the rife, leads on to heaven-omitted, he may be left to perish. My Spirit, faith the Lord, fhall not always strive with man.”

Now is the accepted time. Behold that railroad car; it has just started. Look again; there is a person with his hands upraised, exclaiming, "Alas, too late!" He is left behind his friends are all on board, and he is not with them; great is his grief. Man is a ftranger here-God fends the chariot of his love to bear him home. Again and again it comes-it is here now-O finner, step on board. The Saviour is there he invites thee to leave thy fins and finful companions, and get on board of the heavenly car-the car of mercy. It is ready to ftart-all things are now ready-fome of thy friends are there. Hefitate not-delay not-or, like the paflenger, thou may'st find thyself in a more mournful fense “too late," and "a moment you may with when worlds want wealth to buy."

O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the ftormy blast,
And our eternal home.

Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting thou art God,
To endless years the same.

Thy word commands our flesh to dust,
"Return, ye fons of men;'

All nations rofe from earth at first,
And turn to earth again.

A thousand ages in thy fight,

Are like an evening gone;

Short as the watch that ends the night,
Before the rifing fun.

The bufy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their lives and cares,
Are carried downward by the flood,
And loft in following years.

WATTS.

"For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things."ROM. xi. 36. "Time is fhort."- -1 COR. vii. 29.

"Which

is, and which was, and which is to come."-REV. i. 8.

PROVIDENCE, TIME, ETERNITY.

Upon a narrow ifle, 'mid waters vast,
By ftrefs of tide the voyagers are cast;

;

Beneath-around-a dark and boundless fea
Above, thick clouds wrap all in mystery.
The Ocean wears the shore on every fide,
As Time decreases 'neath the Eternal tide,
Yet one-deluded man! ftrives much to reach
The shells and pebbles on the crumbling beach;
The waves dafh on-another pondering stands,
And fees deftruction come with folded hands.
Not fo the third-he turns his longing eyes,
And views a chain defcending from the skies,
The Providential chain with links of love,
Watched by an eye that never fleeps above;
He grafps the chain-from all his fears it faves,
While his companions perish 'neath the waves.

All

In the engraving is feen a representation of the all-feeing eye. It is placed above every thing elfe, to fhow that the eye of God's Providence watches over all creation, taking notice of every event throughout all time and space. Though to human vision there may be clouds and darknefs about the throne of the Eternal, yet to his all-feeing eye, darkness is as noon-day. things are before him, and nothing is too minute for his infpection. He fees the rife and fall of empires, and with equal attention fees the sparrow fall to the ground, for in a certain sense nothing is great or small before him. Throughout all time and space, the eye of Providence penetrates; yea more, it reaches further; eternity itself, to the human mind dark, fathomlefs, boundless, endless, is penetrated and comprehended.

A chain is feen defcending from above, of

which we can neither fee the beginning or the ending; but as far as we can discover, is but a small part of a mighty whole. It is true a man

may see a few of the links of the chain before him, and their connection with each other, but how far they may extend above or below his vifion, he has no knowledge. This shows us that the great chain of God's Providential difpenfations in the univerfe is but partially seen or comprehended. It is true, while on thefe mortal fhores we may fee a few of the connecting links of this chain, but to what heights it reaches, or to what depths it penetrates, we have no adequate conception.

"In what manner, indeed," fays a celebrated writer, "Providence interpofes in human affairs, by what means it influences the thoughts and counfels of men, and, notwithstanding the influence it exerts, leaves to them the freedom of choice, are fubjects of a dark and mysterious nature, and which have given occasion to many an intricate controversy. Let us remember that the manner in which God influences the motion of all the heavenly bodies, the nature of that fecret power by which he is ever directing the fun and the moon, the planets, ftars, and comets, in their course through the heavens, while they appear to move themselves in a free course, are matters no less inexplicable to us, than the manner in which he influences the counfels of men. But though the mode of divine operation remains unknown, the fact of an over-ruling