. I would add to these rules, that the room should on the recovery of the patient be whitewashed.

A cheaper mode of doing extensive good, cannot