our sins, and is set down at the right hand of God, was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief! Are you disposed to repine at the low estate of life in which your lot may be cast? He took upon himself the form of a servant. Do you murmur at sickness, and fear death as an evil? He became obedient to it, and hath opened to us the gate of life. He hath made the grave and gate of death to be but the passage to a joyful resurrection. And what is the only return he requires of us for these inestimable benefits! That we should serve and worship him; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. And can we refuse this worship and obedience to him who hath done and suffered so great things for us? Can we continue in sin, while we profess to be Christians? No, "Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity," for this is for the glory of God, whose great name is dishonoured, and his Son's sacrifice rendered of no avail, by those who wilfully refuse to acknowledge him for their Lord, and to be conformed to his will. O let not his bitter agony have all been borne in vain! Suffer not sin any longer to have dominion over that soul which he died to redeem, and that body which was designed to be the temple of the Holy Ghost! Walk in newness of life, redeem the time which has been spent in sloth and folly, by increased diligence and watchfulness; "Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, for he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.' L. S. R. Humane Society. THE BIBLE. 435 A friend has put the following beautiful verses into our hands; they have already appeared in print. HOLY Bible, book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine, HUMANE SOCIETY. WE have, at different times, attempted to point out the benefits which have been conferred by the instructions given by the Humane Society as to the right method to be used towards persons apparently dead from drowning or other accident. Many a life which is now lost from ignorance of the proper mode of treatment would probably have been saved, if there had been a knowledge of the means which ought to have been adopted. The following fact occurred a few years ago, when a lady, in consequence of her knowledge of the right method of proceeding, and her own firmness and presence of mind, was the means of saving the life of a child which was given up for dead by its friends. This lady was passing near a river, when she saw a number of persons collected together at the door of a cottage. She She enquired the reason of this, and was informed that a child had fallen into the water; that the body was taken out, but that it was quite dead. She went into the house, and saw the child apparently dead: but knowing well that, in these cases, there was often life within the body, which, by the use of proper means, might be restored, she immediately began to act. told the mother to undress herself and get into bed: the lookers-on asked "what this was for?"-" the child," they said, "was quite dead, and it was of no use to do any thing."-The lady, however, had the body stripped and put into bed, with the head raised a little; and it was warmed by the body of the mother, and by heated flannels. Then the lady set about inflating the lungs, by blowing gently with a pair of bellows into the mouth, and setting another person to stop the nose, so that the lungs became filled with air; and then throwing the air out again, by gently pressing the chest with her hands; and by persevering in this imitation of natural breathing for a while, life began to appear, and the child was restored. This happened a few years ago. Not long since, the lady saw a stout lad playing amongst some others, not far from the same place; and, on making enquiries, she had the satisfaction to learn that this was the very boy she had been the means of saving a few years before. Such encouraging instances not unfrequently occur; and there probably would be many more, if the right mode of treatment was understood and adopted, when the bodies have not been too long under water. The Humane Society has a regular apparatus for inflating the lungs, which, if used by a skilful person, gives of course an increased chance of success but time must not be lost; and the bellows will answer tolerably well, and should be tried as soon as possible, where a better machine is not at hand. The usual methods of holding up the body by the legs, or rolling it about, and shaking it, are all bad, and tend to destroy the little life that might be remaining in the body. - Treatment of Cholera Morbus. TREATMENT OF CHOLERA MORBUS. 437 WE are told that, in some countries, mustard is considered an excellent preservative against the attack of this dangerous complaint. Mustard probably is good for the stomach; many vegetable bitters are so, and have been found of great use in giving tone and strength to a weak stomach. When the stomach is too weak to digest its food, there is, frequently, after meals, a burning sort of heat called heart-burn, which is caused by the food becoming acid on the stomach. A little magnesia, or soda, or chalk, or other alkaline medicine, will correct this acidity, and will generally give relief; but such medicines will not give strength to the stomach, or prevent the return of the same unt pleasant sensations. Vegetable bitters, persevered in, will often produce an excellent effect, and thus mustard, by strengthening the stomach, may be of great use in preventing disease, and may probably have been found of use in warding off the attacks of cholera. Ginger, also, is an excellent bitter; and the regular use of it in tea, or in hot water, has been known to be of great service! If a man, who has been accustomed to drink a large quantity of beer, would reduce his allowance to a smaller quantity; and if a man who has been accustomed to drink spirits, would leave them off altogether, and take ginger instead, both these persons would find great benefit from the change. And, besides the advantage of this, in point of health, supposing a young man, who had been accustomed to drinking spirits, adopted this plan, he would find, at the end of the first week, that he had got more money in his pocket than he had ever found there before. He need not throw it away-a saving-bank is always at hand; and, if he were to go on thus for twenty years, he would have money enough to buy himself an estate, and something over to give to some of his old friends, who tried to laugh him out of his plan,-and who will then be in the workhouse. " V. A FEW SERIOUS THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY THE PREVALENCE OF THE CHOLERA MORBUS. THE cholera morbus has, for some time past, been an universal subject of conversation; we all talk of the arrival of this dreaded disease, and many of us, I believe, do really expect this fearful scourge to visit this land. Now let us ask ourselves, what effect has this expectation produced upon us? Has it made us more anxious to improve, to the utmost, every day and hour granted to us,--lest the night come suddenly upon us, in which no man can work? Does the idea of a sudden death remind us of the folly of setting our thoughts and affections on the vain and perishable things of this world, and teach us rather to raise them to that heaven to which we cannot come, unless, by faith, repentance, and obedience, we are prepared for it? Does the thought of soon meeting our Judge, make us all more active and vigilant in the examination of our own hearts, of our actions, and of our motives? Do we, each night, (now more diligently and carefully than formerly,) 'ere we lay our heads on our pillows, think over all we have done, said, and thought during the day, that we may not be called unprepared into the presence of our God? Do we all, as parents, husbands, or wives, use every exertion to perform our respective duties? Parents, do you endeavour to implant in the minds of your children the good seed of Christian principles, so that, if you should be called suddenly from them, you may leave them with a cheering hope that they will, by God's grace, bring forth good fruit abundantly? Husbands, are you kind and affectionate to your wives, the sharers of all your joys and your sorrows? Do you truly love, honour, and succour them, so that, at the hour of death, come when it may, you may not |